Thursday, May 21, 2009

Cheney Vs. Obama: Former VP And Current President Deliver Competing National Security Speeches

Here is Obama's fifty-minute speech. As many are pointing out, Obama flubs the name of his own Secretary of Defense, calling him "William Gates" when his name is Robert Gates. Obama also announced that "we will seek to transfer some detainees to the same type of facilities that we hold all manner of dangerous and violent criminals within our borders, namely highly secure prisons that ensure the public's safety." This plan to allow these terrorists into the United States comes one day after the Dem Congress refused to fund the closing of Gitmo that Obama was requesting precisely because they feared that Obama would begin transferring detainees into the U.S.:


Moments after Obama delivered the above speech, the news cut to Cheney's competing speech on national security, and suffice it to say that, unlike Obama, Cheney hits the nail on the head. He argues and explains that the measures taken by the Bush adminstration were “legal, essential, justified, successful, and the right thing to do”:


Watch Dick Cheney's daughter Liz Cheney's response to the two speeches:
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