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.

[Girlene]

LOL! That was my first reaction. I believe it was "precedent".

I believe either word would work in this sentence by Cheney:

................"It’s hard to imagine a worse precedent, filled with more possibilities for trouble and abuse, than to have an incoming administration criminalize the policy decisions of its predecessors. "............

[Bean Counter]

It is a crying shame that it takes the former Vice President to say these things, in his retirement. God Bless Dick Cheney for clearly showing where the holes are in the Obama policies, but whey aren’t there Conservatives that are in office right now, saying these things instead, too...???

Show me one Republican that is worthy of carrying even one of Cheney’s stones...

[Sparko]

To show how Conservatives and Socialists really do live in different worlds here is a current take on Mr. Cheney’s speech, 11:46 am by a DUmmy:

“I think this an absolutely unprecedented event.
I have never seen an outgoing administration absolutely slamming the present administration like this. It’s just blowing my mind.”

[syriacus]

I have the feeling Cheney is risking his health by giving this speech.

[Nasher]

Cheney is body slamming 0bambi+Libs+Media for their entire weak on terror policy.

[Servant of the Cross]

He should end his speech with a call to a live debate. 0_bama will shrink from this while all his wingnuts will be screaming for him to accept it.

[maggief]

Terrorists see “weakness and opportunity!”

BINGO!

[McGruff]

Obama Won't Back Down
On Intent to Close Gitmo

URGENT: In scathing attack on Bush administration, Obama pushes to close Guantanamo detainee facility, transfer some terror suspects to U.S. 'supermax' prisons

[khnyny]

Oh man, Cheney is kicking butt!

“Our enemies see weakness” - nailed it.

[paulycy]

This speech may one day be regarded as Cheney’s finest hour.

Absolutely. Certainly one of the most viewed, most accurate and best-timed smackdowns of any sitting leader in history.

And zer0 has only himself to blame for the timing and Cheney's opportunity to rebut a miserable, self-serving and factually-inaccurate speech immediately afterwards and on international tv.

[Bush Revolution]

ROFL!!! Perfect picture!!!!!!

[JustaCowgirl]

HE’S SLAPPING THE WHOLE STINKING BUNCH OF THEM AROUND!!!

GO DICK GO!!!

[rintense]

The clearly have forgotten how Clinton keep himself in the news all eight years of the Bush administration.

[twigs]

Too funny! I’m sitting here at my desk chuckling like an idiot and I work in an office where silence is the greatest value. oh my!

[meyer]

Cheney is taking the boy to the wood shed..

He's taking the entire democrat party and half the republicans to the wood shed!

[ScottinVA]

“Cheney is looking at the pencil neck and thinking things.”

He’s likely thinking: “I’ve seen your type before and you’re no good, you little POS.”

[nufsed]

1,250,000 people viewing it on Fox and CNN

[old_sage_says]

Dick Cheney, the real DC in Washington, DC.

It wouldn’t surprise me that El Rushbo will have a hastily scheduled interview with Vice President Cheney, today.

[TomGuy]

Didn’t McCain want to close Gitmo?

Correct!

McCain vowed to close Gitmo on Day 1 of his presidency and move the detainees to Leavenworth.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Word cannot adequately descibe the greatness of this man. GOD BLESS DICK CHENEY!!!!

How do we let him know of our gratitude?