David Axelrod hits back at Cheney: Not behaving like a 'statesman'

By GottaLaff

Remember the days when nobody dared speak out against the big, bad Nation of Dick? Go get 'em, David:

Top Obama adviser David Axelrod sharply criticized Dick Cheney's recent contention that the president's national security policies have made the country less safe, suggesting the former vice president is not behaving like a "statesman."

[President Bush] has behaved like a statesman," Axelrod told CNN's John King on State of the Union regarding the former president's decision not to criticize the new administration. "And as I've said before, here and elsewhere, I just don't think the memo got passed down to the vice president."

Somehow juxtaposing the words "Bush" and "statesman" is a little disconcerting. Let's give Axelrod a pass just this once.

[...] Axelrod suggested the Bush Administration terrorism policies had largely failed.

"I find it supremely ironic, on a day when we were meeting with NATO, to talk about the continued threat from al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where they're still plotting against us eight years — or seven years later," he said. "I think the question for Mr. Cheney is, how could that be? How could this have gone so long? Why are they still in business?"

...Especially at a time when everyone else is going out of business.

UPDATE-- Here's the video: