Cheney Hits Them Again

Dick Cheney continues to do the work other Republicans seem shy to do - calling out the president:

Former Vice President Dick Cheney accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of “trying to pretend we are not at war” with terrorists, pointing to the White House response to the attempted sky bombing as reflecting a pattern that includes banishing the term “war on terror” and attempting to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

“[W]e are at war and when President Obama pretends we aren’t, it makes us less safe,” Cheney said in a statement to POLITICO. “Why doesn’t he want to admit we’re at war? It doesn’t fit with the view of the world he brought with him to the Oval Office. It doesn’t fit with what seems to be the goal of his presidency – social transformation—the restructuring of American society.”

Cheney was joining a chorus of Republicans who have criticized Obama following the Christmas Day attack, in which a Nigerian suspect is accused of trying to blow up a loaded airliner with a bomb stitched into his underwear.

A senior Democrat said in response: “It’s telling that in attacking the president and the administration, that Vice President Cheney did not condemn the attack against our nation on Christmas Day.”

Now how stupid is that last statement. Of course Cheney is condemning the attack - he does so by pointing out that this administration doesn't even want to admit there are people out there who want to kill us. It's a major swerve from their normal behavior for a Dem to even admit this was an attack. Gotta give them credit for that.

Cheney has a long track record of defending America - something the Dems can't match.

I'll bet a lot of Dems are secretly quite glad this incident happened. Nobody got hurt and it's taken everyone's mind off of the disaster that is the health care bill.