I voted against the asshole, twice. According to the poll numbers at the time and “experts” at the time, a shitload of other people voted against him (twice) also,
I’m trying to picture Barrack Obama, wringing his hands and looking pathetic, saying “It was that evil Joe Biden, he lied to me and kept me from finding out the truth. . . I was a prisoner in my office and never given the information I needed . . .”
Yeah, right. The word is “Leader” - look it up.
W had Secret Service protection, if he’d wanted to read a damn newspaper, or talk to the right people to get information first hand he could have.
Same, and now I have to live with all the assholes who voted for him. I’d just as soon deport all of them off to Ireland, or some socialistical European country, but that’s not going to happen, is it? Poor me!
Oi! Keep them the fuck away from me. They’re your problem. We’ve got enough of our own.
Unfortunately for you (and me), William Rehnquist got to vote for him three times.
This quote particularly slays me:
Now, I do understand that SMU is a religious institution, but surely they must teach their students the definitions of “Theocracy” and “Democracy”?
Yeah, thanks, that part I knew. W assigned Cheney to find him a running mate. Cheney came back to W and said, “I’m the best guy I could find, so choose me.”
How did Cheney land the assignment in the first place?
Could it be…Satan?
I absolutely hate that you’re probably right about this :mad:. (bolding mine)
Could be. My take is that Chaney was on the VP selection committee…and during the process Bush selected Chaney instead. So, my guess is that Chaney, um, ‘suggested’ to GW that ole Dickey boy would make a bang up VP.
It’s not like Chaney was an off the wall pick either…he had plenty of political experience after all. Besides…he just LOOKS so evil, that it was a perfect match.
-XT
I’m not sure what’s so confusing about it. Cheney was Secretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush, serving from 1989 until 1993. He’s an old family friend. From the beginning, W surrounded himself with his dad’s old cronies. It’s hardly surprising that they’d ask Cheney to pick a VP, and just as shocking that they’d go along with his choice when he picked himself.
Here’s the thing about feeling sorry for W: some folks in this thread seem to feel that he’s just a poor addle-brained retard who stumbled his way through things. I really don’t think that’s the case. I firmly believe that W is not stupid. He is, however, intellectually lazy, with no curiosity whatsoever. And that, to me, is worse than mere stupidity; he chose to ignore anything he didn’t agree with, changed reality to suit his beliefs, and never inquired as to whether a viewpoint he didn’t share had any merit.
He is deliberately ignorant, and he acted on his ignorance. And that’s how evil begins.
Sometimes people need to be reminded (again and again) that this is no isolated abstract or concept. This is no board game of Risk or Stratego. These are people, who are gone because Little Boots couldn’t keep it in his pants (figuratively speaking).
I know one thing, I could never do that Major’s job. I’m pretty sure I’d rather get shot at than face those families.
Who the hell is Chaney?
Don’t be an icehole. Dirk Chaney is one of the biggest bastardges in your farking political system.
You know, Chaney!
The resemblance is striking, I’ll give you that.
You shouldn’t kick me in the balls, yojimbo. My sister kicked me in the balls once. Once.
Carol Stream made another funny!
I remember reading in The Washington Post, probably in the series of articles based on this book, that Cheney insisted that potential VP candidates submit to an especially intrusive series of questions on personal finances and health - intrusive even by VP search standards. Cheney and Addington used this information to disqualify many potential VP candidates. Of course, Cheney did not subject himself to this level of scrutiny, his famous heart condition for example. But when “all” of the other candidates were eliminated for one “reason” or another, W was left with but one choice - Cheney.
A classic magician’s force.
I also remember from the same source that when a potential VP candidate for Dubya - the former governor of Oklahoma as I recall - was later under consideration for a cabinet post in the Bush II administration, some of the health info on the governor was leaked by Cheney’s people. Seems Cheney’s folk thought the guy was not doctrinally pure enough, so violation of privacy and back stabbing were the order of the day. And the ex-gov’s nomination to the cabinet was derailed.
Is it any wonder that people like that would go on to do the evil and destructive things that they did?
Too true. Even now people in this country are arguing that torture is OK if our people, or more specifically their people, are doing it. Is that what we’ve come to in just a few years?