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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Especially in these times of knee-jerk support of your own political party, it is important to learn from history.  One is far more likely to allow political over-reaching from the party with which you agree.  You will always easily spot the over-reaching by your opponent, but history is full of examples of tyranny that begin because the supporters of the gov't look the other way (or badger those raising legitimate complaints, etc) when lies and/or over reaching happens.  
Kudos to Bob Woodward for speaking his truth on this.  When he spoke truth against a Rep., he was a hero, now that he speaks truth against a Dem., he's a turncoat.  We, as the public, should be open minded enough to listen and not vilify.[/quote]

Let's be clear about one thing. Republicans hated Woodward because he brought down a Republican president. Therefore he was "liberal". Meanwhile, no liberal who has ever read Woodward has thought he was a liberal. What he is is a Beltway consensus radical centrist. His job has been to regurgitate the Conventional Wisdom. That's why when Bush was ascendant, he wrote a book about Bush the bold and fearless warrior. As Bush's poor decision-making resulted in a massive failure in Iraq, he repackaged the exact same material as an indictment of Bush. He wrote a glowing hagiography to Alan Greenspan just before his policies cratered the world economy. He wrote a widely debunked book about Obama's first term.  You may disagree with my take on his ability as a journalist, but it's frankly idiotic to say that Woodward was a hero among the Left. If you new anything about liberal critique of Beltway journalism, you'd know he's been dismissed as a hack for a very, very long time.[/quote]

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