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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Yes, Dick Cheney is doing a nice job of attacking Obama on issues involving national security....
BUT WHY WASN'T CHENEY DOING THIS LONG BEFORE NOW? Why wasn't Cheney defending the Bush policies last year? Why wasn't he criticizing Obama's criticisms of Bush's policies? It's not as if Cheney had no idea what Obama wanted to do. No, Cheney going on the attack last year wouldn't have swung the election to McCain (McCain was such a lousy candidate that God himself couldn't have helped McCain win). But Cheney could have presented a clear and coherent defense of the policies that helped keep us safe, he could have provided both the theoretical and practical foundation for the GOP to fight Obama's naive, misguided and wrong approaches to dealing with terrorism. I've long argued that public opinion turned against Bush largely because he did such an inept job of defending his programs... and because no one capable of stringing together a couple of sentences was filling in the gap. Cheney could have done so, he should have done so, and had he done so, the public would have been more supportive of Bush's policies and far more skeptical of Obama.
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