The Imponderable
By Mitch Berg
Speed Gibson has a question that hadn’t occurred to me yet:
A name popped into my head today: Bob Woodward. I wonder if he’s still working. If he’s working, I wonder what he’s working on. I wonder if he’s working on … President Barack Obama, much as he did President George W. Bush, multiple times. Woodward’s “Bush at War” was published in November of 2002, recounting the first few months after the 9/11 attack. So, will there be a Woodward book this fall of 2010 on some aspect of the historic Presidency of Barack Obama?
It’s not like there’s not material:
The problem is, of course, where to start. The Stimulus that didn’t. National socialist health care? The Gulf oil spill? His mess of a foreign policy? The bailouts? Where to start? Maybe it won’t be Woodward, but I have to believe some Obama perspectives will be appearing in time for Christmas.
Well, no. Writing about Obama would be racist.
June 17th, 2010 at 9:25 am
It may be racist, but he could make a buck or two off it so I suspect he’d do the writing if he could find a publisher.
June 17th, 2010 at 9:40 am
Maybe he’s retired.
June 17th, 2010 at 9:55 am
Here’s the link to Woodward’s web site, you can see for yourself.
http://bobwoodward.com/
Writing about Obama would not be racist; although I suppose it is possible to write in a racist way. Kinda doubt that Woodward would do that, but I’m sure it’s fun for you to imagine it.
June 17th, 2010 at 10:22 am
Fun? After a year and a half of every lefty assnozzles claiming every thoughtful dissent from the Obama agenda was racist?
Was that fun for you, Doggie?
June 17th, 2010 at 11:52 am
although I suppose it is possible to write in a racist way.
And who better then you, DogPile, to ascertain what is racist.
June 17th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
You don’t have to be a racist to critize the President. He recently has allowed himself to be dragged into the BP oil mess when he has no authority to fix it, no resources to fix it, and no plan other than sue their pants off once they get it fixed.
He’d be far better off deflecting attention back to soft issues and go back to the fierce moral urgency of ending two wars of conquest, closing down torture centers at Gitmo, outing gays in the military, and taking over American industries.
Or was that racist?
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June 17th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
But Mitch, why would Woodward be interested in this presidency? It’s not like there’s anything momentous going (*cough* biggest economic disaster in a century), there are no ethical conflicts (*cough* Geithner, Bernanke, MMS employees), and there are no controversial policies to be passed and implement (*cough* health care, porkulous).
(I think I should go to the doctor, there seems to be something caught in my throat.)
June 17th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
Woodward got rolled by the FBI’s number 2. He should have had his press credentials revoked when it was revealed that Deep Throat had a personal axe to grind with Nixon & his boys.
Woodward is a poster boy for the kind of journalist who believes that ‘journalism” consists of making you agree with his agenda.