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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI rather have Obama's "2nd-rate people" than Cheney's "good folks" anyday!
CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Saturday night that President Barack Obama has jeopardized U.S. national security by nominating substandard candidates for key cabinet posts and by degrading the U.S. military.
"The performance now of Barack Obama as he staffs up the national security team for the second term is dismal," Cheney said in comments to about 300 members of the Wyoming Republican Party.
Cheney, a Wyoming native, said it was vital to the nation's national security that "good folks" hold the positions of secretary of state, CIA director and secretary of defense.
"Frankly, what he has appointed are second-rate people," he said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/10/dick-cheney-obama-national-security_n_2656804.html
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I rather have Obama's "2nd-rate people" than Cheney's "good folks" anyday! (Original Post)
kpete
Feb 2013
OP
Didn't Cheney preside over the worst presidency in living memory? I could swear he did.
Squinch
Feb 2013
#2
You know who was first-rate? The Secretary of State who convinced Congress
TwilightGardener
Feb 2013
#5
babylonsister
(171,090 posts)1. F*ck him and the horse he rode in on. Go away!! nt
Squinch
(51,004 posts)2. Didn't Cheney preside over the worst presidency in living memory? I could swear he did.
He includes people like Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz in his "good folks" category.
I think he lives in a world where every day is "opposites day."
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)3. ...Says a third-rate ex-vice-president.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)4. coming from a guy
that chose himself to be Bush's VP
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)5. You know who was first-rate? The Secretary of State who convinced Congress
to go to war with Iraq under false pretenses. The NSA who went all "smoking gun mushroom cloud" to lie us into war and pretended to have no clue that Bin Laden was determined to strike the US. Some truly awesome manager hired those winners, right?