Posted on 05/26/2009 4:14:38 PM PDT by lewisglad
By goading a sitting president into responding to his arguments on his terms, Dick Cheney won the contest with Barack Obama last week before either said a word. And his re-emergence onto the public square seems to be driving everybody nuts.
Ironically, it was left to Chris Matthews -- one of the vice president's most unrelenting critics -- to offer the best take on last week's dueling speeches. On his Sunday show, he put it this way: "I saw something from Barack Obama I never even saw in the campaign, a sense he was listening for footsteps, that he could hear Cheney coming at him and he was defensive."
Think about that. Back in those heady days after the 2008 election, anyone who suggested that Mr. Obama might find himself playing defense to Dick Cheney on Guantanamo would have been hauled off as barking mad. Yet that's exactly what Mr. Cheney has pulled off, leaving a desperate White House to try to drown him out by adding an Obama speech the same day Mr. Cheney was slated to address the American Enterprise Institute.
Of course, the effect was just the opposite. The White House reaction ended up elevating Mr. Cheney to Mr. Obama's level, and ensuring that his words would be measured directly against the president's. Mr. Cheney forced the president to engage him.
For much of the Beltway, the Cheney surge is baffling. After all, when Mr. Cheney left office, his reputation seemed divided between those who thought him a punch line on late-night TV and those who thought him a war criminal. As so often happens, however, the conventional wisdom seems to have blinded Mr. Cheney's ideological opponents to the many advantages he brings to the table.
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Obama doesn’t hold a candle to Cheney’s brain! Totally unmatched. Cheney is a PATRIOT also.....Obama has DUAL allegiances.
Maybe the former VP ought to take BO hunting????
“Lookit the grouse...” Curly
Dick Cheney - An Inconvenient Truth
Obummer’s strategy is right out of the pre-8/11 textbook and we all know how that ended.
If we are attacked again, Obummer won’t be able to blame Bush at all and if he tries, he won;t be able to make it stick for a single minute.
This is why Obummer is a national disgrace and a supreme joke that only the MSM could admire.
The “Conventional Wishdom” is wrong. Cheney is highly respected amongst adults who prefer to have truly patriotic people in charge of government.
Typed too fast. Should be 9/11. Sorry for the typo.
Your photos tell it all. Most of us women prefer real men, like Reagan, Bush, and Cheney.
Did you ever notice that these good guys got the prettier, nicer, and smarter women? (I am including myself in that category, by the way!)
The difference between Cheney and Obama is that Cheney is a man.
Cheney’s going Revolutionary War on Obama’s a$$.
Gee, Beltway we don’t want to die.
Unfortunately, there seem to be fewer and fewer adults around.
Yes we do.
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