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Cheney crawls out from under his rock...again...

POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Thursday, October 2, 2025 17:35
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STORYMARK

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:15 PM

Wow, that last gust of hot air was particularly hi-larious.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

NIKI2

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:33 PM

it was, wasn't it? Weather's chilly, so I enjoyed it, as you're right, it was especially giggly.

But enough fun, I've been playing here all morning, way longer than I should have. I'll leave the enjoyment to the rest of you...

KWICKO

Friday, February 19, 2010 3:18 PM

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Cook? Really?

haha.. oh man. correcting my spelling errors just never gets old, does it Kwicky?

Hell, the Spelling Fairy would have a full-time job trying to keep up with your mangled language. "Conspiracy Cook" just struck me as funny.

By the way, I don't recall correcting your spelling a whole bunch in the past. What other usernames do you post under?

Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me?

I guess we have our answer to that question...

AURAPTOR

Friday, February 19, 2010 3:33 PM

Come to think of it, Jimmah Carter broke with tradition back when Clinton was in office as well. He tried to muddle in with foreign affairs w/ regards to N. Korea and the Palestinians, if I recall.

All Cheney's done is defend himself and his administration from excessive finger pointing by the current residents.

Cheney was far from perfect, and made mistakes, as any VP will, but for this administration to continuously carry on and deflect due criticism of their handling of - EVERYTHING to their predecessors, is deplorable.

Obama & Biden are sounding more like Bart Simpson... " I didn't' do it, you can't prove anything, it's not my fault "

JONGSSTRAW

Friday, February 19, 2010 3:48 PM

Excusing bad behavior by pointing out another's bad behavior is not a meaningful or just analogy. Besides, if Cheney was so concerned with his "image" and/or place in history, then why didn't he EVER defend Bush or himself during the 8 years they ran the country? During the 8 years the liberal media was ripping them to shreds every day? He said nothing, he was too aloof, too important, too existential, too whatever. It took Cheney and Bush how many years to finally figure out how to win in Iraq? 6 years to figure out we needed more troops? 6 years to come up with the catch phrase "surge". Oooh, what a genius! HE allowed the Democrats and Liberals to take the high ground, and now he's desperately trying to communicate like he should have done when he was in office. And it hurts me when he continues to boast about waterboarding and coerced interrogation. Obama is blowing up terrorists every day with drones...what more could anyone want? Does Cheney just miss the fun? Sorry, that's how I see it.

ps. I like what Boehner said yesterday at CPAC....he spoke out against the actions of Republican-led Congress during the Bush years. They're the ones that started us on the way to huge deficits. If Republicans and/or Conservatives want to get some power back in this country, they better NOT seek out anything from Bush or Cheney, unless they actually want to open up old wounds and lose elections.

NIKI2

Friday, February 19, 2010 4:39 PM

Hear, hear, JS. Unfortunately, the love affair is definitely not over; at C-PAC, Cheney was the most popular speaker, starting at the podium to loud cries of "Run, Dick, Run!!". This is a very sad, frightened, sick maqn...which means what? That his audience was filled with sad, frightened, sick people?

Kinda says it all, don't it? We're doomed.

JONGSSTRAW

Friday, February 19, 2010 5:11 PM

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Hear, hear, JS. Unfortunately, the love affair is definitely not over; at C-PAC, Cheney was the most popular speaker, starting at the podium to loud cries of "Run, Dick, Run!!". This is a very sad, frightened, sick man...which means what? That his audience was filled with sad, frightened, sick people?

Kinda says it all, don't it? We're doomed.

I wouldn't worry too much about Cheney or CPAC. Sure they're making some headlines now with their fiery rhetoric and un-bridled Obama bashing (how expectedly boring!)... but in the big picture all of it doesn't add up to anything significant. Americans get tired of hearing the same old attacks, and if Hannity and Limbaugh couldn't stop Obama from getting elected, I hardly think Cheney will. I think America wants reasonable leaders, just like we in the RWED want reasonable posters. We will never agree on everything, will likely disagree on most things, but we all can be reasonable in our presentations. And if the other sides' case is more compelling, then suck it up and admit it.

NIKI2

Friday, February 19, 2010 7:09 PM

...and hear, hear again. I hope you're right about CPAC; what I've seen so far amazes even ME in how "far out" it's been. Whew! I can only hope you're right.

JONGSSTRAW

Friday, February 19, 2010 7:24 PM

I'm no political whiz, but it's clear that Independents decide elections. Independents don't like extreme ideology coming from any Party. If a hard-core Conservative was nominated as the Republican candidate to challenge Obama, his tone would be much softer and moderate than when addressing groups like CPAC, where they just throw red meat at them. Libs do the same. They all campaign as moderates, then they morph back into their ideological comfort zone. All we voters have to go on is their voting record, if they have one.

KWICKO

Friday, February 19, 2010 7:33 PM

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I'm no political whiz, but it's clear that Independents decide elections. Independents don't like extreme ideology coming from any Party. If a hard-core Conservative was nominated as the Republican candidate to challenge Obama, his tone would be much softer and moderate than when addressing groups like CPAC, where they just throw red meat at them. Libs do the same. They all campaign as moderates, then they morph back into their ideological comfort zone. All we voters have to go on is their voting record, if they have one.

I dunno, Jongsie - I'm told by conservatives that Obama ran as a committed Socialist, and he's only now trying to steer towards the middle (well, after he finishes destroying this country in the name of socialism. Or Islam. Or communism.). If the independents were what carried the election in '08, it seems they DO like radicals, at least on the left.

Mike

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