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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,957 posts)
Mon Mar 11, 2019, 08:55 PM Mar 2019

Former vice president Cheney challenges Pence at private retreat

Compares Trump’s foreign policy to Obama's
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A chummy discussion between Vice President Pence and former vice president Richard B. Cheney quickly turned into a vigorous back-and-forth over President Trump’s foreign policy at a private gathering Saturday, with Cheney comparing the president’s instincts to those of his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, according to a transcript obtained by The Washington Post.

At the closed-door retreat hosted by the American Enterprise Institute in Sea Island, Ga., Cheney respectfully but repeatedly and firmly pressed Pence on a number of the president’s foreign policy moves. Cheney expressed concerns at such actions as taking a harder line toward U.S. allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and deciding to withdraw troops from Syria during what he fretted was “the middle of a phone call.”

Cheney also worried aloud to Pence that “we’re getting into a situation when our friends and allies around the world that we depend upon are going to lack confidence in us” and then offered a blunt criticism of the current administration’s response to foreign policy challenges.

“I worry that the bottom line of that kind of an approach is we have an administration that looks a lot more like Barack Obama than Ronald Reagan,” he said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-vice-president-cheney-challenges-pence-at-private-retreat-compares-trumps-foreign-policy-to-obamas-approach/ar-BBUDXmX?li=BBnb7Kz

You going senile too Cheney? Obama never alienated our allies.

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Former vice president Cheney challenges Pence at private retreat (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2019 OP
I say let them settle this the old fashioned way - a duel! rurallib Mar 2019 #1
I say Cheney takes him hunting lame54 Mar 2019 #12
This headline gave me a much-needed laugh Bettie Mar 2019 #2
Shoot him in the face Cheney! jcgoldie Mar 2019 #3
A plague on both their houses. Golden Raisin Mar 2019 #4
Unlike the Bush administration zipplewrath Mar 2019 #5
OY! elleng Mar 2019 #6
The fact he equated Trump with Obama is delicious. IluvPitties Mar 2019 #7
This just boggles the mind. Dem2theMax Mar 2019 #8
Neo-cons must be really frustrated they haven't gotten a new war yet. n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2019 #9
Cheney belongs in a private retreat... Gumboot Mar 2019 #10
What Cheney means by saying Obama and Trump's foreign policies are similar TlalocW Mar 2019 #11
"So two turds go into a bar in Sea Island...." the punchline is the preposterous comparison. JDC Mar 2019 #13
Saying he's like Obama ... Whiskeytide Mar 2019 #14
That health care for CHEENEE is really Gold Card!1 UTUSN Mar 2019 #15
Cheney: "I'm your mother now..." Blue Owl Mar 2019 #16

Bettie

(16,100 posts)
2. This headline gave me a much-needed laugh
Mon Mar 11, 2019, 08:58 PM
Mar 2019

as the mental picture that immediately came was of two male birds posturing and puffing in a display of dominance.

Then, I realized what ugly birds they were.....

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
5. Unlike the Bush administration
Mon Mar 11, 2019, 09:03 PM
Mar 2019

Cheney forgets how much the Bush II administration alienated allies over the Iraq invasion. Germany and France were labeled as "old Europe". And they ignored the warnings of Hans Blix.

IluvPitties

(3,181 posts)
7. The fact he equated Trump with Obama is delicious.
Mon Mar 11, 2019, 09:05 PM
Mar 2019

The White Nationalist presidency being equated to the presidency of a black man... Thanks, Dick.

Dem2theMax

(9,651 posts)
8. This just boggles the mind.
Mon Mar 11, 2019, 09:07 PM
Mar 2019

He says Trump's administration looks like Obama's administration?

Then he says our friends and allies around the world are going to lack confidence in us. GOING TO? As in future tense?

My brain hurts. It absolutely effing hurts. How much more of this can we take?



Gumboot

(531 posts)
10. Cheney belongs in a private retreat...
Mon Mar 11, 2019, 09:19 PM
Mar 2019

... called SuperMax. Plenty of room in the Hotel Colorado, for that a$$hole.




TlalocW

(15,381 posts)
11. What Cheney means by saying Obama and Trump's foreign policies are similar
Mon Mar 11, 2019, 09:33 PM
Mar 2019

Is that he's didn't and isn't making enough money under either of them. Obama was more of a negotiator instead of a war-monger, and Trump is, well, Trump and is blindly stumbling around.

TlalocW

Whiskeytide

(4,461 posts)
14. Saying he's like Obama ...
Mon Mar 11, 2019, 09:46 PM
Mar 2019

... is perhaps the greatest insult to trump. Cheney is evil incarnate, but he knows quite well how to be a dick.

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