[KQQL]

Woodward is working for the RATS.......

[JZoback]

Bob Woodward's book is a hit piece on Bush?

I'm shocked, just totally shocked.

The democrats will have something to consume again, besides themselves

[FreedomPoster]

>>Karl Rove thought, it's like being at a Nazi rally."

Excuse me? Is this a direct quote from Rove? If so, why isn't this in quotes? Or is this just what Woodward thinks Rove thought?

I suspect the latter, which implies that Woodward thinks all the New Yorkers attending that game are Nazis.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Bob Woodward confuses the fiction for nonfiction.

Remember all those conversations he had with Casey who was comatose at the time?

When Mr. Rove makes public tapes of their conversations, won't that be interesting? (wishful thinking on my part)

[lizma]

Karl Rove thought, it's like being at a Nazi rally.

Obviously he missed the Wellstone "memorial".
(That "We will win" chant sent shivers up my spine. Very spooky)

[MWS]

All I can say about this is that we had better get used to these types of accusations being levied against the administration. This is a part of the Democratic strategy to gain back power. They would love to paint the Republican control of the branches of power in this country as being related to Nazi control of Germany. It is the ultimate scare tactic.

Just as a thought, it is quite sad that people forget what Nazism really was like. The character of a Nazi rally was not merely a sign of support for a popular president. It was permeated with hatred and blind devotion and constant saluting in pledge to glorify the leader and to grant him total power. I seriously doubt that the World Series event possessed these characteristics, and therefore I seriously doubt Rove said ANYTHING of the sort.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The RATS always need to personalize politics because they cannot win arguments based on policy -- they have no policy initiatives.

Like Newt in the 90's, I look for Rove and Lay to be their targets over the next two years with the willing assistance of "journalism" like this book.

[vnix]

I said before that Bush is a master strategist. I think he allows the most assenine and hateful reporters interviews because he uses it for his own benefit. Now watch this. When Bush speaks, he does it in a way that everyone understands him. He doesn't use words that people don't understand. Watch his body language too. He's very intense and you can tell he's truly authentic. People can see into him and feel like he actually is there for the people rather than the power. (slick willy). I think especially after 9/11 people feel more secure that he's the President as opposed to Klinton. But I think the most important thing that people like about him is that he'll tell you what he's gonna do and he keeps his word. That is part of what defines a person's character. Did you ever notice that Bush has never once referred to the Clinton administration as the source of the problems we have today. Clinton always blamed Bush sr. But W. seems to be the kind of MAN that deals with what's at hand and not wasting time fingerpointing. Me thinks he was raised right. Must've had good parents.

[Doc Savage]

I went to high school with this moron. He was a teacher suck-up then and a slime ball. A geek. Why on earth after this jerk's hit books on Casey and the Supremes would you ever give him unlimited access????????????????????????/

[AmishDude]

I wonder if Powell or Rove can sue for this. Not that they'll win, but it would publicly force Woodward to say he made it up out of thin air.

[Savage Beast]

Yaaaaaaaaawwwn....

Woodward's been trying to extend his 15 minutes since he flashed in the pan back during the Nixon Administration.

He mistakes the adulation of his fellow "journalists" for stature, unable to understand that being king of the intellectual and moral morons is no honor.

Maybe Woodward and Harry Belafonte could get up an act together.

[HitmanLV]

I can't wait to hear Woodward's investigative insights into the Wellstone rally!

[Lucky2]

I suggest we all go out an buy the new Bill Gertz book on the President and put Woodward to shame! Let's put Gertz's book at No. 1 on the NYTimes best sellers and let Woodward rot in the cellar.

[deport]

The Washington Post reporter was given unheard-of access to top White House aides

I'm sure......

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Woodward should have quit after watergate. He had his fifteen minutes and now he wants more.You stop this the old fashioned way.Refuse to buy the book.

[Gritty]

Woodward has become a tired old Liberal gasbag, and might as well be wearing a sign, "Will write lies for food"!

Pathetic. But then, most Liberals are!

[beckett]

Karl Rove thought, it's like being at a Nazi rally.

The most poisonous word, Nazi, is not in direct quotes! Did Rove say this? Or did Woodward just crawl into his mind and find he was thinking the word Nazi?

[Publius6961]

Woodward goes on to depict Cheney as obsessed with Saddam Hussein: "Cheney was beyond hell-bent for action against Saddam. It was as if nothing else existed."

Sounds like both the author and Powell still fail to see the nature of Islam and the mechanics of that peculiar culture. For people in national leadership (and here I would include the president) it is a fatal flaw.

A symbolic response, in their own language (destruction) would have had a profound effect on all the sand maggots, and attenuated somewhat subsequent murders around the world.

Destroying a couple of Saddam's palaces, for instance...
You know, something not of any real value.

[Williams]

And the problem is? All of these stray thoughts add up to little if anything. Cheney and Rumsfeld obsessed with Iraq? Duh, it is our national foreign policy as approved by Congress and supported by the public. And Rove's thoughts on the World Series mean what? That he dared to draw an analogy? Does anyone think the Wor;d Series was a Nazi rally?

[Timesink]

If a single paraphrased-to-within-an-inch-of-its-life quote from Karl Rove about his reaction to a baseball rally is the biggest revelation in this book, we don't have much to worry about.