President Obama wants to assure you he is not Dick Cheney… if anyone was operating under that assumption. You know, they accuse Cheney of a lot of things — being evil, going to war to increase his profits at Halliburton, being more machine than man, biting the heads off kittens — but what no one accuses Cheney of is being incompetent. So I think Obama has a long way to go until anyone would realistically mistake him for Dick Cheney.

Sure, Obama is trying to imitate Cheney — but in the way a kid would tie a red blanket around his neck and imitate Superman. But no one is going to mistake that kid for the real Superman. And no one actually mistakes Obama for Cheney… the man who shot his friends in the face with a shotgun and we can only imagine what he did to terrorists.

So when Obama blows people up with drones and spies on everyone, we don’t think, “Here’s a terrible force we should fear!” we think “Here’s a bumbling idiot who has no idea what he’s doing we should fear!”