DISQUS

The Moderate Voice: Liz Cheney: Obama Should Not Have Gone to Dover

  • Rudi · 1 month ago
    Liz Cheney is pushing her agenda and her fathers legacy on the backs of dead soldier. Quite a class family...
  • JSpencer · 1 month ago
    Lliz Cheney is a mental and moral lightweight... even with the Cheney name... which is all she's got - and that ain't sayin much. If I could channel DLS for a moment, I'd say that "better people" will ignore her and move on. ;-)
  • JeffersonDavis · 1 month ago
    I know where Liz Cheney is coming from, but she is wrong.
    The President SHOULD be their to receive soldiers that died under his command. That goes for ANY President. It is (or should be) part of the job.

    If he does it as part of a PR event to gain politically (as I suspect Obama does with every movement), then his ethics should be in question. I pray that is not the case here.

    I even respected the salute he gave as the caskets came off the plane. Some vets may resent that, but the Commander-in-Chief can salute any time he darn well wants to - and this time was very appropriate. It was even a correct salute. Most civilians get it wrong.
  • rfyork · 1 month ago
    I am beginning to think the whole Cheney clan is certifiable. A lesbian daughter who supports her father's stand against gay marriage, a wife who bloviates out of sheer willful ignorance and lies. And, well, what can you say about a "man" who is incapable of any kind of self-reflection. As my fellow veterans call him - a chickenhawk.

    In the Cheneys' world everything just turned out hunky-dory until Obama came along. Who needs reality anyway?

    Bush dignity? Another oxymoron stalks the blogs.
  • D. E.Rodriguez · 1 month ago
    Ahh, Liz Cheney. The daughter of the man who had more important things to do than to serve his country in the military....
  • kathykattenburg · 1 month ago
    Yes -- five times he had more important things to do. His wife was having a child. He was in college. His wife was having a child. I'm not sure what the other two were.
  • davemartin7777 · 1 month ago
    It should also be remembered that Dick Cheney never served... not even once after five deferments.
  • StockBoySF · 1 month ago
    “I think that what President Bush used to do is do it without the cameras."

    Liz is thinking of the OTHER things Bush did without cameras.
  • JeffersonDavis · 1 month ago
    SBSF,

    "Liz is thinking of the OTHER things Bush did without cameras".

    I know where you're coming from on this (I think). I agree.
    But it's one thing to have cameras - as a President would be filmed taking a crap if he did it in public.
    It's quite another to orchestrate it as a PR event to glorify yourself. I'm not saying that Obama did this, but I suspect that he may have done that very thing - judging by his anal control of every aspect of his "transparent" administration. He's done a great job controlling his image in the press - good on him. That's good executive execution. But if he uses dead soldiers to better his image, he's a scumbag.
  • kritt11 · 1 month ago
    Or, maybe he is expressing gratitude and pride for their sacrifice to their country.
  • JeffersonDavis · 1 month ago
    "Or, maybe he is expressing gratitude and pride for their sacrifice to their country."

    I hope you're right. Until I find out otherwise, I'll give Obama the benefit of the doubt.
  • zeezil · 1 month ago
    Bush honored our war dead – without fanfare, the photographers and the press corps. But then, Bush understands dignity.

    And, it’s my understanding that Bush sent a letter of condolence to the family of every soldier killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. (And the signature on each letter was by Bush’s hand – not a machine.)

    I haven’t heard what Obama’s practice is, if any.
  • imavettoo · 1 month ago
    Dubya-Dignity=oxymoron, moron.
  • DLS · 1 month ago
    Grow up, people. There's no excuse for overreacting and silly-lib cheap shots. Someone was going to be first, and first in a professional-conservative-media-mouthpiece-role, to be publicly critical of Obama, just as a righty joined the foamier-mouth lefties in criticizing the President for not being more harsh toward Iran after that nation's post-election suppression of protests.
  • kritt11 · 1 month ago
    So would Liz say that she could not understand why President and Mrs. Reagan showed up with the press pool to view the dead marines coming in from Lebanon? He is, after all, the standard-bearer of the Republican party, and the political figure that W most sought to emulate during his 2 terms in the WH. :-)