ABC News Contributor: 'Obama Is Dick Cheney'

[monmouth3]

ABC News contributor Mary Matalin compared President Obama to Dick Cheney on national security issues on Sunday, setting off a debate between the panel members on "This Week."

The roundtable was assessing the president's speech on Friday about reforms to the National Security Agency. Obama outlined proposals for changes to the NSA's programs, but largely defended the agency's domestic surveillance activities as necessary for protecting national security. David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, pointed out that they were the types of programs that Obama used to oppose as a senator.

Mary Matalin compared Obama to Dick Cheney, saying, "He was against it before he was for it. Now Barack Obama is Dick Cheney. He needs these policies, they are necessary for our security."

Fellow panelist Tavis Smiley said he did not agree with Matalin's assessment, but expressed his own doubts about Obama's position on domestic surveillance. "Edward Snowden might be on a postage stamp somewhere down the road," Tavis remarked. "He will be acknowledged ... How history is gonna regard what President Obama has done in this moment is an open question."

She had to be drunk to say this. Rest of article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/19/obama-dick-cheney-mary-matalin_n_4627955.html

[hrmjustin]

1. Her brain is gone.

Not meaning to be mean but that comment proves something is off.

[NightWatcher]

2. First one to say "Hitler" or in this case Dick, loses the argument

Nuff said

[lostincalifornia]

3. News contributor? Don't think so. Maybe utter fool

[warrior1]

4. What the fuck.

She's gone off the deep end.

[Fred Sanders]

5. Mary has had the botox migrate to her brain, where else could more be injected?

[Vattel]

6. On domestic surveillance, Obama and Cheney are pretty dang close.

[seattledo]

7. It's almost like they don't trust him...

which is crazy.

[Drunken Irishman]

8. When did he shoot someone in the face?

[malaise]

9. She's not well

[monmouth3]

10. I think she has a drink/pill problem. I was watching Carville the other night as he was sitting

across from her and he was giving her "the look" a couple of times....

[Ilsa]

11. Her speech was so slow. She had a tissue in her right

hand when she was on Bill Maher's show. I'm wondering if it was to steady or occupy her hand. She sounded like she didn't give a shit about anything, including opinions of her.

[dhill926]

12. they did allude to some medical problems...

on Maher. So I'll give her a tiny benefit of the doubt. Painkillers? Something? But man, she seemed fucked up Friday night….really fucked up...

[JDPriestly]

13. Maybe she is suffering from a guilty conscience.

[sakabatou]

14. When did Obama shoot someone in the face?

Though, she seems to have a point.

[Cha]

15. No fucking mouth piece for dick cheney doesn't have

any points.

[PowerToThePeople]

16. drones too. n/t