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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 10:31 AM Jun 2014

Dick Cheney, did you really want to go there? - By E.J. Dionne, Jr

The infinitely valuable Yiddish word chutzpah is defined as “shameless audacity” or “impudence.”

It’s singularly appropriate for the astonishing op-ed from former vice president Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz that was published in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. It’s not every day that a leader of the previous administration suggests that the current president is a “fool” and accuses him of intentionally weakening the United States.

“President Obama seems determined to leave office ensuring he has taken America down a notch,” the Cheneys write. Are they charging our president with treason? “President Obama,” they write, “is on track to securing his legacy as the man who betrayed our past and squandered our freedom.”

Squandered our freedom?

“Only a fool,” they say, “would believe American policy in Iraq should be ceded to Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terror.” As if this is what Obama is doing — and as if it weren’t the invasion Cheney so passionately supported that vastly strengthened Iran’s hand long before Obama took office.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ej-dionne-dick-cheney-reveals-his-chutzpah-in-iraq-op-ed/2014/06/18/756bce06-f713-11e3-a606-946fd632f9f1_story.html

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Dick Cheney, did you really want to go there? - By E.J. Dionne, Jr (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2014 OP
Dick Cheney is not a worthy opponent for E.J. yellowcanine Jun 2014 #1
EJ Dionne is a nicer Rude Pundit and he too deserves a kick! riderinthestorm Jun 2014 #2
cheney is evil incarnate spanone Jun 2014 #3
Yes, His Hubris Is Downright Evil In Nature DallasNE Jun 2014 #7
Biggest Dick in the World. rickyhall Jun 2014 #4
I gotta... DirtyDawg Jun 2014 #5
When his surgery was announced, my first... 3catwoman3 Jun 2014 #9
Bodyguard Scarsdale Jun 2014 #6
Trotting out that horrible daughter again? libodem Jun 2014 #8
Go away already! HenryWallace Jun 2014 #10
I wish whoever owned that heart before him... tofuandbeer Jun 2014 #11
"Our" freedom has always been acquired... americannightmare Jun 2014 #12
Chris Hayes All In from 6/18/2014 hibbing Jun 2014 #13
excellent Chris Hayes pleinair Jun 2014 #16
With regards to treason, Cheney is a fine one to talk Demeter Jun 2014 #14
Psychopaths. blue neen Jun 2014 #15
love love LOVE Mr. Dionne Skittles Jun 2014 #17
Jon Stewart on the Dick.. Cha Jun 2014 #18
Dick, Lynn, and Liz would sell Mary's happiness for Ilsa Jun 2014 #19

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
1. Dick Cheney is not a worthy opponent for E.J.
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 11:04 AM
Jun 2014

Dick Cheney bringing his brain to an argument with E.J. Dionne is like the proverbial "bringing a knife to a gunfight."

DallasNE

(7,402 posts)
7. Yes, His Hubris Is Downright Evil In Nature
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 12:13 PM
Jun 2014

I liked Jay Carney's answer of "which President is he (Cheney) talking about". Well deserved.

 

DirtyDawg

(802 posts)
5. I gotta...
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 12:07 PM
Jun 2014

...question. If you drive a stake into a transplanted heart does the 'carrier' die for keeps or just the heart of some well-meaning soul that thought they were doing a good deed if they volunteered to be an organ donor? Regardless, this SOB needs to be 'put away'...for keeps. And while I'm on the subject, can the family of said heart donor demand a recall of their son/father/brother's heart? I'll volunteer to do the harvesting with a rusty spoon. Hell, I'll even go huntin' with the prick...if I get the first shot.

3catwoman3

(23,973 posts)
9. When his surgery was announced, my first...
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 12:53 PM
Jun 2014

...thought was, "I hope it's not a heart from a Democrat." That bastard didn't deserve anyone's heart.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
6. Bodyguard
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 12:09 PM
Jun 2014

Is Lizzie his bodyguard now? Her qualifications for giving political advice are what? Snarling, snapping, comments mean nothing. Lizzie must really miss having a "do little" job in her father's administration, since she does not seem to have been gainfully employed since then. Occasional appearanceson the gop Sunday propoganda showshardly qualify her to give criticism of a sitting President. Frumpy, ill tempered Lizzie looks like a frazzled housewife.

libodem

(19,288 posts)
8. Trotting out that horrible daughter again?
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 12:50 PM
Jun 2014

Heinous spawn of Satan. Good Lord, have they no shame.


Of courrrrse not.

 

HenryWallace

(332 posts)
10. Go away already!
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 12:54 PM
Jun 2014

To quote Edwin Stanton statement regarding the Lincoln assassins:
"We wish to hear their names no more."

The family name is (or should be) toxic! Left, right or center; not to be brought up on polite conversation.

tofuandbeer

(1,314 posts)
11. I wish whoever owned that heart before him...
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 12:55 PM
Jun 2014

would change the password, shut it down and put a lock on it.

americannightmare

(322 posts)
12. "Our" freedom has always been acquired...
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 12:57 PM
Jun 2014

by taking away someone else's. Occupying and destroying Iraq, supporting coups in Latin America, destroying Vietnam to secure U.S. economic interests, firebombing dozens of cities in Japan in WWII, if NOT doing these types of things anymore is "squandering freedom," he's absolutely right! But let's be clear what his idea of freedom is - the exploitation, enslavement and destruction of others.

hibbing

(10,097 posts)
13. Chris Hayes All In from 6/18/2014
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 01:01 PM
Jun 2014

It was a simply devastating assault on Cheney and his daughter. I am trying to find the transcript, it was amazing.
At the end he goes on to the idiot son and ends with "simply spends his time in Texas, trying to paint his soul clean".

A snippet from the transcript of the show

"You see the spectacle of Dick Cheney weighing in on Iraq and on one level
it feels like a just society would have done something formal to sanction
this person for what he did and place him outside the bounds of polite
society. But in the absence of that, at least we can take comfort in the
fact that this man is speaking from a lowed mountainside in a funny hat
rather than from the Oval Office at the president`s side.

This is a man whose family name has been so tarnished, so discredited, he
couldn`t get his own daughter through a primary campaign in his own party
in his own home state. He had to go back to the drawing board to find her
another job, which he`s apparently achieved by starting this new
organization.

And, of course, no accounting for this psycho drama, this spectacle of the
lead`s reckoning with the horror of what they did would be complete without
this man, who, to his credit recently, has seen fitting to offer no more
wisdom, dispense no more advice, and simply spend his days in Texas trying
to paint his soul clean."

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/55452806/ns/msnbc-all_in_with_chris_hayes/#.U6MZiE0U_Gg

Peace

Ilsa

(61,694 posts)
19. Dick, Lynn, and Liz would sell Mary's happiness for
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 09:34 PM
Jun 2014

A failed senate campaign.
I don't think those three are human.

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