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Congrats to former GOP Senator Chuck Hagel for taking former Vice President Dick Cheney to task on his comments regarding his very jaded and biased opinions that President Obama is making the nation less safe. As widely reported, Chuck Hagel said this of the Cheney comments....
"That’s ridiculous! It has no merit on fact or by any measurement. I mean come on, this guy hasn’t even been in office two months. The mess that the Bush administration left the Obama administration. I’m a Republican…we got America into two wars, we’ve done great damage to our economy, to our force structure, to our standing in the world. For a Vice President who participated in that, who led in that, to come on and say that this new administration has really put America in danger is just folly."
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It apparently takes a lot of courage to take on Dick Cheney. Then for a Republican to do it and so publicly along with admitting the grave mistakes of his party over the course of the Bush presidency, is really quite gutsy and astounding. Of course, he'll certainly be labeled a traitor and vilified by the NRJs.
This is the problem, of course, with our political parties and their machines. They cheer wrong-doing of their own party while lambasting stumbles on the other side. In the middle, are the American people who constantly get cast aside for the egos of Washington, DC. If you listened to Hagle's full commentary, you will note that he notes a point of view support by this RantRaver many times in the past. Americans from the President to the the most recently converted citizen need to be loyal first and foremost to the Constitution and our nation. Party loyalty should be the last think on anyone's mind.