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applegrove

(118,008 posts)
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 07:14 PM Jun 2014

Here's The White House's Snappy Comeback To Dick Cheney's Iraq Op-Ed

Here's The White House's Snappy Comeback To Dick Cheney's Iraq Op-Ed

by Colin Campbell at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-white-houses-snappy-comeback-to-dick-cheneys-iraq-op-ed-2014-6

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President Barack Obama's official spokesman had a sarcastic response to former Vice President Dick Cheney's op-ed eviscerating the current administration's approach to the increasingly volatile situation in Iraq.

"Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many," Cheney wrote in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal.

After a reporter quoted that exact line to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, he pretended to be uncertain about whether Cheney was addressing Obama or President George W. Bush, under whom Cheney served.

"Which president was he talking about?" the outgoing Carney deadpanned during his final White House briefing Wednesday afternoon — drawing laughter from the press corps


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-white-houses-snappy-comeback-to-dick-cheneys-iraq-op-ed-2014-6#ixzz352GPzUhI



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Here's The White House's Snappy Comeback To Dick Cheney's Iraq Op-Ed (Original Post) applegrove Jun 2014 OP
The key word might be "Rarely" IggleDoer Jun 2014 #1
Good one, Jay...Cheney needs a hard slap to the face, or lifetime in prison randys1 Jun 2014 #2
A kick in the nuts, per Rude Pundit. Fred Sanders Jun 2014 #5
Cheney adds historical insult madamesilverspurs Jun 2014 #3
Mockery is the best antidote to the fascist infection. Fred Sanders Jun 2014 #4
Is it too late to go on the offensive and prosecute Cheney and Bush? Baitball Blogger Jun 2014 #6
I hate to say it Aerows Jun 2014 #7
They are desperate. George Bush thought, "history? We'll all be dead". applegrove Jun 2014 #8

Baitball Blogger

(46,572 posts)
6. Is it too late to go on the offensive and prosecute Cheney and Bush?
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 09:42 PM
Jun 2014

Didn't those two not understand the gift they were given when Obama decided to lean forward, and not look back?

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
7. I hate to say it
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 09:45 PM
Jun 2014

But has anyone told Jay Carney that a squirrel climbed on his face and died? He seems like a nice enough guy.

He's a better press secretary than Gibbs imho, but that dead squirrel on his face needs to go.

applegrove

(118,008 posts)
8. They are desperate. George Bush thought, "history? We'll all be dead".
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 09:45 PM
Jun 2014

Not so fast. This may be then ending history of the Iraq war. A failed democracy. A religious war. And they're alive to see it.

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