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This is the same Bob Woodward that brought down Richard Nixon...
OK? That doesn't magically make his point intelligent.
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This is the same Bob Woodward that brought down Richard Nixon...
A) My apologiesA) I'm not a libertarian.
B) I never said I was for or against anything to do with the middle-east/carrier situation.
C) I am, however, against a president abusing a situation like this to allow things he considers potentially disasterous in an attempt to win the tax hikes he wants. That's not only unreasonable, I'd say it's borderline treasonous.
OK? That doesn't magically make his point intelligent.
First you queston his political ideology, now you're questioning his intelligence...
A) My apologies
B) The OP referneced the Middle East
C) Hyperbole much????
Of course he's grandstanding. They all are. Obama is getting as cranky as Woodward.
It's interesting conservatives suddenly are watching MSNBC. Although Morning Joe is probably the only thing on MSNBC that's watchable at all.
I think you meant to say manufacturing outrage. As with releasing of the illegals who are already being detained, he's simply doing things and then "blaming" it on the very legislation his administration thought up and signed into law. As for hyperbole, if there wasn't another ship already there, or if that ship was to be attacked and captured, and Iran managed to block that, I'd consider it quite possibly treasonous. Do I think either would happen? No. However, that doesn't mean that Obama doing something that he knows could be harmful to this country to score political points and push his agenda ISN'T borderline. There were things W did that I considered borderline treasonous, so don't feel like I'm picking on poor little Barry.
The worst part of my post was not catching my misspelling (highlighted above).
Iran could block the strait for a few weeks, but they know the West would relish getting a chance to show off some more hardware. After all, the Navy has had to take a backseat to the recent wars (other than to remind people that the Marines are part of the Navy). Then the GOP could cry about budget cuts and not building enough new ships. After all we don't have as many Navy ships as we did 100 years ago.
Well everything just hit the fan:
Bob Woodward said this evening on CNN that a "very senior person" at the White House warned him in an email that he would "regret doing this," the same day he has continued to slam President Barack Obama over the looming forced cuts known as the sequester.
CNN host Wolf Blitzer said that the network invited a White House official to debate Woodward on-air, but the White House declined.
"It makes me very uncomfortable to have the White House telling reporters, 'You're going to regret doing something that you believe in,'" Woodward said.
Read more: Bob Woodward: White House Threatened Me On Sequester Reporting - Business Insider
Wow so if this true, the White House just threatened a Reporter...
It seems like a stretch to call this guy a reporter.
It seems like a stretch to call this guy a reporter.
It seems like a stretch to call this guy a reporter.
Dude, just cut your losses. Bob Woodward is one of the best investigative jounalists this country has produced in the last 40 years.
Okay, I'm mildly amused, what would you call him and why?It seems like a stretch to call this guy a reporter.
It seems like a stretch to call this guy a reporter.
Dude, just cut your losses. Bob Woodward is one of the best investigative jounalists this country has produced in the last 40 years.
It's funny how quickly the left turns on someone when they no longer blindly follow leftist dogma.
If by "following leftist dogma" you mean actually supporting what you say with evidence than yes, those types of people get attacked quickly.
The thread by you is misleading accusing Obama of grandstanding when it's the Dept. of Defense citing budget concerns. Your excuse is that sending the carrier in wouldn't be grandstanding "because there are good reasons to do it."
Once again, aren't there good reasons for staying within the budget? You conservatives care about that sort of thing, right? No?
Likewise, the point by Bob is garbage. Once again, why is Obama being insulted as crazy when it's the Dept. talking about budget concerns? We get a bunch of nonsensical analogies to Reagan, and at no point in time does Bob actually address why the carrier should go to the Gulf.
And while he is known for investigative journalism in the past, it doesn't magically lend his point on this particular topic any coherence. So yeah, not impressed.
Are you under the impression that the Department of Defense is not part of the Executive Branch of government in the United States?