Opinion: Kindly Dick Cheney’s advice for Hillary Clinton:<em> Run!</em>
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Ever eager to offer helpful political advice from his long Washington experience, former Vice President Dick Cheney thinks former first lady, former senator and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should challenge Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2012.
Cheney is doing more interviews than he would like these days. He’d like to do zero interviews.
But he’s selling a book, ‘In My Time,’ which as the former high school wrestler promised, settles some scores from that long Washington experience.
This time Cheney was on ABC News with Jonathan Karl.
Part of the silent understanding in these book promotion deals is that the author tacitly agrees to answer some questions that have nothing to do with the book but might make news in return for some questions that do have something to do with the book.
Karl asked Cheney if Hillary Clinton would have made a better president than the Real Good Talker who gets a national stage again tonight to talk to Congress.
Cheney acknowledged that she hasn’t expressed any interest and called her a ‘pretty formidable individual,’ high praise in Wyoming.
He added:
I think she’s probably the most competent person they’ve got in their– in their cabinet. And, frankly, I thought she was gonna win the nomination last time around. Maybe if the Obama record is bad enough -- and these days it’s not very good, given the shape of the economy -- maybe there will be enough ferment in the Democratic Party so that there will be a primary on their side.
Then Cheney added:
I think it’d be good for the country. It’d be good for the Democratic Party.
And then he added something else:
And it might even help the Republicans.
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