Bob Woodward has a story in today's Washington Post, titled, "Robert Gates, former defense secretary, offers harsh critique of Obama's leadership in 'Duty.'"
Well, folks... you might wanna break off from reading this post in order to first click on the above link and read Woodward's piece.
(And while you're at it, check out this Time Magazine "Swampland" story by Zeke Miller.)
I've got plenty to say about both stories. I have plenty to say about Gates!
For the moment though, allow me to offer what I consider the key highlight of both pieces, encased in paragraphs 20 and 21 of the Woodward piece and picked up on in the Miller piece:
Gates offers a catalogue of various meetings, based in part on notes that he and his aides made at the time, including an exchange between Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that he calls “remarkable.”My friends... my readers... do you comprehend what you've just read?
He writes: “Hillary told the president that her opposition to the [2007] surge in Iraq had been political because she was facing him in the Iowa primary. . . . The president conceded vaguely that opposition to the Iraq surge had been political.
To hear the two of them making these admissions, and in front of me, was as surprising as it was dismaying.”
Sit. Think. Take a moment.
Unless you believe that Gates is lying...
Both Obama and Clinton were serving U.S. Senators at the time. Our men and women were fighting and dying in Iraq. We had spent hundreds of billions of dollars on the war... on winning the war... on not losing the way...
Certainly not losing the war was at the heart of America's national security interests - for both Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives.
And yet... according to Bob Woodward, Robert Gates' memoir's "testimony" clearly "outs" both Obama and Clinton as having subverted the national interest and the long-term good of our men and women in uniform facing a murderous insurgency... for personal selfish political gain!
Will this latest expose of the lack of character on the parts of both Obama and Clinton hurt them? I fear not.
If Benghazi wasn't enough to destroy the Obama presidency and end all hopes of a future Hillary Rodham Clinton presidency... then I fear there no information out there which can dissuade Obama and Clinton supporters from remaining Obama and Clinton supporters.
Disgusting.
As for Gates... well... he worked for them, didn't he? He kept his mouth shut rather than report this disgusting truth to the American People prior to last year's election, didn't he?
(Yes, Mr. Gates... the word is "disgusting," not "remarkable.")
Tell me once again, someone... tell me that violence isn't the answer...
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George W. Bush sucked.
I could sit here for literally DAYS cataloging all the myriad failings of George W. Bush.
Here's the thing, though: I can't imagine Bush ever subverting what he saw as the national interest for petty political self-advancement.
Did Bush fuck up taking us to war? Yep. But did Bush believe he was doing the right thing? Of that I have no doubt.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is a vile unprincipled human being.
Obama... personally I believe he's a better human being than Clinton... but... as a president... he's been a disaster.
Newsbite after newsbite... stand-alone after stand-alone... I lay out the decline of America.
The GOP? They're almost as bad as the Democrats.
What hope is there for an America led by the likes of Obama, Boehner, Reid, McConnell, Biden, and Hillary Clinton waiting in the wings?
The answer, I fear: "None."
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