Favorable opinion of Dick Cheney on the rise

[HT:Ldot: Hearing someone speaking truth to blather focuses the mind.]

(CNN) — The same day Dick Cheney delivered a major speech on the battle against terrorism, a new national poll suggests that favorable opinions of the former vice president are on the rise.

In the past two months the former vice president has become a frequent critic of the new Administration in numerous national media interviews.

The survey’s release came just a few hours before Cheney spoke out Thursday on the war against terror during a speech at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington based think tank.

The former vice president defended the Bush Administration’s handling of the war on terror and challenged the Obama Administration’s attempt to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

[This before yesterday's speech is noteworthy, given the overwhelmingly positive reception of it. Citizens know our enemies haven't gone away and we're only at the beginning of the long war - only made longer by half measures and appeasements.]

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