Hmmmm, no bias there.
Posted on 02/13/2010 1:40:49 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Why Cheney attacks By: Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei February 13, 2010 03:09 PM EST
Former Vice President Cheney will appear on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, and it’s a safe bet what he will say: President Barack Obama projects weakness to terrorists and puts American lives at risk.
It’s the kind of brutal charge — nuance-free and politically explosive — that has become a Cheney specialty since he left office 13 months ago.
Cheney’s broadsides on Afghanistan policy, detention and surveillance policies, and Obama’s general philosophy about the U.S. role in a dangerous world inevitably dominate the news. No other figure in Republican politics has equal ability to drive debate on national security, rally Obama critics and force the administration to respond. On Sunday, Vice President Joe Biden will be countering Cheney on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
But the backlashes to Cheney have become every bit as vicious as his own attacks. Some nonpartisan national security analysts have called Cheney’s critiques distorted and even demagogic. Some prominent liberal commentators have called them unpatriotic, and possibly mentally unbalanced. Even a conservative Republican senator respected on foreign policy issues recently called Cheney’s criticism of Obama unfair.
The former vice president’s success in driving the Obama debate has prompted a secondary debate of its own: Why does Cheney do it?
Cheney associates say he abandoned plans for a sedate post-Bush administration retirement of fly-fishing and memoir writing because he is genuinely concerned that Obama is a weak leader who is responding to political pressures in modifying war and terror policies that Cheney himself was instrumental in crafting.
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Cheney has been pretty silent lately. I would like to know why Obama attacks. You would think that since he’s in the White House, he would just lead.
Oh, geez... Cheney speaks his mind and the truth and it’s an ‘attack’. Gibbs makes an idiot of himself by mocking Sarah Palin and it’s...gee I haven’t read any MSM criticism of that. Hmm.
Politico
When KOS isn’t Lefty enough and HuffPo too erudite.
There. Fixed it.
Jim VandeHei is a clueless hack who cemented his status this past week on OReilly, claiming the liberal media does not hate/mock the Tea Party and/or Palin.
Obama caused all this when he elevated Cheney with the “Dueling Speeches” we had a few months back. That was a bad move that’s still paying us dividends. And they’re going to do it again.
Hmmmm, no bias there.
Cheney should have been president.
Anything from politico should come with a barf alert...
LOL. Riiiiiiight.
Biden's got no place in a battle of wits.
I’ll be back later to post the image that shows the many ways Dick Cheney can kill you.
Forget Sarah. You want to explode some liberal heads? Cheney in ‘12.
It’ll never happen, but I can dream.
The MSM whining is deafening when Conservatives ask for equal time.
Of course they are letting Slow Joe rebut so I guess it isn’t equal time is it?
Politico ~ Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Obama Cabal.
Love the photos. There is the typical humble W looking down while he listens to Obama but Cheney, on the other hand, is really giving him the evil eye. LOL
Politico is whining again I see.
Why can’t Cheney be like Bush and just shut up and not point out how weak they are on terror. Why can’t he be content with favorable puff pieces that come from keeping his trap shut. Of course even if Cheney were of that nature, he’s not, they would still rip him just as they have with Bush. I certainly didn’t see the same whining when Clinton or Carter opened their damn mouths during Bush’s adminsitration.
Keep it up Mr. Vice President. Even they admit you are winning the narrative.
This just completely reveals these libs, doesn't it? They cannot abide moral clarity. It reminds them too much of the moral absolutes; they must not allow a Divine foot in the door.
Had to be McCain.
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