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harrisonprice The two big "messes" Obama has had to deal with fighting terror are of his own making - "torture" and Gitmo. Republicans never thought they were issues.
Live Video of President Obama's Speech, Text of Cheney's Speech
Politics Daily —
... Also, the text of Dick Cheney's "Me too!" speech, scheduled to begin when the President finishes, is available here. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Just Keep Walking
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... ? I wouldn't bet on it. His cadences the last few weeks have been disappointing, if not surprising. A bit from Cheney's speech, making nearly the same argument, likewise portraying investigations into wrongdoing as a purely partisan action: ...
Obama's "I'm Tough On Terror, Too" Speech
JustOneMinute —
... will quarrel with the goal, but I would have guessed that our friends on the left would have liked to see civil liberties get equal billing as a national priority. MY SOUNDBITE: Lefties will loathe it, righties won't believe it. My caveat - "lefties" doesn't include a broad swath of the left. The Small Boys, Joe and Ezra Klein, will swoon, elevate, transport, or whatever they always do after an Obama speech. But I am betting Sully and Greenwald will fume. CHENEY'S SPEECH: The text is here . Visually, this is the expected mismatch. What bright light put Cheney in a ...
Dick Cheney’s Gravitas [Dan Collins]
protein wisdom —
... uh did this ahole take a look at his own budget numbers? ha! “We gotta pass this stimulus bill right now or everyone will die!!!” Comment by Roland THTG on 5/21 @ 10:15 am # A most prodigous buttfucking Comment by McGehee on 5/21 @ 10:17 am # “Moonbat continuum?” Is that what the kids are calling Obama’s keister these days? Comment by Colin Powell on 5/21 @ 10:25 am # Comment by sdferr on 5/21 @ 10:26 am # Obama’s speech text. Cheney’s speech text. Comment by Colin Powell on 5/21 @ 10:26 am # (sound of crickets) ...
Poll Watch: 31 Per Cent Say Healthy Americans Should be Required to Buy Health Insurance
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
But, 56 per cent disagree and say that if someone doesn’t want to buy insurance the shouldn’t have to. The Question:
Some people, generally younger adults and those in good health, decide on their own not to buy health insurance. Should they be required to buy health insurance?
Yes: 31%
No: 56%
Not Sure: 14%
So, if individuals are NOT required to purchase health insurance, will American business be required to cover everyone?
A recent survey of small business owners ...
A Dick At The American Enterprise Institute
Newshoggers.com —
... William Kristol has the text of Dick Cheney's speech to the neocon mothership, the American Enterprise Institute, today. "Bloody Bill" describes it as being something "I think fair-minded people will find it very well-argued and powerful." Only if they're on drugs. ...
Dueling Transcripts: Obama’s Continuing Campaign vs. Cheney, the Voice of Reason
Flopping Aces —
... to close Guantanamo? Did we vote so that our elected officials, who were too busy to read the bills they were voting on, could instead spend thousands of hours wailing about the waterboarding of JUST THREE TERRORISTS?
I could go on and on, but instead I’ll let former Vice President Cheney respond by posting his remarks in their entirety. Emphasis on particular sections added by me:
As prepared for delivery
Vice President Cheney
Remarks at the American Enterprise Institute
Thursday, May 21, 2009 ...
Allison Kilkenny: Dispatches from the Dark Side
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Today, former vice-president Dick Cheney delivered a speech called (I'm not kidding) "Keeping America Safe" at the neoconservative think tank, American Enterprise Institute where Cheney is also a trustee. The title gave me pause because I - like many Americans - remember something called 9/11 that happened both on George W. Bush's and Dick Cheney's watch. So if someone asks me who I think keeps America safe, the first name that pops into my head isn't Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney. ...
Dick Cheney: Nothing is More Consistent with American Values than Torture
Firedoglake —
From Dick Cheney's remarks at AEI this morning:
Critics of our policies are given to lecturing on the theme of being consistent with American values. But no moral value held dear by the American people obliges public servants ever to sacrifice ...
Cheney: “In the fight against terrorism, there is no middle ground”
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Actually, there is a middle ground; the point of the torture memos was finding it. That’s the only note that’s a tiny bit off here, though. Read the full transcript at the Standard, as there’s so much to enjoy about this speech that everyone’s bound to have a different favorite moment. For ...
Obama's Civil Liberties Speech
Commondreams.org Views —
... who doesn't really care about national security. In other words, arguments and rhetoric that were once confined to Fox News/Bush-following precincts will now become mainstream Democratic argumentation in service of defending what Obama is doing. That's the most harmful part of this -- it trains the other half of the citizenry to now become fervent admirers and defenders of some rather extreme presidential "war powers."UPDATE II : There's very little worth saying about the speech Dick Cheney delivered after Obama's. It's just the same recycled, extremist neoconservative ...
Speeches: Pres. Obama and Former V.P. Cheney
The Moderate Voice —
... An advance transcript of former vice-president Cheney’s speech put up by William Kristol is here. ...
Cheney Cracks His Knuckles After Obama Campaign Stop
Pirate's Cove —
Cheney's Speech: Text
Ace of Spades HQ —
Cheney's Speech: Text Outstanding. Here are a few of the best parts, but it's a read-the-whole-thing sort of thing. Even cutting it for "just the best parts" leaves most of the speech. ... Being the first vice president who had also served as secretary of defense, naturally my duties tended toward national security. I focused on those challenges day to day, mostly free from the usual political distractions. I had the advantage of being a vice president content with the responsibilities I had, and going about my work with no higher ambition. Today, Im an even freer man. ...
Cheney's Speech: Excerpts
Ace of Spades HQ —
Cheney's Speech: Excerpts It's a corker, worth reading in full. To add some small amount of value here, I've cut it down to the best parts. But really, it's all good, and even trying to cut just the best parts resulted in a text that was only slimmed down by about half. Still -- twice as fast to read. ... Being the first vice president who had also served as secretary of defense, naturally my duties tended toward national security. I focused on those challenges day to day, mostly free from the usual political distractions. I had the advantage of being a vice president ...
Cheney Cracks His Knuckles After Obama Campaign Stop
Stop The ACLU —
... telling of history.” Obama, in a major address at the National Archives , argued that waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods “did not advance our war and counter-terrorism efforts – they undermined them.” Is there any point towards doing this except to turn it into a campaign stop? Full text of Obama’s campaign stop here . Shockingly, the same NY Times doesn’t bother with a transcript of Cheney’s speech. They have a link to it at another site. The Weekly Standard has it in non-PDF form. Staying over at The Weekly Standard, some good stuff ...
Fact Checking Cheney
democracyarsenal.org —
In his speech today at AEI, Dick Cheney made a few claims that are, a little contradictory to what others have been saying.
First. Cheney said: ...
Dueling Speeches and Ragtag Terrorists
The Moderate Voice —
... Dick Cheney is no Joe McCarthy, but here he is attacking the Obama Administration for closing Guantanamo with a desire “to bring some of these hardened terrorists into the United States” and praising Congressional exploitation of fears that “the terrorists might soon be relocating into their states,” as if they were going to be walking the streets rather than being held in maximum-security prisons. ...
Dick whips his out
Knowledge is Power —
Cheney’s speech, today, is one of the great, all-time speeches.
It should be read to children everywhere, even those not in Congress.
In order to convince you to go read the entire thing (and a thing of beauty it is, too),
I’ll provide just one narrow snippet:
Critics of our policies are given to lecturing on the theme of being consistent with American values. But no moral value held dear by the American people obliges public servants ever to sacrifice innocent lives to spare a captured ...
Cheney vs. Obama: When a heavyweight takes on a lightweight
Sister Toldjah —
... Read the transcript here.
It was probably one of the best speeches I’ve ever heard him give, and it was a speech that should have been given often in the latter years of the Bush administration as more and more Democrats in Congress forgot what we went through on 9-11.
There are liberals who are whining that it’s “outside of the bounds of protocol” for Cheney to be going head to head with President Obama. I call BS on that. The Obama administration has been steadily beating the drum ...
Reactions to Obama vs. Cheney
The Reaction —
This Week In Quotes: May 15 - May 21
Right Wing News —
... the United States. The program was top secret, and for good reason, until the editors of the New York Times got it and put it on the front page. After 9/11, the Times had spent months publishing the pictures and the stories of everyone killed by al-Qaeda on 9/11. Now here was that same newspaper publishing secrets in a way that could only help al-Qaeda. It impressed the Pulitzer committee, but it damn sure didn't serve the interests of our country, or the safety of our people. -- Dick Cheney Maybe you've heard that when we captured KSM, he said he would talk as soon as he got ...
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Stones Cry Out —
... his religious belief.
Mr Beckwith responds to Mr Leiter.
School, Sisyphus or the Circles?
Rome and the mongol.
Considering the news and reporters.
The passage of man.
Discourse.
V.
Forgetting the Gospel.
Some inconvenient items regarding Mr Obama’s speech.
That economic disaster, old news?
Those two speeches, Mr Cheney and Mr Obama.
Plans needed for chucking ...
5/22: Battle Of The Speeches
Blogometer —
May 22, 2009 5/22: Battle Of The Speeches Not surprisingly, liberal and conservative bloggers had opposite reactions to ex-VP Dick Cheney 's national security speech : the former ...
"Cheney has emerged as the ultimate antidote to Obama"
sisu —
... discourse on the Bush Administration's pro-active response to terrorism yesterday at the American Enterprise Institute (full text and ...
John McQuaid: The Cheney Campaign
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Dick Cheney's campaign of retroactive self-justification, culminating in his AEI speech, is bizarre, and not just for its historical footnote-worthiness, its political thuggery, or its graceless, hectoring tone. What's strangest is that long after the policies he champions were cast aside by his own administration, and the Republican Party repudiated at the polls, he is still able to hijack an important issue with a campaign of pure rhetorical cant. ...
