The AP gives this round to...........Cheney

[OmahaBlueDog]

Analysis: Obama debating Cheney is a plus for GOP

<<CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – In political debate, the side that keeps its arguments simple and repeats them again and again is likely to gain the advantage. It is an easier sale, especially when the topic is as scary as terrorism.

That's how Republicans got the edge in the dispute over President Barack Obama's planned closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison. And it put former Vice President Dick Cheney on a separate but almost equal platform with the president of the United States, which is a plus any time the party out of power can manage it.>>

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_debating_cheney_analysis

[Cirque du So-What]

1. '...any time the party out of power can manage it.'?!?

The corporate media are falling all over themselves to get their microphones within range of the Foulmouthed Gargoyle's snarling piehole! Where were those mikes during the long years when the Democrats were wandering in the wilderness?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. Yeah, :wtf:

I don't remember them being as eager to cover Al Gore's speeches criticizing Bush's rush to invade/occupy Iraq in 2002 and his (mis-)administration's failures in regards to handling terrorism in 2004. They helped the GOP and their SBVT associates to smear Kerry from one end to the other, and, during this past election, running wall to wall coverage of McCain/Palin ("two minute hate") rallies. Now, THEY are giving unprecedented amount of coverage to Cheney to spew his hateful and dishonest venom against President Obama. :puke:

[madrchsod]

2. ap-yahoo news....

what next world nut daily or the washington times?

ap and yahoo news editorial writers are right wing hacks.

[OmahaBlueDog]

6. Yahoo also posted this: RNC's below-the-belt shot at Pelosi

Politico

<<The RNC video, which begins with the speaker’s head in the iconic spy-series gun sight, implies that Pelosi has used her feminine wiles to dodge the truth about whether or not she was briefed by the CIA on the use of waterboarding in 2002. While the P-word is never mentioned directly, in one section the speaker appears in a split screen alongside the Bond nemesis – and the video’s tagline is “Democrats Galore.”

The wisdom of equating the first woman speaker of the House with a character whose first name also happens to be among the most vulgar terms for a part of the female anatomy might be debated – if the RNC were willing to do so, which it was not. An RNC spokesperson refused repeated requests by POLITICO to explain the point of the video, or the intended connection between Pelosi and Galore. >>

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/22882

[defendandprotect]

3. Analysis: Obama debating Cheney is a plus for GOP

Analysis: Obama debating Cheney is a plus for GOP

A interesting example of right wing propaganda in that headline . . .

Remember -- not only has our press been delivered into mega-corporate hands ...

but all of the News Source Agencies have also changed hands over the last two

decades -- not for the better!

Of course, there was no debate between Obama and Cheney -

and, of course, as his daughter has related, Cheney fears prosecution for his

war crimes. The world, IMO, is waiting for Obama to move on prosecution.

[tj2001]

4. Where were they when Cheney was in power?

They let that evil rule the land from "undisclosed locations". No questions asked.

[G_j]

5. disgusting propagandists

can rot in hell

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. How did Republicans get "the edge" over President Obama, exactly?

:wtf:

Is the party really "on the comeback" that Steele was talking about earlier last week? Gee, I must have missed........something.

:eyes:

Oh, and WHO exactly is putting Cheney on "an almost equal platform" with POTUS? Certainly not the American public AFAIK.

[Thrill]

16. The Dems leaving Obama hanging by the balls is a win for the GOP

Weakass Dems

[Proud Liberal Dem]

18. Yeah, I'm pretty pissed about those NIMBY Dems too

Eight years of funneling taxpayer money to Buscho despite their lack of "plans" and they only choose to exercise "accountability "NOW?????? Just because Obama doesn't have a plan completed for closing Gitmo (which is not even scheduled to be completed until NEXT January)???

:wtf: :mad:

Where have these gutless wonders been for the past 8 years?!!!



I'm glad, however, that Obama remains resolute in his decision to close Gitmo and I have little doubt that he will follow through on it. I'd just like to see our Dems in Congress exhibit a little more "courage" AGAINST the Repukes rather than against President Obama.

[Butch350]

8. Half of america doesn't give a shit about Guantanamo Bay prison.

well, maybe not here.

[donco6]

9. Most people in CO don't know why they can't go to Supermax.

They just say, "We already have Kacynzky (sp?). We already have Massoui (sp? again). Isn't that what it's for?"

[OmahaBlueDog]

12. A town in Montana offered to take them

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/24/hardin-montana-guantanamo_n_191010.html


Hey- prisons bring a bunch of good paying jobs

[G_j]

13. isn't supermax a movie theater?

:sarcasm:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

10. Ron Fournier.

[Thrill]

14. Enough said

[underpants]

15. WOW "Republican pollster" and a "GOP strategist" think Cheney won

well knock me over with a feather

Nice sources there WALTER R. MEARS :eyes:

oh and he ends with Mitch McConnell and Boner

[EFerrari]

21. Neat trick, isn't it? Remember last weekend when 3 wingers

told the WaHo that Obama was betraying the left?

It's amazing how blatant they are.

[bridgit]

17. Breaking: AP rewards Cheney as reptiles begin dance

[ProgressiveProfessor]

19. Not just the AP from what I have read

The WH needs to do a better job to ensure that what look like head to head match ups do not happen again. We have the bully pulpit and need to use it wisely.

[OmahaBlueDog]

20. Where is Tim Kaine?? Howard Dean would have been all over them by now.

Just because we have the WH and Congress doesn't mean we can afford an invisible DNC chair.

[Parker CA]

22. Same shit they tried to play when Obama was waxing the floor with McCain in the GE, they want a

a contest, regardless of the truth of the matter.