Live Thread: Obama vs. Cheney

Thursday, May 21, 2009 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

Obama goes first in a few minutes. He's speaking at the rotunda of the National Archives (you think we could get Nicholas Cage on that birth certificate thingey?) on his Gitmo policy and other man-caused calamities.

Vice President Cheney gets the rebuttal time. He's speaking at the American Enterprise Institute around 10:45 a.m. EDT.

[PerConPat]

He is way down in the weeds on this one.

It's all hindsight on Obama's part. That's all the Rats have had on national security for the past eight years. He will hide behind the "mistakes" of the previous administration, that had to innovate to keep America safe, for as long as he can.

[syriacus]

i was under the impression that the detainees in Guantanamo had already been determined to be a threat to our safety.

Yep!

[CheneyChick]

I am holding back. Sorry.

That oath means something to me.

[Nickname]

I think that ‘06 and ‘08 were warning shots.

People were ticked off over the way Republicans spent and governed so they booted their butts to the curb.

Now people are starting to get pissed because the Democrats are Republicans on steroids.

I don’t believe for a second that what Obama is delivering is what the majority of his voters had in mind.

[spectre]

This is friggin painful to watch...OMG.

Bring on Cheney.

sw

[Exit148]

Everytime he brings up the Constitution, I want to throw up. Words — just words!

[ken5050]

During W’s 8 years, I don’t think he ever referred tot he “Clinton administration” by name...every time Zero says Bush, it’s with a sneer..

[AliVeritas]

When did he end interrogation techniques... or rendition for that matter. Where’s the location of the Gitmo replacement, where are the plans?

In case he doesn’t care (as usual), prisoners are being let out of prisons due to overcrowding and lack of state funds.

What he says and what he does are opposites. Very Alinsky.

It doesn’t help that he’s a malignant narcissist.

The plan is to get the jihadis off.

They have truly elected the enemy.

He speaks in front of the constitution at the National Archives. A real kick in the teeth.

[cdchik123]

I was just about to say that Oprah is president!

[maica]

I wonder if Obama’s teleprompter got an advance copy of Cheney’s speech so the One could pre-but it? We know we are witnessing criminal minds at work, so I bet his speechwriters have used Cheney’s speech in this one we are watching now.

Obama is making no sense, as usual, because he presents himself as being on both sides of every issue. He often does it in one sentence or one paragraph.

[angelcindy]

oh he will change his mind tommorrow on everything he said today

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Dick Cheney was Secretary of Defense while Obama was still screwing around with organizing communities.....

And immersing himself in Reverend Wrights poisonous Anti-American, racist diatribes.

[Sacajaweau]

What Obama says may be the case...so moving these scumbags to USA turf will make these terrorists love us and strengthen National Security????

How absolutely, utterly stupid...Where's the logic??

[Carley]

And who damned our troops. DEMONRATS every time.

Durbin, Kennedy, Kerry. Ugly traitors.

[khnyny]

Obama speaks out of both sides of his mouth. What about the “rule of law” regarding the Chrysler debacle?

[McGruff]

Obama is laying this all on “The Bush Administration”. George W. Bush needs to get out there respond to these attacks on his administration.

[MisterI]

I, I, I...me, me, me...my, my, my...I, I, I...it’s all about me!!

[maggief]

His arrogance is absolutely astonishing.

[CheneyChick]

There is no logic.

[anniegetyourgun]

astute observation, ken.