Dick Cheney heaps praise on Hillary Clinton

[NorthCarolina]

Looks like the GOP is feeling a bit apprehensive about Hillary's chances of winning the Dem primary. Her they can beat, Bernie not so much. They need to run against a Dem candidate with High Negative Polling to stand any chance at all in the GE, so who better to sing the praises of a Wall Street candidate than Dick Vader...err Cheney (it's Pronounced "ChEEney" but only Chris Matthews knows that).

Former US vice president Dick Cheney has praised Hillary Clinton as one of the more competent members of President Barack Obama's administration, saying it would be "interesting to speculate" on how she would perform as president.



"I have a sense that she's one of the more competent members of the current administration and it would be interesting to speculate about how she might perform were she to be president," he said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/8741148/Dick-Cheney-heaps-praise-on-Hillary-Clinton.html

[Kentonio]

1. Kagan and now Cheney..

Next week we can presumably expect Sauron and Darth Vadar to weigh in with their own endorsements.

[global1]

5. You Forgot Kissenger....nt

[Kip Humphrey]

2. I'm just going to put this headline right over here...in the "In case of emergency..." file,

sub topic: "When you run on your resume and references become important to you.", right next to "Henry Kissinger".

[ebayfool]

3. That mug! I say again ...

Cheney died long ago. But heaven won't take him and hell is afraid he will take over.


Brrrr.

[earthside]

4. I'll admit to being a reactionary when it comes to Cheney.

If Richard Bruce Cheney claimed the sun comes up in the east, tomorrow morning I'd get up early to check it out.
(Which I likely do anyway because most of us will be moving our clocks ahead an hour tonight!)

So, thank goodness his 'approval' of Hillary Clinton confirms that my presidential choice has been correct all along.

As the GOP nomination of Trump looms ahead, we will undoubtedly see some of the establishment neocon Repuglicans drift towards Hillary as a means of keeping some grasp on power and to retain some influence over an individual who is arguably one of their own.

Cheney's word make it even more critical that Democrats do the correct thing for our future and nominate Sen. Sanders.

[tabasco]

6. The Borg is assimilating the leading Democratic candidate

Better to choose one who has not been infected.

[NorthCarolina]

7. I tend to think Bernie has

a natural immunity.

[99Forever]

8. An endorsement from one of her own kind.

Yay for Hillary, Darth Cheney's choice for Emperor!

[NV Whino]

9. Kiss of death.

[Punkingal]

10. Twilight Zone Time....

I suppose Hillary is proud of those comments.

[rock]

11. "interesting to speculate on how she would perform as president"

Wait.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Hawks of a feather....

[Hoyt]

13. Yet, folks pay little concern to Kochs praising Sanders.

[Attorney in Texas]

14. Neocons of a feather flock together.

[bobthedrummer]

15. OMG-Well this is a special request from long ago 4 ya both "...because the revolution's here..."

[bobthedrummer]

16. ^^^ ^^^ ^^^

Cheney Watch: War Criminal
http://www.cheneywatch.org

[EndElectoral]

17. Evil incarnate

[merrily]

18. If this does not chill your soul, I don't know what would. nt

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[Octafish]

19. Cheney Privatized the Pentagon

Mr. Other Priorities' main qualifications for Secretary of Defense seems to have been his voting record in support of War Inc. History unmentioned on campus, what was news left out of the newspapers and off the television screen:

Cheney's Multi-Million Dollar Revolving Door

News: As Bush Sr.'s secretary of defense, Dick Cheney steered millions of dollars in government business to a private military contractor -- whose parent company just happened to give him a high-paying job after he left the government.

By Robert Bryce
Mother Jones
August 2, 2000

EXCERPT...

In 1992, the Pentagon, then under Cheney's direction, paid Texas-based Brown & Root Services $3.9 million to produce a classified report detailing how private companies -- like itself -- could help provide logistics for American troops in potential war zones around the world. BRS specializes in such work; from 1962 to 1972, for instance, the company worked in the former South Vietnam building roads, landing strips, harbors, and military bases. Later in 1992, the Pentagon gave the company an additional $5 million to update its report. That same year, BRS won a massive, five-year logistics contract from the US Army Corps of Engineers to work alongside American GIs in places like Zaire, Haiti, Somalia, Kosovo, the Balkans, and Saudi Arabia.

After Bill Clinton's election cost Cheney his government job, he wound up in 1995 as CEO of Halliburton Company, the Dallas-based oil services giant -- which just happens to own Brown & Root Services. Since then, Cheney has collected more than $10 million in salary and stock payments from the company. In addition, he is currently the company's largest individual shareholder, holding stock and options worth another $40 million. Those holdings have undoubtedly been made more valuable by the ever-more lucrative contracts BRS continues to score with the Pentagon.

Between 1992 and 1999, the Pentagon paid BRS more than $1.2 billion for its work in trouble spots around the globe. In May of 1999, the US Army Corps of Engineers re-enlisted the company's help in the Balkans, giving it a new five-year contract worth $731 million.

CONTINUED...

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2000/08/cheney.html

Must've been an, eh, awkward moment for the draft dodger. Then, of course, a big cash bonus from Halliburton stemming from the war he and Bush Jr. started on lies has long since made that hurt go away.

[FlatBaroque]

20. Do you think Hilly is wicked smart enough to use this as an honor in the next debate

like she used Kissinger's recommendation?

[kgnu_fan]

21. Here is the Hillary's baby

http://ian56.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-ttp-tisa-and-ttip-in-europe.html

[bobthedrummer]

22. $

[Blue_In_AK]

23. I don't think neocon Republicans like Cheney and Kissinger

want any of the current Republican candidates to defeat Hillary. I think they affirmatively want her to be president. They are of like mind.