Katie Couric's Notebook: Cheney Crossing The Line?
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I asked the new Attorney General, Eric Holder, about that in an exclusive interview.
He stopped short of calling the comments inappropriate. But he did say he respects President Bush for providing a period of silence as this new team formulates policy on tough topics like Guantanamo Bay.
Politics is a rough and tumble sport. After all, then Senator Joe Biden called Mr. Cheney the worst vice president in history when he was out on the campaign trail.
These barbs sound more like the rhetoric of radio talk show hosts than elder statesman.
We should never shy away from insightful criticism. And in the white hot spotlight of the presidency a fair amount of back seat driving simply comes with the territory.
But it's fair to give the new kids on the block a chance to get their learner's permits first.
That's a page from my notebook.
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Anyway, we are supposed to give the President a learner's permit? No. That's what the Vice Presidency is for. You should really be ashamed of yourself. A pox on you.
How much of a chance did you and your Leftist playground bullies give Bush?
What hypocrites you are!
I mean, I wasn't exactly a fan of some of President Clinton's policies, but at least he had some executive leadership as a governor, as did President Bush.
The media kept pushing Obama as the "guy everyone in the world would love"... forget the fact that you in the media ignored the fact that Senator Obama knew NOTHING about how to run things. (again, the old "mean old conservaitve" questioning media objectiveness).
North Korea sets of a missile that could take out our friends in Japan... as well as reach the United States... and you expect Obama _Now_ to "learn" to deal with this for the what.. the next time? When one DOES reach our shores? When the next missile goes off and kills millions of our Japanese or Australian allies?
The President of the US is the CEO of arguably the "largest company in the world" (The US Economy).. and he doesn't know how to run it? He's the CinC.. and he needs to learn how to use it?
Ironically, if this were any private enterprise... and the company flounders, because the CEO doesn't know what he's doing, and shows no signs of knowing what he's doing, the stockholders vote the CEO out immediately before he ruins the company.... And the US govt is a much bigger industry than any free-market company out there... there is _no_ Learning curve once you're at the top of the employment chain!
Here is a question for ultra-conservatives: Where are your solutions to problems with energy independence, affordable health care, and the economy? How about eduction policy? Your policies of tax cuts for the top 2% have failed all Americans so what are you going to propose now? Stop the whining, moaning and single issue fear mongering you Republicans. Our country needs common sense solutions to problems like health care that are tearing the financial guts out of American families and small businesses you allegedly are supposed to support. Until you Republicans stop the fear mongering and start coming up with concrete solutions to real economic problems facing Americans on Main Street the Republican party will make itself irrelevant to Main Street America's future. Most Americans under 30 years old do not identify with anything Rush Limbaugh and Fox news commentators are talking about. All the conservatives have are fear mongering and single issue right wing extremist politics that guarantee the minority status except in the Deep South. The Republicans are becoming a regional party not a national party.
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A back seat driver is a vehicle passenger who is not controlling the vehicle and seems to be uncomfortable with the skills of the driver and/or wants to tutor the driver while the driver is at the wheel.
Some back seat drivers exhibit this type of behavior simply because they feel unsafe or out of control since they are not driving the vehicle and therefore are nervous and jumpy and overly eager to give suggestions and criticisms about the driver's actions.
Talk about CROSSING THE LINE!
TOTALLY unprofessional to say the least !
Cheney would have no issues philisophically with the famous statement by a US commander in Vietnam: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it."
Eric
Posted by ericagain at 10:31 AM : Apr 9, 2009
You mean like Bush was on 9/11?
What exactly has Bush ever done to prevent another 9/11?
Was it when he sold our ports to the Arab Emerates?
How bout when he spent trillions invading Iraq and left our borders wide open.
Step away from the Koolaid please.
- by ericagain April 9, 2009 1:31 PM EDT
- I don't agree with everything the former administration did while in office, Katie. That said, there's a reason why there has not been a major terrorist attack on the U.S. since 9/11.
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See all 17 CommentsAnd, as far as your "learner's permit" illustration, safety of the American public must come before a little embarrassment to a new administration. They should listen to the people with the clean driving record.
I have kept in contact with those in Homeland Security, and it seems that this administration is going backwards in that department.
Politics must take a backseat to public safety. We must never be caught unaware again.
Eric