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Archae

(46,328 posts)
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 03:45 PM Oct 2013

Is Bob Woodward going nuts?

Sure seems that way.

Bob Woodward: Obama Needs to Get on With 'Entitlement' and Tax 'Reform'

By John Amato

Do you want to know how the beltway villager elites feel about our safety nets? Just watch this segment and be horrified. Bob Woodward, a Grand Wizard among the beltway villagers was interviewed by CNN's Jake Tapper about the bad relationship President Obama has with Speaker John Boehner and he uses his book, The Price Of Politics to explore the idea. Woodward blames the stalemate between the two parties mostly on their frayed relationship which is in of itself a thoughtless argument to make because Boehner is not in control of his members any longer.

http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/bob-woodward-obama-needs-get-entitlemen

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MADem

(135,425 posts)
1. Going?
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 03:47 PM
Oct 2013

He writes dull books with stories ripped from the middle pages of the newspaper, with one or two "juicy insider" stories in them.

He's a one-noter, past his sell-by.

Archae

(46,328 posts)
2. If you ask me, Bernstein did all the work on Watergate.
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 03:49 PM
Oct 2013

Woodward shows all he did was go along for the ride.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
5. Well, he got to play "the cute one" in the reporter groupie sweepstakes!
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 04:03 PM
Oct 2013

He even got Redford to play him!

MADem

(135,425 posts)
10. I was always told that the Americans prefer the white blonde!
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 05:57 PM
Oct 2013

No matter what the gender, too!



Of course I am snarking...but only just! That used to be the paradigm in USA, except for a brief period in the Roaring Twenties when "sheiks" and "Argentinian gauchos" and raven haired, mysterious beauties held sway...and then, in the WW2 and postwar period, the "Carmen Miranda" and "Ricky Ricardo/Desi Arnaz" era entranced a few!

As the nation swirls, the caramel, and deeper, hues get more play! Hurrah for diversity!

 

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
3. Didn't Woodward claim he was brutally intimidated by the Obama Administration?
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 03:51 PM
Oct 2013

...and then his story completely fell apart.

He's not altogether there, if you know what I mean.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
4. Yes, I seem to remember something on those lines....
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 03:59 PM
Oct 2013

A bit of pouting by him, followed by derisive laughter from, well, everyone!

Waaaaah, Obama's aide was MEEEEAN to me!!!!




http://www.mediaite.com/tv/axelrod-mocks-bob-woodward-feels-intimidated-by-gene-sperling-please/

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
6. This is a sad man desperate for attention.
Fri Oct 11, 2013, 04:05 PM
Oct 2013

He can't sell his books or himself without acting like an ass whenever anyone will let him.

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