Bob Woodward blasts Obama’s actions as “a kind of madness that I haven’t seen in a long time”

Rush has been talking about this on the radio so I thought I’d go ahead and post it. This is from Bob Woodward this morning in response to Obama claiming that he can’t send an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf because of sequestration:

Can you imagine Ronald Reagan sitting there and saying ‘Oh, by the way, I can’t do this because of some budget document?’ Or George W. Bush saying, ‘You know, I’m not going to invade Iraq because I can’t get the aircraft carriers I need’ or even Bill Clinton saying, ‘You know, I’m not going to attack Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters,’ as he did when Clinton was president because of some budget document?

Under the Constitution, the president is commander-in-chief and employs the force. And so we now have the president going out because of this piece of paper and this agreement, I can’t do what I need to do to protect the country. That’s a kind of madness that I haven’t seen in a long time.


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