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Regarding the financial crisis:
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: We've inherited an economic crisis as deep and as dire as any since the Great Depression.
By any measure, my administration inherited a fiscal disaster.
We inherited a big mess.
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KING: Is that how you see it? Just about every day I assume you're reading the newspapers now that you're out of office, the president says, well, we have got a lot to do but it's not my fault, I inherited a mess. Did you leave him a mess?
CHENEY: Well, I don't follow the news quite as closely as I once did. But there's no question that what the economic circumstances that he inherited are difficult ones. You know, we said that before we left. I don't think you can blame the Bush administration for the creation of those circumstances.
It's a global financial problem. We had, in fact, tried to deal with the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac problem some years before with major reforms and were blocked by Democrats on the Hill, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.
So I think the notion that you can just sort of throw it off on the prior administration, that's interesting rhetoric but I don't think anybody really cares a lot about that. What they care is what is going to work and how we are going to get out of these difficulties.
Exactly right!
2 comments:
WHY would you even give Cheney the time of day? We have had ENOUGH of his lies, bigotry, and coverups. It is a real shame to waste your valuable airtime on crooks like this. Nobody cares what he has to say anymore. And obviously, he doesn't care about us, he admittedly doesn't read the current news.
S.Downes
California
Dear S.:
I frankly don’t care what you think. Dick Cheney was the one person in the Bush administration that had the clearest view of America’s interests. I’m sorry that the roles of President and VP were not reversed.
As for reading the crap in the so-called newspapers: you may note that most Americans are following his lead.
I'm already sorry that I gave you the time of day.
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