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Turning Up The Heat On Barack Obama
CBS ^ | 12/1/09 | Charles Cooper

Posted on 12/02/2009 4:04:00 AM PST by steve-b

Leave it to Dick Cheney to teach Tareq Salahi a thing or two about how to crash a big event.

On the eve of Barack Obama's most important address as president, Cheney managed to (temporarily) grab the spotlight when he told Politico that the commander in chief was weak and letting politics affect his military decisions....

Just why the ex-VP keeps popping off remains full-time fodder for the media, but Cheney's looking more partisan with each headline that he makes. James Fallows is spot on when he notes the contrast with President George W. Bush, who has "maintained a dignified distance from public controversies and let the new team have its chance...."

I wonder how many of his former supporters would agree. The anger on the right seems deeper than anything expressed during the Clinton era. The timing was accidental but the former vice president's latest outburst coincided with a remarkable cri de coeur by Charles Johnson, the creator of the once conservative blog Little Green Footballs why he's parting with the right wing. Of course, when Johnson wrote that "the American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff," he had no way of knowing that Cheney was about to put his pacemaker into overdrive and let loose with another of the periodic salvos he's fired at the Obama administration since leaving the White House.

Johnson had to know he was going to spark a firestorm by breaching the right's narrative of the history of the last eight years. Conservatives, who are quick to complain about political correctness, turn out to be remarkably PC when it comes to their own sacred cows....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cheney; dickcheney; lgf; littlegreenfootballs; steveb
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To: wmileo
Who is Charles Johnson?

I don't know about the other two, but I know Charles Johnson was a catcher for the Florida Marlins in the late 90's

21 posted on 12/02/2009 4:27:38 AM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
"mouths of those two egg heads"

Al Gore and Carter were hardly egg heads. They were average students at best.

What is more important is that they have both disgraced and betrayed their Country on more than one occasion for personal gain.

22 posted on 12/02/2009 4:28:07 AM PST by wmileo
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To: steve-b

REAL American Patriots who love our country and the principles upon which it was founded are speaking out about the socialist gang of thugs in the White House!

In my book anyone who stands by quietly and lets America slowly slip away are just as treasonous as Zero.


23 posted on 12/02/2009 4:30:05 AM PST by flash2368
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To: steve-b

OK a liberal writer at a liberal website, CBS.com, criticizes Cheney. This isn’t news!

Why are you calling everybody’s attention to it.

Why aren’t you reading newspapers, blogs and websites that praise Cheney and posting those so that we all will know the facts and the truth rather than Cooper’s netherworld.

Is it that you would rather hate liberals than like conservatives?

Please explain this mentality because I don’t understand why my newspaper, which wrote pro-Bush, pro-military, pro-law enforcement, pro-conservative, pro-Palin, pro-average working class American articles in an intelligent entertaining way rarely was posted to FR.

Yet I’ll read all sorts of garbage from the NY Times, WaPost, LA Times, et al and from people like Cooper, Hershberg, Krugman and the rest posted here.

It is not because you think it’s important to know what the opposition is thinking. Because we already know that. What we seem to lack is what our side is thinking. Because most conservatives I hear talking to liberals in cafe’s, bars, restaurants, at parties etc cannot clearly defend the lies from the left.

I don’t mean to sound hostile. My regrets if I do. I’m just completely befuddled by an attitude which prefers to be outraged by leftist propaganda then informed by conservative newspapers.


24 posted on 12/02/2009 4:31:06 AM PST by William Tell 2
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To: wmileo

To you they were “average students”, to me Jimmy Carter and Algore are both menaces to capitalism, freedom and democracy.


25 posted on 12/02/2009 4:34:46 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("The Community Organizer better stop bitching that the community is organizing." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: steve-b

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S UPBRINGING


THE MAN WHO DESPISES AMERICA


AWAKEN, O AMERICA, YOUR LIBERTY IS CALLING

26 posted on 12/02/2009 4:36:56 AM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Man50D

You are ignorant of the process and the events under way. There are two very strong surrogates, designated hitters if you will, Carl Rove and Dick Cheney.

All know that bashers will be critical of anything W says. A better course is for the surrogates to present the message. They are delivering the goods on a constant and timely basis in spite of naysayers who have a narrow view that excludes reality.


27 posted on 12/02/2009 4:38:03 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
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To: steve-b

When the brain trust speaks, people listen. Cheney is the man.


28 posted on 12/02/2009 4:39:50 AM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: steve-b
Cheney is a real Patriot... Bush was a go along to get along pol just like his daddy... never defending himself or those supporting him and his decisions, when their butts were on the line too... and Cheney was the gate keeper for Bush... it is natural that he speaks out against the worst president in our history... while Bush keeps his tacit approval of communism and socialism in play with his inherited need to remain silent and of no consequence in the reality of today... yes... I am angry with Bush... he let me down on many fronts over the years... I never once let him down. Cheney and his wife BOTH speak to my mind and my heart! BTW... every living dim president and vp constantly attack Republicans of every shape and form... never a question or admonishment from any "journalist" for doing so either.

LLS

29 posted on 12/02/2009 4:47:48 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: bert
You are ignorant of the process and the events under way. There are two very strong surrogates, designated hitters if you will, Carl Rove and Dick Cheney.

All know that bashers will be critical of anything W says. A better course is for the surrogates to present the message. They are delivering the goods on a constant and timely basis in spite of naysayers who have a narrow view that excludes reality.


It appears you have special access to Bush so please enlighten us what he told you about his strategy to reverse socialism instead of reducing your remarks to meaningless insults. Bush was bashed all the time as President! It certainly won't be any worse in retirement. Carter and Clinton spoke out against Bush frequently while he was President. They didn't use any so called "surrogates". Bush remaining silent with socialists destroying the Constitution couldn't be more insipid, at best.
30 posted on 12/02/2009 4:48:34 AM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: Man50D

the bashing it continues un abated and igornance is bliss


31 posted on 12/02/2009 4:54:34 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Lukenbach Texas is barely there)
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To: combat_boots

Sadly, George Bush was a creation of Karl Rove, and despite the opportunity given him by 9/11 he was never able to match Cheney’s political acumen or intellectual stature. The same holds true for John McCain. Sarah Palin could do no better than to ask Cheney to serve as head of her brain trust.


32 posted on 12/02/2009 4:55:52 AM PST by Melchior
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I don’t see what this has to do with Tiger Woods...


33 posted on 12/02/2009 4:59:10 AM PST by villagerjoel (1. Implement socialist policies 2. ??? 3. Heaven on earth)
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To: Rome2000
"Charles Johnson was a catcher for the Florida Marlins in the late 1990's "

So now he is catching Little Green Footballs? Sounds like a demented New York Jet Fan to me!

Or perhaps Mayor Bloomberg playing Snoopy on his private Jet!

34 posted on 12/02/2009 5:02:46 AM PST by wmileo
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To: steve-b

Just why the ex-VP keeps popping off remains full-time fodder for the media,

The ex-democrat presidents/vice-presidents have made this a routine happening. (clinton, carter, gore etc.)

Why is the media so concerned about Cheney?


35 posted on 12/02/2009 5:11:04 AM PST by chainsaw (If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J..)
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To: villagerjoel
"I don’t see what this has to do with Tiger Woods..."

Except for this.

If the POTUS was not overwhelmed lately with the War on Terror (AH, excuse me, the Inconvenient Overseas Contingency)continuing to pose as the Commander in Chief, he would undoubtedly have some less than complimentary comment to make about the Florida Police.

36 posted on 12/02/2009 5:15:11 AM PST by wmileo
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To: chainsaw
"Why is the media so concerned about Cheney?"

Because they don't know how to deal with him or Rove IMHO.

37 posted on 12/02/2009 5:17:17 AM PST by wmileo
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To: wmileo

“If the POTUS was not overwhelmed lately with the War on Terror (AH, excuse me, the Inconvenient Overseas Contingency)continuing to pose as the Commander in Chief, he would undoubtedly have some less than complimentary comment to make about the Florida Police.”

*golf clap*


38 posted on 12/02/2009 5:31:48 AM PST by villagerjoel (1. Implement socialist policies 2. ??? 3. Heaven on earth)
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To: nmh
Bush needs to get off his dam high horse and SPEAK OUT.

ESPECIALLY about Dodd and Franks and the Black Caucus causing the economic melt down
39 posted on 12/02/2009 5:47:36 AM PST by uncbob
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To: steve-b
Just why the ex-VP keeps popping off remains full-time fodder for the media, but Cheney's looking more partisan with each headline that he makes.

Lots of people disagree with BO, Charles Cooper. Get used to it.

40 posted on 12/02/2009 6:29:56 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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