Woodward’s book tattling tales on Democrats, Obama

Bob Woodward has been telling on presidents since he and Carl Bernstein teamed up to reveal the Watergate misdeeds of President Richard Nixon in the mid-1970s, and he’s at it again.

This time, it’s President Barack Obama who is feeling the sting, not because of criminal acts but because of ineptness, arrogance and other attributes that in combination spell peril for America.

The Washington Post associate editor may not put it quite that way in his new book, “The Price of Politics.” But when you’ve finished reading a published excerpt and summaries, you can either indulge in liberal sympathy, saying the poor president has had the misfortune of having to deal with human beings more ordinary than he is, or you can face the truth: He’s in over his head.

Woodward, while hardly purring about Republicans, has talked in an interview about Obama’s “gaps” and writes that he did not take charge in tough times the way presidents usually do.

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