Cheney Is Attacking the Bush Administration?

Quotes of the day:

"The great Obama-Cheney event got us everywhere and nowhere. Everywhere in the sense that this, finally, was the national-security debate that never was in a campaign dominated by other issues and two candidates who agreed on Gitmo and torture; nowhere in the sense that we’re right where we were before. What President Obama is trying to do is actually more audacious than hope: It’s nuance. He’s painting in grays for an audience that’s used to black and white. He’s sewing a patchwork that Vice President Dick Cheney says is really an unraveling." — Rick Klein, ABC News

"When Cheney lambastes the change in security policy, he’s not really attacking the Obama administration. He’s attacking the Bush administration. In his speech on Thursday, he repeated in public a lot of the same arguments he had been making within the Bush White House as the policy decisions went more and more the other way." — David Brooks, The New York Times

"A year ago, six months ago, people were debating whether this was a crisis or not. They thought it would be contained to the United States, the world would be insulated from it. No one takes that view now. Their economies are going through as challenging a period as ours, in many ways, more challenging than ours, and I think that has led to greater recognition about the imperative in Europe for more aggressive action. You’re seeing it." — Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner

"If you’re out there, please bring Danny home so we can decide as a family what Danny’s treatment should be." — Anthony Hauser’s public plea for his wife to respond to a court order and bring home their 13-year-old son.  Daniel Hauser’s cancer has a  90% cure rate in children treated with chemotherapy and radiation; the survival rate drops to 5% without those treatments, which Daniel’s mother is refusing wanting to pursuit natural remedies.  Mother and son are on the run.