Jimmy Carter Speaks Out Against Vice President Cheney
It seems that the well renowned Jimmy Carter has problems with the way the White House is being run. He is bold enough to speak out loud what he thinks and on the NBC nightly news and he chose that time to speak his dislike of Dick Cheney.
NBC anchor – Brian Williams – proceeded to highlight how “in an interview with the BBC, former President Carter calls Vice President Cheney quote, ‘a disaster for America’ and ‘a militant,’ who has been in Carter’s words, ‘overly persuasive’ on President Bush.” A few hours later, MSNBC’s Live with Dan Abrams led with Carter’s derision with “’DISASTER’?” on screen under a picture of Cheney.
A Reuters dispatch, “Jimmy Carter calls Cheney a ‘disaster’ for U.S.,” reported Carter’s attack:
“He’s a militant who avoided any service of his own in the military and he has been most forceful in the last 10 years or more in fulfilling some of his more ancient commitments that the United States has a right to inject its power through military means in other parts of the world,” Carter told the BBC World News America in an interview to air later on Wednesday.
“You know he’s been a disaster for our country,” Carter said. “I think he’s been overly persuasive on President George Bush and quite often he’s prevailed.”
When asked to respond, a Cheney spokesperson said quote, “we are not going to engage in this type of rhetoric.”