Cheney's Praise of Bush Takes a Dig at Clinton (and Reagan)

[kskiska]

ST. PAUL, Sept. 6 - Vice President Dick Cheney and Senator John Edwards campaigned on starkly different themes in the same city on Monday, with Mr. Cheney suggesting that President Bill Clinton and even President Ronald Reagan were soft on terrorists, while Mr. Edwards called President Bush a failure on pocketbook concerns like jobs and health care.

With the race entering its final phase, the Republican and Democratic vice-presidential candidates ramped up their arguments on the issues they consider their own.

Speaking at the Minnesota State Fair with about 200 supporters, Mr. Cheney sought to portray President Bush as triumphing over economic and national security burdens inherited from previous administrations.

He blamed the Clinton and Reagan administrations for teaching terrorists that "they could strike us with relative impunity" and that "if they hit us hard enough, they could change our policy." Mr. Cheney cited the attack on United States Marines barracks in Beirut in 1983, in the first Reagan term, along with the 1993 killings of American soldiers in Somalia, a 1996 truck bombing at a housing complex in Saudi Arabia where many Americans lived, the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in East Africa and the attack on the destroyer Cole in Yemen in 2000.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/07/politics/campaign/07mates.html

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1. no f*cking shame. the man had heart surgery today and they still bash him!

i know plenty of decent republicans, but the ones in power are just plain scum. no decency, no respect, nothing.

despicable.

[wurzel]

2. It is easy being "Tough on Terrorism" when you are sitting in a bunker

in an unknown location.

[LTR]

3. Cheney bashed Reagan?

Isn't there some kind of commandment against that?

[shanti]

12. there's no love lost

between cheney and the reagan's. payback time :eyes:

[truthisfreedom]

4. what about our home-grown terrorism, mr. cheney? why aren't you talking

about the anthrax attacks on the Dems? or the anthrax attack on the National Enquirer? and why exactly did that happen again?

[olddem43]

5. Or Oklahoma City, which was a Right Wing attack -

as advocated by RW hate radio.

[Rose Siding]

6. Change what "policy", Dick? That freedom "policy"

Isn't that why they hate us? What policy is he suggesting they want to change?

[54anickel]

7. WTF is he talking about? Sure they can continue to strike the US with

"impunity". Terrorists aren't a nation, or a distinct group. They can hit and keep on hitting. What Shrub has struck against isn't the terrorist but the civilians and infrastructure of nations that the terrorist chose as a home base (at least in Shrubs eyes). The terrorists can continue to cross from one border to another, regroup and strike again. Hell, on 9/11 they regrouped right here under our noses. Get a friggen clue.

[wtmusic]

8. The 1993 WTC bombers are in prison, Dick

Where's Osama?

[Tsiyu]

9. Well, I Nevah...

Cheney doggin' the ReaganMan.

The World really IS coming to an end....

[AzDar]

10. National security? These ass-clowns

can't even secure their own convention...protesters managed to get in every night!

[merh]

11. Oh go ahead Dick - piss off the members of your party that

worship St. Ronnie & your cohart in crime, the chimp, will rekindle the Cold War that your party believes St. Ronnie ended and life will be fine in Ameriku.

Go ahead Dick, be yourself ... keep pissing off your base!