Yes, American are finally waking up and they are fed up.

So now what? It may already bee to late.

Do we still have a Democratic Republic? We shall soon see.

If it turns out that we don’t, then what?

If Woodward hadn’t written the first two fluff books, he would have never had access to the information for this third book. 

He was positioning the whole time to gain their trust in the WH, then he took the truth they so trustingly gave him and used it to expose the glaring flaws most of us have seen all along.

Woodward’s ruse worked marvelously, and the proof of it is Bush’s outright hostility towards the staff members who fell for Woodward’s simple deception.

Bush was a patsy, too, he wouldn’t talk to Woodward today, but a few short months ago, Woodward even had Bush eating out of his hand.

Woodward’s a genius.

Amen!Finally, the polls show that Americans are fed up withCheney-Bush- we Democrats are even with them on security.Satan made them do would be their excuse.

Christopher you’re right on about Woodward and also about things Truthdig has been saying lately.

Bob Woodward is saying all these things now as if it’s some sort of news to us. I’ve heard people saying these things all along. But now everybody’s like “ooh it’s coming out of the mouth of Bob Woodward”.

I’ve seen quite a few things on Truthdig that a disagree with lately. Particularly Nir Rosen’s article on Hizbollah portraying them as some peaceful group. And also their stance on the immigration debate. And calling Arnold Swarzanager a truthdigger of the week, yeah that’s nice that he’s against global warming but this is the same neandrathal that has sexually harassed women or have they forgotten about that?

Good name by the way. Christopher is my middle name.

Let me begin by saying I like the work I see at Truthdig. I blogroll this site and I refer readers to you. But lately, you’re making me scratch my head in disbelief.

Last week, you referred to Andrew Sullivan as a “leading intellectual on religious matters.” Sully is many things, but he’s certainly not an intellectual.

Today, you’re bestowed the Truthdigger of the Week award to Bob Woodward. This is the same Bob Woodward who penned 2 previous books on George Bush that were essentially love sonnets dripping with praise. In one book, he even compared Bush to Churchill.

OK, so Bob Woodward wrote a book that merely confirmed what the majority of the Reality Based Community has known for years:

1.) Henry Kissinger is the Cheney’s co-president
2.) Bush is disengaged
3.) Condi Rice is clueless and in over her head
4.) Rumsfeld is a bully and a tyrant
5.) Iraq was about payback for Vietnam and oil

The real question that needs to be asked at this point is, why is Woodward writing such a book now that contradicts his previous 2 books?

Did he stick his finger in the air and detected what direction the political winds are blowing and he didn’t want to find himself branded an outsider after the midterm elections?

A culture of corruption and a failed foreign policy will doom the Republicans.

Iraq war Quagmire that was supposed to last 90 days now in its 4th year.

Katrina victims by the thousands homeless while Bush is absent without leave.

Republican congressmen indicted and going to jail or in jail.

Foley nightmare from the party that was supposed to represent family values.

A Budget Surplus turned into the largest debt in the history of the country.

Torture now legal by the brutal dictator Bush using barbaric techniques.

Christian values turned into Christian Crusades against all who threaten to be different.

Preemptive strikes against anyone we are afraid of spells brutal fascist dictator.

Just vote Democratic down the line

Within the scope of the “main stream” corporate media, I guess this is a “shocker.”  From within the 911 Truth movement it’s a “limited hangout.” One analysis posits that the more moderate faction of the oligarch class is now allowing this hang out in order to reign in the neo-con madmen from the brink of WWIII, which they (the moderate faction) realize the West cannot win at this time, and is ultimately “bad for business” the world over. If this is the case, thank goodness for that small measure of common sense.

I don’t understand all the emotion about Woodward being a stenographer for Bush. I thought the first two books were damning, though not devestating. Such items as Bush ‘talking to a higher father than his own’ etc. I didn’t find either book to be in praise of this administration. I was shockd that Woodwards books were recomended by team Bush. Woodward reported that Iraq was on the agenda from day one, regardless of 9-11, they were looking for an excuse. This is water carrying for Bush? I don’t think so.

The third book I have not read yet, but it is in my stack.

Reporting is about facts as you find them and I think Woodward goes to extremes to remain a reporter of the facts. He doesn’t claim to be an editorial writer. That the third book has revelations and reporting that mirror what many people have surmised or heard rummors about for years, should be understood as validation of many people’s gut instinct.

When the history books are written, and Bush seems to think history will be kind to him, I believe Woodward’s books will be among the most quoted and accurate. History will be kind to Woodward and damning to Bush.

My respect for Woodward fell with the last two books.  Now there’s THIS one.

Sure, it’s 5 years too late.  Sure, it’s got very little new.  So what?

What Woodward has done is now move all these things out of the partisan realm of arguments Democrats use to a bi-partisan realm that the GOP, Mad King George and his band of Merrie Fascists, and the all the rightwingnut christo-fascists CANNOT SPIN!  That’s what’s important—they can’t spin it!

All the other criticisms of Woodward mean nothing to me—he has made our arguments that Bush and his MFs are arrogant, incompetent destroyers of our democracy, UNSPINNABLE!

Is ANYTHING more useful than that?

woodward is not a reporter in the ordinary sense but a political operator acting on behalf of those in the pentagon, cia, ruling class that want to rein in BushCheney.
the tv talking heads are now dismayed that Bush
lied to them poor innocents that they are.
i think the other commentators here have it right

I didn’t need a 500-page book by Bob Woodward to tell me about what I knew by instinct three years ago when I wrote, humoristically but ironically, under the heading:

BIGGEST SECURITY PROBLEM:

The biggist security problem the U.S. and the world faces is George Bush; he is the drunk behind the wheel.

He is in a state of denial about his physical or mental intoxication problem. He refuses to check into the clinic. He says, “Clinics are for mentally sick people, and I am the only sane and sober person in the world today! Guess why? Because God… opps! the Devil talks to me directly… you know I am his deputy on Earth… Ha ... Ha ...Ha…”

If I knew that Bob Woodward would come years after and give the phrase “state of denial” as the title to his now famous book, I would have copyrighted this phrase!

Likewise, when Hugo Chavez made important news when he lately, humoristically and accurately, called Georgie Bush “the Devil” I was highly but ironically entertained!

It has almost started to get to my head that I am one of the few ahead of their times when it comes to deep thought, analysis and natural psychology!

“...if Woodward’s last two books earned him justifiable criticism as being the Bush administration’s chief stenographer, “State of Denial” has gone a long way toward restoring the reputation of the man ...”

Not with me it hasn’t. There are two very good reasons to doubt the honesty of Woodward’s supposed return to the truth. (1) Bush is a moron and Woodward won’t open that door. (2) The USA invaded Iraq to steal control of a tenth of the oil on earth, and Woodward doesn’t find it necessary ever to use the word oil, let alone talk about WHY we have to steal oil and what will likely happen if we don’t.

I don’t dispute that George Bush is the POTUS; that would be silly. What I know to be the truth is that there is no possible way that George Witless does, can, or ever could FUNCTION as the REAL President.

Perhaps Reagan gave them the idea when he went into deep Alzheimers and couldn’t function, and they fooled us all by standing him up there and letting him pretend to be President while behind the scenes IT WAS NECESSARY for others to make the decisions and formulate the policies.

If Woodward had all the access to Witless that he is supposed to have had, then he knows that Bush is a moron, but he doesn’t let on.

Whatever Woodward is up to with this book will eventually be revealed, and I will bet the farm that there is no epiphany, no restoration of reputation, just another canard, another fake piece with a sinister purpose.

The first two books “earned him justifiable criticism as being the Bush administration’s chief stenographer,” but now he’s one of the good guys? He arrives five years late, and still expects to be the life of the party—peddling gossipy trinkets, coasting on thirty-year momentum? Compare with Hastert, who tolerated and ennabled Foley all those years, then when the stench in the air and the cruddy smears on the blades suggested that something bad had hit the fan, suddenly demanded Foley’s resignation—several hours after Foley had, in fact resigned. Spend all those years on the dark side, and it’ll take more than one day in the sunshine to balance the account.