Dick Cheney is mad as hell and he isn't going to take it anymore. On Saturday, Dick went before the Wyoming Republican Party and gave President Obama a piece of what is left of his rotted mind on his cabinet selections for his second term.
Frankly, what he has appointed are second-rate people.
Right. John Kerry, groomed his entire career for this role, is second-rate according to Dick. He went on to criticize the President's nomination of former Senator Chuck Hagel.
On Hagel, the former Republican senator from Nebraska, Cheney said Obama “wants to have a Republican that he can use to take the heat for what he plans to do to the Department of Defense.” Those plans, Cheney said, are to allow massive cuts to the defense budget which will hurt the United States’ military preparedness and place “limitations on future presidents.”
Ah, how clever of our President to get a token Republican to take the blame for his carefully planned destruction and annihilation of every man, woman and child in these United States. Or something.
Cheney also blamed the administration’s policy toward the Middle East for increased turmoil in the region, citing Obama’s failure to reign in Iran’s nuclear aspirations.
Still dreaming of all that oil, this withered tin man with the black ticker still has his gnarled hand around his drumstick, beating his war call on Iran. He will go to his grave sick at the thought that Dubya didn't drop a bomb or two on Tehran before he slunk back to Texas. Thanks to him and his fellow Chickenhawks, he goes on in his hubris to
lament that the Middle East is still a mess in large part due to his own disastrous foreign policy.
That part of the world is as dangerous now as it has ever been.
Well, duh, you black-souled bastard. Starting an unnecessary war in the region did wonders to spread democracy in Iraq and good will with its neighbors. You still clamoring for more conflict is winning over hearts and minds as we speak. President Obama's attempts to reestablish corroded diplomacy in the Middle East is a dangerous and unnecessary tactic towards the eventual hope of peace. We simply cannot let that stand.
I am not totally sold on Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense myself, but for very different reasons than Dick Cheney's. My concerns with him have nothing to do with whether I think he is qualified to hold the position, I do. But none of my concerns revolve around this administration's reluctance to bomb the hell out of Iran as flippantly as we entered into the quagmire of Iraq.
There are so many reasons I am thankful that President Obama won a second term. High on that long list is the knowledge that we don't have a President Romney populating his cabinet with the lovers of war that would meet Dick Cheney's approval.