He wielded US power for the purpose of undoing the Geneva Conventions and the UN Convention on Torture, and we now learn, he was eager to reverse long-standing US policy to prevent the "disappearances" of suspects:
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
This is an unspoken reason why the Republicans are fearful of Obama. In Cheney’s efforts to take ignore the Constitution and take upon himself, and by extension the Presidency, the power to do anything they want to anyone, anywhere they’ve now given Obama those powers.
To quote Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy in 48 hours”) this is every white mans worst fear: a black man with a badge and a gun.
Now they’ve got a black President who not only has a badge, and guns. He’s got armies, police, and most frightening to the white supremacist Republicans (almost the whole party right now) the secret police force Cheney created.
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