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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsABC News Contributor: 'Obama Is Dick Cheney'
ABC News contributor Mary Matalin compared President Obama to Dick Cheney on national security issues on Sunday, setting off a debate between the panel members on "This Week."
The roundtable was assessing the president's speech on Friday about reforms to the National Security Agency. Obama outlined proposals for changes to the NSA's programs, but largely defended the agency's domestic surveillance activities as necessary for protecting national security. David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, pointed out that they were the types of programs that Obama used to oppose as a senator.
Mary Matalin compared Obama to Dick Cheney, saying, "He was against it before he was for it. Now Barack Obama is Dick Cheney. He needs these policies, they are necessary for our security."
Fellow panelist Tavis Smiley said he did not agree with Matalin's assessment, but expressed his own doubts about Obama's position on domestic surveillance. "Edward Snowden might be on a postage stamp somewhere down the road," Tavis remarked. "He will be acknowledged ... How history is gonna regard what President Obama has done in this moment is an open question."
She had to be drunk to say this. Rest of article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/19/obama-dick-cheney-mary-matalin_n_4627955.html
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ABC News Contributor: 'Obama Is Dick Cheney' (Original Post)
monmouth3
Jan 2014
OP
Mary has had the botox migrate to her brain, where else could more be injected?
Fred Sanders
Jan 2014
#5
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)1. Her brain is gone.
Not meaning to be mean but that comment proves something is off.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)2. First one to say "Hitler" or in this case Dick, loses the argument
Nuff said
lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)3. News contributor? Don't think so. Maybe utter fool
warrior1
(12,325 posts)4. What the fuck.
She's gone off the deep end.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)5. Mary has had the botox migrate to her brain, where else could more be injected?
Vattel
(9,289 posts)6. On domestic surveillance, Obama and Cheney are pretty dang close.
seattledo
(295 posts)7. It's almost like they don't trust him...
which is crazy.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)8. When did he shoot someone in the face?
malaise
(268,930 posts)9. She's not well
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)10. I think she has a drink/pill problem. I was watching Carville the other night as he was sitting
across from her and he was giving her "the look" a couple of times....
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)11. Her speech was so slow. She had a tissue in her right
hand when she was on Bill Maher's show. I'm wondering if it was to steady or occupy her hand. She sounded like she didn't give a shit about anything, including opinions of her.
dhill926
(16,337 posts)12. they did allude to some medical problems...
on Maher. So I'll give her a tiny benefit of the doubt. Painkillers? Something? But man, she seemed fucked up Friday night .really fucked up...
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)13. Maybe she is suffering from a guilty conscience.
sakabatou
(42,148 posts)14. When did Obama shoot someone in the face?
Though, she seems to have a point.
Cha
(297,154 posts)15. No fucking mouth piece for dick cheney doesn't have
any points.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)16. drones too. n/t