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Cheney: Hillary “more competent” than Obama?

By Joel Gehrke

Former Vice President Dick Cheney praised Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, apparently at President Obama’s expense, while discussing the possibility of a Hillary Clinton presidency – and 2012 primary challenge to Obama – on Chris Wallace’s Fox News Sunday this morning.

Cheney demurred when asked if Hillary Clinton “would have been a better president” than Obama, but he did say that “she might have been easier than some of us who are critics of the president to work with.”

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In explanation, he came as close as he would to complimenting Hillary Clinton at Obama’s expense:

I have a sense that she’s one of the more competent members of the current administration and it would be interesting to speculate about how she might to perform where she to be president.

 

Cheney still refused to endorse a Hillary challenge to Obama, and noted that “that might be the kiss of death for her.”

Cheney also had praise for the Tea Party, while dismissing the much-discussed possibility that Republicans nominate someone too conservative to win the general election against President Obama:

 

My belief is, that I think the Tea Party folks have had a significant positive affect. I think they have in fact, sort of put on the national agenda in no uncertain terms, this whole question of our debt and deficit. I think members of Congress are paying a lot of attention as they should, and I would expect that they will continue to have a role to play and they represent a significant body of opinions across the country and badly wants the government to get its act together with respect to spending. I think that’s a plus.

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