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Compares Trumps 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 Trumps foreign policy at a private gathering Saturday, with Cheney comparing the presidents 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 presidents 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 were 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 administrations 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.
rurallib
(62,411 posts)lame54
(35,287 posts)Bettie
(16,100 posts)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.....
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)WTF are you good for anyway?
Golden Raisin
(4,608 posts)zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)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.
elleng
(130,895 posts)IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)The White Nationalist presidency being equated to the presidency of a black man... Thanks, Dick.
Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)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?
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Gumboot
(531 posts)... called SuperMax. Plenty of room in the Hotel Colorado, for that a$$hole.
TlalocW
(15,381 posts)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
JDC
(10,127 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)... is perhaps the greatest insult to trump. Cheney is evil incarnate, but he knows quite well how to be a dick.
UTUSN
(70,686 posts)Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)n/t