President-Elect Obama, President Bush, and former presidents Clinton, HW Bush, and Carter meet at the White House today for lunch.
Now how much would I have LOVED to have been there!
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Via Alex:
Via ThinkProgress, here’s VP Cheney in the Washington Times:
“In my mind, the foremost obligation we had from a moral or an ethical standpoint was to the oath of office we took when we were sworn in, on January 20 of 2001, to protect and defend against all enemies foreign and domestic. And that’s what we’ve done,” he said…
“I think it would have been unethical or immoral for us not to do everything we could in order to protect the nation against further attacks like what happened on 9/11,” Mr. Cheney said.
Notice anything weird about what he said? I did.
What did Alex notice?:
That’s the oath of enlistment into the US military. It is not the oath that Cheney took when he became Vice President.
The President and Vice President swear to protect and defend the constitution, and not the people of the United States. That’s not a minor or insignificant difference.
What did I notice?
If Cheney and Bush really believe that they swore an oath to defend and protect the nation on January 20th, 2001, then they failed to uphold that oath. Mind you, the September 11th terrorist attacks occurred later on in 2001, after Bush and Cheney had taken office. According to Cheney’s rational, the Bush administration was pretty much a failure from the start.
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That’s the amount of national debt on Election Day 2008, as compared to $7.1 trillion on Election Day 2000.
More mathematical comparisons of Bush’s presidency to the end of Clinton’s – because we all know polisci majors love numbers!
