Jindal to Cheney: Leave Obama aloooone!

posted at 9:55 am on April 17, 2009 by MadisonConservative

First Sarah Palin called the McCain family “a class act”. Now Bobby Jindal is complaining that former Vice President Cheney is being too tough on Obama.

I don’t know about you, but I’m a vodka man.

Asked to respond to Cheney’s remark during an interview ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Jindal said: “I don’t think we should question President Obama’s patriotism or his intentions.”

“I think Democrat or Republican, we should all agree that our current president, our former president would obviously want to do everything they could to keep us safe,” he said. “Let’s give the new administration a chance. Let’s not question their intentions. Let’s have a real debate on their policies.”

I’ll be the first to admit that a lot of people were suffering from a serious case of Obama Derangement Syndrome in the post-election weeks leading up to the inauguration, and it didn’t help anything. Some of those people are still focusing on canards like “Obama is a Muslim” while failing to engage the fact that whatever religion he is, he’s authorizing more spending than at any time in American history, and already has set us up for record deficits for the next decade.

However, there are a couple of things that need to be addressed here. First of all, if there are two people in the entire world who have every reason and right to be critical of the Obama administration, it’s former President George W. Bush and former Veep Dick Cheney. They endured eight years of more scrutiny than any administration, ever. They were called fascists, dictators, war criminals, and worse…all the while pursuing foreign policy that, more often than not, put US security and interests as top priority. For Jindal to scold either of them for voicing their concerns, with the guy who’s held their job for three months, is patronizing and condescending. I don’t think Jindal necessarily means it that way, but it doesn’t matter.

Secondly, the Obama administration has so far made a number of good decisions regarding our Middle Eastern conflicts and WOT situation…by carrying on Bush policies. On his own, in terms of foreign policy, the guy is showing himself to be a kindergartner. He’s fumbled a number of situations with world leaders, whether it’s as benign as giving DVDs that won’t play to Gordon Brown, or bowing to the Saudi king. He’s been completely impotent on the resurgence of North Korean nuclear posing. Perhaps the only real success he’s had has been the handling of the Somali pirate situation, which…he stayed entirely out of.

In short, both Jindal and Obama are greenhorns when it comes to handling the foreign affairs of the United States, while Cheney is a seasoned veteran. Obama would do well to listen to the embattled former Vice President, as would Jindal if he has any real aspirations about eventually running for the White House.

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