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Cheney looking forward to RNC

Vice President Dick Cheney avoided talking presidential politics during his American Legion speech today in Phoenix but he said he is excited to nominate McCain in St. Paul next week:

“Come January, President Bush and I will turn our duties over to others. I realize the annual convention of the American Legion is not a political event and I will not speak this morning about the presidential campaign. But in present company, there is one thing I have to say, I am proud and delighted that next week your fellow legionnaire, Senator John McCain of Arizona, will be nominated for President of the United States.”

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12 Responses to “Cheney looking forward to RNC”

Comment by GrammieJ

YOU GUYS SHOULD TAKE A VACATION, LIKE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIVES! YOU ARE THE MOST BIASED, MOST UNTRUTHFUL AND WORST I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LONG LIFE.

WONDERING IF YOU WILL POST MY RESPONSE, I WILL BE LOOKING. AND I WILL CONTINUE TO POST UNTIL I SEE THEM.

 
Comment by rich in fairfax

Dick “I encourage torure and the use of the military for political problems but did not have the courage to serve in the military” Cheney should be in jail and not at any convention. The good news is that war crimes have no statute of limitations.

 
Comment by Jenny J

Allowing “The Dick” Chaney anywhere near the RNC Convention is a definate minus. Why not send him on a “fact finding mission” to the arctic or something, instead.

 
Comment by Michael from Atlanta

This should add some drame at the convention…

Few really want to hear from him. He and Bush have damaged the Republican brand so badly that i am sure his speec will be not one of the HIGHLIGHTS.

The RNC only asked him to speak so that they can appear to be unified.

 
Comment by South Beach

A nomination by Dick Cheney is the equivalent of a nomination by Lucifer and headed for a big fall. Whose idea was it to have Cheney nominate McCain? If Cheney was sent to the Black Sea to watch the Russians stir up trouble, or to Antartica to watch penguins, it would be much better for McCain. Even those who don’t disagree entirely with Bush on everything dislike Cheney. Cheney looks bloodless. He is colorless as steely-eyed as a vampire. Could be he’s not the person he looks, but his actions really haven’t disproved that impression.

This is grist for the Democratic mill. What a stupid action.

 
Comment by Adam

With Obama’s campaign sending out pictures of the President and McCain embracing, McCain would do well to avoid any association with the current administration. He’s doing well in the polls despite it being the DNC’s week. I hope Bush and Cheney refrain from comparing themselves to McCain or even showing affection towards the candidate so it can’t be used against him later.

 
Comment by doob

Can’t you guys see? Why do you think these guys nominated MCcain? He’s the sacrificial lamb because the GOP knows they are going down in November. Big time!

 
Comment by Sean the thinker

Yes, yes, yes!!!!!!! good for you Dickie, go to the convention and give them hell. Bring Dubya with you.

Please tell everyone at the convention about Dubya’s worldview, about how we were right to invade a country that didn’t possess a threat to the U.S.

Cheney is a neoconservative faith. Hie ideology is:…… to be safe, the U.S. must slay tyranny around the world, spread democracy, bring freedom to the grateful peoples of the Middle East so they turn towards us and away from the Terrorists, using “more than military force” — but also military force. We’ll only be safe by controlling and transforming the Middle East to look the way we want it to look.

McCain is a pure neoconservative in exactly the way that Bush and Cheney are, which is exactly why David Brooks, and like-minded ideologues like Bill Kristol, swoon over McCain’s foreign policy “principles.” That’s fine. Brooks is a neoconservative and it’s thus perfectly natural that he would find a neoconservative foreign policy speech to be filled with wisdom and insight. But to pretend that it’s some grand departure from the Bush/Cheney approach is pure deceit.

But beyond just the political packaging, McCain — with a couple of pointed exceptions — is a carbon copy of Bush in substance as well, at least with regard to war and foreign policy. Just compare McCain’s supposedly moving and novel foreign policy address with two randomly selected Bush speeches on the “war on terror” from 2005 — this one and this one. On the key, defining points, they’re virtually identical. I’ve compared the key passages of McCain’s speech to the same passages from the Bush War on Terrorism speeches here.

They sound like they have exactly the same speechwriters and precisely the same world-view. And all of that is to say nothing of the self-evidently identical positions they have on Iraq (we must stay forever) and Iran (we’ll bomb them if they seem like they might develop the know-how to build a nuclear weapon). They’re cut from the same cloth, except that McCain might actually be even more willing to use military force than Bush has been.

 
Comment by bfm

Cheney is in Arizona with Who? McCain? What happen to Distance?
Just can’t trust that McCain he is sneaky……but not suttle!!!HA HA

 
Comment by The Right is Right (always)

GrammieJ

Again with the Fox news. Boo-hoo loser! LOL

 
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Jenny J

When Obamamama gets destroyed in Nov, he can join VP Dick Cheney in his fact finding mission! LOL

 
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South Beach

Your mental ward is now open!

 

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