{"id":331759,"date":"2010-02-17T22:02:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T03:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/cheney-non-committal-on-palins-2012-qualifications\/"},"modified":"2010-02-17T22:02:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T03:02:44","slug":"cheney-non-committal-on-palin%e2%80%99s-2012-qualifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/331759","title":{"rendered":"Cheney Non-committal On Palin\u2019s 2012 Qualifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Dick+Cheney_1961_19617098_0_0_5432_300.jpg\" alt=\"Cheney non-committal on Palin's 2012 qualifications \" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Former vice president Dick Cheney has been a vocal political commentator in recent months, focusing mainly on criticizing the Obama administrations&#8217; foreign and security policy. However, when asked what he thought about Sarah Palin&#8217;s suitability to run for president in 2012, Cheney sought to dodge the question. <\/p>\n<p>Appearing on ABC&#8217;s <em>This Week<\/em> last Sunday, Cheney was asked if the former vice presidential candidate was qualified for the job. He responded by saying that he had not yet made a decision as to who he would support in two years. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Whoever it is [he or she is] going to have to prove themselves capable of being president of the U.S. And those tests will come during the course of campaigns, obviously,&quot; he said, quoted by <em>CNN<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Cheney added that all of the prospective candidates today still have work to do to persuade Americans that they are up to carrying out &quot;the world&#8217;s toughest job.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month the former governor of Alaska delivered the keynote speech at the first-ever Tea Party national convention in Nashville, Tenn. A day after the speech, Palin, who is a new <em>Fox News<\/em> commentator, revealed that she was receiving daily policy briefings from advisers, and hinted she might run for president in 2012.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19617098-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19617098\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former vice president Dick Cheney has been a vocal political commentator in recent months, focusing mainly on criticizing the Obama administrations&#8217; foreign and security policy. However, when asked what he thought about Sarah Palin&#8217;s suitability to run for president in 2012, Cheney sought to dodge the question. Appearing on ABC&#8217;s This Week last Sunday, Cheney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}