Republican Lugar Calls Cheney’s Criticism of Obama ‘Unfair’

[kentuck]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aFESfOEBmLS0

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Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Richard Lugar, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called President Barack Obama’s handling of recent terrorism threats “strong,” disputing former Vice President Dick Cheney’s criticism.

“It’s unfair,” Lugar said in an interview for Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend. “I think the president is focused.”

Cheney, who frequently has led Republican attacks on the Democratic president since leaving office a year ago, told Politico on Dec. 29 that Obama “is trying to pretend we are not at war” with a “low-key response” to the Dec. 25 attempt to ignite a bomb aboard a flight to Detroit.

To the contrary, Obama has demonstrated “firmness” and “decisiveness,” Lugar, who represents Indiana, said. “That’s been the antidote to the criticism.”

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[gratuitous]

1. Lugar will walk this back within 72 hours

Practically guaranteed.

[Contrary1]

2. Lugar better represents many of my views than Bayh does. n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Incoming attacks on Lugar from Rush et al in 3, 2, 1, . . .

[rwheeler31]

4. Lugar is leaving he can not stand the nut jobs.

[applegrove]

5. I guess that people who catapult propaganda re: their administration

never get to retire. They continually have to be catapulting the propaganda to keep their legacy as a strong leader going. Otherwise historians will come along and crush them.

Better to just be a genuinely good President fighting the good fight and not trying to control how he/she is perceived.

I guess Cheney can never retire. He's going to have to keep on catapulting. And liz will have to do it all of her life. Sounds exhausting to me.