Gibbs Slams Cheney Over 'Dithering' Comment & Highlights His 'Fuzzy Math' On Afghanistan

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Gibbs: What Cheney Calls 'Dithering,' Obama Calls 'His Solemn Responsibility'
Ben Frumin | October 22, 2009, 1:03PM

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked at today's press briefing to comment on former Vice President http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/10/cheney_stop_the_dithering_as_troops_face_danger.php">Dick Cheney's assertion last night that the Obama White House was "dithering" on Afghanistan and should "do what it takes to win."

"It's a curious comment," Gibbs said. "I think it's pretty safe to say that the vice president was, for seven years, not focused on Afghanistan. Even more curious given that an increase in troops sat on desks in this White House, including the vice president's for more than eight months."

And then Gibbs delivered this one:

"What Vice President Cheney calls dithering, President Obama calls his solemn responsibility to the men and women in uniform and to the American public. I think we've all seen what happens when somebody doesn't take that responsibility seriously."

When asked about requests for additional troops -- currently and during the Bush administration -- and Cheney's criticism, Gibbs said, "That's a fabulous question for the vice president who seems to have forgotten his role in the last seven years of Afghanistan.

I'm simply saying, I think it's interesting that what the vice president is suggesting the president isn't acting on is what the previous administration didn't act on.

It defies some modicum of logic."

From: http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/gibbs-what-cheney-calls-dithering-obama-calls-his-solemn-responsibility.php


Excellent Diary on this in Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/22/795972/-Dick-Cheney:-Dont-Blame-Obama-For-YOUR-Afghan-Disaster.-Dick.">Dick Cheney: Don't Blame Obama For YOUR Afghan Disaster. Dick.

[wowimthere]

1. this is exactly why I don't understand why independents would switch to Republicans after 8 years

of Cheney's mess.

[Grassy Knoll]

2. I think DICK is so pissed because he has no control anymore......

He has a "GOD" complex.

[BlueMTexpat]

3. Why didn't the WH presstitutes ask questions with half as much

eagerness for the past eight years? And here they keep asking the same thing, trying to trip Gibbs up.
Cheney "defies some modicum of logic" indeed. And the presstitutes are abominable.

[Enthusiast]

8. No shit.

I got the distinct impression they were defending Cheney. I guess this seems alright in the turned upside down world of the M$M.

[sasquuatch55]

4. FUCK YOU DICK !

nt

[ljm2002]

5. Niiiice!

Thanks, Mr. Gibbs! He managed to stay calm as these asshats kept quizzing, trying to find a "gotcha!" moment that he did not provide. All the while pointing out Cheney's stupid about-face in his criticism, given that he and Bush ignored the war in Afghanistan after we invaded Iraq.

[Enrique]

6. Cheney doesn't dither

he doesn't sit around all day making sure it's a bird, he SHOOTS!

[Mythbuster]

7. "Defies some modicum of logic"

I think the safely sums up the majority of actions by the Bush/Cheney regime.