Cheney: Obama and Clinton are ‘wannabes.’

[kpete]

Cheney: Obama and Clinton are ‘wannabes.’
In an interview with ABC News yesterday, Vice President Dick Cheney asserted that President Bush “carries the biggest burden” of the Iraq war and even compared staying the course in Iraq to the pardoning of President Nixon. But Cheney also took time out to insult Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) for “announc that the solution in Iraq is to withdraw,” calling them “wannabes.”

VIDEO at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/25/cheney-obama-and-clinton-are-wannabes/

[Solly Mack]

1. uh..pardoning Nixon was a fucked up thing to do

so, OK.

[dbonds]

5. Yes, but remember Cheney was part of Nixon's corrupt circle.

So from his point of view (his very warped point of view) it was the right thing.

[Solly Mack]

8. Oh, I know

Cheney's been causing damage for a long time now

[MaineYooper]

6. Agreed- the whole "best for the nation" meme was regurgitated ad infinitum...

during the Gerald Ford eulogies last year.

IMO, what the nation truly needed was not to "get beyond" the myriad crimes of the Nixon administration, but rather to have a full accounting and punishment. Sure it would have been painful to witness, but at least then, there would have been *consequences,* and we, as a nation, would have seen that truly even the president was subject to the laws of this country.

Instead, the lesson that the surviving members of that misadministration took away was that the problem was getting caught, and subsequently admitting to wrongdoing. Their overriding pernicious secrecy and obstinate refusals to admit wrongdoing in even blatantly obvious acts is the direct and, in retrospect, completely predictable result.

We're still paying the price, and likely will for another generation at least, for Gerald Ford's choice to prematurely end the Watergate investigations.

(edited for grammar)

[Solly Mack]

10. Yep...and we'll add to that price when Bush and Cheney strut off into the sunset

an incestuous circle of thugs....and as long as "healing" (more like heeling) is the cry of the day...that circle will never be broken.

[Bicoastal]

2. Let us brave, ancient white men continue the struggle against the A-rabs...

x(

[DemoTex]

17. AWOL Bu$h and draft-dodging Cheney: Wannabe Warriors.

Wannabe Warriors let others die in their stead. Always have .. always will.

:puke:

[acmavm]

3. Cheney's credibility factor is zero. And he's a lying criminal thug

who most of the planet wants to see in the dock at the Hague.

[rocktivity]

4. So?

Isn't EVERYONE running for a political office a wannabe?

:evilgrin:
rocknation

[bdamomma]

7. Cheney "Moby Dick" is sick SoB.

that is funny and sad, wannabees???? just like the way they want to parrot dictators, with their imperial presidency. Oh, he is just a waste of a person, he doesn't respect the American people at all, or rules of laws at all.

[tridim]

9. Unfortunately for The Dick, Obama is a Gonnabe.

[coalition_unwilling]

15. Beautiful - thanks for that. Brightened my day a little -n/t

[devilgrrl]

11. That guy needs to be arrested and locked-up for the rest of time.

He's a menace to society

[Ganja Ninja]

12. I'd prefer his extradition to Iraq or Iran.

Someplace where his lawyers and the American courts can't interfere with justice.

[Orsino]

13. Cheney is a never-was...

...because he never wanted to govern. He does, however, loooove ruling.

[shanti]

14. cliches

that's all he knows (remember "big time")

[Winterblues]

16. Clinton and Obama are indeed wannabes

They want to become President which this country is in dire need of. They wannabe the ones to prosecute Cheney and send his ass where it truly belongs, prison.