CBS’s Schieffer Admits Cheney ‘Winning’ Security Debate

While discussing Thursday’s opposing national security speeches by President Obama and former Vice President Cheney, on Friday’s CBS Early Show, Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer acknowledged:

"...the fact that the President of the United States had to make this speech, the fact that Congress had turned him down in giving him the money to close Guantanamo, on points, I give it to -- to the Vice President on this...Right now I think the Vice President has made his case. And at this point I'd have to say he's winning." [snip]


While both Smith and Schieffer recognized Cheney’s success at countering Obama on issues like closing Guantanamo Bay, near the end of the segment Schieffer still declared:

"I think most people think that Guantanamo is an open sore. That it in many ways it's a recruiting tool for these terrorists."

[Like it recruited the 9/11 terrorists. Just like CO2 & global warming: effect preceding cause. We're not smart enough to notice.]

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