Dick Cheney

I know that nobody who needs much persuading is reading this, but I need to voice my frustrations over how the White House and Democrats are handling Dick Cheney's latest attack. We get it, that President Obama is pursuing a more thoughtful Afghanistan strategy that synthesizes diverse points of view, whereas the previous administration seemed only to listen to generals who agreed with them in the first place.

But here's the real point: If Dick Cheney is so concerned with the American war effort, why doesn't he arrange for a meeting with an Obama administrative official? Why doesn't he submit memos and suggestions based on his experience and views on a subject that he claims consume him so much? Why can't the White House point out that Dick Cheney's actions are not those of someone interested in winning a war, but someone using a war to take cheap shots at the President? Dick Cheney is a guy who thinks that torture is a more valuable tool in the war on terror than working knowledge of Arabic. In essence, he is so clownishly wrong that it is the White House's solemn duty to exploit that wrongness, that unpatriotic, indefensible, whiney and disgusting display of meanness for meanness's sake by associating any Republican candidate or leader with this horrible person.

Again, I know I'm not talking to anybody who needs convincing, nor am I saying anything that Keith Olbermann doesn't say better, but that's the blessing and curse of the blogosphere- that our self-indulgent venting is available for anyone who may stumble across it. Therefore: cocaine jihad Freemason Kennedy!