Cheney: Picking Palin as VP 'a mistake'

[240 is Back]

 Former Vice President Dick Cheney thinks the selection of Sarah Palin as the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee “was a mistake,” he told ABC’s Jon Karl in an interview excerpted Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
 
“That one I don’t think was well handled,” Cheney said of the 2008 selection process.
 
When it comes to choosing a vice presidential nominee, Cheney told Karl in an interview conducted recently on Cheney’s Wyoming ranch, “I sort of think of it as there are two lists. There is the big list. And it’s got a lot of folks on it.”
 
To get on the smaller list, though, politicians need to be able to clear a higher bar, said Cheney, who helped run the selection processes for former Republican Presidents Gerald Ford and George W. Bush.
 
“And the test to get on the small list has to be is this person capable of being president of the United States, and that’s usually a very, very short list,” he said, asserting that electoral considerations shouldn’t “override” Oval Office readiness.
 
http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2012/07/cheney-picking-palin-as-vp-a-mistake-130398.html

[Hugo Chavez]

poor dick.... He's kinda stuck in the past.  Talking about this after it's already been talked about at length by everyone on the freaking planet.

[Jack T. Cross]

Coming from a person who would dare "select" himself for the position, I wonder what to make of it.

[Purge_WTF]

  I agree with Cheney.

  Is that a mushroom cloud on the horizon?

[Soul Crusher]

Cheney: Obama is worse than Carter
 Politico ^

Posted on Monday, July 30, 2012


Cheney: Obama is worse than Carter By: Kevin Robillard July 30, 2012 07:47 AM EDT

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said President Barack Obama is “one of our weakest presidents” and worse than Jimmy Carter.

“Obviously, I’m not a big fan of President Obama,” Cheney said in an interview that aired Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “I think he’s been one of our weakest presidents. I fundamentally disagree with him, philosophically. You’d be hard put to find any Democratic president that I’ve disagreed with more.”

“Worse than Jimmy Carter, from your perspective?” ABC’s Jon Karl asked him.

“Yes.”

Cheney, whose hard line on terrorism came to define his public image, gave the president some credit.

“I wouldn’t say he’s been soft on terror, but I think he’s made a number of mistakes,” he said. “Bin Laden, fine. A lot of that intelligence that laid the groundwork for what ultimately led to the capture of bin Laden was a result of programs we had in place in the Bush administration.”


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Funny how 180 left that out. 

[andreisdaman]

 Former Vice President Dick Cheney thinks the selection of Sarah Palin as the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee “was a mistake,” he told ABC’s Jon Karl in an interview excerpted Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
 
“That one I don’t think was well handled,” Cheney said of the 2008 selection process.
 
When it comes to choosing a vice presidential nominee, Cheney told Karl in an interview conducted recently on Cheney’s Wyoming ranch, “I sort of think of it as there are two lists. There is the big list. And it’s got a lot of folks on it.”
 
To get on the smaller list, though, politicians need to be able to clear a higher bar, said Cheney, who helped run the selection processes for former Republican Presidents Gerald Ford and George W. Bush.
 
“And the test to get on the small list has to be is this person capable of being president of the United States, and that’s usually a very, very short list,” he said, asserting that electoral considerations shouldn’t “override” Oval Office readiness.
 
http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2012/07/cheney-picking-palin-as-vp-a-mistake-130398.html

so in other words Cheney has finally arrived four years later at the position that most of us here on GetBig knew already?

[Soul Crusher]

so in other words Cheney has finally arrived four years later at the position that most of us here on GetBig knew already?

Correct - that Obama is worse than Carter