A.B. Stoddard
By Susan D. Harris
On Wednesday night’s edition of Special Edition with Brett Baier, The Hill’s A.B. Stoddard had nothing less than a hissy fit over Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s recent comments during a Playboy interview.
The subjects of Stoddard’s attack were two Cheney quotes presented for commentary by Baier. The first concerned whether Mr. Cheney felt that President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder were correct in suggesting that race played a role in some attacks against them. Cheney responded:
I think they’re playing the race card, in my view. Certainly we haven’t given up—nor should we give up—the right to criticize an administration and public officials. To say that we criticize, or that I criticize, Barack Obama or Eric Holder because of race, I just think it’s obviously not true. My view of it is the criticism is merited because of performance—or lack of performance, because of incompetence. It hasn’t got anything to do with race.
The other quote was a response to Obama’s claim that under his leadership, “core Al Qaeda” has been decimated. Cheney answered:
It’s a very dangerous situation. I think the threat is growing steadily, and I think our capacity to deal with it is rapidly diminishing. I look at Barack Obama and I see the worst president in my lifetime, without question—and that’s saying something. I used to have significant criticism of Jimmy Carter, but compared to Barack Obama and the damage he is doing to the nation—it’s a tragedy, a real tragedy, and we are going to pay a hell of a price just trying to dig out from under his presidency.
After this quote, Stoddard passionately responded:
It’s just so gratuitous and undignified and unnecessary. There’s so many things he could have said in this interview…just because you feel something, even things that are true, doesn’t mean you should say them.
I read your article concerning A.B. Stoddard’s meltdown upon hearing Dick Cheney’s comments.
Great questions asked in a determination of what qualifies Deranged Obama Syndrome.
In 2010 I wrote a piece named “Hypocronance”. To follow that up I wrote another named “Watchman on the Gate”
The first book explained the dynamic that was working when Obama was elected. Ineptitude is the word I chose over incompetence. Ineptitude has an air of absurdity, while incompetence is presented by nothing more than unable.
The dynamic was the abdication of the media responsibility to vet Obama for all he was and is. An Affirmative Action President. Even though I tried to network the book to many in the media, none would touch it.
The second book above was an argument made to impeach Obama, back in 2010. The finding was based on the Deep Water BP Oil Spill.
I no longer follow politics. A King above Kings is coming sooner than later. I know this reality, just as I knew of Obama’s reality published on April 1st. 2010.
Good Luck in your attempts to inform those that don’t really care about our future, or those just too frightened to speak the truth when it may have mattered.
As Cheney said, our future is difficult. I’d say it is worse than his estimation. In June our courts will decide if the gay marriage thing goes above state law. Once that happens, our future as a country ends as having once been a great power and beacon of light, truth and justice.
The books above are at Amazon and other electronic book stores