The title of the article goes great with this graphic!
"The ten ways Dick Cheney can kill you"
Posted on 05/21/2009 9:56:09 PM PDT by LdSentinal
The spectacle of two duelling speeches with a mile of each other in downtown Washington was extraordinary. I was at the Cheney event and watched Obama's address on a big screen beside the empty lectern that the former veep stepped behind barely two minutes after his adversary had finished.
So who won the fight? (it's hard to use anothing other than a martial or pugilistic metaphor). Well, most people are on either one side or the other of this issue and I doubt today will have prompted many to switch sides.
But the very fact that Obama chose to schedule his speech (Cheney's was announced first) at exactly the same time as the former veep was a sign of some weakness.
The venues for the speeches said something. Obama showily chose the National Archives, repository for many of the founding documents of the US, and spoke in front of a copy of the Constitution - cloaking himself in the flag, as Republicans were often criticised for doing.
To hear Cheney speak, we were crammed into a decidedly unglamourous and cramped conference room at AEI, favourite think tank of conservative hawks.
The former veep's speech was factual and unemotional and certainly devoid of the kind of hokey, self-obsessed, campaign-style stuff like this, from Obama's address today: "I stand here today as someone whose own life was made possible by these documents. My father came to these shores in search of the promise that they offer. My mother made me rise before dawn to learn their truths when I lived as a child in a foreign land."
In terms of Obama's purported aim for his speech - to present a plan for closing Guantanamo Bay aimed at placating Congress - he failed.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
obama said: “My father came to these shores in search of the promise that they offer”
Really, I thought he came here in search of easy poontang? Because he was quite the player in his home land of Kenya.
Is it NEVER about him?
Such a narcissist.
So Obambi stood in front of a nearly sacred document and declared them to be a list of “negative rights”?
No kidding. Obama’s alleged father was just a visiting student, the idea that he was an immigrant is more myth.
Why, oh why, oh why, oh WHY didn’t the Bush Administration talk like this, and make the case for their policies so forcefully?! They just sat back and let the media define them in the minds of most Americans. I’ll never understand that.
In time, Obama’s greatly inflated rhetoric is going to become a laughing stock. How much rococo can one take in a sitting. It is been a 6 month diet of cotton candy, and when you centrifuge out the bull$hit he is painfully devoid of substance.
Obama, enough already with how holy and chosen you are, now, how are you, Nancy Pelosi, the ACLU, Tony Reszko, Rev Wright, Larry Sinclair, the DailyKos, Whoopie Goldberg, Alec Baldwin, Bill Ayers, Oprah, Pat Leahy, Joe Biden, Sean Penn, The Folsom Street Fair, Code Pink, Pete Seeger, Rod Blagojevich, Danny Glover, Kal Penn, Springsteen, Greenpeace and George Soros going to protect the United States from terrorist attacks? No plan! I thought so!
Cheney did the right thing bringing him out to the woodshed.
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Awesome article title, Mr. Harnden, just awesome.
Thank you President Bush and VP Cheney!! You did what you had to do to protect us!!
I see 0 has decided to fight back with a “major national security speech” which the msm will undoubtedly swoon over. I loved watching Cheney. Was he a street fighter ina former life?
It is all about POWER and me me me me me me me me me.
LLS
“Cheney isn’t the type to go quietly into the night”
At least we can be thankful for that!
0 came across as a haughty, self-absorbed, tantrum-throwing narcissist.
From wiki:
* Overreacts to criticism, becoming angry or humiliated
* Uses others to reach goals
* Exaggerates own importance
* Entertains unrealistic fantasies about achievements, power, beauty, intelligence or romance
* Has unreasonable expectations of favorable treatment
* Seeks constant attention and positive reinforcement from others
* Is easily jealous[14]
* Has a sense of extreme entitlement
* Is exploitative of others
* Lacks empathy
* Displays arrogant, haughty and proud behaviour.
* Uses denial mechanism to downplay own inadequacies or failings
* Uses rationalization mechanism[15] to justify self-centered behavior
No kidding! Wow, I feel so much better about the Constitution now... thank goodness we have it, since it led to Obama’s father coming to these shores. Guess those 200 plus years of history were worthwhile after all....
That is one of the funniest photos I have seen in a long time.... I like telekinesis the best!!!
I am also pretty tired of the “I stand here today....” line. Don’t they have something else? I googled it— he used it at Notre Dame, his inauguration, the convention, another speech in DC, this most recent speech.... I even saw one citation of Michelle using it.
“Obama is a very dangerous black racist post turtle.
Those who still can’t see that are delusional.”
You got that right, brother. I’m amazed how many people cannot see that - it’s right in the open if you are willing to look.
Aaah, now I have it “PTOTUS” !!
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