Will “Obama’s Wars” be Bob Woodwards’ “Othello”?
Straight up, I do not appreciate the continuing racist practice of writing Blacks out of American history. The name of the hero and security guard exposing the Watergate saga, Frank Wills, was so doomed to that fate. It suffered that fate in Woodwards' book on Watergate and Howard Zinns’ book, History of the United States.
As I recall, neither book mentioned Frank Wills' name and surely not in the statue of hero, which was historically deserved! Mr. Wills’ quick thinking as a security guard at Watergate was the solitary episode that brought down the Presidency of Richard Nixon and that is nothing to scuff at or be deliberately ignored by a ‘respected’ journalist or a highly esteemed historian!
However, new day, new era but I still have warm feelings as to how Mr. Wills was treated after Watergate when he was alive and especially after losing his job as a security guard. Later, Mr. Wills was hired as a security guard at Howard University and I understand the President of the University was threatened by Republicans with a cut-off of government funds if Mr. Wills were not immediately fired.
Bob Woodwards’ newest book, “Obama’s Wars” goes on sale this coming Monday and I intend to purchase one. It is not my type of book but when you blog politics, I feel it very important to have your facts as straight as you can and, in my opinion, Woodwards’ latest will provide appropriate references.
And also in my opinion, come 2012, I feel Mr. Woodwards' book will save the butts of many a Democrat including that of the President if and when we learn how hard the President fought to keep one of his most revered campaign promises of ending the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and yes, Rahm should have done more. I don’t know how but hey, politics is his field, so they say but then, they also say Newt Gingrich is brilliant! LOL. And alas, they called Carl Rove 'brilliant'! It is amazing how the Oligarchy is keeping those people delusional and the rest of us ignorant; a win-win situation.
I look forward to reading a contemporary setting of the Iago-Othello dynamics i.e., The Military Industrial Complex and President Obama. Can not wait. Monday….here I come!
As always,
BB
P.S. I did not know about the Woodward book until this morning watching C-SPAN.
P.P.S. One of my English teachers told us, "to be" in any form is one of the hardest written expressions to deal with. I saw that today in writing this post. It took a while to work through it.
As I recall, neither book mentioned Frank Wills' name and surely not in the statue of hero, which was historically deserved! Mr. Wills’ quick thinking as a security guard at Watergate was the solitary episode that brought down the Presidency of Richard Nixon and that is nothing to scuff at or be deliberately ignored by a ‘respected’ journalist or a highly esteemed historian!
However, new day, new era but I still have warm feelings as to how Mr. Wills was treated after Watergate when he was alive and especially after losing his job as a security guard. Later, Mr. Wills was hired as a security guard at Howard University and I understand the President of the University was threatened by Republicans with a cut-off of government funds if Mr. Wills were not immediately fired.
Bob Woodwards’ newest book, “Obama’s Wars” goes on sale this coming Monday and I intend to purchase one. It is not my type of book but when you blog politics, I feel it very important to have your facts as straight as you can and, in my opinion, Woodwards’ latest will provide appropriate references.
And also in my opinion, come 2012, I feel Mr. Woodwards' book will save the butts of many a Democrat including that of the President if and when we learn how hard the President fought to keep one of his most revered campaign promises of ending the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and yes, Rahm should have done more. I don’t know how but hey, politics is his field, so they say but then, they also say Newt Gingrich is brilliant! LOL. And alas, they called Carl Rove 'brilliant'! It is amazing how the Oligarchy is keeping those people delusional and the rest of us ignorant; a win-win situation.
I look forward to reading a contemporary setting of the Iago-Othello dynamics i.e., The Military Industrial Complex and President Obama. Can not wait. Monday….here I come!
As always,
BB
P.S. I did not know about the Woodward book until this morning watching C-SPAN.
P.P.S. One of my English teachers told us, "to be" in any form is one of the hardest written expressions to deal with. I saw that today in writing this post. It took a while to work through it.
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