Reagan Biographer Refutes Woodward's Claim Obama's Too Busy to be Effective: Reagan Was Just as Busy
Bob Woodward on Sunday tried to excuse Barack Obama's ineffectiveness by claiming his "day is crazy" with "so many meetings, so many outings, so many handshakes, and so many trips to Ohio and here."
Having previously scolded "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer for asking a "bulls--t question," Ronald Reagan biographer Edmund Morris countered, "Yeah, but presidents have plenty of spare time" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BOB SCHIEFFER, HOST: Bob Woodward, let me ask you this. What happened to Barack Obama after the campaign? It was one of the most effective campaigns I've ever seen, and somehow after that it seems like he can't catch a break, whether it's his fault or not. Somehow he seems to have lost his groove.
Readers are reminded that Schieffer made basically this same point two weeks when he told his viewers, "For this President when it rains it just seems to pour. And keep on pouring."
But I digress:
BOB WOODWARD: That's true. And I think it's this ambivalence that he has. He understands things, there is, intellectually, but there is not that slogan from the campaign, Yes We Can. There is all, he seems to be holding back. I mean you're talking about silence and the power of silence. In the CIA, they often talk about let the silence suck out the truth. And you know as a journalist if you just sit there sometimes and let there become silence, people will fill it up with answers and many ways you get some of your best answers in that silence. I think Obama, there is an uncertain compass in him that he is communicating to people and the political opposition is taking advantage of it, and the general populous senses it. And so he's going to have to come out and, he has to come out with a clear program in statements on all the pressing issues that are on his plate which are many.
EDMUND MORRIS, PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHER: Also, he's not writing his own speeches anymore which I think he did in the campaign. And he doesn't sound like Barack Obama anymore. Whereas when he was campaigning he sounded really authentic, passionate and extremely articulate.
WOODWARD: I think he gets involved in the speeches but if you look at his day, the day is crazy. And there, there are so many meetings. There are so many outings. There are so many handshakes. There are so many trips to Ohio and here, you know. As Roosevelt you always point out would read a book or two a day, right?
MORRIS: Yeah, but presidents, presidents have plenty of spare time. They waste a lot of time grouping and grinning. But I know from even when I was in the White House with Ronald Reagan he said to me, “You know I meet 80 new people every day,” but he still had plenty of time to write his letters by hand and to compose some of his strongest speeches.
Morris should know, for he spent fourteen years as Reagan's official biographer eventually publishing the national bestseller "Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan" in 1999.
As such, I guess you can say Morris called BS on two liberal media members Sunday.
Maybe they should give him another Pulitzer Prize.
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So Busy!
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 5:32pm.
Gosh, what with all of the golf and hoops and whatnot.
Overseas trips, bowing and grinning, date nights in New York (and those cheap little flights on AF1 at $200 grand an hour to get there and back).
Vacations. Lots of vacations.
Yes, so busy, poor fella.
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Bob the Gentleman
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 7:44pm.
Woodward was politely saying that the Messiah is in over his head.
In over his head....you got that right!
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 8:05am.
I think Obama, there is an uncertain compass in him that he is communicating to people
That's called revealing that he doesn't really know what he's doing.
Morris noticed that Obama seemed genuine giving his speeches during the campaign. That's because he loves the drama, the soaring rhetoric, the adoration of the crowds. It's his "milieu." The day-to-day work and speeches needed to explain the nuts and bolds of things....well, that's just beneath him.
Did he really think the presidency was going to be like the campaign? I believe he did. Hence the multiple vacations, the repeated jaunts here and there, "date nights" with Michelle, and let's not forget....golf! He certainly has no problem taking advantage of the perks and privileges of the position.
As for actually doing the job, well, that's another story.
Well, I DO remember seeing
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 10:37am.
Well, I DO remember seeing some short interview with Barry, after he had won the nomination, where he said that the 'hardest part' of being President was going to be 'governing'..........
No sh*t, Sherlock!!!!!
Wall Street Much???
Submitted by Utherpend on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 1:13pm.
Which is why The Pretender in Chief is exactly like those CEO's he likes to bash all the time. He is paid to do a job he has no clue how to actually do, and when things go bad he either blames others or leaves with all the perks of the job still intact.
Is "uncertain compass" the
Submitted by bassndude on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 1:28pm.
Is "uncertain compass" the new buzz words for "wishie washie"?
Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
Nope....
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 3:29pm.
"Uncertain compass" means "he doesn't know sh*t from Shinola".
Don't forget the WEEKLY
Submitted by Van Halen on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 10:21pm.
Don't forget the WEEKLY parties, rock concerts and social events at the White House which the JournOList media have been keeping super quiet about because it looks so bad.
Actually, Boy Blunder is too
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 5:43pm.
Actually, Boy Blunder is too INeffective to be effective, when it comes to any positive results. Everything he's done has been poison to our country..............which is what he wants, so maybe he IS effective!!!
Reagan thought about how to improve the country......Obama tries to discredit it and disrespect it..................
Not to mention the fact that
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 5:42pm.
Not to mention the fact that when questioned extensively on this very subject early on in his presidency, the Ass Clown stated " not a problem " for a man / child like him to juggle so many important issues at once.
Now while all these Obama sycophants attempt to give him cover the Ass Clown has nothing to say in his defense.
Obama is one of the worst things to ever happen to America, yet after all is said and done,it'll be a good thing ( an important learning moment ) for future generations well into the future.
Barack_Must_Go.....
If there's any 'future'
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 5:45pm.
If there's any 'future' left...............personally, I'm SICK of Boy Blunder and his friggin' 'teachable moments'!!!
Yeah, spending all that time beating the hell out of a little...
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 5:47pm.
...white ball doesn't leave much time for anything else.
Ya know, in Obama's case, that really isn't such a bad thing - when you really think about it.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Well, he'd have more time if
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 5:52pm.
Well, he'd have more time if he wasn't playing golf, basketball, jetting around the world/country, and drinking. Not to mention getting involved in police matters in Cambridge and a mosque in NYC.
Aitch* has VERY poor management skills.
Submitted by ekslib on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 5:58pm.
He chose to bite off more than he could chew.
If he is too busy, it's because of his own bad decisions.
*Since G W Bush was "Dubya," B H Obama is "Aitch."
That 3 am call last week
Submitted by stan25 on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 6:09pm.
That 3 am call last week showed how really incompetant Barry really is. Had it been someone else, there would have been a carrier taskforce on the way as soon as the President heard about it from the SecDef. Instead, Barry dithered for 36 hours trying to decide if China was going to put the quietus on the NORKS.
ANYTIME there is something
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 6:16pm.
ANYTIME there is something 'serious'..............you WON'T see Boy Blunder for a while, and when you do, he looks like the proverbial 'deer in the headlights'......................'dithered' is a perfect word for how Soetoro Hussein responds to a 'real' situation.
You mean like this?
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 6:45pm.
Deer in the headlights.
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Yeah.......I remember a year
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 6:50pm.
Yeah.......I remember a year ago, over here in Hawaii, when it took the wimp 3-4 days to shuffle out, make some dumb statement while looking like he was on his way to a root canal - about the 'fruit-of-kaboom' bomber............and the other week, when he had to make an appearance with regards to the latest 'terror' (am I allowed to say that??) threat.............
Obama can't make an "important" decision without...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 11:40pm.
2 weeks notice, and even then he'll still screw it up, fool that he is.
708 days till election day 2012 and counting...
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Almost Vogon-like in his
Submitted by Lord Elicani on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 1:15am.
Almost Vogon-like in his speed of response.
They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious
(So come on)
- Muse, "Uprising"
And in the stupidity of the
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 1:34am.
And in the stupidity of the response. The Vogons are the epitome of government bureaucracy.
OK.............I know I live
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 3:36am.
OK.............I know I live out here in the middle of nowhere, and I also know that I'm NOT the sharpest knife in the drawer, but....................what the hell is a 'Vogon'????
killa37 - ya gotta read "HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Submitted by acaiguana on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 9:18am.
And its sequel, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Or you could pick up the video at a rental.
ACA
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Don't panic! And don't forget your towel!
Submitted by Clutch1956 on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 9:38am.
I'd recommend the book or the BBC TV broadcast/recording from the '80's over the movie any day. The BBC effort was almost a word for word presentation of the book while the movie was a poor b@stardization of Douglas Adam's classic.
It's not a matter of being too "busy"...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 6:28pm.
In Obama's case, it's a matter of being too incompetent.
Obama's "day is crazy" with "so many meetings, so many outings, so many handshakes, and so many trips to Ohio and here." Oh, the poor boy....So many meetings, outings and handshakes...It's called "the Presidency" you twit...This is what the job is. The presidency is not too big a job for one man, as some Obama apologists have theorized...It's just too big a job for this man.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
They were saying the
Submitted by snowcloud on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 7:30pm.
They were saying the presidency is too big a job for one man when Carter was president. LOL
Yes
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 9:35pm.
but that was mainly because Carter wasn't fully a man.
My point exactly...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 11:36pm.
It's not that the job is too big...It's that the man in the job that is too small and incompetent, and like Obama, that also applied to Carter. It's interesting isn't it that we don't seem to hear the press whining about the job being too big for one man when a Republican is in office...That curiously only has been said of a couple of Democrat presidents....Hmmm...Interesting.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Obama can slow his own day
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 6:40pm.
Obama can slow his own day down.. making excuses for this clown of a president is reaching new heights.
Obama is a manical idiot. in the old days we called them simply "speed freaks" . trashy, speedy people who went everywhere and got nowhere on same day.
Selling not their sole but certainly
Submitted by texriot on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 6:49pm.
their reputation, Woodward and Schieffer are one day in retirement going to turn very angry for losing their way in defense of this man. Making excuses for a spoiled child is wasted on all, and only makes the excuser look stupid in the end.
Oh-so much to do. Poor
Submitted by Seashell on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 6:53pm.
Oh-so much to do. Poor fella. However, he was the one that said during the campaign "that the President has to be able to do more than one thing at a time" when the economy went south and McCain wanted to reschedule the debate to go back to Washington and get all the facts and see what they could do.
And really, that has to be the lamest excuse I have ever heard for Obama's ineffectiveness-
claiming his "day is crazy" with "so many meetings, so many outings, so many handshakes, and so many trips to Ohio and here." Give me an effin break. You would think that this brilliant Pulitzer Prize winning author could come up with something better than that.Woodward is a racist. Like so
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 7:05pm.
Woodward is a racist. Like so many liberals he is obsessed with Obama supposedly being an "intellectual" -- it's the Biden principle, oh see the black guy, he's so intellectual.
They have to keep mentioning it all the time. He's so clean and articulate too, I bet.
It's like any black guy that goes to university has to be an intellectual. He can't be like the vast majority of EVERY single person who goes to university and NOT BE an intellectual.
Look Mr Woodward, we know there are black intellectuals -- Thomas Sowell, to name but one.
Just like there are brown intellectuals, asian ones and white ones.
Just because a person reads books, does not make them an intellectual.
Obama is clearly a "pseudo-intellectual." That is: a FRAUD.
A remarkably DULL thinker, whose head is stuffed full of quite ordinary sub-marxist MUMBO-JUMBO. A man who has not an original or interesting thought in his head.
And besides -- God save us from intellectuals.
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
Jack...Bob Woodward
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 7:38pm.
is not a liberal. During the Watergate investigation nearly 40 years ago, I recall Woodward being described as an establishment Republican [in contrast with the activist liberalism of Bernstein.] To the best of my knowledge he doesn't publicly associate himself with any political party or ideology these days, but there is nothing that suggests he is now a "liberal".
Jer
Jer
Submitted by MrShy on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 7:46pm.
Good luck with that one. But then, it's a daily occurrence around here, wishing you luck.
Yeah, the guy that worked at the WaPo in the 70's and drove around DC and the outskirts with his buddy for months and months, stealthly pulling up every couch pillow they could find, to finally pin this on the hated top-dog.
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Shy...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 8:49pm.
Since when did the investigation and exposure of criminality--you do concede the existence of unlawful and abuse of power conduct in the Nixon administration, don't you?--necessarily become an ideological endeavor? By the way, what were the political affiliations of the reporters of the NYT and LA Times who led the investigations of the Clintons and Whitewater?
Jer
Jer
Submitted by MrShy on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 11:06pm.
Since when did the investigation and exposure of criminality--you do concede the existence of unlawful and abuse of power conduct in the Nixon administration, don't you?--necessarily become an ideological endeavor?"
When it is or is not really, really, really investigated. Or, heck, just really/actually investigated. For an example of the opposite of Watergate (and of a powerful man then), see: Obama, the powerful man now, any time from early 2008 to the present. The media and journalists have not cared to look into things, people's backgrounds, follow paper trails, etc., with him or any of his myriad of unsavory associations. No media people or journalists want to really go there with their beloved/chosen one.
By the way, what were the political affiliations of the reporters of the NYT and LA Times who led the investigations of the Clintons and Whitewater?
Those specific reporters? Dunno. But the NY Times only published an article on it way back in March of 1992 when Clinton was a relatively unknown Arkansas Governer throwing his hat in -- and running against other Dems before the primaries, no less. So, as with any newbie, they looked into some stuff... and probably to smear him in favor of another candidate, for all I know.
The SEC led the investigation, I believe.
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Next time make sure you have
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 8:24pm.
Next time make sure you have a spew alert.
C'mon, any person with half a
Submitted by Dan Diego on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 8:50pm.
C'mon, any person with half a brain knows that any President has to juggle more balls than a TSA agent the day before Thanksgiving, Woodward's defense of Duh One was pathetic and obvious.Bob Woodward's comments
Submitted by snowcloud on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 7:29pm.
What a tool! Maobama has plenty of time for basketball and golf, not to mention all the vacations. Woodward cannot be serious!
Somebody needs to pay!
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 7:30pm.
BOB WOODWARD: That's true. And I think it's this ambivalence that he has. He understands things, there is, intellectually, but there is not that slogan from the campaign, Yes We Can. There is all, he seems to be holding back. I mean you're talking about silence and the power of silence. In the CIA, they often talk about let the silence suck out the truth. And you know as a journalist if you just sit there sometimes and let there become silence, people will fill it up with answers and many ways you get some of your best answers in that silence. I think Obama, there is an uncertain compass in him that he is communicating to people and the political opposition is taking advantage of it, and the general populous senses it. And so he's going to have to come out and, he has to come out with a clear program in statements on all the pressing issues that are on his plate which are many
Hey!!! That's not funny Mr. Woodward. That was way too much. You just broke my BS meter.
I just love the Uncertain Compass remark by Woodward. ACA
Submitted by acaiguana on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 9:22am.
When I was in the jungle in Southeast Asia, I found the Compass to be quite certain. It was me that was uncertain.
Duh...
ACA
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*
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 7:34pm.
delete
Yes. It is a wonder how previous Presidents managed.
Submitted by The Vet on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 7:38pm.
How did they ever get anything accomplished without typewriters and computers and instant communications and a White House staffed to the rafters with people including a Cabinet with oh I lost count of the Cabinet positions.
Poor Poor Poor Barack Obama.
journalistic humiliation
Submitted by Agnostic on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 7:52pm.
Heading the department and making my own schedule for 99% percent of my working hours - I can't imagine telling someone the schedule I created is too much. I realize that it was a 'jounalist' that said this and not President Obama but since he is laying cover for the man in the WH I'll just call this bit of journalistic insite - Silly? Deranged? either works.
Covering the WH used to mean covering the events happening around the seat of power now it means covering for man in power. The media have stepped down from reporters and social critics from the left to a combination of a AZZPAD and an historical revisionist.
Just wait until obama is
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 7:53pm.
Just wait until obama is out of office and all of these 'writers' will inundate the book market with books about the obama years that will be filled with praise and hosannahs. Their combined effort will be to obscure the real obama for future researchers and leave only a tale of the magical lightworker who once walked among us.
Sorry MidAmerica
Submitted by Agnostic on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 7:57pm.
but they have already started. Just take a look at the NYT best books of 2010 and you will get an idea of what is in store. My only curiosity is which book will be the first to display the picture of the President without his shirt on the cover.
Perhaps something like this
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 10:21pm.
Perhaps something like this with a caption that has a double meaning....
Truer words were never
Submitted by ex buff e-dub on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 8:24pm.
Truer words were never spoken:
"...there is an uncertain compass in him"
No friggin' kidding! The guy is totally lost and clueless!
"hey, i think this light is burned out..."
Submitted by Clutch1956 on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 10:40am.
Not only is his compass FUBAR'd, his altimeter is miscalibrated, the fuel gage is wildly bouncing between half-full and E, the artifical horizon is reading upside down, oxygen feed is off and his Soviet-supplied map just blew out the window, while Teh Won is busy looking at his Crackberry, trying to make a reservation for dinner.
"Hey, why am I looking down at the ground and why is it coming at me so fast? Uhhhhh..."
PrezBo flew the plane into the ground. (the appropriate plane would have been the old WWII amphibious workhorse, the PBY, affectionately known as "Dumbo", but that would give the plane a bad association.)
Modern Presidencies
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 9:39pm.
The modern-era president isn't lacking things to do. Reagan, Obama, or whoever, it doesn't matter. The presidency has become too powerful. It's viewed, incorrectly, by most Americans as some kind of godlike position. People know nothing about Congress, nothing about the Supreme Court, nothing about much of anything at all really, but they look at the presidency as if it's a throne.
Alot of this is media. People are so focused on the national things, they know little of their state and local issues and political "leaders," if htey know anything at all. We're flipped on our heads, thinking the federal government is the central planner and the president is king. And then many will argue if you say otherwise. Lemmings all over the place.
It's not too much to do....
Submitted by tampamom25 on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 10:30pm.
Emperor Obama is silent because he doesn't feel that he, as the ruler/emporer/leader/king, has to explain himself to his subjects. He is honestly confused by the people's refusal to follow along with his agenda like good little sheeple, and since he hasn't been able to use his charisma to charm the masses, he doesn't know what to do next. It's tough on a ruler when his serfs get out of line:o)
Paul Simon: One - Trick
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 10:42pm.
Paul Simon: One - Trick Pony
He's a one trick pony
One trick is all that horse can do
He does one trick only
It's the principal source of his revenue
And when he steps into the spotlight
You can feel the heat of his heart
Come rising through
See how he dances
See how he loops from side to side
See how he prances
The way his hooves just seem to glide
He's just a one trick pony (that's all he is)
But he turns that trick with pride
One-Trick Pony
Submitted by MrShy on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 11:50pm.
I was in that movie (yes, MOVIE... well, dude, really :p) written and directed by Paul Simon, way back in 1980. I was one of the little kids singing doo-wop at the opening, which was Paul and his buddies singing in school in the 50's.
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So.........even as a
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 1:35am.
So.........even as a kid...........were you taller than 'rhymin' Simon'?????
BTW, The Reagan Bio
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 11:37pm.
"Dutch" that Morris wrote is quite good.
I read it while we were in Costa Rica. Written in an unusual style...but I enjoyed it. What's not to love re: The Gipper?
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Clear you schedual, Mr. Presdient.
Submitted by CobraMan on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 11:47pm.
Obama has too much to do? That's crap. He has how many "czars,' how many department heads, how many aids, assistants, ect? If Obama was a good administrator he'd know how to delegate authority and prioritize. But Obama's NOT an administrator, he's not even close.
Obama's a performer, always performing in public, acting as if he's capable of managing something, acting as a competent administrator, but it's all an act. His only real skills are in the acting itself. In everything else, Obama is in WAY over his head.
Hay, Obama, want to make your job easier? Here's a good idea: clear your celebrity appearance schedule, stay IN the White house for more than a few weeks at a time, work WITH your "czars," department heads, ect, and learn from those who have actual experience in administering something. It's really not that hard, if you truly work at it. Millions of managers worldwide do this every singe workday, myself included.
If someone like myself, a high school dropout, can manage a large office, with over one hundred employees, without a single assistant to help me, than you, a supposed college graduate, should be able to , with the help of ALL those people you appointed, administer the damn government! All you have to do is WORK at it! Is that too much to ask?
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Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
All of these liberals,
Submitted by Chris Norman on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 12:35am.
All of these liberals, including the media, just can't believe that none of Obama and the Democrats' policies are working to fix anything. They can't grasp what conservatives knew all along: that liberal policies just make existing problems worse and cause new problems in the process. They're in denial. They stumble and stammer, trying to come up with excuses - anything and everything, from stupid to even more stupid - except to admit the glaringly obvious. For elitist people, who pursue government power and control over as much as possible, they sure don't know how to manage much of anything
What Chris---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 2:20am.
said.
Exactly right.
MD
Edmund Morris
Submitted by DVG93 on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 10:00am.
Read Morris' books on TR. I really enjoyed them.
Too Busy?
Submitted by Godfatherofblog on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 10:58am.
All Presidents are busy; it is the nature of their job. However he does nothing but travel to all parts of the world with no success, at an enormous cost to the American People. He plays Golf 3 to 4 times a week and basketball God knows how many times a week!
The bottom line is that he is totally oblivious to his responsibility, incapable of accomplishing anything that is important to the American People or just don't give a SH_T about "We the People"~!!!
Time for the holidays - Busy, Busy, Busy
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 11:44am.
For an extended period of time to "promote" this gutless lying fraud of a president's "genius", the media ran with the "he can do more than one thing at a time" meme to slander both Bush and also McCain, which had a hint of ageism in there....
But now the wittle pussy in chief is to overworked or is it overmatched?
I think it is a simple as we broke it down during the campaign, the pussy in chief never ran a city, state or a business and never ran nothing but his mouth.
Now these nitwits are changing the meme to make all the work so unfair to this president as he has more than anyone ever................
Sotero, how'd you get the black eye again?
Oh, Obama knows exactly what he is doing
Submitted by tinydancer on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 12:39pm.
It's just that what he is doing is so foreign to Americans. His agenda has absolutely nothing to do with the United States as we, real Americans, know it. His agenda is so, so far to the left of even the unions, that you won't believe that with everything you know today about Obama, you don't know jack sh-t.
Read this book: "Radical-in-Chief"
It has ALL the answers to all the question marks about Obama that so many of us have.
I thought I knew enough about Barack Obama to know I wanted him out of the job. But I knew nothing until I read this book.
"Radical-in-Chief"
Submitted by Agnostic on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 3:47pm.
Anyone reading the bias sources of information like "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope" had all the information they needed to know that President Obama was a person with deep held beliefs against what he saw as American establishment - Good or Bad did not matter to him they all had to come down.
Edmund Morris
Submitted by Curlew on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 2:27pm.
Let's be careful not jump on the Edmund Morris bandwagon here. Remember that he was the "Official Biographer" who felt the need to add fictional characters, the narrator and his son, who implicitly died of AIDS due to Reagan's lack of policy to combat the disease. What an incredibly opinionated and biased letdown that whole book was. If you ever feel the need to read it, make sure you get it from your local library. He doesn't deserve to make another dime off insulting RWR.
Typical liberal mentality
Submitted by RealVet on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 4:17pm.
Typical liberal mentality (no accountability for one's actions or stupidity) - just excuses and grade-school rationalization. Nothing to do with the embarrasing truth - that the self-absorbed moron is irresponsible and grossly incompetent. Woodward and Schieffer have always reeked to high heaven with liberal bias.