[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?
