Cheney: President Obama Wants ‘To Take America Down’
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11:50 PM 04/07/2015
In an appearance on “The Hugh Hewitt Show” Tuesday night,
former Vice President Dick Cheney said that President Obama’s actions on the
world stage exemplify a president who wants “to take America down.”
Cheney also touched on Obama’s comments on Wisconsin Gov.
Scott Walker, telling Hewitt that Obama is the only post-World War II president
to believe that America doesn’t need “to play a leading role in the world.”
The former vice president made the appearance following the
announcement of a new book on American foreign policy, co-authored by himself
and daughter Liz Cheney, will be released in September.
HEWITT: Let me play for both of you a cut from earlier
today. The president sat down with an NPR reporter who asked him about Scott
Walker’s statement on this show last week that he’s repudiate the emerging Iran
hologram — I don’t call it a deal — on day one. Here’s what the president said.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Any president who gets elected will be
knowledgeable enough on foreign policy and knowledgeable enough about the traditions
and precedents of presidential power that they won’t start calling into
question the capacity of the executive branch of the United States to enter
into agreements with other countries. If that starts being questioned, that’s
going to be a problem for our friends and that’s going to embolden our enemies
and it would be a foolish approach to take. Perhaps Mr. Walker, after he’s
taken some time to bone up on foreign policy, will feel the same way.
HEWITT: Vice President Cheney, you’ve been boning up on
foreign policy since you entered the House 30 years ago. What do you make of
that statement.
CHENEY: Well it starts from a flawed presumption on
Obama’s part. For most of the last 70 years since World War II, we’ve had a
bipartisan record in this country between Democrat and Republican. Harry
Truman, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, Dwight Eisenhower, the
Bush’s believed America had to play a leading role in the world and needs to
maintain first class military capability to do that and occasionally use it.
That the world works best with U.S. leadership. The first president, really,
who doesn’t — no longer believe that fundamental truth is Barack Obama. What
he’s saying, his criticism of Governor Walker — I think probably Governor
Walker welcomes it. It’s almost like a paid commercial. I heard today as soon
as the statement came out from Obama criticizing the governor, he immediately
sent out to all of his supporters. I’m glad he did that. It’s a mark of
weakness of this president that he’d say such a thing.
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HEWITT: Is he naive, Mr. Vice President? Or does he have
a far reaching vision that only he entertains of a realigned Middle East. That
somehow it all works out in the end.
CHENEY: I don’t know Hugh. I vacillate between the
various theories I’ve heard. If you had somebody who, as president — who wanted
to take America down. Who wanted to fundamentally weaken our position in the
world, reduce our capacity to influence events. Turn our back on our allies and
encourage our enemies, it would look exactly like what Barack Obama is doing. I
think his actions are constituted in my mind are those of the worst president
we’ve ever had.
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