Eye opening? Even a mainstream mediaite can see through Obama's sequesteria...
Politico:The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward attacked President Barack Obama on Wednesday, saying the commander-in-chief’s decision not to deploy an aircraft carrier because of budget cuts is “a kind of madness.”Well, when you don't want to make real budget cuts, in say things like entitlements or otherwise, what's the first thing that a Democrat's mind falls to? The military.
“Can you imagine Ronald Reagan sitting there and saying ‘Oh, by the way, I can’t do this because of some budget document?’” Woodward said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“Or George W. Bush saying, ‘You know, I’m not going to invade Iraq because I can’t get the aircraft carriers I need’ or even Bill Clinton saying, ‘You know, I’m not going to attack Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters,’ as he did when Clinton was president because of some budget document?” Woodward added. “Under the Constitution, the president is commander-in-chief and employs the force. And so we now have the president going out because of this piece of paper and this agreement, I can’t do what I need to do to protect the country. That’s a kind of madness that I haven’t seen in a long time.”
The Pentagon announced earlier this month the U.S.S. Harry Truman, which was supposed to leave for the Persian Gulf, will remain stateside due to budget concerns. The sequester, which will cut billions in defense spending, is scheduled to hit on Friday.
Related link: The Madness of King Barack
UPDATES: It appears that the White House is none too pleased with the Nixonian comparison...and resorting to threats!
On Wednesday's Mark Levin Show: Mark breaks news regarding Bob Woodward’s appearance on CNN saying that he was threatened by a senior White House official regarding his comments slamming President Obama on the sequester. Mark says that this is getting out of hand when an Administration is now threatening the media - and the rest of the media is just letting it happen and haven’t responded in any way yet. Mark says that the typical tactics by this Administration aren't going to be able to continue to happen because the American people are starting to wake up and realize what is going on.
No confusion...perhaps you're just among the few in the media finally waking up to the way this administration works...and it goes all the way to the top, Bob. Don't allow him to plead the 'political 5th'...BusinessInsider: 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.
"I think they're confused," Woodward said of the White House's pushback on his reporting.
As the White House naturally denies that a senior official threatened Woodward, it appears that the Watergate journalist is not the only name on the list...
Keep it up, White House...sooner or later, the sheep are forced to wise up to the wolf they're following. Or perhaps not...WMAL: Bob Woodward isn't the only person who's received threats for airing the Obama administration's dirty laundry. It seems anyone is a potential target of the White House these days - even former senior members of the Clinton administration.
A day after Woodward's claim that a senior White House official had told him he would "regret" writing a column criticizing President Obama's stance on the sequester, Lanny Davis, a longtime close advisor to President Bill Clinton, told WMAL's Mornings on the Mall Thursday he had received similar threats for newspaper columns he had written about Obama in the Washington Times.
Davis told WMAL that his editor, John Solomon, "received a phone call from a senior Obama White House official who didn't like some of my columns, even though I'm a supporter of Obama. I couldn't imagine why this call was made." Davis says the Obama aide told Solomon, "that if he continued to run my columns, he would lose, or his reporters would lose their White House credentials."
Woodward still can't seem to bring himself to even consider that the Great Obama would be aware of his aides making such threats on his behalf.
