Why Dick Cheney is More American than Barack Obama

Townhall.com ^ | September 6, 2009 | Ken McCullough

[Kaslin]

Seeing that polls give us little snapshots of what the appetite of the nation is like at any given moment, I'm astounded by the moment we find ourselves in. As you sit reading this, former Vice President Cheney is on a two month surge of popularity. President Barack Obama, on the other hand, is doing his best Wile E. Coyote impression with no brakes on the rocket car, and has just careened over the edge of the fifty-foot cliff.

So what has boosted the former Vice President anywhere from 8-10%, while watching the President nose dive 11-14%?

I'm certain the layers to this answer are many.

The President has had a rough summer, and with his fall looking even more deficient in enthusiasm due to dropping employment numbers and even more depressing economics, things look tough for the foreseeable future. People could be remembering that unemployment during the previous administration hovered in the 4-5% range for nearly the totality of two terms, and as such people long for the days when they had jobs. Obama promised he'd personally never allow the unemployment rate to surpass 8%, but now with his current unemployment rate rising to 9.7%, the President wishes he could somehow get back to that 8% number desperately.

But I'm fairly certain that it's something more than that.

The current administration doesn't seem to understand that creating growth within the economy would help solve the most number of needs for the most people. If someone has a job, they can choose whether they want health care or not. If someone has a job, they can decide to invest and save for the future, so that when tough times come they're more prepared. If someone has a job, they can feed their family, and give the ones they love a better place to live. If someone has a job, many other parts of life get better for many, many people.

Vice President Cheney never forgot that by helping the small businessman in America you help roughly a dozen families simultaneously. By cutting the tax burdens of small business (people the current administration label "rich" and "evil") you help provide the livelihoods for a dozen families. By creating a smaller burden on small business you would create jobs, and jobs solve many other problems that Americans are now facing.

Yet again, I'm not truly convinced that this is the secret to why America is moving towards Cheney and away from Obama.

Personally I think it comes down to gravitas, seriousness, and the ability to look out for Americans.

President Obama seems completely uninvolved in the actions of his Attorney General Eric Holder. He's even gone so far as to intimate that he cannot control the choice of cases Holder decides to open, look into, and go after. But even political novices aren't fooled by this kind of sophistry.

Security also seems to just be a game to the current administration. Something that's fun to use politically (like pitting the Afghanistan conflict vs. the Iraq theater during the campaign), until one day they wake up and realize that Afghanistan may be a bigger mess than Iraq was. The administration is reckless when it goes to make speeches in radical regions of the globe and says in a gathering of Muslims that America is a Muslim country, and that Americans share the same values as Islam.

You see, Vice President Cheney, or Lord Vader, or whatever you refer to him as, might have had a pretty opinionated view of terrorists, and not necessarily the kindest. You know they did plan on flying an airliner into his office and all. The man was never confused, however, over whether or not subjugation of women, honor killings and female circumcision were "American values."

Furthermore, Vice President Cheney also strongly believes that the men and women that are asked to do the difficult things with terrorists to get the information that saves American lives should be given the legal protection they were granted by the Justice Department to carry out those tasks to begin with.

I know, I know, President Obama and General Holder think playing Arabic Yahtzee will yield the same results for the future, and maybe it will. There is no reason, however, to go open up new cases on the men and women who did their job, kept us safe, and have never so much as heard a "thank you" from an administration that owes its very possibility to their success.

In short, Vice President Cheney believes there are such things as heroes, and he is just an old fashioned enough guy to step up and say so.

President Obama, on the other hand, asks Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, and Robert Gibbs if heroes exist, and goes with whatever two out of three say. (Which explains why he is often spotted wandering the halls of the West Wing mumbling to himself, "Save the cheerleader! Save the world!")

At the end of the day, serving "We The People" as President has turned out to be much harder than simply talking about being President.

And doing so while trying to change the very fabric of what America fundamentally is has not been quite as easy as simply repeating the words, "Hope and Change" while clicking one's ruby slippers together three times.

President Obama lives in a world that he desperately wishes existed. Vice President Cheney lives in the world that actually does.

And as much as he does not relish having to correct the current administration on policy, Americans are showing that they are grateful that he's taking the time to do so.

Well... 8% more of them over the last two months anyway.

[Kaslin]

President Obama lives in a world that he desperately wishes existed. Vice President Cheney lives in the world that actually does.

That is about it, in a nutshell

[Northern Yankee]

Yeah... Cheney was born in this country.

[Paladin2]

Cheney grew up in the country too.

[politicalmerc]

You beat me to it!

That and Cheney isn't a communist.

[Mojave]

[Northern Yankee]

Cheney grew up! Zero is still a punk.

[counterpunch]

0bama’s sinking faster than a 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88.

[Northern Yankee]

Bingo!

Van Jones couldn't be reached for comment.

[usmcobra]

If Cheney was President he’d take Van Jones hunting...

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Dick Cheney is a national treasure.

America would be light-years better off had Mr. Cheney been elected president last November 4th instead of Hussein.

[Anita1]

Let him take all the administration with him - and especially the Czars! Lol!

[Diogenesis]

No comparison. Obama is not an American.

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Clearing the Smoke on Obama’s Eligibility: An Intelligence Investigator’s June 10 Report
"The Territorial Public Health Statistics Act in the 1955 Revised Laws of Hawaii
In the State of Hawaii, back in 1961, there were four different ways to get an “original birth certificate” on record.
BC1. If the birth was attended by a physician or mid wife, the attending medical professional was required to certify to the Department of Health the facts of the birth date, location, parents’ identities and other information. (See Section 57-8 & 9 of the Territorial Public Health Statistics Act in the 1955 Revised Laws of Hawaii which was in effect in 1961).

BC2. In 1961, if a person was born in Hawaii but not attended by a physician or midwife, then all that was required was that one of the parents send in a birth certificate to be filed. The birth certificate could be filed by mail. There appears to have been no requirement for the parent to actually physically appear before “the local registrar of the district.”
It would have been very easy for a relative to forge an absent parent’s signature to a form and mail it in.
In addition, if a claim was made that “neither parent of the newborn child whose birth is unattended as above provided is able to prepare a birth certificate, the local registrar shall secure the necessary information from any person having knowledge of the birth and prepare and file the certificate.” (Section 57-8&9)
.... there is and was no requirement for a physician or midwife to witness, state or report that the baby was born in Hawaii.

BC3. In 1961, if a person was born in Hawaii but not attended by a physician or midwife, then, up to the first birthday of the child, a “Delayed Certificate” could be filed, which required that “a summary statement of the evidence submitted in support of the acceptance for delayed filing or the alteration [of a file] shall be endorsed on the certificates”, which “evidence shall be kept in a special permanent file.”
The statute provided that “the probative value of a ‘delayed’ or ‘altered’ certificate shall be determined by the judicial or administrative body or official before whom the certificate is offered as evidence.” (See Section 57- 9, 18, 19 & 20 of the Territorial Public Health Statistics Act in the 1955 Revised Laws of Hawaii which was in effect in 1961).”

BC4. If a child is born in Hawaii, for whom no physician or mid wife filed a certificate of live birth, and for whom no Delayed Certificate was filed before the first birthday, then a Certificate of Hawaiian Birth could be issued upon testimony of an adult (including the subject person [i.e. the birth child as an adult]) if the Office of the Lieutenant Governor was satisfied that a person was born in Hawaii, provided that the person had attained the age of one year.
(See Section 57-40 of the Territorial Public Health Statistics Act in the 1955 Revised Laws of Hawaii which was in effect in 1961.)
In 1955 the “secretary of the Territory” was in charge of this procedure. In 1960 it was transferred to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor (“the lieutenant governor, or his secretary, or such other person as he may designate or appoint from his office” §338-41 [in 1961]).

In 1982, the vital records law was amended to create a fifth kind of “original birth certificate”. Under Act 182 H.B. NO. 3016-82, “Upon application of an adult or the legal parents of a minor child, the director of health shall issue a birth certificate for such adult or minor, provided that the proof has been submitted to the director of health that the legal parents of such individual while living without the Territory or State of Hawaii had declared the Territory or State of Hawaii as their legal residence for at least one year immediately preceding the birth or adoption of such child.”
In this way “state policies and procedures” accommodate even “children born out of State” (this is the actual language of Act 182) with an “original birth certificate on record.”

[Jeff Head]

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[VOA]

“Why Dick Cheney is More American than Barack Obama”

More American?

Barack Obama is Not at ZERO on the “How American Are You” scale.

He ranks at something like the “absolute zero” as ANTI-American as
anyone can be!!!

[Kaslin]

ping

[BuffaloJack]

Cheney has a birth certificate that says “Made in USA”.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Exactly! Bravo!

Thank GOD Dick Cheney was our Vice President during our worst national crisis since WWII.

America looks at him and sees GRAVITAS.

America looks at Bambi and sees INCOMPETENCE (and soon more will see EVIL)

But the stupid Dems MUST have an enemy to target of course to divert attention from their own incompetence and crimes. Because their ideas and their ideals simply do not mesh with ordinary human beings who just want to live and provide for their families and themselves in peace and security.

Obama is based on a lie.

Dick Cheny is based on rock solid truth.

Most people see the difference - despite the propaganda.

[dalebert]

Cheney...the american with the birthcertificat to prove it...he is a patriot.

[dinodino]

Arabic Yahtzee! HA!

[FrankR]

"He's even gone so far as to intimate that he cannot control the choice of cases Holder decides to open, look into, and go after. But even political novices aren't fooled by this kind of sophistry. "

But, commiebama can FIRE an inspector general who decides to go after a friend of his who happens to be pilfering from the Americorps fund. The IG should be more immune from zero's meddling than the Attorney General.

I also think it's funny that when chairman zero's "people" are caught with their hand in the cookie jar, that a "regretful resignation" becomes a "get of out jail free" card. They just go away and disappear.

The White House has been turned into Black Liberation Theology central, and is being headed by Rev. WRight's star pupil.