rssDick Cheney, Conservative of the Year
Monday, December 21, 2009 at 10:45 am
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Human Events gives the title to the former vice president in an op-ed penned by former UN Ambassador-turned-omnipresent critic of the Obama administration John Bolton. And there is a strong case to be made that it’s on foreign policy and civil liberties issues that the Obama administration has been most disappointing to the left and most encouraging to neoconservatives. Bolton argues, cuttingly, that the Democratic offensive against Cheney — easily the most despised conservative figure among liberal activists — is an acknowledgment that he got his way.
Cheney knows that the personal attacks on him, as offensive as they are, in reality constitute stark evidence that Obama and his supporters are simply unable to match him in the substantive policy debate. An old lawyers’ cliché says: “If the law is against you, pound on the facts; if the facts are against you, pound on the law; if the law and the facts are against you, pound on the table.” Obama and his supporters are doing the political equivalent of continuous table-pounding, because that’s basically all they have to offer. Cheney’s unwillingness to be deterred by the media assaults on his character, his judgment and his performance in office are therefore his most impressive force multiplier with the general public. Outside-the-Beltway Americans see him for exactly what he is: a very experienced, very dedicated patriot, giving his fellow citizens his best analysis on how to keep them and their country safe.
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Comment posted December 21, 2009 @ 4:48 pm
Per the Bolton Neoconservative Dictionary:
Patriot- n.: one who is willing to lie, break the law, compromise national security, and sacrifice the lives of others to reward himself handsomely, financially and politically.
Comment posted December 21, 2009 @ 5:55 pm
Yes, well I am an outside the beltway American – fought for my country in Iraq and Colombia, matter of fact, and I don't see our ex-Veep as 'a very experienced dedicated patriot' at all. I see him as a mean bitter partisan hack using all kinds of misinformation and invective to attack a sitting president whose politics he disagrees with, especially as there is the chance it could get him in trouble as a war criminal.
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Comment posted December 22, 2009 @ 1:56 am
Glad to see I'm not the only Iraq vet who thinks Cheney the draft dodger should be tried for war crimes. Personally, I think he's going senile. If he doesn't shut up soon, he'll practically confess his crimes. The more he talks, the deeper people dig, to vete what he says.
Notice how quiet Bush is, when it comes to Cheney? There's a reason for that.
Comment posted December 22, 2009 @ 6:56 am
Glad to see I'm not the only Iraq vet who thinks Cheney the draft dodger should be tried for war crimes. Personally, I think he's going senile. If he doesn't shut up soon, he'll practically confess his crimes. The more he talks, the deeper people dig, to vete what he says.
Notice how quiet Bush is, when it comes to Cheney? There's a reason for that.
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Comment posted June 25, 2010 @ 9:23 pm
Thank God for Obama, the world now loves America. All our former enemies are now helping us bring piece to all man-kind. The was is over, the budget is balanced, Cancer is cured, home sales are rising, the stock market will soon soar to 15000, Thank God for Obama, President for life!
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