From The Washington Post
By Dan Froomkin

It’s official now: President Bush is the Keystone Kop-in-chief, disinterestedly overseeing a bunch of deputies who keep bumping into each other and falling down on the job.

Bob Woodward’s new book, “The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008,” hits the shelves on Monday. Starting on Sunday, The Washington Post, where he is assistant managing editor, will run four days of excerpts. And based on the initial coverage — which started after Fox News obtained an early copy of the book yesterday — Woodward’s ultimate conclusion is that Bush “too often failed to lead.”

That’s a far cry from what Woodward wrote in his first two Bush books. “Bush at War” and “Plan of Attack” were paens to the president’s brilliant leadership. But 2006’s ” State of Denial” was all about Bush’s refusal to see the true consequences of the war he launched in Iraq. And now there’s this.

Woodward, for all his ability to get powerful people to talk to him, has recently served less as an investigative reporter and more as a congealer of Washington’s conventional wisdom. When Bush was up in Washington, he was up in Woodward’s narratives. And now that he’s down, he’s down.

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