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Barack Obama and Dick Cheney -- Worldviews Apart
Which reality do you inhabit, Obama World or Cheney World? If it's the latter, remember that storm clouds are always gathering. Don't forget your umbrella.
The Many Wrongs of Dick Cheney
washingtonpost.com — Some people think we're paying too much attention to former Vice President Dick Cheney. I think we... may be paying too little. As bracing as last week's Obama-Cheney face-off was, the inevitable focus was on the current president, not the former vice. ... (more) The Many Wrongs of Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney is Mr. Republican
politico.com — Simon says the former vice president is the voice, spirit and guts of the GOP today.... (more) Dick Cheney is Mr. Republican
My Interview with Dick Cheney
My Interview with Dick Cheney
corner.nationalreview.com — In my interview today with Dick Cheney, the former vice president takes aim at Obama's economic program,... calling it "a vast expansion of the federal government over the private sector that will do long-term damage to the country." But he also ... (more) My Interview with Dick Cheney
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Obama World vs. Cheney World
Brilliant at Breakfast — Today Eugene Robinson demonstrates why he won the Pulitzer Prize: Which reality do you inhabit, Obama World or Cheney World? If it's the latter, remember that storm clouds are always gathering. Don't forget your umbrella. [snip] In Obama World, choices are artifacts of reasoning and thus are only as valid as the logic underlying them. Security and freedom, for example, do not have to be seen as an either-or proposition. The nation never came to a fork in the road with one path labeled "torture" and the other labeled "disaster." In Cheney World, ...

Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up
Daily Kos — Your one stop pundit shop. Eugene Robinson describes Obama World versus Cheney World -- you don't want to live in Cheney World. Bob Herbert on the recession and the state of the nation: We’ve already lost nearly 5.7 million jobs in this recession. Those losses, the center says, “have been overwhelmingly concentrated among male workers, especially among men under 35.” If the U.S. is to have any hope of getting its economic act together over the next few years, there will have to be a much ...

Choke. Gag.
Daily PunditEugene Robinson - Barack Obama and Dick Cheney — Worldviews Apart - washingtonpost.com Which reality do you inhabit, Obama World or Cheney World? If it’s the latter, remember that storm clouds are always gathering. Don’t forget your umbrella. In Obama World, it’s always morning. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping and the pollen count is low. In Cheney World, it’s perpetual twilight. Somewhere in the distance, a lone wolf howls at the rising moon. Hey, Eugene, does the Divine Won make you ...

links for 2009-05-27
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Eric Martin: Won't Somebody Listen to the Generals (and Admirals and Majors)? Eugene Robinson: Barack Obama and Dick Cheney Daniel Larison: Talking To The Wall ...

'In Obama World, it's always morning'
Hyscience — ... Jennifer Rubin points to Eugene Robinson's column which she suggests perfectly exemplifies the naive longing (of the Obama administration's "new dialogue with N.Korea and Iran") for some other reality than the one we face. Robinson writes: ...

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