WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday his predecessor, ****** Cheney, is "dead wrong" when he said President Barack Obama's national security policies are making the United States less safe. Biden said the exact opposite was true and that President George W. Bush's vice president was incorrect.

"I don't think he is out of line, but he is dead wrong. ... The last administration left us in a weaker posture than we've been any time since World War II: less regarded in the world, stretched more thinly than we ever have been in the past, two wars under way, virtually no respect in entire parts of the world," Biden said. "And so we've been about the business of repairing and strengthening those. I guarantee you we are safer today, our interests are more secure today than they were any time during the eight years" of the Bush administration.

Since becoming president, Obama has ordered the closing of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and banned certain interrogation methods for suspected terrorists.

Cheney last month said the Bush administration programs involving suspected terrorists were critically important and that overturning them had made the country less safe.

"I think those programs were absolutely essential to the success we enjoyed of being able to collect the intelligence that let us defeat all further attempts to launch attacks against the United States since 9/11," Cheney said.

"I think that's a great success story. It was done legally. It was done in accordance with our constitutional practices and principles," he said. "President Obama campaigned against it all across the country. And now he is making some choices that, in my mind, will, in fact, raise the risk to the American people of another attack," Cheney said.

Biden said he and Obama are working to repair the United States' reputation, which was damaged abroad over the unpopular 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Biden was interviewed on CNN's "The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer."

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Biden? Who is this guy?

I pray nightly for the guaranteed health and well being of His Excellency Barack (Idi Amin) Hussein (boy whiner) Obama.

Richard Simmons was in the running until I heard he was dating Potts

Sorry, I meant to write that he has an "energetic liver".

Yes. He (and his liver) is so dreamy.

The ones in place now are about a notch above play doh eaters but none the less it feels like an improvement.

Btw, has anyone else noticed that Play Doh must have changed their recipe. I remember it being a little more palatable with some saltiness to it back when I was in about kindergarten. Last time I tried it it was just bland and had a more plasticy aftertaste. Anyone?

Maybe your taste buds have changed.