Posted on 11/16/2002 5:19:44 AM PST by KQQL
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:10:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Woodward's books serve as part of the parlour game of Washington politics.
The strategy here is twofold: get at the President by damaging his most trusted political consigliere and create a rift between the White House and Powell.
What Woodward doesn't understand, primarily because he is a liberal, is that there is an interwoven set of loyalties and traditions that permeate this White House. Bush could no more give up on Rove or Powell than he could convert to Islam. Bush values honest advice, and values those who give it to him. Besides, the men and women who serve the President have, in many cases, a shared history that goes back to the first Bush Administration and the first Gulf War.
Now if this were the Clinton White House, the aide in question would be expendable. But this is not the Clinton White House.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
My nominee for Quote of the Day. 'Pod
I'm sure......
But surely you can see the similarities between the two. The Nazi Party was very pro-abortion, pro-guncontrol, pro-state funded medical, anti-personal freedom and thought and, and....oh, SORRY...my bad.
ATTN: Media Lurkers (we know you're here)
When you interview The Great Carnac, and you will, will you ask him why he treats us to his speculations as fact? As background, will you ask him if this is the same "expertise" he used to get information from a comatose Casey?
We are watching and we are judging your own credibility. It's already just about as comatose as Casey was...
Pathetic. But then, most Liberals are!
"In your book, you claim to report what Rove thought during the post-Sept. 11 World Series game. Did Rove tell you that is what he was thinking? If so, do you have tapes of your conversation with Rove to prove it?"
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?
I didn't notice that until you pointed it out. The quotation marks in the article are quoting Woodward, not Rove.
What Woodward wrote is: "Watching from owner George Steinbrenner's box, Karl Rove thought, it's like being at a Nazi rally." In other words, Woodward isn't even claiming to quote anything Rove said. He is claiming to quote what Rove thought. Wow, isn't Woodward amazing? No wonder he is such a great reporter. He can read minds!
Wasn't Bob Woodward the Washington Post Editor who fired the African-American, female reporter for writing a false series of columns? Columns that were created out of whole cloth and had no basis in fact?
I remember when the comparison of her transgressions and his "interview" with William Casey were compared, he and the Washington Post seem to feel much less support for the African-American, female reporter than for white bread, limo-liberal Bob Woodward.
Or maybe I am just looking at this through my own prism, as Katie Couric would pontificate.
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.
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