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Said Cheney: I look at Barack Obama and I see the worst president of my lifetime, without question. I used to have significant criticism of Jimmy Carter, but compared to Barack Obama and the damage he is doing to the nation its a tragedy.
Cheney with boobs here:
http://www.playboy.com/articles/playboy-interview-dick-cheney
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said that President Barack Obama was playing the race card to excuse criticism of his record as president:
I think theyre playing the race card, in my view. Certainly we havent given upnor should we give upthe right to criticize an administration and public officials. To say that we criticize, or that I criticize, Barack Obama or Eric Holder because of race, I just think its obviously not true, Cheney said in a wide-ranging interview with Playboy magazine released on Tuesday. My view of it is the criticism is merited because of performanceor lack of performance, because of incompetence. It hasnt got anything to do with race.
Cheney likewise thought that the protests in Ferguson and the Black Lives Matter movement that stemmed from it had been wrongly linked to race. Well [pauses], what I see is disturbing. Its always a tragedy when there is a death involved and so forth. But it seems to me its a clear-cut case that the officer did what he had to do to defend himself. He was perfectly within his authorities to take action
And Ive been disappointed, I guess, in the Obama administrations response. I think there should have been more people who were ready to stand up and say, Look, the evidence is pretty overwhelming. The grand jury has reviewed it thoroughly. Heres what we know. This is what happened. And that we should not sort of throw it all over on the burden of race, or racial inequality or racial discrimination, as being responsible for this particular event, Cheney said.
I dont think it is about race. I think it is about an individual who conducted himself in a manner that was almost guaranteed to provoke an officer trying to do his duty, Cheney concluded.
Cheney went on to say that Obama had undone some of the legacies of President George W. Bush. His precipitous withdrawal and refusal to leave any stay-behind forces, to negotiate a Status of Forces Agreement with the Iraqis, was a huge mistake; we are paying a price for it now. Hes having to go back in now, and the guy who campaigned on the basis of bring the boys home and get out of Iraq is now redeploying forces to Iraq, he said.
more of the devil:
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/03/17/3635218/dick-cheney-says-obama-playing-race-card-excuse-terrible-presidency/
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Having served as a Congressman, White House Chief of Staff, Secretary of Defense and the CEO of oil and gas giant Halliburton, Cheney came to the White House with among the most formidable resumes of any vice president. Harnessing his intimate knowledge of the Capitol's back alleys, Cheney emerged as the bare-knuckled architect or, in the eyes of some, the shadowy puppetmaster behind many of the administration's most controversial policies. Cheney led the charge in calling for the invasion of Iraq, based on the misleading claim that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction; curtailed domestic civil liberties; and pressed to limit restrictions on the treatment of enemy combatants. Critics alleged he played a role in the 2003 leak that outed then CIA operative Valerie Plame; his former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice for making false statements during the investigation of the incident. The bellicose veep also swore at a colleague during a Senate class photo and, adding injury to insult, delighted his detractors by accidentally shooting a hunting partner in the face.
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1834600_1834604_1834587,00.html
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Number23
(24,544 posts)he's definitely got some company here.
And I have to say, this president could do a HELL of a lot worse than getting one of the most depraved, evil sons of bitches to ever enter the White House to call his presidency the "worse in his lifetime." Obama probably did a cartwheel after hearing that Dick FREAKING Cheney does not approve of him.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,512 posts)so sensitive and credible.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)Cheney is about as broken up about it as he is about the carnage in Iraq.
rocktivity
(44,585 posts)to excuse HIS terrible presidency.
rocktivity
napkinz
(17,199 posts)prayin4rain
(2,065 posts)This is extremely distasteful to me.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)when he was running for president in 1976.
prayin4rain
(2,065 posts)Dr. Strange
(25,929 posts)but his photo spread was really in bad taste.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Fuck the criminal bastard.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Disclaimer: The above comment was not intended as a threat, suggestion, incitement...
gollygee
(22,336 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Chelsie Aryn is Miss March 2015.
Her interview has better pictures too.
AZ Mike
(468 posts)Spoken like a boilerplate disclosure in mice-type at the bottom of a contract. Such an upright, empathetic fellow.
Also, it's nice to see that whole "We're looking forward, not backward" thing working out so well. He should be giving jailhouse interviews.
Retrograde
(10,181 posts)As he should. I just wish Obama had undone more of them - like the Patriot Act.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)accused of crimes against humanity.
When you decide to let them off the hook, they think everyone approves of them and YOU are the Bad Guy for not going to war all over the world.
The NEOCONS are FLAILING. They WANT that War in Iran so badly!
surrealAmerican
(11,368 posts)Is this supposed to sell magazines?
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Liberal Lantern
(22 posts)No one reads Playboy anymore. That magazine was all but dead in the 90's. Dick Cheney is irrelevant now. That is all.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Once they're behind bars, no one cares what they babble about.
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,411 posts)Average for all the presidents they have figures for: 46.3%
Obama: 47%
So, basically average. What was Dick's puppet?
GW Bush: 35%
Most people knew you were screwing them by that stage, Dick.
What was the approval for that Republican idol Reagan?
47% too.
Johonny
(20,945 posts)Obama has been great for Cheney's bottom line. The dude has to be raking up the money during Obama. It is to the point where it is laughable. These people simply hate that he's done what they failed to do and will never give the man a lick of credit. Even as they bank $$$$$ than you can ever dream of having. I'd laugh but screw them. I'm glad they are unhappy. I mean I was right and they were wrong. The more they hate him the more it means they were wrong.