Oz: Pulling back the curtain…

My good friend and fellow cynic, TOL, forwarded the below observation on Bob Woodward's recently released new book,  "Obama's Wars", and how it paints the CnC as not only incompetent, but tone deaf and possessed of such a massive ego, that even black holes cannot resist the Obamaforce.

"During an interview with Woodward in July, the president said, 'We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever. .. we absorbed it and we are stronger'."

This space has always insisted that this failed "community organizer" is unfit to visit the Oval Office, let alone pretend to be president. Anyone who failed to see that when he first emerged, backed by committed terrorists, revolutionaries, Black liberationist, communists and radical left unions, purposely  ignored the truth. They actually cast their vote under two conditions, the candidate was “black” and “hope and change”.

Woodward's chaotic behind-the-scenes expose only confirms my resolve to recommend that young Americans not enlist in the military during his administration... they will die for a traitor.

I always follow TOL's suggestion... see what you think in his guest post below which I'm printing entirely without his approval and I’m sure he will comment on his own post.

Bob Woodward.

Yeah, I know, cocktail party liberal whose best work was never anybody's "best work."

But if you missed his recent appearance on Charlie Rose, you owe it to yourself to go to the Charlie Rose website and pull up that episode.

In his new book "Obama's Wars," Woodward throws the president under the bus like nobody has ever been thrown under the bus.  The thrust of the book (and the Rose interview) is that the Pentagon and the President are passing each other like speedboats in the night and so far from each other as to barely see the other's running lights.

That probably will not surprise you.  But what might shock you (it sure as hell shocked me) was the obvious degree to which this display of critical mismanagement shocked Bob Woodward.  The same Bob Woodward that we can assume would have gladly butt-licked the President on any of the dozen or so stages at the inaugural balls in January of '09,  was so stunned by the Commander-in-chief's incompetency on all things military that it took an increasingly frustrated Charlie Rose the better part of the hour to extract the full measure of Woodward's apoplexy.  Each time Rose asked a pointed question, Woodward would try to put the chaos into some sort of perspective.....and then usually failed.

Everything from why the Pentagon refused to give the President any of the Afghanistan options he demanded OTHER THAN a 40,000-man troop surge to Obama's obvious petulant irritation at having to be a "war-time" president.to Gates' prior quote that it would be a "disaster" if Tom Donilon succeeded Jim Jones as National Security Advisor, as was announced last week.  A horrified Woodward described it all, but then went deer-into-the-headlights when attempting to find a rationale -- ANY rationale -- by which to explain it.

Finally, however, Woodward did manage to articulate the sum of all his fears.  He sees the world in general and this country in particular at a crossroads unlike anything we've faced in the past.  And the manner in which we are fumbling the ball apparently fills him with an impending sense of doom.  So much so that when asked by a friend if he saw his roll and that of the book as "a whistle blower," Woodward replied that, yes, he saw it just that way.

Straight out of the online pages of Leatherneck M31.

Except we heard it from Woodward.

BOB Woodward.

Comments

[Bo]

Chico, I think he may be qualified to burn the dump buckets, but I'm not sure about a standing latrine. I never thought I'd see a C-I-C as bad as draft dodging Slick Willie. I stand corrected.

[pontiff alex]

Clueless is, as clueless does...SOP. Jones was obviously not puckering up to O's butt, making O look the fool he is without even trying, and all those shiny things on his uniform confused the "Resident". If Woodward is that blown away, I think there is "some" cause for serious concern. It just re-confirms our worst known fears. L&L.

[chicopanther]

Too bad Obambi's TelePrompTer couldn't tell him how to pronounce corpsman! Of course, by not knowing how to pronounce that word, Obambi totally gave away that he knows NOTHING about our military. Besides not even being an American citizen, Obambi is totally unqualified to be the Commander in Chief. I wouldn't even want him to be a cook or even a bottle washer around our troops, although I believe he may be qualified to clean out latrines.

chicopanther