Posted on 04/08/2015 8:47:08 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In an appearance on “The Hugh Hewitt Show” Tuesday night, former Vice President Dick Cheney said that President Obama’s actions on the world stage exemplify a president who wants “to take America down.”
Cheney also touched on Obama’s comments on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, telling Hewitt that Obama is the only post-World War II president to believe that America doesn’t need “to play a leading role in the world.”
The former vice president made the appearance following the announcement of a new book on American foreign policy, co-authored by himself and daughter Liz Cheney, will be released in September.
HEWITT: Let me play for both of you a cut from earlier today. The president sat down with an NPR reporter who asked him about Scott Walker’s statement on this show last week that he’s repudiate the emerging Iran hologram — I don’t call it a deal — on day one. Here’s what the president said.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Any president who gets elected will be knowledgeable enough on foreign policy and knowledgeable enough about the traditions and precedents of presidential power that they won’t start calling into question the capacity of the executive branch of the United States to enter into agreements with other countries. If that starts being questioned, that’s going to be a problem for our friends and that’s going to embolden our enemies and it would be a foolish approach to take. Perhaps Mr. Walker, after he’s taken some time to bone up on foreign policy, will feel the same way.
HEWITT: Vice President Cheney, you’ve been boning up on foreign policy since you entered the House 30 years ago. What do you make of that statement.
CHENEY: Well it starts from a flawed presumption on Obama’s part. For most of the last 70 years since World War II, we’ve had a bipartisan record in this country between Democrat and Republican. Harry Truman, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, Dwight Eisenhower, the Bush’s believed America had to play a leading role in the world and needs to maintain first class military capability to do that and occasionally use it. That the world works best with U.S. leadership. The first president, really, who doesn’t — no longer believe that fundamental truth is Barack Obama. What he’s saying, his criticism of Governor Walker — I think probably Governor Walker welcomes it. It’s almost like a paid commercial. I heard today as soon as the statement came out from Obama criticizing the governor, he immediately sent out to all of his supporters. I’m glad he did that. It’s a mark of weakness of this president that he’d say such a thing.
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HEWITT: Is he naive, Mr. Vice President? Or does he have a far reaching vision that only he entertains of a realigned Middle East. That somehow it all works out in the end.
CHENEY: I don’t know Hugh. I vacillate between the various theories I’ve heard. If you had somebody who, as president — who wanted to take America down. Who wanted to fundamentally weaken our position in the world, reduce our capacity to influence events. Turn our back on our allies and encourage our enemies, it would look exactly like what Barack Obama is doing. I think his actions are constituted in my mind are those of the worst president we’ve ever had.
Thank you for posting this ... one picture is worth a thousand words, etc.
Finally !
Someone of national stature finally got the guts to publicly state the truth about Obama.
We’ll never see George Bush speak out about Obama.
This is a blatant middle finger to past protocol in discussing current Presidents by former POTUS/VPOTUS.
Carter and Clinton beat Cheney.
Yeah Cheney, you knew and you said nothing. None of you Republicans said anything. You all are complicit.
“...He’s just NOW figuring this out?...”
No, he knew it all along.
He’s just stating it openly now... like a whole lot of other people SHOULD have been doing.
Dubya included.
The question is what Cheney (who has friends and supporters in the intelligence and military establishments) plans to DO about the situation. Someone needs to lead the charge and Cheney would be a good one to do it.
Cheney would do it well. I hope something is in the works.
Sadly, the people who hear this message are the people who agree with this message. The left would not listen to or believe anything Cheney has to say, and the MSM will treat him like a fool.
Obama speaks as he knows he's a fraud himself.
It had to be said.
He wants to take white America down. Cheney was just being diplomatic.
Bigtime!
Nice job by Walker pricking a pin into the thin-skinned jerk.
No one has taken America down further and faster than his administration. We need a Republican who does not want America to be world policeman.
Different day, different Clymer.
He [obama] not only wants to, from what I have seen, he is doing a damn good job of taking America down.
Other prominent people need to speak up about Obama and his garbage.
Bravo for Cheney! Obama’s disastrous and destructive foreign policies are going to take decades to recover from, if ever.
And congress is an accomplice for not doing a damn thing about it.
Exactly right. The spineless Republican weasels in the congress refuse to stand up and say what needs to be said. At least Cheney is not afraid to state the truth. Obama has not done a single thing to enhance the position, credibility, or strength of this country. He has done exactly the opposite. His “legacy” will be hard to recover from.
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