White House Runs Screaming From Fox, Goes After Cheney, Instead
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In fairness, Dick Cheney totally started it. But like our mom used to say, “Then you be the one who stops it!”
Last night in a speech to the Center for Security Policy, the former vice president called out President Obama for being “afraid” to make a decision on troop levels in Afghanistan.
“The White House must stop dithering while America’s armed forces are in danger,” Cheney told the conservative gathering. “Make no mistake, signals of indecision out of Washington hurt our allies and embolden our adversaries.”
Sounds familiar. What’s suprising is not so much the vim with which the former vice president repeatedly goes after the Obama administration — but how reliably the Obama administration responds. Has no one heard of a dignified silence? Oh, wait. This is Washington. Never mind.
“What Vice President Cheney calls ‘dithering,’ President Obama calls his solemn responsibility to the men and women in uniform and to the American public,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. “I think we’ve all seen what happens when someone doesn’t take that responsibility seriously.”
Gibbs and his boss will come out second best in this contest. We’ve got the lightest of lightweights daring to challenge Vice President Dick Cheney – arguably the most intellectually substantive man in politics.
This will be fun to watch.
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33 Responses to “White House Runs Screaming From Fox, Goes After Cheney, Instead”
Caucus of Corruption
Funny how your sources crop the quotes for their own purposes (and you eat them up). For Gibb’s actual response, in context, with a little bite of Cheney’s hypocrisy thrown in:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/22/gibbs-cheney-afghanistan/
Funny how a troll has to jump in almost at once.
kjs
you bet it is almost orchestrated, next the forkers ohiomoron and vandrug/BLOCH, will be sereal posting screaming for the execution of the terrible cheney.
The fight with Fox and now cheney is a smoke screen for just how terrible this empty suited commie sock puppet is really doing.
They have become a wounded bear and are in the beginning of a very paranoid and dangerous period.
This admin are filled with soulless criminals, tax cheats, racists, commies, domestic terrorists.
Dont be surprised by anything they do…..
Moderator’s note: completely incoherent comment deleted.
From Extramedium’s link (sorry, ThinkProgress is not a credible source)
The reason for that was widely discussed on the news last night — well, at least on Fox News. A top to bottom study of the Afghan conflict was done by the Bush Administration last fall with the findings and recommendations provided to the Obama transition team, who in turn asked the Bush people to not act on anything before the inauguration and leave it to the new administration. It appeared that, based on Obama’s speech in March, that he was going to use the Bush strategy virtually intact. One official called the Obama strategy a “cut and paste” of what the Bush team handed him.
Anyone with any common sense at all had to know that all those “present votes” weren’t just an anomaly. If BHOzo had surrounded himself with capable people who could make the tough decisions for him instead of more Chicago thugs like himself, things might be different. Perhaps he needs to send a contingent of FBI agents to scope the situation in Afghanistan out, like he did with the pirate fiasco.
“Gibbs and his boss will come out second best in this contest.” Mark
I disagree.
Moderator’s note: remainder of anti-Bush, Anti-Cheney rant deleted.
van/bloch
The rest of us know that this man was a coward in not serving his country when called. As he said, he had other things to do.
and your wonderful BJ billy outstanding military record?
lets see zer0’s military record…….oh wait, that is NON existent, like his US birth certificate, college records, “employment records” passport and qualifications to run even a cool aid stand.
not to mention the FRAUD kerry with his FRAUDULENTLY obtained metals and his dishonorable discharge,
not even mentioning fat boy fraud murtha.
so lets not throw the coward stone around while all of the cretins you worship so live in glass houses MMMM?
Moderator’s note: criticism of moderation policy and call for another commenter to be banned deleted.
Has no one heard of a dignified silence?
I always wondered why the Bush admin didnt hit back and hit back hard.
NOW I know, how embarrassing, un dignified and ghetto does this administration look……..VERY.
ohio
PROOF of your allegation?
RACIST, LIAR, THIEF ohiomoron…..
.go troll at the pitchfork,
NOBODY here will miss your incessant racial barbs and slurs.
00
coherent or true?
truth hurts,
OH and insanity?
usually one sitting in the corner repeating the same thing time after time. people just walk on by shake their heads and say the guy is nuts.
MMMMM?
you really otta check into FRAUD…they got a copy of the selective service registration from obottom and its been forged…but hold up…didnt BHO NOT change his name until his 2nd year at occidental…his LEGAL NAME in August 1980 was Barry Soetoro (BS)…NOT BHO…
so…why would they have a selective service registration on file from BHO?
that rabbit hold is unforgiving….turns out that the document BHO registered on was from 2008, not 1980….hmmm hmmm hmmmmm…..
Neither Obama’s image or name appear in any Occidental yearbooks or the weekly student newspaper for the years he attended
is it possible that the socialist conived up this whole thing and fraudulently “put” BHO into occidental….?…just like the “put” BHO on his 08 selective service registration…why would a students name be completely missing from the school yearbooks and weekly papers…for both years that they claim he attended…HMMM HMMMMM HMMMMMMM…..
HMMM HMMM HMMMMMM….BHO or BS….thats the reality here…why would he register as BS in occidental, if in fact he did register there….and then turn about 1 year later and register as BHO for the draft….HMMM HMMMMM HMMMMM…they say that if it looks like shxt…and if it smells like shxt….and feels like shxt…you probably can pass up the taste test and assume that it is BS…
js02 says: October 23rd, 2009 at 10:02 am
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interested in an earth-is-flat commemorative plate?
whats that OO…its hard to hear out of those two little holes you talking out of….is that a…denial of fact or ….did your facts get washed away with the pee?
remember the guy, bagdad bob, when the US Forces were in the city limits? swearing that the republican guard was kicking the americans butts?
thats gates…when all this is over the boys got no future…his ability to stand in front of the american people and lie with such determination will never be forgotten…and will never get him any gainful employment…maybe he can get a job pumping septic tanks, eh?
oi, i mean Gibbs…lol
….interested in an earth-is-flat commemorative plate? – ohio
This statement does make one wonder how many Obama commemorative plates ohio has.
cluster
LOL
00 probably posed for them…
js02
when all this is over the boys got no future…his ability to stand in front of the american people and lie with such determination will never be forgotten…and will never get him any gainful employment…maybe he can get a job pumping septic tanks, eh?
were you referring here to gates or zer0?
i guess either way you would be correct.
cluster says: October 23rd, 2009 at 10:54 am
you gotta admit, birthers dont have credibility w mainstream gop.
birthers are those who think bama was born in kenya…or canada…not the people who say that BHO was a british citizen when he was born…shoot, BHO admitted that on fight the smears dotcom…its not disputed…in fact…you can actually say that I am a real, constitutional endorsing american…
can you please refer to us as…constitutionalists from now on…the only thing the term birthers does is…give you an excuse to lie about the truth…
Not a complaint about Blog policy, just a question for the Moderator.
Is there any particular reason why the post I submitted following kjstrouble1’s @
7:51 am re the facts & truth of winnowhead’s @ 6:23 am has disappeared without comment?
If I knew the reason why, perhaps I could avoid repeating the same violation in the future. Thanks.
Moderator’s note: 2 reasons, actually: your snide, snippy little comments contribute nothing to the discussion, and I don’t like you. You can avoid repeating the same violation by going somewhere else where small-minded individuals are appreciated.
CO
If I knew the reason why, perhaps I could avoid repeating the same violation in the future. Thanks.
OK……
1. you showed up.
2. you are a foreign stooge with no sensible input.
3. you are a liberal twit.
4. you are an obamabot kneepader.
all the above.
Those seem like legitimate reasons, neocon, but I would like to hear what the Moderator has to say.
CO
actually I believe you are a sincere poster.
the list above was tongue in cheek,
I do not usually agree with you politically, however I wouldnt put you in the troll category.
your question is a legitimate one. :)
neocon1 says:
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:44 pm
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Apparently the Moderator doesn’t agree with you, neocon.
He/she finds me to be snide, snippy and and small-minded to boot and would be more than happy if I were to take my unwanted comments elsewhere.
Can’t you just feel the love?
Have fun with your like minded minions. Won’t be back.
Anyone who speaks ill of the Messiah will be villified by the left.
I only wish that Hussein Obama had to take the heat from the MSM like Bush did. He would break under the kind of pressure Bush was under.
Funny how a troll has to jump in almost at once.
Well, kjs, it is minnowhead, after all. He cites crap from a left-wing site, then goes back to his, or DAV’s, blog, and brags how he kicked the right-winger’s asses. He’s a nobody; ignore him.
Have fun with your like minded minions. Won’t be back.
Translation: I won’t be back as vandrug; I’ll change my nic and try again.
Seriously, I hope you’re true to your work, vandrug. Nobody here with any sense at all likes you anyway. Buh-bye, moron…
Have fun with your like minded minions. Won’t be back.
AMF
ROTFLMAO
one more drama queen hits the do
van always reeked of the brimstone of the pitchforkers, though admittedly anyone whose posts are relentlessly negative, pro-abortion, pro-gay, anti-conservative, hate-filled, hate-based, garbage will remind us of the other pitchfork losers we have seen come and go.
One thing I will say for van, he can take a hint better than CO
I do love the hysteria from the WH regarding Fox and now Cheney. The WH tactic of trying to scare other media off from covering stories broken by Fox is not only transparent, it is pathetic.
We’ve got junior high clique politics in charge of our economy, our wars, our national defense, and our international diplomacy….. We have the leader of the Free World essentially telling us that if we don’t play by his rules we can’t sit at his table in the lunch room.
It would be funny, if so much were not at stake.
But the silver lining is, it all goes toward making it easier to get Congress back in the hands of the grownups before Barry starts giving wedgies and stuffing opponents into lockers.