Vice President Dick Cheney gave his thoughts about President Obama’s “undistinguished” career in politics before ascending to the Oval Office on Fox’s Hannity last night.
After explaining why he didn’t think Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) vetting process for VP in 2008 picked the person most qualified to step into the role of president, he was asked whether Obama was prepared to become president.
“Not by the standards that I would apply,” Cheney said. “I think if you look at President Obama’s background, he served a couple of terms, undistinguished terms in the Illinois State Senate, missed a lot of votes, ran for the House of Representatives once and got beat, and then ran for senator from Illinois, and his opponent withdrew partway through the race because somebody had leaked some information on a divorce proceeding.”
As vice president, Cheney swore in Obama when he came to the Senate.
“And then he disappeared for two years. Never heard anything of him while he was a member of the United States Senate. And then all of a sudden he’s running for president,” the former veep said. “I mean, that was sort of the sum total of his, quote, ‘experience.’ And he obviously ran a good campaign, was able to defeat Hillary Clinton. That’s not an easy task, but I was — you know, if I were to apply the standards that I’ve talked about, you want in a running mate, Barack Obama didn’t meet that test.”
Cheney also elaborated on his decision not to go to the Republican National Convention this month.
“And as a delegate from Wyoming, and as a vice presidential candidate, once you’ve done all of that, to go back now, with no role, I mean, what would I do?” he said. “Sit in the gallery and watch? You can see it on television.”
Vice President Cheney is a patriot, a noble and serious person who has devoted most of his adult life to responsible and important public service. Would that we had more like Dick Cheney.
That’s the new qualifcation for President- don’t have any qualifications. No postives or negatives in the political arena and try to showcase your opponets negatives. That’s about it…
Sounds like the qualifications for a supreme court justice, also. I think this whole ‘Glewball Wormening Thang’ is the result of our founding fathers rapid grave rotation.
I’mna more and more coming to the conclusion that Edith ‘the dingbat’ Bunker’s plea that we need a guy like Herbert Hoover again is quite apropos. Given the epic, 4 term failure of the socialist @$$hole that followed him. Thank god the GOP jammed through term limits for POTUS. Now we just need them for every elected position, everywhere. Because given our history, the electorate can not necessarily be trusted to know what’s needful in time to do what’s necessary.
So yeah, no one gets to stay in orifice more than two terms, and no legislation/regulation gets to stick around for more than two congreffes without reauthorization. Autopilot regs, bad, manual reenabling, good. nicht wahr?