Obama's Wars, by Bob Woodward

Rush talked about the new book by Bob Woodward.

RUSH: The Woodward book is out. Folks, where do you begin with the Woodward book? This is so jumbled. This is so cockamamie you don't know where to begin with this. What you know is, at least the excerpts that have been published in the New York Times, this is raging incompetence, dangerously so. Obama not even talking about victory, ignoring the generals when promising parents of the troops that he would listen to the generals. He's ignoring them, coming up with his own timeline to get out of there for political expediency. Every Woodward book on Bush he got a full hour, at least two segments on 60 Minutes. Guess where Woodward's not going with the Obama book? 60 Minutes. 60 Minutes is not having Woodward on.

Now we can interpret this any number of ways. They're trying to hide it. Diane Sawyer gets Woodward here. She gets the runner-up honors on this. 60 Minutes, The Today Show are taking a pass on Bob Woodward's book. And they pushed all of his Bush books. If you look at this book, I think the attempt here -- I mean Woodward's Woodward -- the attempt here was to make Obama look good. The attempt has backfired. Just like that town meeting at CNBC a couple days ago. That was meant to make Obama look good but it backfired because he backfired because he stumbled. This is meant to make Obama look good because they know going in this guy's not competent, he hates the military, doesn't know anything about it, and now he's commander-in-chief.

So they're portraying him as a real tough guy; he knows more than the generals; he's not going to pay any attention to the generals, he's going to do what he wants to do, and he's gotta do it for the Democrat Party. This is supposed to make him look good, but, instead, raging incompetence. I'm going to go through this, not quite line by line but it's interesting, folks, and we must do it because it's an eye opener and it confirms pretty much every instinct that we had about this guy, raging incompetence. After what I've read of this Woodward book, the way it describes Obama and his whole regime, you have to ask, do they even care? It's meant to make Obama look strong and tough on Afghanistan and at the end of the day you don't even get the impression that they care, either about Afghanistan or how this book is being interpreted. The Woodward book, I think, is meant to explain to the Democrat base that Obama really is and always was trying to get us out of Afghanistan as soon as possible. That's what the purpose here is, and in doing that they have portrayed this guy as out of touch, unconcerned, and incompetent.