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Balanced and unsparing

posted 11 years ago by bron-tay
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Dick Cheney is pretty good-natured about his waning influence in the last days of the Bush presidency. He couldn't get a full pardon for Scooter Libby and he couldn't persuade anyone to go after Syria's WMD (whaddya know, Assad is now using them in a human rights disaster). I'd say the most partisan commentary is from critics, the most objective from admirers; his admirers note his misfortunes and missteps with objectivity.

Cheney worked hard after the disaster of Watergate to strengthen the Executive, which had lost a great deal of power to Congress and to such presumptuous figures as Henry Kissinger (a casualty of Cheney's Halloween Massacre of 1975).

At heart, he's a Wyoming boy who loves to fish and enjoy the big skies and big country. He has a great deal of dignity and self-awareness.

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[–] bruce-129 8 years ago

Really some investigator has to figure out who it was that was driving Cheney, Rumsfeld to push Ford to purge the moderates out of Presidency. This was the spearpoint of a right wing revolution that ushered the dupe Ronald Reagan into office. A powerful and heavy group of industrialists that can push anyone into the Presidency, and that is who they got ... George W. Bush. Look at the snippets they show of Bush ... proud of his ignorance ... and so snide. When he is talking about Cheney as VP ... he said very interesting question.

The VP candidates for Bush ... Lamar Alexander ... Keating ... real financial criminals and members of the "military junta." These were people who think ... no, who know they can do whatever they want and laugh at any consquences to that.

As they talk about the closest election in American history ... so close the losers had to be appointed to the office.