We all know former Vice President Dick Cheney as the mouth-breathing, war-hawking troglodyte with an itchy trigger finger. He’s a conservative man’s conservative, a Halliburton puppeteer, and shrewd on foreign policy to the point where he’s not afraid to “browbeat Pakistani leaders,” as well as commit war crimes, in the name of national security.
We would expect a conservative the likes of Dick Cheney to sacrifice a hippie to Republican God so as to destroy all the liberals and the Democrats. Hence why it was so shocking, in 2011, when Darth Vader gave praise to Hillary Clinton. On Fox News, of all places.
At the time, Birdshot McShooterson was busy promoting his memoir, In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir, and staunchly defending his time in the Bush Administration. Sensing an opportunity to invade the televisions of older Americans with Obama-hating rhetoric courtesy of former President George W. Bush’s second-in-command, the misinformation junkies at Fox News asked Mr. Cheney whether the Democrats would have been better off with Hillary Clinton as their candidate in 2012 over the incumbent President Obama.
Of President Obama, Mr. Cheney regurgitated the same crap Fox had peddled ad nauseum. On the other hand, of Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Cheney was a little kinder.
“I have a sense that she’s one of the more competent members of the current administration and it would be interesting to speculate about how she might perform were she to be president.”
When pressed, Mr. Cheney wouldn’t say that Mrs. Clinton would have made a better president if given the choice between her and President Obama. But he did comment that “perhaps she might have been easier for some of us who are critics of the president to work with.”
At least, that’s what we think he was saying behind the incoherent grunts.
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