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In an interview that included yet another comment from Clinton that she wouldn’t commit to a second term at State, she leveled a signature Hillary retort to former Vice Pres. Dick Cheney reiterating his opinion that Barack Obama will be a “one term president.”
“I am pleased that former Vice President Cheney is healthy and resuming public activities, but I could not disagree with him more,” Clinton said of Cheney’s one-term claim. “I think President Obama has been playing the hand that he was dealt by the Bush/Cheney administration very well indeed.”
There has not been a more incompetent president in my lifetime than George W. Bush. Richard Nixon was corrupt, but not even he measures as low as “W.” on the scale of embarrassments.
As for Dick Cheney, he is a dishonest man who is responsible for manipulating intelligence, as well as the outing of a covert C.I.A. operative on behalf of a president that lied this country into the most disastrous foreign policy blunder in our lifetime: the Iraq war.
Good for Sect. Clinton for calling Bush and Cheney out.
Oh, and to add one other thing, now that Sen. Joe Lieberman has dealt with his inability to get reelected. Perhaps Sen. McCain floating him for the next SecDef will stop the nonsense that Hillary should be considered or even wants the job.
UPDATE: Transcripts of Clinton on ABC’s “Good Morning America”, CBS’s “Early Show,” and “Today.”
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Bush and Cheney are by the Conventions and treaties America is a signature to at the UN the Geneva Accords War Criminals and committers of Crimes against Humanity. I only hope this dishonest, murdering bastard lives long enough for some country or the UN to have the balls to indict hin and his idiot handpuppet Bush for the horrible death and destruction caused by their war of aggression and flouting of international treaties and law.
I agree with Madame Secretary.
I would also add, I don’t want Cheney or Palin sitting down and shutting up. Every time they open their divisive loudmouths, it’s a reminder that America is much better off *without* them.
RWers are always saying Obama is a total narcissist. I agree, somewhat. So to educate myself, I looked up the definition in Webster’s. Lo and Behold! There was a picture of Sarah Palin, growling like a grizzly bear.
Clinton’s two sentence response is perfect. It is your basic, have a nice life, Mr. Cheney, and thanks for nothing.
Maybe she should have taken a page out of Cheney’s own book and told him to go f himself.
I agree with Secular, and I think in a just world these two clowns would be awaiting trial. At the very least some type of Truth Commission.
Short, sweet, to the point and spot on message, Taylor! I love these little gems. And I too agree with Madame Secretary. Ronc99-Thanks for the info on the picture. You nailed it.
Just re-watched the video…Hillary is civility in action and how effective it can be to express disagreement in such a disarming manner. Too bad some people believe that civil discourse constitutes censorship. It can be so much more fun and made the point more effectively than finger waving and rabid tongue wagging….or challengeing Cheney to a duel…LOL!!!
So glad you highlight the ability, and choice, to “express disagreement” without the use of “finger waving and rabid tongue wagging.”
Much as the poke at Bush and Cheney was well deserved, I’d have to disagree with the rest of that quote. Obama didn’t play the hand he was dealt at all well. If anything, he just picked it up, read his copy of Decidering According to Bush, and played on using the same strategy.
When Obama took over the US was hemmoraging jobs at the rate of 500k per month. There was real fear of a depression. He stopped that. If he did nothing else that was a big deal.
A flawed health care plan – the alternative was none.
Sorry about that pony you were expecting and din’t get.
On HCR “none” would have been a preferable alternative, and it was not the only option. If you have proof otherwise, please explain the calculus, because with control of both houses of Congress, Obama should have been able to get just about anything he wanted. He deliberately chose to start from a weak position, then “compromised” down from there.
As to the pony quote: screw you and the lame ass horse you rode in on.
Obama has continued in the Bush tradition of staying in wars we shouldn’t have been in. He has continued the policy of government secrecy to cover up criminal acts. He has continued to torture, and he has done something Bush never would have done – assume the right to assassinate American citizens.
On the domestic front, he chose not to do anything about the runaway banks. Instead, he gave them all the money they needed via the Federal Reserve. Nothing good came of that, and plenty bad.
We’re still hemorraging 400k jobs a month. We just don’t see it now because so many people are dropping off the unemployment rolls for being “permanently” unemployed.
You might want to try understanding what you’re talking about before you insult people.
kudos to hillary for hitting that corrupt cheney!!!!!!!
Kudos to Mrs. Clinton for tooting her husband’s horn and not defending Bigger Thomas in the least. Even she knows that he’s a ‘one-termer’ but she just can’t bring herself to say it:
Well, I am pleased that former Vice President Cheney is healthy and resuming public activities, but I could not disagree with him more. I don’t think that’ll surprise anyone who is watching your program, Meredith. We inherited an enormous deficit. Let’s put a little bit of reality into this conversation.
When my husband left office, we had a balanced budget, we had a surplus, we were on the path to even eliminating the federal debt had we stayed on that path. Unfortunately, the Bush-Cheney Administration chose a different fiscal approach which left an enormous budget deficit and an increased debt for President Obama. I think President Obama has been playing the hand that he was dealt by the Bush-Cheney Administration very well indeed, rescuing not just the American economy but the global economy, beginning to deal with a lot of our long-term competitive challenges.
So clearly, it’s a diametrically opposed view, but I think both history and reality are on the side of the description I just gave you.