On Fox News, former vice president Dick Cheney claimed that President Obama doesn’t believe in things that Americans believe in, and doesn’t understand America.
Here’s the video from Media Matters:
On Hannity, Dick Cheney unleashed a barrage of lies and misinformation about President Obama,
I think as I looked at it back in that time frame, of course, we’re on our way out of office, not running for anything in 2008, and what I thought was, you know, if he wins this is going to be sort of a traditional typical Democratic administration. Liberal, certainly more liberal than I would like. That’s not what it’s been. It’s been way over there on the left. One of the things that’s been most enlightening for me is to read this new book that’s out that is deals with this whole question of competence, and written by Ed Klein who used to be with The New York Times called The Amateur, and it goes into great detail on a whole number of different areas in terms of his philosophy and why he believes what he did, and how he got there, and how he’s managed, or failed to manage in the White House.
I think what’s happened at least in my own convention is here’s a man who doesn’t believe in a lot of those things that I think most Americans do believe in. In terms of a strong international role for the United States of America. We’ve all kinds of developments under way in the Middle East, and he’s heading for the exits.
Our friends and allies over there, Israel, the Saudis, United Arab Emirates, a lot of countries over there who look to the United States who look to the United States, especially when security is threatened, and what they see is the United States heading over the hill pulling out as fast as they can.
I think with respect to the economy, the whole thing was en-captured in that statement the other day to small business you know, if you’ve got a small business, you didn’t build it somebody else did. I’ve got friends that you know, that’s been their success story of their lives. It’s one of the great success stories of America that we can do that sort of thing in the United States, and Barack Obama doesn’t appreciate it or understand it, or have any sympathy whatsoever. He thinks every that happens that’s good in the country comes from government, and he’s just dead wrong.
The book that Cheney cited as the source for his information about President Obama was written by a widely debunked conspiracy theorist, who has no credibility with anyone except Fox News and the former Vice President of the United States.
Considering that his administration ignored the intel on 9/11, started a needless war in Iraq, botched the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, let Osama Bin Laden go free, and crashed the United States economy, Dick Cheney is the last person in the world who should be discussing competency.
It is ironic to listen to Cheney spout off about “big government” Obama when it was the administration that he was a part of that oversaw the biggest expansion of government in decades thanks to their Medicare prescription drug plan.
Cheney rattled off a greatest hits of the right’s lies about Obama. From the classics like Obama thinks government has all the answers to more modern distortions like the completely false you didn’t build that line of attack, Cheney showed himself to be adept master of Obama lies.
The biggest lie of all about Obama was Cheney’s claim that the sitting president of the United States is un-American, and doesn’t understand American values. The truth is that Obama has demonstrated time and again that he understands America better than Dick Cheney, who still thinks that Americans want a perpetual war in the Middle East and getting Bin Laden wasn’t a big priority.
Dick Cheney has been convicted of war crimes, but yet he considers President Obama to be un-American. Dick Cheney has shown the ultimate disrespect to the office of the presidency. Cheney is not only a war criminal, he is as un-American as they come.

Reynardine
Aug. 6th, 2012 at 11:16 pm
John Dean isn’t and never was any pansy, and he worked among some of the seamiest Machiavellians of the last half of the Twentieth Century. In “Conservatives Without Conscience”, he describes them all unsparingly. Yet among them, there was only one he called evil, and that was Dich Cheney.
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buckeyewill
Aug. 6th, 2012 at 11:19 pm
War criminal made $$$$$$$ while urban Blacks, Hispanics, working class Whites came home thankful to be alive, wounded and busted, or in too many cases in body bags.
Biggest war pimp in American history.
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mjh
Aug. 6th, 2012 at 11:21 pm
Now now, lil’ dick . . . simply because President Obama doesn’t believe in clearing brush on a fake ranch when warned of a major terrorist attack, sitting on his ass reading fiction to schoolkids during said terrorist attack, launching two wars against non-aggressive nations in response to said terrorist attack, putting said wars on the nation’s credit card and refusing to raise taxes to pay for them {leading to the biggest economic meltdown in seventy years}, outing a covert CIA agent as political payback for someone criticizing you, warrantlessly wiretapping US citizens {and continuing to do so after being discovered}, playing air guitar while a major US city drowns, and shooting your best friend in the face during a hunting trip {and allowing the friend to publicly take the blame} . . . DOESN’T mean he’s “un-American” . . .
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MarkB
Aug. 6th, 2012 at 11:22 pm
Cheney calling Obama un-American is like a malignant tumor (which Cheney IS) calling a red blood cell unhealthy.
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rod
Aug. 6th, 2012 at 11:24 pm
Beyond evil is this low, low life Bastard Cheney.
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Vic Schmidtt
Aug. 7th, 2012 at 5:28 pm
When I look at Cheney I think “What a waste of a good heart, this filthy p rick didnt deserve any second chances. I also wish I could meet the surgeon who was able to be bought so easily so I could tell him just what a lowlife pos he is, too. I hope he goes to prison somewhere for his war crimes, for life.
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Andrew Carvin
Aug. 6th, 2012 at 11:47 pm
dick-cheney = Let’s start a war based on fake premises to increase oil/defense stock prices.
Not surprising considering:
Republican/Mitt Romney policies: Taxes: Give all money to the rich, and everyone else can be slaves. Truth = Repeat lies until stupid people accept them as truth to hide your agenda, and publicly destroy those who oppose you. Food safety = I don’t have to eat “poor people food” so why should I care if any of you die eating it? Public Relations = Sponsor hate groups, and fan the flames of bigotry. Education = Keep people as stupid as possible so that they keep voting for Republicans who hate them. Military policy = War for profit, and I don’t care how many innocent people die so long as my war stocks go up. Health care = die. Jobs = outsourcing. Unemployment = Hurry up and die. Women’s rights = get back in the kitchen and poop out some more babies you can’t support, and we’re not going to help you with them either. Mitt Romney = death of America. Unemployment will do nothing but increase wherever Republicans have power. I made a video about unemployment, and how we can fix it. It’s at my YouTube channel Zarrakan, and here’s the name:
2012 6 5 ZOC Job Pyramid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6qjvLSCtpc
Watch it, share it, and join the fight against those who want to kill all of us with destructive social policies.
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Sally
Aug. 6th, 2012 at 11:47 pm
I want to know who gave up their heart son this guy could live on to spin his evil fairy tales? I feel bad for the family of whomever it was. I had hoped that maybe he would have gotten a real heart and could feel a little compassion for the people, but no, he’s still the greedy pwoer hungry a-hole he’s always been, the one who saw the Presidency as a monarchy while they were there. And Obama is so far from LEFT it isn’t even funny. He’s been proven to be a centrist. Just because the right sees compromise as a dirty word does not mean Democrats are weak or ‘far left’ for wanting to actually govern and not dictate. Obama deserves a 2nd term; Cheney deserves an orange jumpsuit (or send him to Arpaio and he can wear pink) and we must get the President a Congress that will wokr for the country and not for the Kochs, Cheneys and warmongers on the right.
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Cha
Aug. 7th, 2012 at 12:01 am
The dick needs to follow his own advice to Senator Pat Leahy,
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Jeff R
Aug. 7th, 2012 at 1:05 am
I keep reading this stuff, but in the final analysis it is all code for –
“Nobody who looks like him, can possibly be a real American.
Damn! I can’t say THAT, so even though Obama’s policies have been more “conservative” than Ronald Reagan’s, even though he’s cut taxes more than any president ever, I can call him a liberal extremist.”
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mjh
Aug. 7th, 2012 at 1:27 am
“Nobody who looks like him, can possibly be a real American.”
Especially ironic, considering the fact that President Obama and lil’ dick Cheney are . . . cousins . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrDgQBr8YB8
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labman57
Aug. 7th, 2012 at 2:30 am
“… here’s a man who doesn’t believe in a lot of those things that I think most Americans do believe in.”
… such as using torture against detainees, deceiving Congress and the American people regarding faux WMDs in Iraq, outing a CIA operative in an act of petty vindictiveness, and giving no-bid contracts to the corporation that you once ran.
Cheney managed to get a new heart. Too bad he was unable to also acquire a soul.
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Shiva (Moderator)
Aug. 7th, 2012 at 6:25 am
Dick has nothing to say that is of interest. Obviously Obama is not killing enough people to make him feel good
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Reynardine
Aug. 7th, 2012 at 8:20 am
In Rott Mimney, he sees another brainless marionette for his puppeteer’s skills.
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SinghX
Aug. 7th, 2012 at 9:53 am
It is incredibly telling that the only thing the GOP has left in their “anus arson” is to bring out the big, old “A-hole” Cheney…he is both feared and revered as “master” of the plantation. He carries a big bull horn and will hurt you if he takes that coiled whip off his belt.
Why just the sight of him on Fox makes all the little off-spring of the John Birch Society, all the little teabaggers, all the fundamentalist religious whack jobs sit up straight and “fly right”…or else Master with no soul will visit you in your dreams…pleasant dreams, whitey-righties!
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Mary
Aug. 7th, 2012 at 10:29 am
This twisted pathological hatefilled scumbag is a war criminal.He and the rest of the bush war regime should be in jail. The worst part of all this evil satan has inflicted on the country is that a family in this country could find out that their loved one’s heart was given to a man who actually has never had a soul or heart.
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sandppppr
Aug. 7th, 2012 at 10:54 am
Ludicrous, ludicrous, simply ludicrous. Himmler told the BIG LIE. He and Hitler knew if they told the BIG LIE everyone would believe it.
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MsKitty
Aug. 7th, 2012 at 11:22 am
What’s really sad is that when Dick’s hardware gives out and he finally takes his rightful place alongside Beelzebub, President Obama will order the flags at half-staff, a national day of mourning, etc. and will have to mouth platitudes because that’s what expected.
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robyn ryan
Aug. 7th, 2012 at 1:30 pm
It’s hard, but it’s also called being an adult, and rising above petty vengeance.
Obama will do the correct thing because he is a leader and a gentleman, unlike some war profiteering bloody handed Quislings.
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ducksy
Aug. 7th, 2012 at 5:14 pm
yah right because you are white and he is black
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ducksy
Aug. 7th, 2012 at 5:23 pm
my 4 3/4 years old granddaughter Zara say “not everyone is my friend at school but I try to love everyone anyway”, that say it all…
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Shiva (Moderator)
Aug. 7th, 2012 at 7:35 pm
She has had good teachers at home
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