Wilkerson: 'Cheney Is The Kook Leader But Pelosi & Reid Are Feckless Leaders With No Spine'

[kpete]

Wilkerson: ‘I’ve Come to the Conclusion That Cheney is Just Crazy’

By Andy Worthington
The Public Record
Sep 10th, 2009

“…I’ve come to the conclusion that truly is — whether he was that way when I knew him before, when he was Secretary of Defense, I don’t know, that’s not at issue with me any more — the man now is just crazy.”

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The problem is that this is a national security issue, and there are so many more challenging issues — as one official put it to me the other day — on which the President has already shown some ankle, whether it’s about talking to Iran or whether it’s his rather pronounced silence vis-à-vis North Korea, or whether it’s something as minuscule as lifting some travel restrictions on Cuban Americans for Cuba. They don’t believe they can show another square centimeter of ankle on national security, because the Republicans will eat their lunch, and every time I’m told this I die laughing. I say, your guys are captured by the Sith Lord, Dick Cheney, you’re captured by Rush Limbaugh, whose real radio audience is about 2.2 million, and whose employer, Clear Channel, lost $3.7 billion in the second quarter of this year. I said, when are you gonna wake up? These are kooks. And Cheney is the kook leader. But Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are such feckless leaders they haven’t got any spine. We have no leadership in the legislative branch on either side of the aisle… I become exasperated. There’s just no courage, there’s no moral courage whatsoever in the Democratic Party.



http://pubrecord.org/nation/4936/wilkerson-ive-conclusion-cheney/
http://harpers.org/archive/2009/09/hbc-90005675

[wryter2000]

1. Ya know, Larry

You're a good guy and all, and we appreciate what you're doing now. But, I don't think you should be talking to someone else about spine.