Bob Woodward slams Obama over sequester

[PSGator66]

I don't how you could disagree with this statement by Woodward.....

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Bob...o_code=1299E-1

[wgbgator]

Actually, I do disagree with Woodward's statement that the president should just ignore the law (er, "some budget document") to do whatever he wants. I thought conservatives did too.

[G8trGr8t]

keeping the carrier group here is another example of scare tactics constantly employed by oblamer.

meanwhile the navy keeps and maintains 250 golf courses, none of them being shut down.

this is typical crisis manufacturing as he can't get anything done unless it is in a crisis or he has a supermajority because he is unwilling to reach any meaningful compromise.

classic narcissist, he is right, valerie and michelle told him so, and he doesn't care what the other 47% of the country thinks.

pretty bad when a lifelong lib like Woodward is calling you out. Nice to see at least one member fo the journalistic community is willing to tell the emperor he has no clothes

[tegator80]

Mr. Woodward has gotten a hint of a bad smell emanating from the WH for a couple of years now. What you are seeing, IMO, is a liberal who is getting that there are bad guys on all sides. I just wish he would put it in gear one last time and expose the malevolence that is being promoted as "fairness" in the current regime. But probably he thinks the embarrassment will be too much to endure so he will just peck around like he is currently doing.

[RealDeal]

Barack likely cares little about the opinion of woodward--he has no more campaigns to run.

[FlyingGatorII]

Originally Posted by RealDeal

Barack likely cares little about the opinion of woodward--he has no more campaigns to run.

You would think that but he just can't leave his Chicago thuggery background behind. Just when you think Obama can't sink any lower, Woodward is getting threats from the White House...

http://www.businessinsider.com/bob-w...olitics-2013-2

[g8orbill]

Originally Posted by RealDeal

Barack likely cares little about the opinion of woodward--he has no more campaigns to run.

after reading that report me thinks you are mistaken

[chemgator]

Originally Posted by wgbgator

Actually, I do disagree with Woodward's statement that the president should just ignore the law (er, "some budget document") to do whatever he wants. I thought conservatives did too.

Woodward is saying that a real leader (who was also commander-in-chief) would force the military to cut elsewhere until the aircraft carrier left port. Obama is making himself look weak if he can't get the aircraft carrier moving regardless of what is happening with the budget. Other presidents have done much more with less (the sequester does not even CUT any spending based on the previous year's spending!).

Obama has basically surrendered his right to negotiate with Congress with his petulant insistence on more and more spending. He has been unable to acknowledge that his attempts to stimulate the economy with reckless federal spending (for four years now) have not worked. Apparently he is unwilling to negotiate with his own generals (who kinda have to follow his orders). Obama is starting to make GWB look like an average president (instead of a complete incompetent), and that's not easy.

[gatordowneast]

And now the whitehouse is on Woodwards ass for wandering "off the plantation" and getting "off message". Lets see which media outlets pick up on this? My guess is they all start piling on Woodward.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...sSector&rpc=43

[madgator]

Originally Posted by vangator1

Obozo is the most baldfaced liar ever to infest the White House. Pure vermin.

and unless a man of true character on the liberal side of the fence speaks up....we will never know the full depths of just how corrupt and how little respect this administration has for the rule of law.

it can't come from media on the right.....it has to come from a liberal


and yes.....Woodward is admitting that he has been "threatened" by the administration.


http://www.businessinsider.com/bob-w...olitics-2013-2

[fredsanford]

Originally Posted by madgator

and unless a man of true character on the liberal side of the fence speaks up....we will never know the full depths of just how corrupt and how little respect this administration has for the rule of law.

it can't come from media on the right.....it has to come from a liberal

and yes.....Woodward is admitting that he has been "threatened" by the administration.

http://www.businessinsider.com/bob-w...olitics-2013-2

When Bush does it = good, when Obama = bad.

Such hurt widdle feewings.

[gatordowneast]

Since liberalism is itself a lie, don't see how it would be possible for a liberal to admit the liberal in chief is a fraud.

[mocgator]

If this had been Bush there would have been rallies of leftists Myrmidons screaming about the assault on the first amendment. Th main stream press would be frothing.

Our tyrant in chief and his junta simply cannot be questioned. Really starting to look like Germany in the 1930's. you must support the party or you will be punished. What sad times are these.

Also... Woodward must be a racist....

[PITBOSS]

When Woodward/press slam repubs/Bush - bad and must be part of some big left wing conspiracy/"liberal mainstream media"

When Woodward/press slam dems/Obama - they are spot on and there is no need for the nutty belief of some vast media conspiracy

I like Woodward and his books. He has credence. Like some before him, disappointing how Obama is getting more of an echo chamber around him.

[G8trGr8t]

Lefties are absent here. Is threatening Woodward okay? 108. Care to defend this?

[gator996]

Originally Posted by fredsanford

When Bush does it = good, when Obama = bad.

Such hurt widdle feewings.

Yes, Obama's is the FIRST administration to ever try to intimidate a reporter it doesn't agree with...


...and does anybody with a functioning brain not realize that the WH official was making a comment on Woodward's sequester being wrong...


...not that he would regret this "Chicago-style"

[PITBOSS]

Originally Posted by mocgator

... Woodward must be a racist....

....and yet your the first to bring in skin color.

[FlyingGatorII]

Originally Posted by gator996

Yes, Obama's is the FIRST administration to ever try to intimidate a reporter it doesn't agree with...


...and does anybody with a functioning brain not realize that the WH official was making a comment on Woodward's sequester being wrong...


...not that he would regret this "Chicago-style"

OK, I'll bite. Show me proof of such a clear cut threat against a reporter from any other White House. Woodward said that even the Nixon White House never threatened them during Watergate.

[jmoliver]

Wow 996 you took that white house talking point and ran as fast as you could. Not a republican but it is pretty clear what the WH was doing here. Had nothing to do with being on the right side of the sequester. The WH went on to try to infer that Woodward was an old man past his prime that didnt know hat he was talking about. Oh and Andrea Michell just talked on Morning Joe about getting screamed at by Donald Regan for reporting a story so yes it does happen on both sides.

[wgbgator]

This is apparently is the "threat:"

“I apologize for raising my voice in our conversation today,” the official typed. “You’re focusing on a few specific trees that give a very wrong impression of the forest. But perhaps we will just not see eye to eye here. … I think you will regret staking out that claim.”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/20...he_threat.html