(CNN) – White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs took a slap at Dick Cheney Monday, likening the former vice president to controversial talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh.
The comments came at the White House daily briefing, during which Gibbs dismissed Cheney's statement Sunday on CNN that several of President Obama's policies had left the country less safe.
"Well, I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy, so they trotted out the next most popular member of the Republican cabal," he said. "I would say that the president has made quite clear that keeping the American people safe and secure is the job - is the most serious job that he has each and every day.”
On CNN's State of The Union with John King Sunday, Cheney defended the Bush administration's policies on the handling of enemy combatants.
"I think those programs were absolutely essential to the success we enjoy, of being able to collect the intelligence that let us defeat all further attempts to launch attacks against the United States since 9/11," he said. "I think it's a great success story. It was done legally, it was done in accordance with our constitutional practices and principles…"
Gibbs later dialed back his comments, after being asked by a reporter if the sarcasm was the official White House "sanctioned tone" toward the vice president.
Watch: Cheney questions Obama's policies
"Some times I ask forgiveness, rather than for permission," he said. "I hope my sarcasm didn't mask the seriousness of the answer…that for seven plus years the very perpetrators that the vice president says he's concerned about weren't brought to justice."
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You could get tooth-decay doing that. Maybe lose a few.
I'm surprised that Cheney would poke his head out from under his bunker....chicken.
And the White House's campaign against individuals continues.
I guess with Obama's commitment to opacity as well as his enemies' list, he's trying to emulate Nixon.
Robert Gibbs is an absolute idiot! Nevermind what Cheney said (albeit the truth!), Gibbs stands up there at his little mike and stammers and stutters, can't even remember what he's supposed to say and cannot, for the life of him, "shoot from the hip" with a good answer!
I'm amazed that anyone can find any value whatsoever in what Cheney has to say.
Not only have the Republicans caused this mess through deregulation which spurred the rush on mortgages, but he has the nerve to lecture on 'big government'. Such hypocracy.
Every time a prominent republican opens his mouth about the mess that Obama's been asked to clean up, it only makes it worse for them.
"if the sarcasm was the official White House "sanctioned tone" toward the vice president."
the white house communication nut needs to put a sticky note on his podium that reads " america (the world) is watching you, fool!
What is Gibbs' problem? Doesn't he understand the White House isn't the campaign trail? His loose words are diluting White House policy and casting a pall over the entire adminsitration.
love gibbs.
hate cheney.
Cheney who shredded the Constitution at every opportunity is giving advise? Mr. Cheney, when we want advise from you, we'll ask. Please hold your breath until we do. This guy is a disgrace to our country and the true American values.
Why does CNN continue to give air time to all these losers, day after day after day?
Republican double talk. Did you see where the International Red Cross is calling for investigation and criminal charges against the Bush Administration.
Just because Cheney says it is successful, just because Cheney says it is legal, doesn't make it successful or legal. This was the most secretive administration ever. They were much more secret than that drug dealing Reagan. If they were so successful why is Afghanistan the leading producer of poppy/heroin? They were not leading the world in this category before the U.S. invaded. That seems backwards.
During the Bush Administration, we were attacked on our own soil after the President ignored a memo titled "Al Qaeda determined to strike within the US," Iran became more powerful, we brought Al Qaeda to Iraq, Russia became more threatening than they had been for 20 years, and terrorist attacks erupted in countries that had never before seen major terrorist attacks. Tell me again, why do we trust Cheney on national security?
Dick Cheney is evil and the pathetic interview CNN own John king conducted yesterday show how awful the media has become.
He has no credibility as a serious journalist if he is one.
They were brought to justice Mr. Gibbs. Most of them involved are not sitting in a cell in Guantanamo. Where they belong. No charges, just a life time of sitting there wondering why they went up against the most powerful country in the world. Thank you Mr. Cheney for helping to keep us safe. History will show your efforts even though the bleeding heart liberals here won't admit to it.
There are many people beside Mr. Cheney who believe that our country is or will soon be -– less safe and open to terrroist attacks just as it was before 9/11. Someone in our government please take note!
I have learning something from Obama's time in office. They are great at attacking others and trying to deflect attention from their radical policies. If they spent as much time worrrying about our economy as they worrry about Limbaugh and Cheney we might get some confidence back in the markets.
Cheney is a paranoid old man with hidden demons and a power hungry drive to control the strings of those in power. He is death walking is fully aware of it. He never severed the people – never intended to and never will in his remaining days. I understand the reason for speaking back to him but I'm even more pleased he is an image of the past.
Robert Gibbels, I would expect a better tone. I don't think I ever heard Tony Snow or Dana Perino or any one else refer to members of the other party as a cabal. If we want jokes we'll turn on Jon Stewart or Leno. Stick to your business and go do the stand up routine in Georgetown...after work hours.
So far, Obama has kept us safe. So, we have to give him credit for that.
Cheney has gotten to be laughable. No one takes this idiot seriously.
Well, maybe Ann Coulter. Morons.
"...that for seven plus years the very perpetrators that the vice president says he's concerned about weren't brought to justice." Ha...Gibbs and this admin is such a joke. Yea, the perpetrators that will soon be released from Gitmo or the ones that were recently let off the hook that brought terror on the USS Cole. Didn't Obama meet with the families and tell them he wasnt going to pursue justice? Sounds more like this admin isnt bringing justice. To me justice has been brought on the battle field for the ones we didnt capture. This comment is just wrong by this non-experienced admin. What a joke.
You would think that Cheney would "lay low" despite public appeals to be investigated, however he will not retire quietly and give his pacemaker a rest.
This goes to show you that some, but not all far Right-White are having difficulty accepting the fact that the United States is being represented by a man...not quite White like them. GET ON OR GET GONE GOP!
Go away! You had your turn and YOU BLEW IT! It's time to clean up your mess and we don't need your help!
I will feel safe when we see a toetag from prison,with his name on it.
Gibbs is a joke. He is so hapless it's amazing that he was given that job! On the other hand, he was hired by Obama, and we've all seen his great judgement when it comes to hiring staff. Obama could really lower the nations unemployment rate if he could ever prove competent enough to fill all the open positions in his staff, problem is he would probably employ more people as inept as Gibbs.
Obama better toss Gibbs under the bus, as Gibb is partisan and Obama says he is not.
Cheney, the worst creep this country ever elected.
Cheney should count his lucky stars that Congress isn't pursuing criminal charges against him and his whole administration for torture and other abuses of the U.S. Constitution.
He spent the past 6 years taking away the rights of Americans and sending U.S. soldiers to die in Iraq so that his cronies in the military industrial complex and in big oil could line their pockets at the expense of the American taxpayer.
He should be charged, found guilty, and then punished, starting with a public stockade with a stack of rotten tomatoes that Americans could throw at him.
Whoever lifted up that rock, allowing Cheney to stick his nose out from under it, please PUT IT BACK!
Gibbs needs to focus on giving the American public and the White House Press Corp HONEST answers instead of constantly attacking reporters and pundits who are only asking the questions Americans truly want answered.
@patrick March 16th, 2009 4:42 pm ET
"Not only have the Republicans caused this mess through deregulation which spurred the rush on mortgages"
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You need to look into some of the practices sponsored by prominent Democrats regarding reg/dereg to promote targeted mortgage lending. Targeted to those who were never able nor willing to fulfill the loan commitment.
Gibbs is a joke!
why is cheney sliding out from a rock right now?????
should he not be more enterested in keeping a very loowwwww zone?
Rove is out and about ......wonder what all he might have said?????
Was cheney mentioned?
do not forget libby........
Thank you Robert Gibbs!
Cheney needs slapped upside the head for his remarks...Americans are sick and tired of all the warmongering gloom and doom from the republicans. All they know is gloom and doom and warmongering and they're the ones that got our country into the mess in the first place!
So, we're sick of the republican rhetoric, their innuendo, and their tales of woe.
BTW – where is Cheney's wheelchair and hat??? LOL
Well, if it came from anyone else other than Robert Gibbs I might pay attention, but this guy is clueless.
Why is Gibbs always commenting about these things. All he has to say about the important issues is "I'll have to get back to you on that." But this stuff he can comment on.
I pray to god that the current administration investigates and prosecutes Cheney and Bush for all of their crimes against humanity and our nation.
With politicians like Bush and Cheney, who needs terrorists?
Dick Cheney is deranged and evil and that is one scary combo.
Cheney like rush limbaugh deserve no response ... they are only contributing to the overall negatve response to a transparent administration and they have a problem dealing with That!!
Thanks Mr. VP; I've lost my savings/retirement along with millions of Americans. How dare you say the Bush Administration didn't mess us all up. Why in the heck did over $300 billion get sent out to the "fats cats" and no one is held accountable? No one in Washington seems to know where the money went! This country political community needs an enima! "Kiss my skinny black depleted 401K!"
Get the hook. For a man that ripped off America with No Bid Contracts with Haliburton, who is he to have a say in anything. How much did Cheney "pocket" on these two wars????
And, he said, Americans can't depend on entitilements."
Very childish White House we have right now. I don't care for Cheney or Rush, but I'm getting tired of being informed by Obama's team that I do.
Send Cheney to an undisclosed location and put Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, O' Reilly and Shawn Hannity with him. They would be a happy bunch of people with like minds and our country would be a better place.... lol...
Fellow bloggers, do NOT get mad at Cheney or any of the above. It's God's doing. He/she did not give them a normal brain. Don't know his/her reasoning but God's doing is the only thing that can justify why they are who they are.
dick head cheney and his rethugnacan party are nothing but corpritists or corpret socialists and the sooner 2010 election rolls around the better there will be even less of these corpret socialists left in the senate and the house . SIMPLE FACT UNDER YOUR WATCH CHENEY UNDER THE CORPRET SOCIALISTS EG THE GOP WE WERE ATTACKED YOU AND THE GORPRET SOCIALIST PARTY FAILED TO KEEP AMERICA SAFE . ITS A FACT . so please cheney sit down and shut up you have nothing constructive to say , just look at the country after you cheney ran the show with your puppet gw bush and the corpret socialist party the gop .
So, let me get this straight...
The administration that allowed 9/11 to occur and then bungled the hunt for the perpetrators for seven long, fruitless years, now wants to paint itself as the heroic and successful defenders of the good ol' USA?
Do they excise the irony bone from Republicans at birth or are they simply born without one?
Obviously, Dick Cheney cannot deal with not having his hand on the power controls as he did for the past eight years. At least Bush and other former government officials have accepted the fact they are no longer in power and have quietly moved to the shadows. Not Dick, who cannot come to grips with not running the country. Clearly the Republicans are done until they change as the profile of America evolves and having an enterainer like Rush Limbaugh as the face and the mouth of the party cannot do anyone any good (except for Rush who craves the limelight.)
Thanks Cheney and Bush, for causing us to be attacked on Sept 11. For 60 years we were safe, even Carter kept us safe.It only took four planes to get by your watchful eye. What a fricking failure the two of you were!
I'm starting to like Gibbs. The problem is that Cheney only belongs on CNN if they are reporting that he is finally going on jail. Other than that he's only a good reason to switch channels.
I don't see how Bush got us atttacked. He was working with "intelligence" left from the Clinton administration.
Political affiliations aside, I think we can all agree that Gibbs has given the term 'moron' a new meaning...
Taking Dick Cheney word on anything is believing there is a Santa Claus ...
He says ' good morning .. sunny day '
trust me I will have to check outside myself to see if indeed it is a morning and if the sun is out.
I couldn't believe it myself when I heard Cheney blame the Democrats for the mess we're in!
These kinds of Republicans are so evil and vile.
We need more people like Meghan McCain!
And I voted for Obama!
Obama is doing a fantastic job pf protecting America and Americans. He chased Bush and Cheney out of the White House and took over the government. These two actions by themselves made us a lot safer than we had been in 8 years.
Gibbs shouldn't have to apologize to Cheney. He only spoke the truth.
If the White House actually took Cheney seriously, they would prosecute him for war crimes.
We shall see.
Dick Cheney is evil.
America has rejected his dangerous, paranoid, evil worldview and he should stay out of the spotlight if he doesn't want to get smacked down by a better man.
Good for Gibbs for mocking Cheney while telling the TRUTH!
This guy does NOT need to be talking about intelligence, honestly if those harsh methods generated such great results, why are we sitting in Iraq? And where is Bin Ladin? True the economy was a perfect storm caused by loans that shouldn't have been approved, and deregulation. But fact is to fix it, markets will have to have some restrictions and controls placed on them to keep it from being the wild west. Thats against everything the Repubs stand for, which is why they are becoming irrelevant.
Cheney is a waste of good air. This guy is delusional beyond words. I don't know why the HECK John King interviewed this fool. Oh yeah, it's because John King is Republican. Go figure.
I think we are starting to see that Obama is done with being silent while these anti-american Republicans whine from the sidelines.
Dick Cheney is sounding more like Hermann Goering every day. Capsules anyone?
"the white house communication nut needs to put a sticky note on his podium that reads " america (the world) is watching you, fool!"
Too bad Bush didn't have the same sticky note eh?
It's going to take Obama his full 8 years just to get us back to where we started before Bush destoyed our image.
Gibbs shouldn't talk abotu Cheney. It could undermine the inevitable investigation.
Robert Gibbs will be the Obama Administrations biggest downfall!
When he comes on now, we switch the channel!
What a CREEP!
I have never seen an administration use the bully pulpit as this administration does anytime someone disagrees with their policies. First the main stream media act like cheerleaders for Obama during the election – protecting him and not reporting on serious past relations, votes and ideologies – but now the Obama administration uses the media to attack anyone who disagrees with them. This is starting to look more and more like Venezuela and Cuba.
You go Robbie!
"I hope my sarcasm didn't mask the seriousness of the answer…that for seven plus years the very perpetrators that the vice president says he's concerned about weren't brought to justice."
I am just wondering why you did not point out that the repubs had an opportunity to PREVENT 9/11, but Cheney and Rice ignored the Clinton info and briefings and the shrub was too busy cutting brush in Crawford on 8/12/01 when the daily brief "Osama bin Laden determined to attack U.S.A. was placed on his desk.
You were too easy on 'em alho, the slam about not finding bin Laden was good!
One correction, if the truth be known Cheney is probably THE most hated repub, Limprick down around #5.
@ Anonymous.......... Nothing Cheney says is truth. He is as much a liar as Bush! Cheney would like nothing better than to see our nation attacked once more, just to be able to say "I told you so."
Robert Gibbs is brilliant. Remember you far-right-mongers......... 9/11 happened ON BUSH/Cheney's WATCH! They ignore warnings from intelligence reports warning of an attack involving our airports and Bush DID NOTHING TO RAISE THE SECURITY LEVELS!
Cheney has no credibility whatsoever.
Gibbs is a snide lollisucker who should have a little more respect for the American people.
We do not need more campaigning, we need the truth.
I have to laugh at how everyone jumps on Obama as having no world affairs experience. Washington has been full of these high powered world affairs experts for the last 8 years and look where it got us. Two wars, 4000+ brave americans dead, U.S. Status at an all time low and an economy that is second only to the great depression. Lets get the remaining Republican morons out of DC and lets keep them out.
When gas was at $4.00/Gal I drove to Oregon. The only place where gas was about 50cents cheaper was Wyoming where Cheney comes from. I wonder how that could happen. The guy has his hands in everyones pocket. I think we should take HIM on a bird hunting trip and see what happens. Maybe we can get rid of this despicable old man once and for all.
To Dennis...Clinton gave Bush several reports about Bin Laden. Do your research. On Aug. 6, 2001 Bush was given a report that said Al Quida would attack the US, most likely by plane, and they did nothing to investigate further.
Gibbs good
Cheney awful (criminal)
It's good to see we have a partisan hack as our press secretary, one who has taken to heart the "leave childish things behind" comment.
Bush and Chenney got lashed by the left on a daily basis for 6 years telling them how they were making the country less secure. Obama's not the country's first black president, he is the country's first translucent president, his skin is so thin you can see through it.
Change is a joke!
But 9/11 happened on his WATCH!!! Why would Americans believe this man??? When Richard Clark was trying to get their attention, they were too busy to listen.....and look what happened. He's right – no attack since 9/11 but 9/11 was NINE MONTHS into Bush/Cheney. So for all you anti-Obama's does that mean Obama gets a free ride for anything that happens in the first year? I thought not – you haven't even given him two months ......and the economy is his fault. That makes 9/11 Bush and Cheney's fault....
It's good to see we have a partisan hack as our press secretary, one who has taken to heart the "leave childish things behind" comment.
Bush and Chenney got lashed by the left on a daily basis for 6 years telling them how they were making the country less secure. Obama's not the country's first black president, he is the country's first translucent president, his skin is so thin you can see through it.
Change is a joke!
What else can Bush/Cheney say after 8 years of disastrous administration? "We have not had an attack after 9/11.". That is the ONLY think they can talk about (everything else is a big F.) But they forgot to tell you 9/11 shouldn't even happen. These terrorists came to US leagally, obtained training in US for flying planes, hijacked our airplanes using box cutters, and all the intelligence failed to stop the event. Guess what, where is Bin Laden? Why do we still have two unfinished wars? Why does the world have more terrorists than before? And remembered what Bin Lader said? He wants to bankrupt American. And he is very close achieving this.
Is this mike on?
Whether they are able to contort the legal system to make their actions in fact legal or not, they clearly were not in accordance with the spirit of the constitution.
And as for arguments of the nature 'They arent doing it our way so it will mean we are less safe', I say total BS. It's the same old 'with us or against us' carried to even greater extremes. Just because someone disagrees with your methods doesn't mean they disagree with your goals. No further attacks in seven years clearly is due as much to luck as it was to torturing internees at Guantanamo.
Maybe we will continue to be as lucky for the next four or eight years as in the last seven, but you can be sure that they will be screaming blame at Obama as loud as anything in history if we're not...
Let's be honest.
Bush/Cheney failed in "keeping Americans safe." Under their watch, thousands and thousands of Americans were killed by terrorists – the most in US history. Under their "leadership", Islamic terrorism quadrupled worldwide and it spread to NEW places. Like Iraq.
Now they are trying to rewrite history and LIE (big surprise) their way out of their epic FAIL administration, and their disgraceful failure to bring terrorists to justice with the rule of law and American values.
Shame, shame, shame on Dick Cheney.
The Cow poke can not shoot straight if he had not got deferment we would be in big trouble . Said enough.
Robert Gibbs is the biigest clown in D.C. and he thinks he's a satarist...FOOL
Dick is SO right in his comment about 9/11!
There hasn't been a stampede of wild elephants in the US after that date either. I guess that he and W protected us from all of that too.
His comments are about as pertinent and relevant as nothing. PLEASE – no more interviews with this clown!
Too bad Cheney will take the Limbaugh comparison as a complement, as will Limbaugh.
I actually like his serious answer better than the sarcastic one.
The main difference between Cheney and Rush is that Cheney is evil, while Rush is merely stupid.
This country is sick of Cheney and Bush. With any luck, they will end up in jail. They did more to aid terrorists by starting a war with lies and oil company profits than anyone else in our history. Go back to your dark cave Mr. Cheney.
Cheney, a guy that loves to leave misery in his wake.....
why don't Dick Cheney, just stfu, ride into the sunset, be gone
I have already said here what I think about John King. At a moment when the nation is bleeding, the fella brings up this dying hawk to give us lessons. King wanted MacBush to win but lost. It was good Blitzer continue on sunday. He at least is sometimes balanced in his bias views.
Nganenu
I think the Americans that are the least safe are the ones in Iraq.
Cheney is one of the most hated Americans for good reason. It's unethical and disrespectful to undermine your successor like this. I think Dick is just trying to fasten a fig leaf over the shortcomings of the last eight years.
Robert Gibbs is unprofessional and needs to grow up.
the long and short of it is that Cheney, along with the moron whose vice president he was, are war criminals responsible for the senseless deaths of thousands of innocent Iraqi's, Pakistani's, Afghan's–the holocaust on those countries which their policy's are responsible for, along with the senseless deaths of 4258 (as of today and continuing under the Obama administration) in the mire that is Iraq and 666 senseless deaths (as of today and, with the escalation of THAT war by Obama, most certain to continue well into the next decade–the late Buckminster Fuller once remarked..."Why is it that we always seem to elect to major offices in this couintry, those most lacking in creative thinking ability?". How true. (as an aside, I did hear that the war criminal cheney bought the moron he worked for a Kindle when they left office...a good thing, now bush can order his coloring books and comic books wirelessly from Amazon!
Cheney needs to move to Dallas, buy a mansion, and enjoy his fantastic retirement as a multi-millionaire. Right next door to his boss.
He's the biggest Chicken-Little there is, which is normal for a draft dodger. His stomach was even too weak to watch the tortures.
Rush Limbaugh talks in a hateful and mean spirited way, but in the school of actual evil he is like a boys scout to Chaney. It will not be long now before horns begin to sprout from Chaney's head. Lucifer must be licking his chops.
Is Cheney the Putin of American politics??
After reading these posts it is apparent that Dems are brainwashed and paranoid. Bush and Cheney will never be brought up on charges get real. I know you need someone to hate and blame for your sad sorry lives. I know you need the government to give you a hand out.
The world became a much safer place the instant Cheney left office. He is delusional and dangerous and belongs committed in an institution for the criminally insane for the rest of his miserable life.
Note to CNN: Stop feeding the Trolls.
Why would CNN put Cheney on a Sunday morning show. It seems to me he is having a hard time letting go of his power and so wants to keep saying over and over that he is right. I didn't watch the interview. I just felt disgusted with CNN for giving him a stage to repeat the same thing. Does CNN realize he was defeated and isn't liked at all by most people? Later on it might work to have him on, but right now are you that desparate?
Is Cheney the Putin of American Politics??
Let's see, 4259 Americans killed in Iraq and Cheney's saying Obam's made us less safe. Obama's yet to shoot anyone on a hunting trip either. Stay in Wyoming and shut up.
Why is Gibbs and the Democrats trying to tear this country apart with their remarks? The White House should be trying to unite the country.
I have no problem with the comment, the gloves should come off when dealing with Cheney. He showed no respect for the American people so I say lets return the favor. He orchestrated a symphony of lies and misdirection for 8 years. Dick Cheney is no patriot, he is a complete disgrace to the United States.
You act as if torture was invented under the Bush Administration. Do you think we used torture in WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Dessert Storm, etc? Under Presidents like Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Carter, Clinton, Bush? You don't think they had ways to extract information when George Washington was President. You people hare Bush so much you live with your head in the sand. Grow up, they call it war for reason!!!!!!
Shame on cheney, just tearing down America, just because of jealousy.
While it is obvious that Cheney is a vile sociopath, it would be much smarter for Gibbs to turn down the sarcasm. It just causes you to play defense.
And let's get a clue right wingers-while "prominent Democrats" sponsored legislation that encouraged home loans, the legislation had restraints built in. It was Wall Street that jumped on the loans as a way to make money. They then packaged and sold them ,made their millions, and walked away. But, hey we can trust corporate America and deregulation is a good thing.
I am so sick and tired of the republican scum that ran and ruined our country for the past 8 years. We need to try them all for crimes against our people and foresaking the democracy that our country was built on.
Cheney should crawl back into the hole that he came from. The man should thank God every day that the U.S. government has not started criminal proceedings against him for the crimes that he committed while he was Vice-President.
I preemptively apologize to all the good, hard working American snakes.
The man is a snake. A real apple pushing, venom injecting, cave dwelling snake.
Am I the only one who thinks Dick Cheney looks like Monty Burns from the Simpsons? Seriously...
Why would anyone care about anything cheney says? Didn't he and his cohorts do enough damage in 8 years? Worst vice president in American history....he and his Texan partner put this country in the mess it's in, although the republicans are trying to rewrite history and blame Obama...pitiful. Slink away cheney, you had plenty of time to blather.
Please Mr. Vice President do not talk abouth the current tax dodging adiministration you are starting to sound like Jimmy "the village idiot" Carter. The worst president of all time.
@ Hey BIG Spender
You want the truth? Bush and Cheney's ugly mugs are on the front of Al Qaeda's most popular recruitment brochure with the words "Gitmo" and "torturers" in Arabic right underneath.
1. September 11, 2001 happened on Cheney & Bush's watch – they completely disregarded the August memo warning us that al Qaeda was determined to attack the United States using airplanes. And they did not enhance security measures at airports, etc., to help prevent that.
2. The war in Afghanistan was justified; the war in Iraq was not. Cheney told us we'd be greeted as liberators; that Iraqi oil would pay for the war; that he'd be surprised if combat operations lasted 6 months.
3. Everyone with an ounce of common sense knows that if you decrease income (by cutting taxes on the wealthy) and increase spending (for the two wars, plus unexpected events like Katrina), you are asking for financial trouble.
This is just a sampling of the moronic, naive, incompetent and arrogant attitude of the previous Administration.
Why anyone bothers to listen to Cheney – or give him an audience, John King – is beyond me.
Cheney has proven unequivocally that he is an idiot.
Good to see the new administration sticking to it's promise to rise above partisan politics. Anything to divert attention from the crap job they're doing so far.
Nice i love it. keep hitting them for the slime balls these people are Gibbs. Hey Cheney got a question for you why were you not able to catch bin laden when you had the chance? figure you would not be able to torture people then would you.
So when are Cheney and Dubya going to jail for war crimes?
I think President Obama and Joe Biden should have a tag team cage match against Bush-Cheney.
Joe Biden will power bomb what's left of Dick Cheney. Then, President Obama will finish off Mr. Vader with the peoples elbow.
Bush will just sit around watching, like he did for eight years.
yeah....very impressive.
Glad to see my hard earned money paid taxes to pay someone with this incredible talent.
The US regime in 2000-2008 let the events of 911 happen if not helped in the events of 911. This was done so the US empire can continually tax the world as all oil is bought and sold in US currency. This propped up the US dollar as supply/demand dictates. This occurred for decades until Saddam Hussein began to trade his oil in Euro's crippling the demand for the US dollar. The US regime didn't really care about Afghanistan as it was an orchestration for the onslaught that was about to occur. So all in all, the regime that was in control of the US during 2000-2008 was in fact responsible for both its current wars, if not thrusted itself into war.
Dick Cheney is right!!! Unfortunately the only way you low lifes will see this is if we are attacked again. Even then you will believe your Messiah Obama couldn't have done anything. Wake up and look at history and you will see how lax the democrats have been in supporting our military. Take it from someone who had to draw food stamps under Jimmy Carter's reign just to feed my family when I was a soldier out their fighting for YOU!!!
If Dick Cheney had his way, we would be shoveling hundreds of billions of dollars into Iraq. Now that we are spending federal money on our country, we're suddenly less safe?
I feel much safer that the reckless republicans are not in control.
It's a shame the Republicans have nothing more to offer than to snipe from the sidelines. If Cheney actually believed this, what if anything will he do about it? Why just say it on TV? What does that accomplish except scaring the American people (the Rs #1 tactic.)
It's clear they are completely bereft of any meaningful or helpful ideas.
The one person that Obama is trying to make himself out to be and to copy is the one person who surpressed the press the most, surpressed his enemies the most and violated the Constitution because of an emergency situation of war.
That would be Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Lincoln even had his enemies deported for not supporting him.
Good comparison. They both care more about the Republican party than they do about this country.
Dick Cheney is evil. He controlled our country for 8 years. About the only independent decision Bush made was to not pardon Scooter Libby (guess he understood it when his dad, HW Bush, explained that outing a CIA operative is treason).
@ malclave, who said "And the White House's campaign against individuals continues."
I'd rather that than they do what the Bushtard and Cheneybot did...campaign against EVERYONE's individual rights.
just another article that shows that obama and his henchmen will not put up with dissenting views. If you don't agree, you are either partisan, stupid or follow Limbaugh.
I guess the dimocrats forgot what made this country strong.
No it's not handouts, high taxes, high spending, forcing jobs overseas, rewarding laziness. John Kennedy did not say, "ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you", and striving for tha american dream is not being supported by the government, and having opposing views is unamerican.
Sorry dimocrats. Those ideals are wrong. Obama is wrong.
It was a well-known fact among the government and the military long before 9/11 that an attack was eminent. The FBI, CIA, and the military intel groups had all included the information in briefings to both Clinton and Bush. That Bush/Cheney discounted this information, yet had the gall to use unsubstantiated and discredited sources of intel to get us INTO the war in Iraq, just rubs salt in the wound. Then to make thousands more into terrorists by not following our own policy of refusing to use torture, a discredited method of getting any type of believeable and credible intel, is the icing on the cake.
Cheney, go home. Your agenda to get billions of dollars of no-bid contracts for Halliburton has already been met and exceeded. You didn't make us safer, you made us look like hypocrites to the rest of the world, as well as lined your own pockets.
Gibbs is a IDIOT!!!! Just like his boss the moron Biden! Obama is lowering his office daily by going after a private citizen! He needs to shut up and govern if that is what he truly wants to do. America enjoy you voted for them, disgraceful!!!
First off 911 was Billys fault all the way...so worried about his extra sex life and that lie mess he couldnt and didnt take care of it when he could...Billys loans and ez money for the broke and the people that couldnt aford it put us in this mess we are in now!!!!!!!!!! Bush is still a BOZO but dont blame him for Billys mess....he made his own mess.
Cheney should be taken to a town square and then in front of all have his gonads smashed with a hammer. If he has any. What a piece of crap and to use a term from his youth a true " Draft Dodger" . Here is a man who has no trouble sending people to die for his pocket book but refused to serve himself. What a sorry excuse history will judge him to be a wasted and useless individual. LIke his boss the chimp.
Dennis March 16th, 2009 5:04 pm ET
I don't see how Bush got us atttacked. He was working with "intelligence" left from the Clinton administration.
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Um, Dennis, the problem wasn't the intelligence from the Clinton administration, it was the fact that Bush ignored all the intelligence from the Clinton administration. Clinton said we had to keep an eye on that Bin Laden guy, and Bush said "Who?" Then went on vaction.
I just watched a CD of Laverne and Shirley. Could this be todays.
"Blitzer and Cafferty" of CNN....
Once again the Obama administration has demonstrated that the JV team in on the field. I sure to miss the Varsity. Guys who actually had a clue to whats going on.
Enough already, flush the toilet and make Cheney go away.
Once again...
How can you tell Dick Cheney is lying?
His lips are moving.
(Hey Dick –shot any good friends lately?)
Gee Dick.... I guess that would all depend on what one believes really happened on Sept. 11/01 . Who was keeping us safe from the Neo Zionist Junta ? no one
If I understand the article correctly, it seems that Mr. Cheney's concept of freedom is the freedom of large businesses to do what they want, and the Democratic Party's concept of freedom has to do with the rights and liberties of the individual.
I guess Cheney just don't get it. He fools no one. He is finished. Why do we see more of him now than we did when he was in office?? He is a snake!!!
I'd say Cheney is far worse than Limbaugh. Limbaugh has only spouted rhetoric and hatred – Cheney has delivered the country to where it is now – a financial wreck that no country on earth has any interest in helping – because Cheney and Bush made us out to be big bullies. Thanks – DICK! You really made us safe.
The idiots who are claiming that Bush and Cheney caused or let us be attacked on 9/11 are the same ones who will be blaming them when something happens on Obama's watch.
As for Gibbs, I get nauseated every time I look at him. He stands there so smug and self-righteous, mocking everyone who doesn't agree with Obama.
Give the Democrats a shove – they are stuck in a scratch. Rush this and Rush that!
Who is more stupid, the guy who's telling us all these lies, or CNN for listening and quoting this moron.
Wake up CNN, this guy is NOT RELEVANT.
truth is stranger than fiction
Cheney is an extreme right winger. He's no different from LimBLAH. Someone let Mr. Cheney know that indictment papers are coming soon.
As a Democrat, I hope Cheney keeps talking and talking. As long as he does, the Republican party will become a smaller and smaller minority.
What does Obama not strut around like a dandy cowboy enough for you guys to feel safe?
The horrifying dimensions of REpub stupidity is summed up in this entry by Dennis: I don't see how Bush got us atttacked. He was working with "intelligence" left from the Clinton administration.
Really Dennis? Is that the way your brain works? That President Bush can't be blamed for being asleep at the wheel on the morning of September 11, 2001 because he was working with Clinton-era intel?
I would have said a lot more after being subjected to CNN's Cheney infomercial yesterday.
CNN and John King should be ashamed of themselves. The most trusted name in news lost a lot of credibility yesterday.
New name for John King's State of the Union:
"John King's Softball tournament"
Cheney and Bush allowed the attacks to happen on 9/11 so they could start a war and make their buddies get rich by extending them government contracts for defense. Personally I would LOVE to see congress enact a law that doesn't allow a company to profit off of war. If companies can make billions of dollars from a war wouldn't you think they'd like to see a war happen or even make a war happen?(Bush & Cheney). The last administration was all about oil and making their connections tremendously rich on the back of the American people.
Uh...Hello White House. Stop fighting radio hosts and ex Vice Presidents. PS...the 'cabal' is coming for you in 2010 and 2012. Maybe you should, like, try and govern intelligently a little before then instead of glibly yucking it about the evildoers on the right.
Cheny deserves it and more.
I love how you idiot liberal democrats never have any actual evidence on Bush or Cheney, but still insist they are guilty... of something, but you can't show, or back it up with facts. You can try to back it up with your emotional tirades and opinions on issues, but just because you disagree with Bush and Cheney, doesn't mean they broke any laws.
Of course, I don't expect liberal democrats to have a logical argument about anything. They refuse to even admit that democrats helped in the housing market crash.
Cheney deserves the electric chair for his crimes.
Anonymous-- No he's the new Jimmy Carter.
Gibbs should be more professional...then again, look at his boss.
People, it's ACTUALLY the dreaded Bush years that made this country UNSAFE and B R O K E.
Thanks tricky DICK try and try AGAIN.
Matt in DC
Gibbs is a cheap man defending his master "the chosen".
I think Big Spender is an idiot and lollisucker. More respect, hahaha. Big Spender you need to ask for forginess after making that ignorant statement after 8 years of Bush we are in this mess because of it. We don't need you, go to Canada with Rush and his buddies.
Cheney is a war criminal. Rush Limbaugh is an egotistical, Oxycontin-addicted pompous partisan attack dog. I don't know which is worse. Both committed crimes. One violated the Constitutiona and internation law, while the use abused prescription drugs. So far, both have enjoyed immunity from their crimes and are free to continue to engage in lies, insults and hate speech.
James:
The Republican party is a joke and in complete disrarry, thus your message about Democrats' "sad sorry lives" makes no sense but I guess everyone needs a place to vent.
My parents here in "Red State" South Carolina always said that if you change you story everytime you are asked the SAME question, then you are lying. This is the legacy of Bush/Cheney to me.
Cheney is the guy that said "A vote for a Democrat is a vote for the terrorist". Well my son has been to Iraq twice and he votes Democrat. Does this mean every soldier that votes Democrat support terrorist?
This guy has NO credibility.
Silly democrats, you'll see the ruin that's left after this social experiment. Hope you like calling each other comrade...
Have you noticed that Cheney never looks anyone in the
eye when
As sickening as this calculus sounds, the reality is the more Cheney pops up and sounds off, the more rational and safe he makes his political opponents appear. In the last two elections, Cheney and his ilk were exposed for the con men they are. They are a dying breed. Mehgan McCain is the new blood the REpubs desperately need.
A big thanks to Robert Gibbs for my best chuckle of the day!!! What a great line when he said "Well, I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy, so they trotted out the next most popular member of the Republican cabal.". Love it!! You go, Mr. Gibbs.
As an old, retired guy, I have seen many Presdients come and go. This President has inherited the worst situtation I have ever seen. For the former Vice-President to parade around making disingenuous comments is outrageous. I give Mr. Gibbs high marks for his ability to answer the most leading questions with fitting remarks.
Good for Gibbs! Cheney's comments were so outrageous, politically motivated, self-service, and downright absurd, I'm glad Gibbs called him out in such a direct way. Please, god, can't Bush and Cheney just go away??? Maybe the nation could start healing from 8 of the most disastrous years in history if they would.
What is this waste of humanity doing out of prison? He should have been executed a long time ago.
When is the Obama White House going to stop campaigning against Bush? Hasn't anyone told Obama that he won the election, and that Bush wasn't even running in it?
Fear mongering? Still after all these years? Even after his administration is gone and his neo con movement has been ushered out by the American people, he is still fear mongering. This guy Cheney is like a cancer. And the conservatives are still falling for it.
I love it. Dick Cheny can basically insult the sitting president on a nationally televised interview but if Robert Gibbs uses a little sarcasm he is being disrespectful. You know whats disrespectful, driving the country that elected you off a cliff. Don't see any republicant's owning up to that one. Dick Cheny diserves nothing but sarcasm and thats being nice to the guy.
Dick Cheney is an American Hero. The current closn could learn a thing or two from him about freedom and it what it takes to preserve it.
Obama just wants to take all our freedoms away.
Did someone forget to remind that bald-headed, four-eyed retard that when 9/11 happened it was Republicans, including him, that controlled the White House, the governorship of New York and the mayor of New York City were in charge. I hardly think we were safer with those morons in charge and I certainly think we are safer now that we have a President that is capable of completing whole sentences.
Give the Rush thing a rest, Democrats. It's really starting to sound rather childish.
Rush Limbaugh for President. At least he would know what he's doing instead of trying to fake it with nitwit Axelrod telling him what to say. That gutter scum in Washington is a joke.GO BACK TO CHICAGO!
Get a life Dick move into a cave the American people don't want to here anymore about you.
Welcome to the new third world country America...the boarders are open to everyone..come on in...
Someone has to say the Truth.. Thanks go to Mr Cheney for his candid and honest comments... Wish there were more like him...
BTW, where would Mr obama be without his teleprompter and the fawning media? ...Obama would be no more than an unknown agitator.
You dems are more worried about the three high ranking Al-Qaeda leaders who were water boarded because it could cause long term depression and anxiety. And the government listening to phone calls of suspected terrorist. Probably afraid they will catch you dealing drugs!
Funny Obama had to keep a REPUBLICAN to be Sec of Defense because no Dems have the balls to handle it!
I honsetly wonder if, cheney has ever been in school before!!!
Cheney thinks by greating wars that shall definitely keeping the American people safe!!! I'm glad that the 8 years are gone bye bye cheney go screw up some where else!!
It is hard to believe that Dick Cheney and company is still in denial.
Just ignore him guys – He is no longer relevant.
chenney and bush were thee wrst thing that ever happend to the USA ever .. they ruined the constitution . and of course nothing has ever happened after 911 becaquse there was never anything before 911 also. they caused 911 and wat they did on that day and leading up to that day was wat caused it as our own government caused pearl harbor olso sinking of the lusitanna and also the starting of the viet nam war .. him and bisch are the true terrorist .. noone else ..pretty funny how we can find anything we want but we cant find who caused 911.lol its because they caused it and made it happen pretty sad wake up america.. pay attention to wats going on in the world and see wen it started and who started it ..
I'm stunned to see that there are defenders of Cheney still out there... mental disease abounds in this country if a single citizen lends any credence to the ludicrous, un-Christian and anti-American views Cheney and Bush spewed for 8 years. Pull your head out of your a$$.
Plan! Plus All Negatives. What a Plan. A Differerent Planet sounds more like it..
Can someone put a muzzle on Cheney? I mean, this man is nothing but the DEVIL. He blames everyone else while the blood of over 500+ soldiers are on his hands and he knows it!!
The fact that he threw a huge tantrum when Bush told him he wasn't going to pardon Scooter Libby, PROVED Cheney is the true DEVIL. He knows good and well Libby was doing his devilish deeds, that's why he's so pissed off at George W. Bush for not pardoning him. Cheney PROMISED Libby he would get a pardon and he DID NOT deliver on that promise, so Cheney is worried that Libby may turn on him if the situation becomes "beneficial" for him to do so.
Guys like Scooter Libby will sing like a canary when the price is right, and the money is going to get "right" very soon.
If you give folks enough rope they usually HANG themselves by their own admission. Dick Cheney has proven that he operated like a "dictator" while Vice President. He brought SHAME and DISGRACE to the White House and he's NEVER going to recover. Americans will NEVER let him forget the BLOOD STAINS ON HIS HANDS and SOUL.
GOD knows what Dick Cheney did and he's going to shine his judgement on it. You just wait and see.
I am a conservitive. I have had inough of this liberal sociealist administration. We needs reel leeders in this country. We needs Limbaugh and Palin in the whyte house. And Joe the plumber as secretary of Educateon.
"Take it from someone who had to draw food stamps under Jimmy Carter's reign just to feed my family when I was a soldier out their fighting for YOU!!!"
Josh
Josh, I hate to break it to you, but nothing changed under Bush/Cheney.
For the lady that has to switch channels when Gibbs comes on tv, well for 8 years I switched channels every time Bush, Chaney and every other Repug came on the tv. I had dead batteries every two weeks, but it was worth it.
Carol Oh.
Gibbs hasn't got a clue. Like most informed Americans I agree with Mr. Cheney. It's those who have never served in the armed forces or continued to be blinded by the Obama glitz that don't want to see reality. We are showing our weakness to the enemy.
I wish Dick would just go away. We have had enough of his type of politics! I guess fear is what this old man is now promoting. PLEASE Dick, we have had enough of you! You are a very angry man!
John Rochester---- There was no intelligence in the Clinton administration. Especially when it came to foreign policy.
This argument will only be settled over time. Bush / Cheney went to great lengths (some questionable) to protect us against Terror-Lamist that target mothers and their six year old daughters on flights from Boston to Disneyland. If Obama can keep us safe with less evasive measures, then a big congrats to him....and shame on Bush & Cheney. Time will tell which was the correct approach.
It kind of strikes me that Cheney is kind of sour grapes now that he had to leave Washington for the private sector and his party lost in November. He just always has this angry look about him.
Mr. Gibbs,
Please, the previous administration did many to justice....they killed them. I would much rather kill them overseas, than in you or my back yard. You should be grateful that your kids are safe.
Someone has to say the Truth.. Thanks go to Mr Cheney for his candid and honest comments… Wish there were more like him…
BTW, where would Mr obama be without his teleprompter and the fawning media? …Obama would be no more than an unknown extreme left wing agitator.
Look....the white house trying to divert attention again to private citizens. Can anyone tell me when this administration is actually going to get some work done?
I like GIbbs. His honesty and sarcasm is a breath of fresh air, especially after that lying, lowdown perino person. Gibbs is showing her how it should be done. Good job, Gibbs!
EVERYBODY, especially Democrats and members of the Obama administration need to STOP mentioning Rush Limbaugh NOW! Drop it. Stop giving that clown free advertising. He's in it for the money.
My God, I always thought Dee Dee Myers was the stupidest press secretary I've ever seen, but Robert Gibbs is an absolute fricking, giggling moron. Actually being the face of this Clueless Administration is quite appropriate.
Dick Cheney should be incarcerated down in Gitmo until we find out where he hid all the money he diverted from our National Treasury. His fat buddy Rush can be his cell mate until he's off drugs and learns to tell the truth (a very long time I'm sure).
brack obama is just b.o. March 16th, 2009 5:30 pm ET
just another article that shows that obama and his henchmen will not put up with dissenting views. If you don't agree, you are either partisan, stupid or follow Limbaugh.
I guess the dimocrats forgot what made this country strong.
No it's not handouts, high taxes, high spending, forcing jobs overseas, rewarding laziness. John Kennedy did not say, "ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you", and striving for tha american dream is not being supported by the government, and having opposing views is unamerican.
Sorry dimocrats. Those ideals are wrong. Obama is wrong.
Handouts....what do you call "no-Bid contracts", rewarding laziness...um hello, Mike Brown of FEMA and all the other cronies Bush appointed to the most important offices in the land. And as I recall the last administration was the one that loved to go out and question peoples patriotism. Typical Republican, it's ok for our party to do it.
We needs real leeders to leed this grate country. Limbaugh and Palin 2012. Joe the plumber for secratery of educateion. Let us conservitives take care of this nation.
TO Texas Teacher:
All the evidence was in the emails that they illegally deleted. Just another thing they did, deleting the peoples emails.
I'd say the fact that only the fringe conservatives approve of what that administration did and the fact that it's regarded as one of the worse is good enough but they the damage they've done to this country needs to be addressed.
Robert March 16th, 2009 5:36 pm ET
Silly democrats, you'll see the ruin that's left after this social experiment. Hope you like calling each other comrade…
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LOL. Buddy, you obviously have never been outside of the USA because I hear this sad sad statement too many times. So in your world the only Socialist countries that exist are behind iron curtains? You really need to pick up a book from time to time.
Very simply, if we were using intelligence gathering methods, that for a fact prevented terrorist attacks on the U.S. (i.e. Heathrow for one), and Obama is taking that ability away, then doesn't logic follow that that makes it easier for us to miss critical intelligence, and by definition, less safe? It seems that Obama is more concerned with political rhetoric than dealing with the harsh reality of war-time policy
Clearly Departed March 16th, 2009 5:38 pm ET
When is the Obama White House going to stop campaigning against Bush? Hasn't anyone told Obama that he won the election, and that Bush wasn't even running in it?
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Well said the losers on the left need someone to blame for everything that goes wrong in their pathetic lives.
I love the comparison to Limpbaugh!!!
Dah,
If handouts were not permitted, then Cheney would be broke. We were more successful in finding Osama Bin Laden than we were finding Cheney when he was VP. Now..... look who jumps out of the woodwork.. handout to Haliburton king. And unless, people are in a coma, jobs are already overseas.
Not sure if the "electric chair" quote carries any weight, but Cheney is a "former" VP and an angry guy that didn't see Bush go his way with pardons.
Frankly, I think he should be charged with treason and war crimes, but more importantly, he needs to just STFU. His time is over!
Hey Blake,
Your son votes Democrat because he doesn't want to do his job. If he wants to serve, then serve, not take it for a job because he can't find one on the outside.
Gibbs is the voice of Obama – how very non-partisan and professional of him.
By the way, Cheney claims that his policies broke-up several major terror plots. Now that Obama is in the WH he has access to all US Intel. If Cheney's claims were not true, WE WOULD HAVE HEARD ABOUT IT FROM OBAMA and loudmouth GIBBS.
Obama's silence is PROOF THAT CHENEY WAS RIGHT!!!!
Obama's silence is PROOF THAT CHENEY WAS RIGHT!!!!
Obama's silence is PROOF THAT CHENEY WAS RIGHT!!!!
Obama's silence is PROOF THAT CHENEY WAS RIGHT!!!!
When the terrorists hit our country again, are you going to blame your limp wrist hero BO? You all are so full of crap and have no clue what it takes to keep our country safe. Keep whining and crying about your rights and see what happens over the next 4 years. Trouble is coming and you better pray that somebody with some nuts stands up and fights for our country. Flat sad how many whiny liberals we have in this country. All talk and no substance. People see what is happening and the real change is coming. Just wait.
Why do you all care so much about this media created, who cares nonsense. Cheney is no longer vice-anything. His opinion is as relevant as say, my neighbors. Obama is president. Let him run things a while. He was elected fair and square - its his government now. As for all the critics - he's been in office for 50 days. How about we give things a little time before we decide whether it is a failure or a success? I am done with Bush-Cheney. Old news, don't care. I'm looking forward, not back. Maybe we should all focus on that for a change.
Dennis: Bush had a PDB read to him that said bin laden determined to attack in the US. Will hijack airplanes and fly them into buildings.
Also, Clinton told him as they were trasitioning that bin Laden was the biggest threat to America's security, and Richard Clarke was trying to get anybody in the administration's attention.
Had Bush said "oh goodness, this sounds serious. Lets start having meetings," or ANYTHING that indicated he wasn't asleep at the switch, and we got attacked, I'd be less inclined to blame him. He didn't. He didn't lift a finger to respond to that.
Honestly, it fits.
And people it has nothing to do with dissenting voices, and everything to do with how bad they are for the country. They have proven that they are incompetant. If you can't see that, then you have a serious problem with your mental state.
Cheney and 'Made Off' to the same jail,,,both of them are theives and crooks.
Take all the money Cheney got from his 'war contracts'....give it to the Iraqi widows.....all million of them
We need to educate our conservative friends and promote education for them because it is sad to see some of our fellow Americans following the footsteps of their hero, George W Bush.
Cheney is a master politician. Under Bush number one Cheney said Iraq was not worth another drop of American blood. Now he defends the blood of thousands of American men and women who have loss their lives. How did Iraq become so worthy?
John Shepherd
Gibbs' claim of "Mission Accomplished" for Obama's new policies is pretty astonishing and naive given that they have no track record, and that most experts agree that they are doomed to failure.
I'm really tired of all this partisan garbage. All these commenters that want to blame 911 on Bush seem to forget that Clinton had an opportunity to take Bin Laden out and choked. They also have forgotten that Clinton almost single handedly dismantled the intellegence mechanism that failed to give Bush the data he needs. Before all of you Bush/Cheney fans say yeah, remember that Bush and Cheney got America into a war that has almost bankrupted us and has caused us to bring some of America's finest young people home in body bags. Instead of rehashing history and talking about how bad Bush was or how bad Obama is can we all remember that we are all Americans and try to move forward to with some solutions. The American people have spoken. Bush and Cheney are now irrelevant.
Hmm. I thought the liberals would grow up and act more intelligently now that "their" guy is in office. I guess I couldn't be more wrong...
Comig from the person responsible for illegal torture which will surely come back to haunt U.S. I would suggest someone drag him out from under his cave and bring him to justice.
The one person that Obama is trying to make himself out to be and to copy is the one person who surpressed the press the most, surpressed his enemies the most and violated the Constitution because of an emergency situation of war.
That would be Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Lincoln even had his enemies deported for not supporting him.
HEY TEXAS TEACHER, HERE ARE SOME FACTS FOR YOU
How about over 5,000 us soldiers dead in a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, or the fact that said country is now the biggest recruiting tool for al queda or how about the fact that the invasion led to the increase in oil prices because Iraq was also one of the biggest oil supplier to the US.
Thanks to Cheney for enriching his company, while our men in the field went without the equipment they needed.
9/11 happened on Bush and Cheney's watch. They were even warned about it beforehand.
I am a conservitive and I am stil a big fan of Cheney. He protectd us from evel. And he protectud us from Iraq and al qada. The demicrats are not gona protect us from anyting. The conservitive lifestyle will live on forevar.
Cheney – the guy who talks big about fighting when the truth is that he got five, count 'em, five deferments during the Vietnam conflict because he was too chicken-crap to fight in his own generation's war. He's a perfect example of modern republican manhood...a bloated windbag who hid under his mama's skirts for the first 30 years of his life. Cheney doesn't deserve to lick dog crap off the boots of anyone with balls.
I am disappointed in CNN and John King for putting Cheney on the national news. This only gives the false sense that his views are worth the air time.
@Clearly Departed Has anyone told Cheney that Bush isn't in office and instead of attacking another president's plan, he should be finding something more constructive to do with his time...
Like you know, fix the Republican party and try to get this nation back on track.
texas teacher you really sound as dumb as the rest of the republicans .. lol lets get 1 thing straight BUSCH AND CHENNEY both had many many many warning signs and also telephone calls also many many presidents and other higher ups around the world told them wat was comming .. do you really wanna know why they did nothing ... FOR OIL , MONEY POWER AND TO MAKE OTHERS IN THIER CIRCLE RICH .. NOT ROCKET SCIENCE TO SEE WAT HAPPENED .. AS FAR AS ANY7 EVEIDENCE . ARE YOU REALLY THAT STUPID THERE IS MORE EVEIDENCE THAT THEY allow this to happen and also you can see why .. just look at the last 8 years and look were we are...
go bac in history and see wen and who has been in charge every time we had a crisis .... republicans.. and why because they have no idiea wat normal and regular people go through daily .. lol you are so funny .. for a teacher you have no education on this topic it is obvious .. so you really shouldnt talk about 911 or the housing or the economy ..
also remember who it was that said we were headin to hard times because of the policys of busch ..IT WAS THE DEMOCRATS . 2 years before all of this .. but ALL REPUBLICANS SAID NO NO NO THERE IS NO RECCESION .. LOL THE ECONOMY IS GREAT JUST SPEND AMERICA.. LOL
THAT ALONE SHOWS HOW STUPID THE REPUBLICAN PARTY REALLY IS.. ..
To Tino, here's a scoop for you. Draft Dodger Dick Cheney never served in the military!
"It's those who have never served in the armed forces that don't want to see reality." I presume you are referring to draft dodgers Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney.
Well, Mr. Arnett at 5:37pm, your comment about Vice President Cheney not looking at anyone reminds me vividly of the last two years when a certain "O" we all know NEVER looks at anyone. He looks at his best friend, the teleprompter. He looks like he is watching a ping-pong match swinging his head back and forth, back and forth and never once looking at the American people through the camera lens.
I wonder how much of this anger by the left is because they were never able to defeat Bush and Cheney. 2-0 with no impeachments!
You never beat them and now you never will!
When Dicky Cheney speaks, no one should listen. He ran our country
like a dictator. Bush II only thought himself as President.
Tell Dicky boy, someone else is trying to clean up the mess his dicisions got our country into.
Robert Gibbs is the south end of a north bound horse.
Robert Gibbs is the WORST press secretary I have ever seen. He could bring down BHOs presidency single handed.
lol I heard it and It was halirious!
I think Dick Cheney is brilliant and smarter and more honest than the Obama clan. Way smarter. Cheney has the skills to run a business and act like a CEO. Obama and his liberal following are hateful, bad sports when challenged. Never seen an administration single out names they want to destroy personally. Shame on Obama and Gibbs.
Dick Cheney is an American Hero. The current closn could learn a thing or two from him about freedom and it what it takes to preserve it.
Obama just wants to take all our freedoms away.
Allen from Seattle you could't be more wrong Cheney is NO HERO he should be tried for war crimes the man flat out lied to you and I about Iraq.....and ole Dick wanted to take your freedoms away not Mr.Obama
and Steve, what's your answer as to why didn't Clinton do anything about Bin Laden??? Don't tell me the intelligence was different, because it wasn't
Limbaugh and Cheney are evil twins - Pam in Oregon
Mr Dick Cheney was a disasater for the 43rd president and he should have known that . I guess nobody wants to hear from a retired Dick ! His time was over !!!
Those are fighting words!
Arrogant!
Cheney was a grate leeder the liberols dont knoe what they are talking abut. I wish that Bush was backe in the Whyte Huse.
all you liberallll just remember since 911 the united states hasn't been attack.
you prefer a MUSH room outside your back yard, or another 911
somewhere in AMERICA.
the bush administraion and the CHENNEY ADMINISTRAITON
kept america safe from any TERRRIST ATTACK
We didn't have any major problems handling enemy POW's during the previous major wars. We even had POW camps scattered around the country and we abided by the Geneva Convention Agreements. Gitmo was never needed except to conceal the crimes committed by Bush and Cheney. As far as I am concerned, they should be subjected to a session of waterboarding and then see if they declare it not to be torture. Bush was a deserter during his Air National Guard days and should have been charged then. But Daddy and Grandpa managed to have the paperwork doctored and lost. Hopefully, the truth comes out during the Rather lawsuit
"John March 16th, 2009 5:37 pm ET
As an old, retired guy, I have seen many Presdients come and go. This President has inherited the worst situtation I have ever seen. For the former Vice-President to parade around making disingenuous comments is outrageous. I give Mr. Gibbs high marks for his ability to answer the most leading questions with fitting remarks."
Pipe down John...no one cares about what you've seen.
Dick Cheney can't stand it because there is a Democrat in the White House. He needs to keep his mouth shut and let Obama undo all the damage that Cheney and Bush have done over the last eight years. There is one thing thats for sure, Dick Cheney will never admit that he made some big mistakes while in office.
Cheney is an irrelevant figure who's trying to stay in the spotlight longer than his due by spouting out equally irrelevant tirades, trying to justify himself and his legacy. The White House responded properly by not taking them seriously.
Casey, you are telling a conservative right winger to pick up a book. Good luck with that.
@ AL
Check your facts my friend. Your second and third "fact" are not true. Iraq is no longer the largest tool for requirement, Afghanistan is. Iraq was never a major oil contributor to the US before the invasion and still isn't.
Saudia Arabia, Russia, Argentina, Kuwait, and Canada are.
Chaney – If you can't say something decent and nice, then keep your mouth shut. Go shovel manure and join the Bush gang and go and help bush shovel manure . It hs piled up after 8 years!
This is exactly why I am for education. As Harry the Plumber put it in the most incorrectly written comment. He is a conservative who wants Rush and Palin in the White House who cannot even make a proper sentence. Shut Up Sit back and lets get the country back to being a superpower!!!!
I'm not sure if I understand what you guys mean about the memo warning them about the attack. Did it include a date, a time, place, and method of attack? All that memo did was reiterate something that was known since the Clinton administration–that Bin Laden is seeking to hurt Americans. Bin Laden had people suicide bomb the WTC in the early 90's. The memo just said to wary of him.
So if you were president and you received a memo that simply reiterated the fact that Bin Laden was an enemy of the state, what would you do? Remember the memo doesn't have a date, time, place, or method of attack.