Clinton to Cheney: Blaming Obama for not cleaning up your mess… Unseemly
http://www.juancole.com/2014/06/clinton-cleaning-unseemly.htmlClinton to Cheney: Blaming Obama for not cleaning up your mess… Unseemly
By contributors | Jun. 28, 2014
During recent interview with David Gregory, Pres. Bill Clinton laughed off Dick Cheney’s suggestion that President Obama is to blame for the strife in Iraq, placing the blame directly at the feet of the former Vice President himself.
When Gregory asked him if Dick Cheney had any credibility, the former president replied, “Well, I believe, you know, if they hadn’t gone to war in Iraq, none of this would be happening.”
Then Gregory inquired about the role of Syrian strife, “Well, it might be happening in Syria, but what happened in Syria wouldn’t have happened in Iraq. Iraq would not have been, in effect, altered as it has been, but Mr. Cheney has been incredibly adroit for the last six years or so attacking the administration for not doing an adequate job of cleaning up the mess that he made. And I think it’s unseemly.”
Kudos to Pres. Clinton for setting the record straight, and not allowing Dick Cheney to rewrite history.
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He may not have been a perfect President. It goes without saying he made mistakes and sometimes made decisions that were more moderate Republican like that I as a liberal Democrat didn't approve of at all.
One thing he did better than most though is fight back against the enemy when they stood in his way. I liked that and think the party needs to do more of that as a whole.
I know some Democrats think we need to take the higher road, extend the olive branch, be the grownups etc, play press friendly bipartisanship. That may have worked in the past when we were dealing with a more moderate Puke party. Now all that gets us is an elephant's foot in our rear. So I say it's time we start giving them some donkey kicks to the front where it's going to be extremely more painful.
So I say give it to them every chance you get President Clinton.
