April 24, 2009
Why can’t Meghan be more like Liz?

Posted at 6:36 pm, in: Responsibility
Tags: Barack Obama, Liz Cheney

Liz Cheney has it right, it doesn’t matter which party you identify with (in my case, neither), it’s about having a president who stands up for America:

Liz Cheney, former State Department official and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, defended her father’s string of tough comments aimed at President Obama, telling an interviewer that the former VP believes the new president is taking the nation down a “dangerous” path and that he has an “obligation to stand up.”

“I think he is concerned that some of the things that we have seen President Obama do, particularly on his overseas trip in terms of not taking the opportunity to stand up and defend America when Daniel Ortega delivers a 50-minute screed against the United States [during the Summit of the Americas],” she told MSNBC in an interview that aired Thursday.

“I think that there’s a real concern. I mean, the message that we saw coming out of the last few foreign trips — I mean, forget Republican and Democrat, as an American it concerns me when I have a president that doesn’t stand up and say, ‘Wait a minute, you know, I’m going to defend the United States of America because we are a beacon of hope for people all around the world,’” she said.

“The vice president thinks it’s very important, when you see the country go down paths that are concerning and dangerous, and when you see the current administration making decisions that really do have the potential to make us less safe, in those circumstances I would say the vice president doesn’t think there’s an obligation to be silent — in fact, I think he believes the opposite, which is there’s an obligation to stand up…” she said.

There is an obligation for every citizen to stand up and speak out against President Obama when they think he is wrong. And, that doesn’t just go for Obama. It is our duty as responsible citizens to stand up and speak out against anything we perceive to be wrong, whether that be the president, Democrats, organizations, or members of our own party.