Posted on 04/10/2008 4:34:39 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
by Mark Silva
Vice President Dick Cheney, calling some of the remarks of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright “absolutely appalling,’’ is holding back his view of how Sen. Barack Obama has “dealt with’’ his retired pastor’s words.
“I've watched what's going on on the Democratic side with great interest, and sort of blowing hot and cold in terms of who is going to win -- whether it is going to be Sen. Clinton or Sen. Obama,’’ Cheney noted in a telephone interview with conservative talk show host, Sean Hannity, today.
“I thought the controversy over Rev. Wright was remarkable,'' Cheney said. “I thought some of the things he said were absolutely appalling. And, you know, I haven't gotten into the business of trying to judge how Sen. Obama dealt with it, or didn't deal with it, but I really, I think – like most Americans – I was stunned at what the Reverend was preaching in his church and then putting up on his website.’’
Obama, the Illinois Democrat leading in the Democratic Party’s contest for the party’s presidential nomination, has disavowed the most “incendiary’’ remarks of the retired pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, but has refused to disown the man, Wright, whom Obama has known for two decades.
Controversy over Wright’s most inflammatory remarks about racial power in America has subsided in recent weeks, opinion polls show, but the flap prompted Obama to deliver a speech about race and unity that was inevitable in his campaign as potentially the first African-American nominee of a major political party.
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I wish Dick Cheney was a 50-year old man with a cast iron ticker and arteries the size of the Lincoln Tunnel.
Likewise..
In a perfect world, sigh.
In an absolut world?
“I wish Dick Cheney was a 50-year old man with a cast iron ticker and arteries the size of the Lincoln Tunnel.”
That’s a fact.
In an Absolut world Dick Cheney would rule.
Well He’s not. & were in a lot of trouble. We have in front of us, A Liberal, Communist , an a socialist. (u pic em) Then throw in he fact the House is gone, and the Senate is history. But I still to this day, toss in the trash, request for money from the RNC because they are not my guy’s.
I think Mr. Cheney will be held in the highest esteem by historians. Just judge the man by his enemies.
Circumstances also came together well for Mr. Cheney.
Cheney is the only VP I know of who was completely free of the desire to become president. He is the only VP I can recall who had no personal “political-advancement” distraction to dilute principled judgment.
His stakes were called, de facto and de jure, the day he became VP. He had few outstanding favors.
The beauty is that, in his position, he has the power to ignore, and ignore totally, the pollsters and everybody else but his boss Mr. Bush. And I think he would quit as VP if he thought he was ineffective in advancing his principles.
Mr. Cheney shows the democrats every day that he is not poll-driven, and his freedom drives them crazy. He is dehumanized, a Darth Vader from a distant star. Typical pathetic ad hominem excrement from the traitors at move on please et al.
Also, unlike presidents we have had in the past fifty years, as VP, Cheney was never chained to a need to establish a legacy, a library, and all the other stuff second term presidents obsess about. He is a free man.
In my opinion, Cheney’s decisions and occasional arm-twisting were always for the good of the country not for the good of Mr. Cheney. With Cheney as VP, we enjoyed all the advantages of a one six year term for presidency, but we got eight years.
He is a free man.
I’m no historian; I could be way wrong on that.
Much credit to Bush for recognizing his own need and the nation’s need for a really experienced (stark opposite of O and HRC), and principled politician, an endangered species.
I can think of several presidents who would have been intimidated by Cheney as a VP w/o a personal agenda that could be manipulated, especially with his experience in congress and the executive branches, his intellectual acumen, and leadership skills, which would surely be more evident to the public if he were fifty and in good health. (Cheney often intimidates me just on TV, and I’m his boss, too.)
His knowledge of the world’s political/military map is unsurpassed in width and in depth, as is his ability to impact the map in sync with conservative principles. The duo of Cheney and Rumsfeld will be admired greatly in retrospect.
Although political detractors scream that Cheney’s decisions are grounded in personal financial incentive, a disinterested analysis of the evidence (at least the evidence I learn about) screams back: “No way.” That chatter is BS.
Courtesies, political niceties, and knowing when to give to get more are constants in politics, and Cheney is a skilled politician. Democrats hate him.
I think his best face time with the public was in the relentless beating he softly delivered to Mr. Edwards in their debate. That debate was and still is influential.
My only beef is that he did not seem to get the State Department with the program. But that’s asking a bit much of even Super Dick Cheney.
I for one was not stunned. What's stunning is that so many people are stunned.
Good grief. Is there anyone who actually gets out of the house in America and socializes? There are racists of all colors and in all nations. It's part of being human...granted, an ugly part.
Sometimes do you ever get the impression that the elites in the MSM are retarded?
Larry King is obviously.
Let’s just say “not right” lol
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