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Great post #34! We must be about the same age, with the same track record.

As for Cheney, I'm not sure what it is that scares them. He's enough older to come from an unapologetic generation, however, and the press twits may not know how to deal with this. Billy Jeff made "apology" the word of the day, even though his apologies were pretty selective and he never meant a one of them. Nonetheless, that what was the press was seeking from the President last night, another "apology."

I think the press and the rest of the world demands a sort of hunched, defensive posture from any (conservative) public figure now. The problem is that Cheney doesn't give it to them, and they have no idea how to handle this.

I think the press and the rest of the world demands a sort of hunched, defensive posture from any (conservative) public figure now. The problem is that Cheney doesn't give it to them, and they have no idea how to handle this

Well that is part of it but my hunch is that is a small part. The "Cheney voodoo.," as it were, is made of stronger stuff. Disappointment is scarcely the motivation - white knuckeld fear subdues the rascals. Maybe they know he not only inhabits but has mastered that "real world" that they are alway grousing about but that their hand can never quite reach, or perhaps they fear that he might just get out of them just what they are really about, right out of their own mouth and right there on the air and in prime time and,well, just everything. Maybe they are scared to death that he might humiliated them, make fun of them and mock them right to their faces and they will not even know it even as it is happening.

Maybe the experience is just to rich for them. straightforward yet subtle, logical but earthy, sober but witty and with even hints of the wistful - his command of the facts, thought, his mind and language overwhelms them. He all too well knows our measure but is still fond of us. It is like listening to Mozart.

And it would not do to say that he "speaks in paragraphs" - he "speaks in essays." They, of course, speak in sound bites and think not at all.

A mighty mojo indeed.

Hehehe...it is just too funny. I try never to miss it. It always just makes my week. I cannot wait for the VP debates