I would think that Dick Cheney running around giving policy speeches while George Bush remains in hiding would be hugely embarrassing for the Republicans.

Not nearly as embarrassing as a president that cant recite his own name without a teleprompter. But what is most embarassing is the way Dick Cheney is kicking Obama’s ASS and how it is visibly driving Obama fucking nuts. Indeed, the fact that Cheney is kicking his ass is the entire reason for Obama’s pathetic speech in the first place. And now he looks even worse than he did before he gave it.

so much for “smart power”!

On another blog someone pointed to the comments from a former FBI agent but the “testimony” was provided by a blog and I am not so certain that this blog is neutral (if you know what I mean). This former FBI agent claimed that they got information without the enhanced techniques. I will need to look at the information again because there seems to be a discrepancy – did the FBI just get the past data? Or did they obtain the data that helped prevent further attacks?

If it was just the former, then the work of the CIA with interrogation was for another purpose, not just tying these hardened criminal terrorists to past actions.

Cheney spoke well in that speech. He did not denigrate Obummer at all. He spoke out against the manner in which memos were released but other information is not being released.

Yes, those Democrat former Presidents and Vice Presidents have been very vocal – hint Al Bore

it’s going to be a LONG, LONG decade for the right. but, you deserve it richly.

So we deserve MASSIVE debt, MASSIVE unemployment, the most absurd energy policy imaginable, government take over of private businesses, government condemning private property owners to Hell, government demands for thousands of American deaths in exchange for CAFE standards etc. etc. etc.?

Tell me, what did Americans do to deserve that?

Can there be any further doubt that Bush was nothing but a hollow figurehead being manipulated by this guy?

Let’s see, Il Douche refused to release ANY information about his background, refused to provide his health information, refused to provide any information about his schooling etc. but had no problems digging into the backgrounds of those who stood in his way. Yeah, he’s clearly a figurehead for the Soroscrats.

Tell me, with his background and radical associations, would a civilian get ANY kind of security clearances?

Oh, wait, I was about to make a snarky comment, but then I remembered. ex-presidents retiring and being graceful is a trait he’s not familiar with, since history for him started Jan 20, 2001.

*ucknut,

I dont know why “you on the left” would love Cheney’s criticisms. Polls show most Americans agree with him on waterboarding and disagree with Democrats. The more Cheney speaks the more his poll numbers go up, while Democrats have done nothing but go down in the polls since the election. Nancy Pelosi is so unpopular for her blatant lies that she has had to flee the country twice now, Harry Reid is deeply unpopular, especially in his home state, where polls show he has very slim chances of being re-elected. And as I showed you before, whatever favorability advantage Democrats had, they have entirely destroyed in the few months they have been in power. Indeed, take into consideration the poll bias (these same polls gave Democrats higher party ID than Republicans prior to their losses in 2000, 2002 and 2004), and the fact that Republicans are dead-even in party ID now indicates even bigger losses for Democrats this time around.

In other words, don’t get comfortable in the majority. Americans dont like you there. When you held the majority in the beginning of Clintons term, Americans threw you out as soon as they could. When Democrats briefly gained control of the Senate when Jim Jeffords switched parties, Americans threw you back out again the very next chance they had. And all signs are showing that now that Americans are starting to understand what Democrat policy means, they cant wait to throw you back out again.

Funny that you think Republicans are in trouble when they have pulled even in Party ID, Democrats have lost ground, when Americans are already ready to put Republicans back in power after only a few months of Democrat rule, when your speaker is so unpopular she has to flee the country and your senate leader is about to be tossed out on his ass.

Oh and by the way, despite the constant propaganda about how much everyone supposedly loves Obama, less than 25% of Americans are willing to say they will vote for him again in 2012. That’s not even your base!

I too have criticized the former Vice President, but, after reading excerpts of the speech, started to wonder today as I drove to the Reagan Library if maybe I had been wrong to do so.

Yeah. No offense, and no big deal. I mean, there’s “slightly wrong” and then there’s “Kevin-wrong”, heh.

Man, Nick, I intended not to read either speech–I’ve been blissfully ignoring the news recently because of exams–but after this post, I’m going to have to check them out. (Or at least Cheney’s.)

Sometimes I wonder if guys like you and levi ever really read the posts before you reply. It really deminishes your argument when we have to point to the very post you’re commenting on to rebut your comment.

If you’d read my post, you’d have found the link to where I did criticize Cheney. For crying out loud, are you even trying?

Of course Cheney has never been known for civility.

buckeye has a point. It’s on top of his head.

And let me appologize on behalf of the state for him.

As much as you may enjoy basking in the glow of your electoral victory (the importance of which I won’t bother to compare to national security), I wonder if you can pause for a moment and actually refute or even counter intellectually any of the former VP’s words.

Or do you not have a point to make?

it’s going to be a LONG, LONG decade for the right. but, you deserve it richly.

And it is clear that we now have our first September 10th President.

“Key quote” or “Key point” should cover your usage here.