Fmr. Vice President Dick Cheney (R) (Public Domain)
That's a classy and classic sentiment from the former President, carrying on the tradition of the previous administration not criticizing their replacements while in office. It's simply respectful and lends credibility to the new administration.
Unfortunately, Fmr. Vice President Dick Cheney doesn't care about being respectful, having class or showing the world that the United States has one government and one government only.
Fmr. VP Cheney only cares about Fmr. VP Cheney. Most specifically, Fmr. VP Cheney cares only about being “right”. The rest of us are still waiting for the “being right” part to come to fruition.
Regarding President Obama's recent trip to Japan, where the President bowed to Emperor Akihito upon greeting him, Cheney said:
"When the President bows to a foreign leader, our friends and allies don't expect it and our adversaries perceive it as a sign of weakness. I think it's fundamentally harmful and it shows in my mind that this is a guy, a president, who would bow, for example, who doesn't fully understand or have the same perception of the U.S. role in the world that I think most Americans have. What I see in President Obama is somebody who bows before foreign leaders and spends his trips aboard primarily apologizing for U.S. behavior. I find that very upsetting."
Let's leave aside momentarily the fact that Japanese people greet each other with a bow, and it's considered a sign of respect when someone from outside Japan does it. Surely someone as worldly and experienced as the former Vice President knows this already. It must be a deeper problem.
A problem like “apologizing for U.S. Behavior”, right? Ah, see, herein lies “the rub” as it were. Let's get the fact that President Obama hasn't actually “apologized” to anyone out of the way. It's simply a construction of the teabaggers, teabagger radio hosts and the Teabagger News Network (FoxNews). It's not reality, but they well know that if they repeat something enough times, true or not, it becomes fact.
No, that's not it, so clearly Fmr. VP Cheney must be worried that his behavior needs to be apologized for. That's why he assumes the President is apologizing. It's a guilty conscience! Well, that would assume that the Fmr. VP actually had a conscience, and since he shot his buddy in the face without remorse, that's a fact not yet in evidence. What is also pretty hilarious is that Cheney seems to think he speaks for “most Americans”. This is the same guy who struggles to crack 20% in favorability rating, but yet he speaks for “most Americans”. There's little doubt that the Fmr. VP has always constructed an alternate reality for himself to live in (in an undisclosed location of course). What's surprising is that he continues to live there even though he's nearly a year out of office.
Comments
Mr. Chaney ( and I use the term loosely)
You got a lot of nerve for opening your mouth.
for 8 years you and george lied to the American people about the situation in Irak, and now you want to slam this President for doing the right thing and find peace on this world, something you never you had in life.
Just Shut up and go back to to your bunker, you spent 8 years in there doing nothing but wait for your cut from Haliburton and your friends.
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