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....
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Lots of people disagree with BO, Charles Cooper. Get used to it.
Lots of people disagree with BO, Charles Cooper. Get used to it.
Charles Johnson helped the Marlins win their first World Series.
‘Just why the ex-VP keeps popping off’
I’m guessing 8 years of ‘darth vader, blood dripping from his teeth’ , has something to do with it....
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