CHENEY SLAMS 'WEAK' KERRY

New York Post ^ | 3/18/04 | DEBORAH ORIN

[kattracks]

March 18, 2004 -- Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday ripped into Democratic nominee John Kerry as a weak waffler with lousy judgment who'd have left Saddam Hussein in power and is insulting steadfast allies like Britain. "It is not an impressive record for someone who aspires to become commander in chief in this time of testing for our country," Cheney said in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., after a bomb ripped through a Baghdad hotel.

[Diamond]

I watched Vice President Cheney’s 30 minute address on C-SPAN 2 last night at 7:00 pm to 7:30 pm Central Time...

I cannot find this speech on C-SPAN 2's web site in their video library or anywhere else. They do have speeches from yesterday and today by such luminaries as Maxine Waters and other talking heads, but they do not have Cheney's speech. I would like my friends to hear it.

Cordially,

[kevkrom]

How is simply stating a voting record an "attack ad"?

attack ad (n) - any political advertisement by a Republican or conservative that does anything other than begging forgiveness for being a Republican or conservative

issue ad (n) - any political advertisement by a Democrat or liberal that blatantly mischaracterizes a position held by a Republican or conservative

[petercooper]

[optik_b]

Found this exchange of Cheney from May 2000 Meet the Press. Kind of odd to read now.

CHENEY: No Regrets On Keeping Saddam In Power In 1991—US Would Have Had To Do It Alone

MR. RUSSERT: Do you regret not taking Saddam out nine years ago?

MR. CHENEY: I don't, Tim. It was--and it's been talked about since then. But the fact of the matter is, the only way you could have done that would be to go to Baghdad and occupy Iraq. If we'd done that, the U.S. would have been all alone. We would not have had the support of the coalition, especially of the Arab nations that fought alongside us in Kuwait. None of them ever set foot inside Iraq. Conversations I had with leaders in the region afterwards--they all supported the decision that was made not to go to Baghdad. They were concerned that we not get into a position where we shifted instead of being the leader of an international coalition to roll back Iraqi aggression to one in which we were an imperialist power, willy-nilly moving into capitals in that part of the world taking down governments. [Meet the Press, 8/27/00]

[Puzzleman]

C-SPAN has posted the video of Cheney's speech. This is the page that contains the link.