Romney praises Cheney, zings Obama
Mitt Romney, who ran to succeed the Bush-Cheney team in the White House, unsurprisingly says that former Vice President Dick Cheney got the better of President Obama in today's duel on national security.
"Two speeches, two very different men. Former Vice President Cheney seeks no political future. He speaks from the vantage of one who witnessed the killing of our fellow citizens, who deliberated and defined the strategy that would successfully prevent further murders of our fellow Americans," Romney wrote on the National Review magazine's political blog. "His address today was direct, well-reasoned, and convincing."
As for Obama, the former Massachusetts governor said, he "continues to speak as a politician....His speech and his policies have one foot in campaign mode and another in presidential mode. He struggles to explain how he is keeping faith with the liberal advocates who promoted his campaign but in doing so, he breaks faith with the interests of the American people. When it comes to protecting the nation, we have a conflicted president. And his address today was more tortured than the enhanced interrogation techniques he decries."
Romney ends his take with this zinger about Obama: "He said that the last thing he thinks about when he goes to sleep at night is keeping America safe. That's a big difference with Vice President Cheney—when it came to protecting Americans, he never went to sleep."
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Thanks Mitt for the accurate analysis of the situation. Obama is trying to placate the left while at the same time find a way to save face and to protect the American people. He certainly does not want a terrorist attack during his administration as it will leave a stain on his presidency. He has however, done damage towards our ability to fight terrorism by releasing documents of interrogation (selected ones) and indicating to our enemies that he will pursue a softer approach towards them. Cheney's response is both understandable and warranted, given that Obama has attacked the previous administration on its area of primary success.
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Obama is weak on terror? He just caught four terrorists in NY. The only difference between Obama and Cheney is that Cheney wants to torture terrorists. Obama doesn't. Obama is still using all of the same techniques that the Bush Admin used.
I still can't understand why the Christians are so hell bent on torture and capital punishment. It tells me they don't have any faith in God.
ARE YOU FOR REAL?... what parralel universe do you live in?... This is a man that maligns and insults one of the most respected military heroes and man of integrity that is Colin Powell, regardless of anyone's politics. Powell, a man that honorably served his country through multiple conflicts and spoke the truth when it mattered. What you fail to understand is the arrogant, self serving, hypocritical, machiavellian nature of Dick Cheney. A man that weaseled out of serving his country when his country came calling and dodged service with not one or two but FIVE draft deferments. When asked, his reply was that he had "other priorities" at the time. As if 58,000 other young men and women who gave their lives in Vietnam did not also have better things to do. He besmirches their sacrifice and has the gall to attempt to mock and ridicule General Powell. And during that period racking up not one but two CONVICTIONS for OUI to boot. This is your patriot? A man responsible for the outing of an ACTIVE CIA officer (Valerie Plame) over a beef with her husband, compromising her position and putting her directly in harm's way. This is treasonous NOT patriotic! A man That twisted and fabricated and ignored and manipulated intelligence to engage us in the worst debacle in modern times that is Iraq. A man who when asked about the very conflict that a majority of Americans felt was a failure replied "SO." A man that sent thousands of young dedicated Americans to their deaths (and untold thousands of Iraqis) yet attended no funerals for the fallen. This is your patriot? A man with so many financial conflicts and dealings with Halliburton and their subsidiaries who created no bid contracts to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars while our soldiers were dying, that he should be charged and prosecuted for that alone. This is your patriot? A man that used our Constitution as toilet paper, a document that our founding fathers meticulously labored and thought over and generations of Americans have died defending. A man that would wiretap ordinary Americans, do away with the Fourth Amendment's search warrant protections, do away with the right of habeas corpus, the right to face your accusers, the right to a fair and speedy trial, the right to be charged and understand the charges against you, that promotes, defends and condones torture...etc. the list is endless. THIS IS YOUR PATRIOT??? A man that sealed and concealed and destroyed documents and remaned silent and arrogant throughout his tenure but now appears to have diarrhea of the mouth. A man that insults our popularly elected, intelligent, thoughtful and well intentioned President. OUR PRESIDENT!! Politices aside this is certainly NOT putting country first. A man that sides with those that wish for our president to fail and thus for our country and our citizens to fail. A man that would rather have a windbag, self promoting, drug addicted sycophant on his side than Colin Powell. No thank you, I'll go with the man of integrity and honor and decency. Let's not forget, although Dick conveniently does. It was on his watch that 3,000 Americans died. HIS administration dropped the ball on 9/11 and literally everything else they touched from the economy to Katrina to our veterans, etc. and set our country back decades on foreign policy. This is your patriot? He is perhaps the most unpatriotic, unAmerican, partisan, ugly American we have seen in a long time. Good riddance and SHUT UP!!!
Cheney is irrelavent. He is trying to save his ego from all the lies and subversion for the last 8 years. He should be procecuted. Go back into your coma Cheney. I had zero respect for you while you were in office and zero respect for your lying statements today. Why don't you go back to Haliburton? Your collusion with them while you were VP made you very wealthy. At least with Obama we have a President that can communicate with the world and not have our way or the highway attitude. I worked international sales for many years. To be honest, our government was hated by most people overseas. After awhile I began to believe the neo cons and others of their group preferred the relationship that way.
Of course the Olympic Hero would side with the liar in this fight (re:Cheney's harping on "nuclear armed terrorists" even though they don't exist) it's impossible to have integrity when you want to get elected as bad as the Olympic Hero
Cheney's daughter has already publicly stated why Cheney keeps defending his war crimes.
He's afraid of being prosecuted for them.
"...witnessed the killing of our fellow citizens..." etc.
So now Romney is picking up the "we liberated Iraq because of 9/11" nonsense? Please - that's an insult to the American people. The Bush/Cheney administration *sacrificed* American lives at the altar of "bring it on" politics. Mr. Romney should be ashamed of such blatant, blind, and disingenuous pandering to the party's right-wing.
What values Obama is talking about ? I don't see terrorists have any sumpathy for Obama talking about values of America.They only see him as one of the devil in the West so please liberals stop your sympathetic speaches because it's only a matter of time before the end of his time according to terrorists.