[Image from fanpix.net]President Obama responded thusly:
"I fundamentally disagree with Dick Cheney. [Note that: "fundamentally." That's basic!] Nor surprisingly. You know, I think that Vice President Cheney has been at the head of a movement whose notion is somehow that we can't reconcile our core values, our constitution, our belief that we don't torture with our national security interests. I think he's drawing the wrong lesson from history. The facts don't bear him out. I think he is... that attitude, that philosophy has done incredible damage to our image and position in the world. I mean, the fact of the matter is, after all these years, how many convictions actually came out of Guantanamo? How many... how many terrorists have actually been brought to justice under the philosophy that is being promoted by Vice President Cheney? It hasn't made us safer. What it has been is a great advertisement for anti-American sentiment, which means that there is constant effective recruitment of Arab fighters and Muslim fighters against U.S. interests all around the world."
What I love to see is Dickey Cheney sputtering off in a corner and no one is listening to him because they know he is full of horsehockey, and he's no longer in a position to do our country harm.
The only place I might disagree with Obama in the above statement is his assumption that Cheney might possibly have "core values," or might actually care about our constitution. Cheney may have core values, but they're not American values, nor are they humanistic values. They are all based on what's good for Cheney and the corporate interests he represents!
Furthermore, it has been demonstrated over and over again during the past eight years that Dickie Cheney doesn't give a flying you-know-what about our constitution. He and Chimpy sat up late at night trying to figure out new ways to shred those basic rights guaranteed by that document.
But isn't it nice to have a president who knows what a "core" value is, and what the constitution contains and means and believes that this country should operate from those values and under the constitution?
5 comments:
the sasd part is the media still considers cheney a person "worth going to" -- they all know he is full of crap - but just because he is the ex-veep, some how he has magical insight.
and they refuse to throw anything other than soft balls at him
and remember how chip reid of cbs news (who is an ass) - called out Gibbs for being disrespectful to cheney
i have word for Reid - So?
@ DC - It is absolutely beyond comprehension that any reputable person or organization or institution would give Cheney the time of day!
Being a rotten sonofabitch vice president does not give him credence, it just means he was a rotten sonofabitch.
That's like saying the German people should have respected Goering considering his high position in the Reich.
We have almost no one in the major media outlets that are able to crawl out from the corporate tent that feeds them.
Except for Rachel Maddow, and usually Keith Olbermann...
The Rethuglicans have the MSM in their hip pocket. John King proved that again this morning. He had Mitch McConnell on and tossed him softball questions through the whole interview. It also seemed like King was doing everything he could do to help McConnell make the Democrats and Obama look bad.
@ GP - John King acts like he's getting paid by the RNC! Disgusting!
Obama makes all these guys look like uneducated savages. We are lucky to have him over the alternatives offered. It is too soon to judge results, nut he has done a lot in a few months and is making some tough decision with a lot of advisors fro every persuasion. I am glad he is at the helm. I reserve the right to change my mind if events indicate I am wrong but in the meantime, he has my wholehearted support…as any president should have until proven unworthy.
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