Cheney: Unpopular after all these years

Another misleading lefty CNN poll. Cheney is winning the "war of words" on national security as the Dems and Obama are mired in hypocrisy and flip-flops on most of the Bush era terrorism policies. The majority of American folks want a strong policy on national security and reject those that coddle the terrorist. Gitmo will live long and prosper, unless Nancy remodels Alcatraz and graciously steps up, for country, and puts them in her district ( a great sacrifice, she could fly home on her government paid private jet to check on their welfare every weekend). And how about the Bush tribunals that Obama hammered on during the campaign, now revived with a few cosmetic vocabulary changes obfuscating the basic premise and structure in total. Score one, of many to come, for Cheney.

When "news" comes out of the White House, everyone knows it's polished to gleaming for the reporters and the public. It's a perfect world in the White House, they do no wrong.

When Cheney, who didn't speak often during his tenure as VP, speaks everyone listens.

The White House goes on alert scrambling,humping out their take.

Cheney is effective. People listen, people react and Cheney keeps the White House on their toes.

Keep it up!

Cheney is NOT my sort of Republican. He and his type are the reason the GOP are lost in the wilderness.

They must be taking these polls in all Democratic wards!. All administrations make mistakes, thats a given, but the previous administration have kept this nation safe.The present administration feels that if they talk real nice to these countries they'll become our friends.
This is naive at best.

He isn't doing it to become popular...

...or even to persuade people to his side of the torture "debate". Dick Cheney has thrust himself, acting as the champion of the Bush administration, into a public debate with the Obama administration so that the Obama administration will find it difficult to prosecute him for war crimes. That's their best line of defense, that any prosecution of them, no matter how clearly criminal their actions, would just be "criminalizing politics". So of course they have to do whatever they can to remain in the public imagination as this administration's political adversaries, even if their actions weaken their party politically. That way, if prosecutions do come, they will be portrayed as a vengeful effort to win the debate by jailing the other side.

In related news, this week Time Magazine has Michelle Obama on its cover, making the 17th (yes, 17th!) time in the past year that an Obama has been on Time's cover--about 1 in 3 issues.

Meanwhile, what the Democrats in the White House and at the Swamp won't mention:

1) Record unemployment claims this week (see Bloomberg.com)
2) Unemployment in Democratic-run Michigan has climbed to 12.9%.
3) Even voters in Obama-loving California overwhelmingly rejected a series of tax increase measures proposed by the Governator, the Dem legislature and the government employee unions,
4) And in an action that would be front page news if it involved a Republican, Hillary Clinton's favorite fundraiser, Norm Hsu, has been sentenced to jail for fraud.

I realize that it's hard for Swamp writers to find time for these stories in the rush of more important stories about Obama's dog and Bristol Palin....

Cheney is perfectly within his rights to criticize Obama. He’s doing it because he feels strongly about his views, and because he feels no one else in his party is offering an adequate defense of the Bush-Cheney years. But Americans already know how Cheney feels, and can plainly see the result of his policies.That’s why the majority voted for Obama. The result of Cheney’s constant harping is and will continue to be negative for republicans, because it highlights the lack of strong leadership in the republican party. If the best republicans can come up with is the former vice president or former leaders like Newt Gingrich, they are in serious trouble. Everything is negative. Americans see this and they are rejecting it.

Well, Darth Vader is not Kayne West, Ludacris, or some other thug rapper. He is a Republican, so a popularity poll based on anything actually factual is not ever going to be favorable for him. He is fighting to defend his record against the Obama tar and feather campaign that has been waged against him and the Prince of Darkness since January 20th. What kind of small person wins an election and continues to run a campaign against his predecessors. Makes it kind of hard to just turn the page and move forward. This is Brave New Obama World now. Darth Vader may as well continue to press the fight against Mustapha Mond and his lackeys.

These comments, coming from ex-Vice-Draft-Dodger Cheney, are meaningless, but self-serving. He didn't give a hoot about America, when she called him to active duty: " I had different priorities ". Now, we receive lectures about patriotism and security matters, that he has conjured up, to serve his priorities, again !! He is one of the phoniest persons I have ever seen, in politics and keep in mind, I've seen Nixon, Reagan, and George the First and Second !! No, when I see Cheney lecturing anyone, in particular, our nation, I usually hear nothing but, bleatings, from those who are desperate to find someone who can distort, for their own selfish purposes, President Obama's decisions !! These Americans would rather follow the pied-piper of WMD, than an honest man, trying to be President, in extremely difficult times. Difficult, because of persons, like Cheney, to name just one, from that cabal !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

Cheney is perfectly within his rights to criticize Obama. He’s doing it because he feels strongly about his views, and because he feels no one else in his party is offering an adequate defense of the Bush-Cheney years. But Americans already know how Cheney feels, and can plainly see the result of his policies.That’s why the majority voted for Obama. The result of Cheney’s constant harping is and will continue to be negative for republicans, because it highlights the lack of strong leadership in the republican party. If the best republicans can come up with is the former vice president or former leaders like Newt Gingrich, they are in serious trouble. Everything is negative. Americans see this and they are rejecting it.

Posted by: Grandblvd03 | May 21, 2009 9:40 AM

OUTSTANDING POSTING! Amazingly well thought out and written.

They must be taking these polls in all Democratic wards!. All administrations make mistakes, thats a given, but the previous administration have kept this nation safe.The present administration feels that if they talk real nice to these countries they'll become our friends.
This is naive at best.

Posted by: Paul | May 21, 2009 9:03 AM

What part of: "9/11 happened on their watch" do you not understand?

We'd never had an attack like that prior to Bush and Cheney coming on. Judging solely by history, Bush and Cheney were far and away the worst at protecting the country.

Cheney is rightly unpopular with everyone but the deadenders.

Keep dreaming, Bubba Porter. What color is the sky in your dream?

Since Obama has been constantly ragging the Bush administration, it's great that Cheney has decided to let the American people know what's really going on. Cheney has been there for 8 years; Obama still has the training-wheels attached.

In other words, after almost two solid weeks of getting every Republican talking head available to shout "Cheney, Cheney, Cheney" through every mainstream news outlet that they could commandeer, Dick could only get his ratings up a few points - and still remains miserably unpopular overall.

Probably we'll never get to see him on a perp walk, but the American public deserves better than this onslaught from the most insolent and unpatriotic American Vice-President in history.

Re; a blinkin; excuse me but what do you call the first bombing of the twin towers?. I'd say that it was more than just a firecracker, that caused so much damage and human suffering.
That one you can not blame President Bush and V.P. Cheney. As a matter of fact if Clinton would not have taken his sweet time when told we had Bin Laden in our sights the second twin towers may not have occurred at all. Maybe you could possibly write for the N.Y. Times.

Paul:

Compared to 9/11, the truck bombing of WTC was indeed a "firecracker."

Do us a favor: identify a single published statement by Bush or Cheney, during the 2000 campaign, when they mentioned terrorism, let alone Al Queda or Bin Laden. Just one. I won't hold my breath. Fact is they did not pay attention to terrorism. Had they done so, perhaps they would not now be in position of having to justify their failure to even lift a finger to prevent the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history.

Funny, all this talk about Obama adopting Bush's national security policies. I don't see Obama lying us into war with Iraq or using torture when it is widely considered to be against the law and has been proven not to work

This is a feeble attempt to make themselves feel better about the past eight years.

Good luck with that.

Looks whose approval ratings are rising

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/21/cnn-poll-favorable-opinion-of-dick-cheney-on-the-rise/

brantl, looks rosy, did you catch the drift of the Calif. voters?

Rethugs keep on keepin on
with the same flavor, we need
you,palin,limbum,oreilly,beck,hannity & the like,so...KEEP on
KEEPIN ON.