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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I laughed out loud. Too funny.
Caption for that photo: “Okay, Mr. Obummer, here is your suppository.”
“Unfortunately, there seem to be fewer and fewer adults around.”
In the darkest cloud, there is a silver lining. When the Islamoterrorists come back—and it’s sure as taxes that they will, because Obama’s fecklessness is enticing them like nothing anyone had ever imagined—the ground zero for their attack will be Washington, DC. Luckily for the rest of us, that particular place has the lowest concentration of adults in the U.S.
Thank You lewisglad for posting the article.
Cheney wasn’t brought up to Obama’s level. Cheney has been, is and always will be head and shoulders above Obama. No question.
They beat youth, innocence, and a bad haircut.
Oh my gosh...that says it all.
Big-Time vs the Arugula-Latte... no contest.
Republicans got the ticket backward, it should have been Cheney-Bush, rather than Bush-Cheney.
There are only a few really smart and perceptive people in politics today:
0. Anthony Scaliz
1. Dick Cheney
2. Newton L. Gingrich
3. Rush Limbaugh
4. Ron Paul
Republicans got the ticket backward, it should have been Cheney-Bush, rather than Bush-Cheney.
There are only a few really smart and perceptive people in politics today:
0. Anthony Scalia
1. Dick Cheney
2. Newton L. Gingrich
3. Rush Limbaugh
4. Ron Paul
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PS - Obama is at the bottom of the long list of public figures in critical thinking, he hasn’t got a clue, and :
HE WILL DESTROY OUR COUNTRY.
Pleased to meet you as well...and yes, it is.
I did...and have 28 years of marital bliss to prove it.
The body, the hottie, and the nottie.
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