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Cheney Says Obama Is Worst President Ever

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney tore into President Obama in a Playboy interview.

Said Cheney: “I look at Barack Obama and I see the worst president of my lifetime, without question. I used to have significant criticism of Jimmy Carter, but compared to Barack Obama and the damage he is doing to the nation — it’s a tragedy.”

He added: “The way Obama is functioning now, he’s crippling the capacity of future presidents to deal with future crises.”

Quote of the Day

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“I’m going to end on a note of gratitude — something I never thought that I would say. George W. Bush, thank you for not dying while you were in office.”

— Jon Stewart, on former Vice President Dick Cheney’s defense of torture during the Bush administration.


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Cheney Says Bush Wasn’t Kept in the Dark on Torture

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney said that President Bush was not kept in the dark on the CIA’s interrogation techniques, calling the Senate Intelligence Committee report’s claim a “flat out lie,” according to The Hill.

Said Cheney: “I think he knew certainly the techniques, we did discuss the techniques, there was no effort on our part to keep him from that. That the president wasn’t being told is just a flat out lie.”

Cheney Says Torture Report Is ‘Hooey’

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Former Vice President Cheney admitted to the New York Times that he had not read the Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report but “from news reports about it, he said he had heard nothing to change his mind about the wisdom and effectiveness of the program.”

Said Cheney: “What I keep hearing out there is they portray this as a rogue operation and the agency was way out of bounds and then they lied about it. I think that’s all a bunch of hooey. The program was authorized. The agency did not want to proceed without authorization, and it was also reviewed legally by the Justice Department before they undertook the program.”

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.

Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.

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