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Amerigo Vespucci

(30,885 posts)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 10:56 PM Jul 2012

Cheney: It takes a draft dodger to send our young men and women into harm's way. Mitt's that dodger.

Romney, with Cheney's help, raises $4 million at Wyoming fundraiser

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/12/12711201-romney-with-cheneys-help-raises-4-million-at-wyoming-fundraiser?lite

WILSON, Wyo. -- Mitt Romney's campaign roped in more than $4 million in a single campaign stop here in Western Wyoming with a boost from one of the most controversial political figures of the last decade: former Vice President Dick Cheney.

Cheney, who has not previously appeared with Romney on the campaign trail, was effusive in his praise for the presumptive GOP nominee, calling him the only man he would want at the helm in the event of another crisis like the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

“Sooner or later there is going to be a big surprise,” Cheney said. “Usually a very unpleasant one. Whether it’s 9-11 or the other kinds of difficulties or crises that arrive, they always do. That’s when you find out what kind of leader your president is.”

He continued: “When I think about the kind of individual I want in the Oval Office in that moment of crisis, who has to make those key decisions, some of them life and death decisions, some of them decisions as the commander-in-chief who has the responsibility of sending our young men and women into harm's way -- that man is Mitt Romney."
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Cheney: It takes a draft dodger to send our young men and women into harm's way. Mitt's that dodger. (Original Post) Amerigo Vespucci Jul 2012 OP
Just read another account of this.. and was shaking my head. progressivebydesign Jul 2012 #1
Because Bush/Cheney did it so well Politicalboi Jul 2012 #2
Yeah, we really need another pResident Art_from_Ark Jul 2012 #3
Art_from_Ark, you words matched my thoughts turtlerescue1 Jul 2012 #4
I hope that fucker lives long enough to see his fascist dream get stomped fascisthunter Jul 2012 #5

progressivebydesign

(19,458 posts)
1. Just read another account of this.. and was shaking my head.
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 10:59 PM
Jul 2012

Really Cheney? Cuz we have a President that absolutely kicks ass in that regard. Seems that now that they've been schooled in the war or terrorism, and foreign policy, they barely talk about it.

What Cheney meant to say is that Romney is the guy who would do their bidding for them, so that the defense contractors made billions, and the National Guard members would pay the price by being deployed for ridiculously long times outside of the Country....

fuck cheney.

here's the story on the Seattle site: http://www.komonews.com/news/national/Cheney-Romney-only-man-for-foreign-policy-162302166.html

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
2. Because Bush/Cheney did it so well
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 11:00 PM
Jul 2012

Even to the point of not defending DC in a no fly zone, but those thoughts are crazy.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
3. Yeah, we really need another pResident
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 11:06 PM
Jul 2012

who would keep sitting on his ass in an elementary school classroom after being told that "America is under attack"

turtlerescue1

(1,013 posts)
4. Art_from_Ark, you words matched my thoughts
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 11:15 PM
Jul 2012

yep, that is just what we need again. Let's not forget those WMDs. Oh yeah, I too have confidence, but not the same kind as Dicky Cheney.


Maybe our whole problem is us Liberal Progressive Democrats are unable to disconnect our brains and don't know how to quit reasoning. One more time Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron", featuring Diana Moon Glompers, Hanidcapper General.

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