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To: freelyhovering who wrote (111633)	5/22/2009 8:32:02 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541416

Fascinating piece - the White House needs to emphasize these facts more, that no one was waterboarded for years under Bush-Cheney and no attacks resulted. More important, Brooks is really defining the splits in the intraparty Republican debate, between those stuck on the same old themes and those who want something new. My question is, if Cheney felt so strongly about all this, why is he out there speaking everywhere now, after his party got their butts kicked at the polls, and he wasn't out on the stump every day last fall? Because he was an integral part of a deeply unpopular administration whose policies were regarded as a failure by a majority of the electorate. If speaking up would have been a political liability then, what is his credibility now? It's getting comical.

To: freelyhovering who wrote (111633)	5/22/2009 10:13:21 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541416

May 22, 2009 Op-Ed Columnist Cheney Lost to Bush By DAVID BROOKS Thanks for posting this. It was on my list. From everything I've read, Brooks is absolutely right. Cheney lost Bush's ear sometime between 04 and 06; and Rice gained more of a hearing. Cheney is now trumpeting policies that lost in the Bush administration. Brooks complains that Obama's policies are more like Bush's in the Bush's latter years. Hard to know the accuracy of that since the Bush PR effort was aimed more at obscuring than communicating. But, if true, I'm not yet certain just what to make of it. I thought Obama's speech was terrific even though I disagree with some of it.