White House Slams Cheney: Bush a “Statesman,” Cheney Didn’t Get “The Memo”

Despite consistently getting into embarrassing tit-for-tat’s and media hot water for past swipes at leaders in the GOP or conservat8vces movement who have vocally criticized the Obama administration, the White House can’t seem to let a Sunday (or a Gibbs presser, for that matter) go by without a cheap shot at some middling foe.

While the importance of Rush Limbaugh, a previous target of White House ire, is not to be debated, former vice president Dick Cheney is ostensibly out of influence within the Republican Party and not the sort of figure Obama and his allies should be seen responding point by point to slightly unhinged attacks on the new administration.

Chief White House adviser David Axelrod was the latest Obama aide or ally to lash out at the former VP, taking Darth Cheney to task for typically ominous comments about the policies of President Obama and how they have put America at risk for “further attacks” from terrorists.

Ironically, Axelrod actually praised former President George W. Bush in his efforet to knock Cheney…

Top Obama adviser David Axelrod sharply criticized Dick Cheney’s recent contention that the president’s national security policies have made the country less safe, suggesting the former vice president is not behaving like a “statesman.”

[President Bush] has behaved like a statesman,” Axelrod told CNN’s John King on State of the Union regarding the former president’s decision not to criticize the new administration. “And as I’ve said before, here and elsewhere, I just don’t think the memo got passed down to the vice president.”

“I find it supremely ironic, on a day when we were meeting with NATO, to talk about the continued threat from al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where they’re still plotting against us eight years — or seven years later,” he said. “I think the question for Mr. Cheney is, how could that be? How could this have gone so long? Why are they still in business?”

It’s just odd that the White House feels so defensive about the Cheney comments while Obama is having a remarkably successful European rollout and the economy continues to be the number one story for the press and ordinary Americans. Makes them seem, dare we say, out of touch…

Meanwhile, the ever-mysterious Cheney has so far refused to send his records to what was supposed to be their final home at the new Bush 43 library at Southern Methodist University.

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