A Wall Street Journal's editorialist, William McGurn, wrote a nice little piece yesterday giving rare credit to former VP Dick Cheney for his ability to force the current president to take him on as an equal.
In McGurn's column, he actually cited liberal MSNBC talk show host Chris Matthews as the only media person to correctly notice Wonderboy "listening for footsteps, that he could hear Cheney coming at him and he was defensive."
No kidding. Here we have an unaccomplished young political hack pretending to be president, dressing up in grown-up clothes and grappling with issues which are beyond his grasp, and the consequences of his actions he typically doesn't understand.
"Coming at him" is a very accomplished, seasoned, very smart former US Representative, administrative operative, Secretary of Defense, VP, and corporate chief.
Among US Vice-Presidents, Dick Cheney is perhaps the most qualified to have actually become President, should the occasion have arisen. Possessing a rare combination of extensive prior goverment experience in both administrations and elective Congressional office, he was, and is, qualified to perform as Chief Executive of the United States.
George W. Bush never considered Al Gore remotely threatening as a former VP, or even former presidential candidate.
It speaks volumes that, regardless of the largely-uncognizant larger populace of the US on whom popularity polls are conducted, the sitting president rightly fears tangling with Cheney.
Cheney doesn't engage in baseless or unreasoned emotional diatribes, as does Wonderboy. Rather, Cheney constructs careful, coherent, logical frameworks of reason which are unusually difficult to refute.
There's no question that in last week's face-off, Cheney emerged as having bettered the current Oval Office occupant.
Wonderboy took pains to lambast his predecessor, although again promising he wouldn't, suggesting that whatever actions were taken involving enhanced interrogation methods and Guantanamo were without a justification. Nowhere in his speech from the National Archives was the 9/11 attack on American citizens on American soil ever mentioned.
Cheney, however, made that attack the rightful centerpiece of the debate. Without it, the rest of the arguments on either side are pointless and lacking in context.
If this mess continues to be pressed to the point of Congressional hearings and, possibly, criminal charges, Wonderboy and his chief accomplice in this matter, Frisco Nan Pelosi, will be very sorry they persisted in banging on this drum.
Cheney's speech provided a preview of the arguments which will be used in such venues, and their solidity and credibility.
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