
Oct. 2, 2008
VP Candidates Assess Dick Cheney
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Biden, Palin On Dick Cheney
Sen. Joe Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin share their thoughts on the best and worst parts of current Vice President Dick Cheney's career. Katie Couric reports.
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Click here to read more of what the vice-presidential candidates had to say and see our series, "Presidential Questions."Katie Couric: What do you think is the best and worst thing that Dick Cheney has done as vice president?
Joe Biden: I'm not being a wise guy here ... that I don't know what he's done. I mean, there's not many things I'd pick that I thought he's done that have been good. But I admire his strength. I admire his willingness to take positions that are completely contrary to popular opinion. But I think that what he's done has been just, I don't think Dick Cheney trusts that the American people can make judgments that are in the interest of the country. But the thing I think he's really, really has done: I think he's done more harm than any other single high elected official in memory in terms of shredding the constitution. You know, condoning torture, pushing torture as a policy. This idea of a unitary executive, meaning the Congress and the people have no power in a time of war, and the president controls everything. I don't have any animus toward Dick Cheney but I really do think his attitude about the constitution and the prosecution of this war has been absolutely wrong.
Sarah Palin: Worst thing, I guess that would have been the duck-hunting accident, where you know, that was an accident. And that I think that was made into a caricature of him. And that was kind of unfortunate.
So, the best thing though, he's shown support, along with George W. Bush, of our troops. And I've been there when George Bush has spoken to families of those who have suffered greatly, those who are serving in the military. I've been there when President Bush has embraced those families and expressed the concern and the sympathy speaking for all of America in those times. And for Dick Cheney to have supported that effort of George Bush's. I respect that.
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See all 115 CommentsAfter over 200 years, are these respective tickets the best we can do? From the revered great Federalist leaders down to the choice facing us next month?
"Be Proud, we are a all black company"
He lied!
I am "white"
Should I sue?
Anyone: *posts*
Gulliberal: *quotes & trolls*
Going back to your bogeyman Clinton, huh? Did you know that the Iraq war started when Bush was commander in chief, or did you forget that minor detail? Is your theory that Clinton went back to the White House, kicked the door down, and put an armlock on Bush to make him manufacture the war?
You republitards are all the same. Is Clinton the cause of your inablity to think also?
Why would anyone have any interest in his opinion on anything?
Should he ever become Vice President we could stay awake at night trying to imagine his fireside chats.
What a nightmare.
Deflection fails.
You know you''ve been in Alaska too long when you can''t tell the Walruses from the female politicians.
I never had that problem when I was in Alaska because I knew Walruses didn''t dip snuff.
Biden: eroded the constitution
Palin: a duck hunting accident
So either Palin hasn''t been paying attention - or she thinks the duck hunting accident is worse than erroding the Constitution.
rdishml
Posted by gulliberal
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You are correct. Obama was in the Illinois State Senate when our Congress gave Bush the green light to invade Iraq. I don''t think anyone is debating this fact. Obama did go on record at the time, however, in stating his opposition to that legislation. It''s unfortunate that there weren''t more Democrats brave enough to vote their convictions.
rdishml
rdishml
democrats not brave enough to vote their convictions -that''''s a laugh - when was there a democrat brave to vote any conviction that was preceded by a polling report...?
Posted by gulliberal
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Besides simply attacking Democrats, what''s your point?
Posted by singinrich at 08:21 PM : Oct 02, 2008
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Your crystal ball has a malfunction stupid. Sarah Palin will wipe the floor with JOE BINlaDEN. JOE BINlaDEN will is the king of gaffe.
rdishml
Revolution, sucession or slavery, your choice.
try to remember all the way back to the midterm elections...has even ONE minor campaign promise been kept by the democrats???
Posted by gulliberal
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None, but that''s not entirely the Democrats'' fault, is it? If you know the rules of the Senate, then you know the 51-49 majority the Democrats hold is basically useless. Any legislation they propose, the Republicans block because a minimum 60-40 majority is required to get the bill to the floor for a full vote. Even if they get to that point, Bush finally found his veto pen after rubber stamping all Republican-led legislation his first six years in office.
So, since it seems that you''re blaming the Dems for not having a 60-40 minimum majority in the Senate, I suggest you vote Democrat come November. Fair enough?
*how does a quail sound anyway? Whooper-Will?
Ronnie Reagan was elected because he was an old Hollywood actor everybody recognized. Bush Sr. was nothing more than a product of privilege, much like like his son, Doofus. These individuals have really accomplished next to nothing in their lives without having name recognition or being "lucky" enough to be born into a filthy rich family.
Now they''re dumbing down to the lowest common denominator named Barbie Palin.
Posted by gulliberal
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Yeah, let''s just ignore the following facts:
%u2022 Average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degree Celsius) around the world since 1880.
%u2022 The rate of warming is increasing. The 20th century''s last two decades were the hottest in 400 years and possibly the warmest for several millennia.
%u2022 The Arctic is feeling the effects the most. Average temperatures in Alaska, western Canada, and eastern Russia have risen at twice the global average.
%u2022 Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing.
%u2022 Glaciers and mountain snows are rapidly melting.
%u2022 Coral reefs suffered the worst bleaching%u2014or die-off in response to stress%u2014ever recorded in 1998.
Must be just nature''s way of cleaning house, huh, gull?
PS - Reagan was CA governor for sometime long after his acting days...and long before his presidential run...try to remember, if CA was its own country it would rank top 20 in the world for GDP...
Posted by gulliberal
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Barbie pPalin doesn''t like your logic. She oversees the biggest state in the union, don''t you know? Using your rationale, she''s reduced to being executive over only a tiny little 600,000 plus populated state of fishermen and hunters.
Posted by donnie7948
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Nope, just most of the time. We leave that all-or-nothing, black-or-white kind of thinking to you Republicans.
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