Cheney: Obama Has “Learned From Experience” That Bush Policies Were Necessary
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 4:56 AM
Former Vice President Dick Cheney told the “Today” Show that President Obama has “learned from experience” that some of the Bush policies on terrorism were necessary and part of his learning came from democrats having a “terrible showing in the last election.”
The Hill reported:
President Obama has “learned from experience” that some of the Bush administration’s decisions on terrorism issues were necessary, according to former Vice President Dick Cheney.
In his first interview since undergoing major heart surgery last July, Cheney said he thinks Obama has been forced to rethink some of his national security positions now that he sits in the Oval Office.
“I think he’s learned that what we did was far more appropriate than he ever gave us credit for while he was a candidate. So I think he’s learned from experience. And part of that experience was the Democrats having a terrible showing last election.”
Cheney also asserted that Obama has learned that the prison at Guantanamo Bay simply cannot be closed, despite the promises he made while campaigning for the White House.
“I think he’s learned that he’s not going to be able to close Guantanamo,” Cheney said. “That it’s — if you didn’t have it, you’d have to create one like that. You’ve got to have some place to put terrorists who are combatants who are bound and determined to try to kill Americans.”
But don’t expect any apologies, Dick. That will never happen.
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Published May 21, 2012 at 12:19 am - 62 Comments
Granny commented:
Oh TheWon may have learned something, but not nearly enough!
John Fembup commented:
So Obama was unfit to govern when elected. Who knew?
Don’t we witness almost daily how much “experience” he still lacks?
But it’s unfair to load all this on just the President.
The Democrat party has repeatedly proved it just cannot govern. Top to bottom, side to side. Pure and simple.
juandos commented:
People had to be purposefully blind to vote for this Klueless Kenyan since he had a public track record stretching for miles indicating his rampant inability to get a grip on reality…
P. Aaron commented:
It’s difficult to believe that Obama has learned anything.
scituate_tgr commented:
Cheney must be a fan of Obamateurisms over at HA
liberalsareoncrack commented:
Biggest terrorist of them all is the dark lord Soros.
David_V. commented:
Stupid people don’t know how to learn.
Militant Conservative commented:
Cheney is wrong due to the fact that narcissists are never wrong.
Obama WANTS this economy to fail. Powder is dry
Hangtown Bob commented:
Cheney says: “You’ve got to have some place to put terrorists who are combatants who are bound and determined to try to kill Americans.”
The simplest, cheapest, and BEST place to put them is in the grave.
jorgen commented:
In the beginning he was too inexperienced to see that Bush was right. Now he is still too fanatic to understand it, but his people must have managed to convince him that Bush was right also in this matter.
To avoid making any more of his all too frequent horribly wrong decisions, he should start asking himself: “What would Bush do?” Or perhaps even phone Bush and ask for advice?
kansas commented:
Cheney: Obama Has “Learned From Experience” That Bush Policies Were Necessary
No. He hasn’t learned anything. He simply ignores them to continue with his agenda; which by the way is going quite swimmingly. His positives are up, the big Republican majority is going to be diluted at the SOTU with the Rinos and Dimmos all sitting together. Kumbaya.
aprilnovember811 commented:
Quite frankly I don’t care what Dick Cheney has to say. He knows Obama isn’t American born, and his father isn’t. He has no credibility anymore.
AuntieMadder commented:
These are all good comments and they pretty much cover this topic. The only thing I might add is that Cheney may be getting soft since being informed that he may only have a few more years to live. When faced with their own mortality, decent people, and especially men, it seems, tend to do that.
bg commented:
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short & to the point, iow: an excellent read..
Three facts House GOP cannot afford to ignore
[First, the decisiveness of that election can never be emphasized enough. Only two years after putting President Obama in the White House and keeping Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in control of the Senate and House, voters rejected Democratic policies and gave Republicans their most massive midterm victory since 1938. Besides putting Republicans back in control of the House, voters also elected 11 new GOP governors and nearly 700 new GOP state legislators, thus giving the party command of the critical redistricting process following the 2010 census. But the depth of the GOP win is mainly a measure of voter rejection of Democratic policies. Republicans are still on probation and will remain there until they deliver what they promised, including repealing and replacing Obamacare, cutting federal spending, deficits and debt, ending oppressive bureaucratic regulation, and restoring economic growth and opportunity.]
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Radegunda commented:
Obama is the guy who claimed to “know more about any particular policy issue” than his policy advisers. (Is that why he hires callow 25-year-olds?)
Obama seems to believe he was just BORN omnicompetent and doesn’t have to work at learning. Anybody who would subscribe to Marxist dogma in the 1980s is not the kind of person who can learn much from experience.