Both the President and ex Vice President Cheney gave speeches on national security today.
Here are the highlights of both, care of the good fellows at TPM.
President Obama:
ex V.P Darth...Dick Cheney:
There is a lot here to here to unwrap so I will just leave to my betters. Mr. Greenwald has, as always, insightful and salient concerns about the Presidents speech. D-day also has a solid take on it. With Dan Froomkin bringing the mixed bag knowledge as well.
My commentary consists of this. Why do we even care what Cheney has to say? His policies were so fantastically rejected by the polity that his seat at the table of disgrace should be permantly booked for the next decade. He trotted out the same binary tropes and strawmen
as always.
I am more concerned with President Obama though, for much the same reasons that are mentioned by the others above. Obama's rhetoric is formidable, but it is his actions that bare watching. Making sure those things sync up is important, and holding him accountable when they don't is even more so.
-cheers
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