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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Dateline

As someone who sees through this President's agenda and loathes every step he takes, I have to say that when one of the leftist media turns on the President and finds some internal integrity, I have to sit back and to relish in the discomfort that is now emanating out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.    You see, for over five years, this politican, Barack Hussein Obama has had very little true scrutiny into his policies and background.   He is the darling of the mainstream media and can do no wrong; and when there is wrong-doing, it is covered up and not exposed unless you are prepared to look for it.    The President's true motives are hidden from most people who get their news from cesspools of the Demomedia like MSNBC, CNN, NBC, CBS, and ABC.

But a funny thing happened along the way.  The vain and mentally-maladjusted President decided to allow Bob Woodward - a reporter who has already brought down one President - Richard Nixon - a Republican - to write about the budget negotiations back in 2010 and 2011.    Having read that very book, "The Price of Politics", I can understand why Obama is blazing angry at Woodward.   The book is not particularly flattering to any person in Washington involved in the budget negotiations, but Obama is pretty much reduced to a back-stabbing, arrogant, foolish, and bitter attention whore who has no problem proposing one thing and then changing the rules of the game on the next day.   To say that Obama is an immoral and unprincipled negotiator is to give him to much credit.   Woodward pretty much says Obama is "incompetent".

So now that the Sequester deal which did indeed originate out of the President's office (he didn't write it because he isn't that intelligent).    But to suggest that Obama did not approve of it is to make a mockery out of our intelligence.   If Obama never saw this deal and had nothing to do with it, Obama is incompetent and unfit to hold office.   If Obama did approve of it as the evidence supports, he did so as a poison pill that would be used to force Republicans to do everything Obama's way - which is the only way he works.    Every bit of the this process in the last 60 days has followed the same playbook - Obama gets a tax increase and then allows a week to pass and demands more revenue - his MO of his governance - change the rules - move the goal posts - he is Lucy stealing the football from Charlie Brown.    Obama has no intention of negotiating on anything - he is "my way or you will pay".

Bob Woodward yesterday noted how unethical the President has been in this past week with his whining and sniveling.    Evidently the President's grandstanding and throwing poor and disabled children under the political bus has gotten to Woodward as he now notes that he has been threatened by the President's men.    And now we come full circle to the Watergate mess.   If a President will have such loose cannons threatening reporters with future access on this issue, when have they done this before to cover up incompetence and malfeasance?    If Obama is willing to go this route with the budget, did he do so with the death of 4 diplomats in Libya?   And where else?

Other Articles on this Subject:

- Woodward Book Details Obama White House

- White House Threatens Woodward

ABC NEWSAll The Presidents Threats

CLASH OF THE TITANS: Veteran journalist Bob Woodward is embroiled in an extraordinary public clash with the White House over his reporting on the sequester, reports ABC’s Devin Dwyer. Woodward has been making the rounds accusing a “very senior person” in the administration of threatening him last week ahead of an op-ed he later published in the Washington Post attributing the idea for the automatic spending cuts to President Obama. The blitz drew a harsh rebuke from former senior Obama adviser David Plouffe Wednesday night: “Watching Woodward last 2 days is like imagining my idol Mike Schmidt facing live pitching again. Perfection gained once is rarely repeated,” he wrote on Twitter. 

BACKSTORY: In the column at the center of the storm, Woodward writes the White House has been deliberately disingenuous about its role in the sequester, and accused Obama of “moving the goal posts” by insisting Republicans agree to new tax revenue as part of any substitute for the sequester. Woodward’s report has rankled administration officials, particularly since it undermines the narrative the White House has been pushing ahead the March 1 sequester deadline. Democrats claim the automatic cuts were mutually agreed upon and never intended to be enacted, making Obama’s demand for new revenue a legitimate one. Republicans claim the sequester was Obama’s idea and that any replacement plan was to be entirely cuts. Now, Woodward alleges that he was bullied even ahead of publishing his report. He told Politico Wednesday that one Obama aide “yelled at me for about a half hour” and in an email message delivered a veiled threat. “It was said very clearly: ‘you will regret doing this,’” Woodward told CNN. “I’m not going to say [who], a very senior person. It makes me very uncomfortable to have the White House telling reporters you’re going to regret doing something you believe in.”

WOODWARD AND SPERLING: BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith, citing unnamed sources, first reported last night that the official with whom Woodward had the tense exchange was the director of the White House Economic Council Gene Sperling. 

THE ROUNDTABLE

ABC’S JONATHAN KARL: A senior White House official acknowledges that a top aide (now known to be Gene Sperling) told the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward that he would regret what he wrote, but insists there was no threat. “Of course no threat was intended,” the White House official tells ABC News. “The note suggested that Mr. Woodward would regret the observation he made regarding the sequester because that observation was inaccurate, nothing more.” Furthermore, the White House adds: “Mr. Woodward responded to this aide’s email in a friendly matter.” Woodward’s “friendly” response came on Saturday. He didn’t come forward and call the initial email a threat until late Wednesday.

ABC’s RICK KLEIN: Who thinks this will end well? The White House’s escalating war with Bob Woodward has major ramifications for all involved — not least the president whom Woodward believes wouldn’t approve of his own aides’ tactics. President Obama has chosen to make two major points in the sequester stand-off: That the pain is going to be awful, and that it’s all Republicans’ fault. Woodward calls the latter into question, with the reporting he’s decided to aggressively and publicly defend. As for the former, with Mayor Michael Bloomberg giving a rhetorical eye-roll to the White House, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan on record exaggerating about teacher pink slips that haven’t been issued, let’s just say credulity is being strained.

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