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Title: Cheney in 2012? Now there’s a real September surprise
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LATIMES
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Published: Sep 1, 2009
Author: LATIMES
Post Date: 2009-09-01 20:06:45 by Brian S
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When George W. Bush selected Dick Cheney to be his running mate in 2000, some political observers thought it was a smart move. After all, Cheney had cut his political teeth working for the candidate’s father and had already endured several heart attacks. So, the thinking went, the 60-year-old Cheney would not be a political rival to the new president, staging occasional rear-action insurrections, just a steadying veteran hand. Right. In fact Cheney became the most powerful vice president in history, and Barton Gellman argues in his book "Angler" that Cheney did most of the steering in George W. Bush’s first term. Now, nine years later, having survived heart seizures and eight years of the Bush administration, Cheney has emerged as an energizing force in Republican politics, becoming the most outspoken Bush-era critic of the Obama administration. While the former president maintains a dignified public silence about his views, his former vice president has turned into a media pit bull -- accusing the new president of putting the country at risk by closing Guantanamo Bay and banning torture, accusing Atty. Gen. Eric Holder of politicizing the fight against terrorism by investigating CIA interrogators. On Moday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs let him have it, accusing the former vice president of getting his facts wrong, of "the same song and dance we've heard almost from the first day." Now comes James Taranto, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, who is suggesting that Cheney would be a terrific presidential candidate in 2012. If national security emerges as the key issue in the election, he argues, “Republicans would be wise to nominate someone with both toughness and experience. Under such circumstances, it’s hard to think of a better candidate -- assuming, of course, that he could be persuaded to run -- than Richard B. Cheney.” The calculus: If the Afghanistan war worsens, it will become Obama’s war. And if terrorists attack this country again, a fierce voice on national security might have a chance. Plus, Cheney is writing his memoirs, a sure route to the presidency.
Poster Comment: Oh just 'fuck me'. It doesn't get much better than this... LOL!!!~
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
what an absolute idiot..
Obama's numbers have plummeted to 45%, His health care plan is being roasted
at national town halls, Afghanistan is a mess; the anti-war Ds have become
blood dancers, and the Ds are positioning themselves for a '94 style
implosion. This Cheney story is an opportunity for partisan Ds to distract
folks from the Kenyan and the Marxists in his administration.
Not with his bad heart, it'd be like Roosevelt winning in 1944 and croaking in April/1945.
_________________________________________________________________________ The most astute remark in this entire article.
LOL
Cheney is the only know case in medical history where the baby died and the afterbirth lived... well sorta lived.
His policies would tend to undermine the freedoms held dear by most of us. But the dude's got both the "matter-of-factness" style of speaking and the huevos lacking in any other candidate on the horizon.
Conan O last night: Yeah, a political group is now advocating a Cheney run for the White House in 2012. They're called Democrats.
TRAITORS TO AMERICA AND BRAINWASHED IDIOTS SUPPORT AND DEFEND ISRAEL. TO HELL WITH ZIONISTS AND THIER AMERICAN FRONTS: AIPAC/PNAC/ADL/JPCA/NAACP/CFR/FEDERAL RESERVE/NWO/SPLC/JINSA/ACLU/FPI/CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS/AEI/FEDERAL MEDIA/HOLLYWOOD, et. al.
If he ran and was elected, Cheney would take office as the oldest President, just days short of his 71st birthday, almost two years older than Reagan at inauguration. Cheney has a very definite history of heart trouble (including while VP) and is on a heavy medication regimen for that reason. In fact, during the 2000 campaign, he deliberately concealed his true medical condition not only from the voters but even from Dubya (as shown in the recent book Angler). And don't get me started on his other acts of dishonesty and chicanery ...
laughing!
Now comes James Taranto, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, who is suggesting that Cheney would be a terrific presidential candidate in 2012.
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
It doesn't get much better than this... LOL!!!~
#3. To: All (#0)
#4. To: Brian S (#0)
...suggesting that Cheney would be a terrific presidential candidate in 2012.
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#5. To: Brian S (#0)
Oh just 'fuck me'. It doesn't get much better than this... LOL!!!~
#6. To: TooConservative (#5)
#7. To: Brian S (#0)
#8. To: Brian S (#0)
#9. To: X-15, BrianS, Jethro Tull (#4)
#10. To: bush_is_a_moonie (#7)
#11. To: wbales (#9)
Yeah, a political group is now advocating a Cheney run for the White House in 2012. They're called Democrats.
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