Cheney and Cheney team up at CPAC
[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/02/18/art.cheney.cpac.gi.jpg caption="Dick Cheney made a surprise appearance Thursday at CPAC."]Washington (CNN) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney earned a standing ovation Thursday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, proclaiming "Barack Obama is a one term president."
Cheney, who was not scheduled to appear, received a warm welcome from the unsuspecting crowd and joked, "A welcome like that is almost enough to make me want to run for office again ... but I'm not going to do it."
During his brief remarks, the former vice president focused on recent Republican electoral success and the future of the conservative movement.
"There are some great years ahead of us. It is very, very important that we succeeed, and I'll do everything I can, but most especially I want to encourage that younger generation," Cheney said. "It really is a remarkable time to be a conservative."
The former vice president was introduced by his daughter Liz Cheney, a former State Department official and founding member of the group Keep America Safe. Liz Cheney used her time at the podium to launch a series of biting critiques of Obama administration policies.
"In the year that President Obama has been in office we have learned a lot, haven't we?" Cheney asked the audience. "We've learned he is not going to govern from the center, we've learned he doesn't believe in American exceptionalism, and he is going to travel the world apologizing for this great nation."
Cheney also singled out Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Obama homeland security and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan over their handling of Al Qaeda in Yemen, saying "there is no polite way to put this, but that kind of incompetence gets people killed."
The great nation the Bush / Cheney Administration destroyed. He should apologize for them!
Go Dick, go.
Shouldn't Dick the war criminal be in prison instead of receiving standing ovations from neanderthals?
Will someone please find a rock for these two to crawl under and disappear??
Do you think the murdered innocent Iraqi children and thousands of dead teenage US soldiers from the false war that Cheney masterminded care about how long Obama will be in office? Bravo Liz and Dick, I am glad they sleep well at night. This is a joke that Cheney walks the streets a free man. Stand up people!
This bonehead was nowhere to be seen or heard from for the 8 years he was in "office " , now he wont shut up ! He appears every so often , says something stupid and goes home !
Someone needs to put muzzles on both Cheneys! DICK is a DISGRACE
to the Office he held and to this Nation. Never in my lifetime have I seen a former Vice President fight so hard for the dimise of the new President and his administration. Shame on him and shame of cpac!
Would love to know how Cheney defines "American exceptionalism" and some evidence that the GWB Whitehouse governed "from the center." Fascinating stuff.
Who the heck cares what Cheney thinks? The man should be tried for war crimes. Conservative? What has he conserved, exactly? Not money – his advice threw us into trillions of debt. Not government interference – his advice broadly expanded the executive powers and created deep erosions into the freedoms of all American citizens. His dubious leadership helped cause this frightening divide that has stalled out current congress and gave rise to fanatics, racists, and idiots.
If the likes of Darth Cheney and the rest of the Jack Boot right do manage to come to power again, after what they've done to this country, I will give up hope. Only an electorate so stupid that it couldn't find it's ass with both hands, a road map and a mirror would vote for those criminals. And where would you find people that stupid? Only in America, folks, only in America
True on both points.
Republicans, the ball is in your court.
appropriately named dick cheney is a disgrace!! he is UN-American and inhuman. he is a national disaster, and he needs to be reigned in. he has already done PLENTY of damage in his 8 years in the white house, it's time for this evil force to be gone!!!
his attacks on obama are an attack on this country. he is a danger and a menace.
cheney is a true psychopath!
Dick Cheney is a jerk. Under his watch, thousands of Americans died in a terrorist attack. Under Obama's watch, the head bad guys are being caught one by one, and they are singing like canaries. it must burn Cheney up to know that history will show he is wrong and Obama is right.
When is Dick going to apologize for letting 9/11 happen on his watch? Tough talk from a a 5-time draft dodger..
Hey Cheney, you should have been a one term vice president, but you crooks stole the election... Go away, nobody wants you except for Fox news and the fear mongers...
Pathetic, get lost you old hag.
Remember how short the Iraq War was supposed to be? That's an example of how good Dick Cheney is at predicting things.
And he's wrong on this one, too, despite the Republicans best efforts to ruin the country for political gain. I just wish he'd promise to shut up when Obama wins in 2012.
seems to me america has a lot to be apologetic for. there are too many offenses to name so lets just start from the two atomic bombs it dropped on 100,000 civilians and go from there.
"there is no polite way to put this, but that kind of incompetence gets people killed."
You mean like invading a country without the correct intelligence? Or do you mean like failing to catch Bin Laden at Tora Bora? Maybe you meant the incompetence and/or negligence of contractors from KBR, to put in crappy equipment that hurts or kills the soldiers you feign such respect for?
Yeah. THAT kind of incompetence does get people killed.
The libs love this guy!
How can America be a great nation if it has the Tea Party and Dick Cheney in it?
When is this fascist going to be tried on war crimes and lying to the American people? I'm not a big fan of Obama, but he's 100 times better than anything the Republican party has spewed forth.
It is clear to all tha DICK the pig Cheeney is just another sour grape that got his fat ass handed to him over and over since the election. BOO HOO
Cheney speaks again in tongues. He really is hard up!
Thank you Mr. Vice President for standing up to this far leftist radical who like many Democrats truly hates a large segment of our beloved nation.
I love the irony of the Robert Byrd party calling objective Americans speaking out against this dangerous national socialst as racists.
"...and he is going to travel the world apologizing for this great nation."
I would, too.