January 8, 2010

Dick Cheney is a bright and capable politician and bureaucrat. We could see this in his work well before the 2000 elections and we clearly saw this when he selected himself vice president to act as a counterweight to Bush's extreme incompetence.

For Cheney, Bush's incompetence was even more of a problem after 9/11 when his boss was unable to respond quickly even with platitudes and slogans. The country was in extreme danger and Cheney had to do something. There were few as connected as he, so he did what he had to.

Now let's move to 2009 and now.

Cheney continually lashes out at Obama, saying he is inept, doesn't understand terror and wants to give up on our security. In Cheney's mind this is true. Obama is not doing what he would when he was co-president. Though his comments are mean and hyper political they make sense for a man who once micro-managed the anti-terror program.

What makes this even more intense for him is that he feels personally attacked after Obama does something different that he did. Cheney truly owned our anti terror program much more than Bush did with anything while in office. There is no separation between the bureaucrat Cheney and the man himself.

This is a good thing on one hand, because it means someone capable is working on the problems. But on the other hand, it lead to torture and human right abuses which destroyed our world standing and temporarily delayed Constitutional justice.

When someone brings up the war on terror, Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, Cheney is quick to attack because it is personal. The tenor and level of the anti-Obama rhetoric is in direct proportion to Cheney's guilt for having done things he knew he shouldn't have done. He is also afraid the Obama administration knows or will know the whole truth of what he did and he can't stand it.

Cheney knows he was a bad boy and so he attacks like a school yard bully.

In attacking Obama, he is assuaging his guilt which he must surely have as a human being or it could be he is just another political psychopath like those who parrot his bull.

For our country's sake lets think, “Guilt”.