Woodward's a straight shooter? Strange that like so many other straight shooters from the Post & elsewhere he failed to pick up on any of Kerry's inconsistencies, any of Brinkley's numerous factual errors, any of his young contemporaries' (or old ones, for that matter) dead-wrong reports on Vietnam back then or the lies or aproportional stories coming out of Iraq. He was after the RNC before he even had a hint of Watergate--look up a story he did on a certain RNC staffer who happened to take (and then returned) a finder's fee (in his private, nonRNC business) in April of '72 (two months before any break-in). He never managed to correct the return of the fee (or its irrelevance) of which he was notified.
I am not sure Woodward was on the Kerry campaign beat. He is an executive editor now. I wish he had been. By the way, I think the Washington Post is a fine newspaper, not as fine as the Wall Street Journal, but better than most.