I’d been muttering to myself about Darth Dick’s appearance on CNN yesterday. In response, I think the Obama people have struck the right tone — mockery.
During this afternoon’s White House press conference, Robert Gibbs positively lambasted Dick Cheney — both for the attacks that Cheney lodged against President Obama in yesterday’s CNN interview, and for Cheney’s own record in office:
Gibbs was asked about Cheney’s line that the Obama Administration is making the country less safe. “Well, I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy,” Gibbs said, prompting of the reporters to laugh out loud. “So they trotted out their next-most popular member of the Republican cabal.”
Gibbs then elaborated on Obama’s responsibilities as president to fight terrorist — and the failures that came before him: