Martha Raddatz On New Bush Book: Lame Ducks & Lipstick

So now that this "lame duck" has done the dirty work he was installed to do--preside over a false-flag "terror" attack psyop and its cover-up, initiate a condition of endless war (with shifting "enemies") for profit and resource control, normalize outrages against the Constitution, International Law and human decency, etc--there's no need to hold him accountable for his crimes, right, Ms. Raddatz?

He's just a poor, well-meaning "incompetent" who deserves our pity, right?

No need to point out, for example, seven years after the fact, the treasonous failure to defend the US public on 9/11 that justified all this neo-fascism on display in the streets of St. Paul?

No amount of lipstick will conceal the truth of what this administration and its "advisers" have done.

Nor will it hide the complicity of the corporate media.

Ms. Raddatz is far from defending the President. She is merely stating the truth: the media, and I mean all of it, not just the "MSM," has moved on from covering Bush. As White House reporter, this means that she is as in demand as snowshoes in Miami. She is a fair, honest, and courageous reporter who is now going to spend several months covering a political non-entity--causing her to become a journalistic non-entity. In lipstick.

History will judge his presidency. Hmmm, depends on who writes history, if they do, then Lincoln, JFK, Roosevelt, and other notables will look like losers next to him. On the other hand,...oh wait, there is no other hand.

The disrespect for the highest office in this country is embarrassing. Though the democratic party has tried desperately to turn Americans against Bush, there are many, and I mean many of us who like and respect George Bush. Though it may seem were are the minority, we actual aren't. We just don't go running around spreading rumors. We honestly have better ways to spend our time... God Bless America...God Bless Our Troops...God Bless George Bush... A proud American..

And WHY would we be interested in Bob Woodwards book? Hey, look at the person who wrote it! Not like it's a fair and balanced assessment.....not! I guess Bob can't help himself! I hope that Bob does the same "investigative reporting" if Obama gets elected. Why isn't Bob Woodward investigating Obama's ties to Frank Marshall Davis or William Ayers? Maybe it would make Obama look bad? Nah!

The problem with the Bush administration was Donald Rumsfeld. Senator John S McCain stood up to Bush and Donald Rumsfeld and spoke up for the generals and commanders on the ground.

To cj78415: The Democratic party didn't have to try to turn Americans against Bush. He did that all by himself.

You missed my point completely Veronica...They tried too, but it didn't happen. If they got you to agree with them..well..that was your choice..

Bush is looked at around the world as the local village idiot. They don't need a book to tell them that.

20 years from now people will be longing for GW. Look at Regan is was consider a incompetent senile old man when he left office under suspicion from Iran/Contra gate (Ollie North, Fawn Hall), now everyone talks lovingly about him.

Dems put Bush in.

Woodward usually works for CSIS out of Toronto.

David,

Not everyone talks lovingly about President Reagan (at least I assume you mean him). He gets a great deal of credit for single-handedly defeating the Soviet Union, when macro-economic events took their toll for year.

George W. Bush took our country from a position of moral authority, world respect and economic prosperity, and through his inaction and stupidity, managed to reverse our fortune in each of these categories. If history holds him in high regard, it will only be the result of the further failure of America.

Regardless of who wins this year's election, Americans as a people will spend 20 years digging out of the hole he has created for us.

O.K. So everyone wants to throw stones, but how quickly we forget. We were attacked and President Bush "TOOK" the required action(s) to prevent it from happening again...So I'm not a big Bush supporter, but we've not been invaded or attacked since....and that boys & girls is the primary job of The President of The United States of America

Typical neo-con propaganda, where was there respect for the office when they went relentlessly after Clinton. Now they suddenly respect the office. New information for all neo-cons, we respect the office, we don't respect the person the occupies it.

Well, I have shovel. I guess that is just what I will be doing for the next 20 years, but if the McCain and Palin ticket gets the election then the hole may get deeper than expected which may take a lot longer to dig out of.

Raddatz -- "I figure we're likely spying on everyone in Iraq." Glad to see that rumors of a biased media are so completely exaggerated.

"So I'm not a big Bush supporter, but we've not been invaded or attacked since....and that boys & girls is the primary job of The President of The United States of America"
A) We were never in danger of an invasion
B) Since when is this the ONLY "primary" job? How about dealing with internal crisis like hurricane Katrina, the housing or energy crisis?
Not only is President Bush an incompetent stubborn moron...he appointed to ALL levels of government unqualified people including “buddies” and “religious zealots” who went to clown colleges.

I didn't know Bush wore lipstick.

To cj78415: "They" didn't do any brain washing or anything to change my opinion George Bush did that all on his own. He lied repeatedly and I don't like liars. When Clinton said I did not have sex with that woman he lied and my opinion of him changed. Unlike many Americans my political party nor the media tell me how to feel. I don't like liars and George Bush is a liar. By the way David - well said.

t5z3g7 are you for real? He took action against the wrong country and wrong people. I don't like what you said so I can bomb you? Destroy your community? WHY because he is President of the United States that makes it alright? WRONG! As the president he should have gotten the facts straight before the start of the war.