Posted on 10/28/2013 5:45:09 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Bob Woodward, who along with Carl Bernstein brought down President Nixon back in the 70s, has called the Obama administration a a "rat's nest of concealment and lies." He could have well added that it is run like a mafioso family, complete with threats and harsh punishments for not taking an offer you can't refuse. Woodward, himself was threatened, when he exposed that the sequester came from Obama and not the republicans.
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I think Mr. Woodward is far too kind.
Communists have a problem with the truth. If they tell the truth, they’d be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail. Valerie Jarrett first.
Live with the snakes Bob ol’ boy, die by the snakes... did ya really think you could just act like a real journalist and get away with it? Go ahead, show them what your made of, expose the rat’s nest that is Obama, or you could just die in peace with a lousy conscience...
I wonder if Woodward has ever voted for anyone other than a ‘Rat candidate.
I read that headline quickly and though it said “a rats nest of excrement and lies”. That would have fit too.
We’ll miss ya Bob...bad heart huh?
Valerie Jarret is a rat faced bolshevik.
he’s a ‘day late and a dollar short ...’
If a President's fidelity is to the Constitution, then it will not become "a rat's nest of concealment and lies."
The second President of the U. S., John Adams, the most fierce advocate for the Declaration of Independence, and a signer of the Constitution, in his First Inaugural's closing paragraph, laid out his understanding of the qualifications for the Office of President.
Philadelphia, March 4, 1797
“. . . as something may be expected, the occasion, I hope, will be admitted as an apology if I venture to say that
- if a preference, upon principle, of a free republican government, formed upon long and serious reflection, after a diligent and impartial inquiry after truth;
- if an attachment to the Constitution of the United States, and a conscientious determination to support it until it shall be altered by the judgments and wishes of the people, expressed in the mode prescribed in it;
- if a respectful attention to the constitutions of the individual States and a constant caution and delicacy toward the State governments;
- if an equal and impartial regard to the rights, interest, honor, and happiness of all the States in the Union, without preference or regard to a northern or southern, an eastern or western, position, their various political opinions on unessential points or their personal attachments;
- if a love of virtuous men of all parties and denominations;
- if a love of science and letters and a wish to patronize every rational effort to encourage schools, colleges, universities, academies, and every institution for propagating knowledge, virtue, and religion among all classes of the people, not only for their benign influence on the happiness of life in all its stages and classes, and of society in all its forms, but as the only means of preserving our Constitution from its natural enemies, the spirit of sophistry, the spirit of party, the spirit of intrigue, the profligacy of corruption, and the pestilence of foreign influence, which is the angel of destruction to elective governments;
- if a love of equal laws, of justice, and humanity in the interior administration;
- if an inclination to improve agriculture, commerce, and manufacturers for necessity, convenience, and defense;
- if a spirit of equity and humanity toward the aboriginal nations of America, and a disposition to meliorate their condition by inclining them to be more friendly to us, and our citizens to be more friendly to them;
- if an inflexible determination to maintain peace and inviolable faith with all nations, and that system of neutrality and impartiality among the belligerent powers of Europe which has been adopted by this Government and so solemnly sanctioned by both Houses of Congress and applauded by the legislatures of the States and the public opinion, until it shall be otherwise ordained by Congress;
- if a personal esteem for the French nation, formed in a residence of seven years chiefly among them, and a sincere desire to preserve the friendship which has been so much for the honor and interest of both nations;
- if, while the conscious honor and integrity of the people of America and the internal sentiment of their own power and energies must be preserved, an earnest endeavor to investigate every just cause and remove every colorable pretense of complaint;
- if an intention to pursue by amicable negotiation a reparation for the injuries that have been committed on the commerce of our fellow-citizens by whatever nation, and if success can not be obtained, to lay the facts before the Legislature, that they may consider what further measures the honor and interest of the Government and its constituents demand;
- if a resolution to do justice as far as may depend upon me, at all times and to all nations, and maintain peace, friendship, and benevolence with all the world;
- if an unshaken confidence in the honor, spirit, and resources of the American people, on which I have so often hazarded my all and never been deceived;
- if elevated ideas of the high destinies of this country and of my own duties toward it, founded on a knowledge of the moral principles and intellectual improvements of the people deeply engraven on my mind in early life, and not obscured but exalted by experience and age;
and, with humble reverence, I feel it to be my duty to add, if a veneration for the religion of a people who profess and call themselves Christians, and a fixed resolution to consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for the public service, can enable me in any degree to comply with your wishes, it shall be my strenuous endeavor that this sagacious injunction of the two Houses shall not be without effect.
With this great example before me, with the sense and spirit, the faith and honor, the duty and interest, of the same American people pledged to support the Constitution of the United States, I entertain no doubt of its continuance in all its energy, and my mind is prepared without hesitation to lay myself under the most solemn obligations to support it to the utmost of my power.
And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of Order, the Fountain of Justice, and the Protector in all ages of the world of virtuous liberty, continue His blessing upon this nation and its Government and give it all possible success and duration consistent with the ends of His providence.” - John Adams, First Inaugural
It's definitely a nest of 'Rats.
Too bad Bob spent most of 2008 investigating the status of Joe the Plumber’s trade license and the DNA of Palin’s Down Syndrome child...
Well, that’s what listening to Bill Wattenburg can do to ya.
A “wretched hive of scum and villainy” is an apt description, too.
I think Mr. Woodward is far too kind.
And far to late.
2012 would have been better.
I hope Bob’s taxes are in order, come next April.
Gee, Bob, one would think that with your brilliance and experience you would have recognized Obama’s bullshit and incompetence in the first five minutes of the first presidential debate like we lay people did.
“Communists have a problem with the truth. If they tell the truth, they’d be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail. Valerie Jarrett first.”
they may happen the first time a good ‘ol boy cant buy food for his kids. I just hope we survive the upheaval.
I wonder who lost access for his next book?
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