Comments on: Turning the corner?

By: CV

CV — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:44:32 +0000

Woodward (along with sidekick Bernstein) is still synonymous with Watergate in many people’s minds. (Well maybe not Millennials and younger but certainly the rest of us, whether on the right, left or middle).

As such, he is still sitting on his throne at the WaPo at the king of “crusading” modern journalists.

Even though the White House is confident that they have the entire press corps in their pocket, even THEY don’t want those kind of optics.

That is, being trashed by a legendary journalist best known for being the “honest and brave” investigator who exposed White House shenanigans and brought down a president.

What amazes me is that they actually seem to have threatened Woodward…

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:04:00 +0000

Bernstein and Woodward were always in the pockets of government puppet masters to begin way. Even as far back as Watergate.

Government power masters have been playing with the press for quite a long while in destroying their enemies. The public were just never made aware of that fact.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:02:32 +0000

Peace time military spending is mainly training and maintenance. Without the funds for training, the munitions, the fuel, the pay for more troops to replace the old experienced ones, there is no military. It will be a hollow one, a real hollow military, unlike the ones people thought was hollow in 2005.

By cutting back, the military won’t have the resources to instantly rebuild itself when a real war starts. Which is perhaps the goal all along. The extra money flowing into the pockets of Dem contractors and politicians, is just a side benefit.

By: IGotBupkis, Legally Defined Cyberbully in All 57 States and some Canadian provinces

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:38:42 +0000

}}} But Woodward seems to (perhaps) be in the throes of some sort of more basic change regarding Obama, and I can only hope that he is not alone in this.

Unfortunately, the time to have this national epiphany was 4 months ago, not now.

Short of the absurd improbability of impeachment, no epiphanies need apply.

By: Capn Rusty

Capn Rusty — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:20:43 +0000

I’m thinking we will look back at Obama’s threatening Bob Woodward and realize that this is when he jumped the shark.

By: ted

ted — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:49:08 +0000

PBS Front LIne several weeks ago clearly showed Obama broke a budget deal that he had made with Speaker Boehner. This and today’s crap from the White House all get a pass from the MSM. The average stupid Joe will blame the House GOP 100%. What’s your guess thing will be like after the D’s get the House? Or, BO gets two addional seats on SC?

By: expat

expat — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:45:39 +0000

I read yesterday that Ben Carson is speaking at CPAC and that a black pastor of a 35,00-member church in Brooklyn agrees with Carson’s take on many issues. Maybe more and more tiny cracks will appear.

By: Sergey

Sergey — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:55:12 +0000

I have an expanation why so many people are in denial of treachery and thuggery of the present White House administration. It is Stockholm syndrom. USA citisens simply can not admit that they were so blantanly lied and betrayed by their elected leaders. That would make their present situation so gloomy and desperate that they make every excuse and rationalization possible to avoid full recognition of this terrible reality. Denial is just the first stage of psychological trauma. The next stage is anger and reaction formation.

By: beverly

beverly — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:28:48 +0000

Woodward is from Chi-town himself, isn’t he?

He started to mull things over back in 2001, when he wrote the largely admiring “Bush at War” book about the Bush Administration in the first 100 days after September 11th, and the push for the Afghanistan war.

His calling the BO White House’s tactics “Mickey Mouse” is doing a little saber rattling of his own: the equivalent of patting BO on the head and saying, “Now, now, young man; don’t be impertinent to your elders.” But I think he’s naive — the thugs in the White House, including the Thug in Chief, are seriously bad news, and they Do have executive power over the world’s only superpower.

Politics have been so relatively benign here for so long that I think most Americans forget what a glittering prize we are, and how far certain types of people will go to get power over us: there are, I think, no limits.

By: SGT Caz

SGT Caz — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:04:51 +0000

“And in other news: cutting the DoD makes for almost no net savings for the Federal budget.

Why? Such expenditures are typically (income) taxed back at the highest rates. When the multiplier effect is figured in… peace time military spending – at these modest levels – is almost a wash.” -blert

Come on now. You’re sounding like a leftist with this ridiculousness, and I’d like to see your sources on that claim.