Posted on 01/15/2006 6:48:22 AM PST by kellynla
It's hard to imagine Dick Cheney at play, but he does have a lighter side. He likes to stroll with his wife, Lynne, or fly-fish on quiet mornings with the four grandkids near his Wyoming home. He makes a point of remembering where his aides were brought up and often asks after their families. Once, he startled his Secret Service bodyguards when he walked away from his armor-plated limousine, tapped on the window of a staff vehicle, and presented an Air Force sergeant from the motor pool with a pair of stripes and congratulations on a promotion. He gets a kick out of the Saturday Night Live spoofs of his secretive ways and his man-behind-the-curtain, Wizard of Oz reputation.
This genial, easygoing Dick Cheney is what many Washington insiders remember from his earlier years in the capital when he was a bright young White House aide and later a popular member of Congress. Today, though, the vice president is widely seen as Washington's curmudgeon in chief, a powerful but uncompromising politician with the ear of the president. Cheney is at the very center of the current white-hot debate over the administration's aggressive conduct of the war on terrorism and President Bush's expansion of presidential powers. Indeed, Cheney has been the intellectual godfather of these concepts within the White House. His central argument, as described in a U.S. News interview, is that the United States is at a pivotal point in history--a point that requires a particularly muscular commander in chief to combat terrorism (interview, Page 48). "This is a battle," the vice president says, "for the future of civilization."
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So did Clinton, he just didn't disclose his medical records. PLUS Clintons heart was/is black.
Show me a single Presidential candidate who didn't emphatically deny any interest in running for president...right up to the moment they declared their candidacy. Anyone who doesn't think Cheney is considering it is fooling himself.
I totally disagree. Cheney has a grandfather appeal that resonates with everyone. He would probably be a more conservative President than Bush too, and would be better at articulating policy.
Too old. Could not win. Cheney is more hated by the left than Hitlery is by the right. We'll need somebody new in '08.
VP Rice would either get the crown handed to her, or she would be the frontrunner in 2012.
64 is hardly "too old."
MSM circa 1980 against Reagan, is that you?
McCain is going to be 72, has had 2 rounds of melanoma cancer and they all droll over his possible candidacy - No Way, I'd rather see Cheney die trying than have McCain and his megalomania run for the presidency!
I don't know if he has the personality to win.
Helen did kill herself......... did you see her?
please vote: http://www.billoreilly.com/
I love MSNBC's subtitle on Hardball..."The Cheney Shooting" These guys are hilarious!
It would be real simple, Cheney takes his opposition hunting....
I'd gladly vote for him.
Many POTUS have had health problems.
He'd have my vote. I just wish he hadn't had four heart attacks, bypass surgery, an angioplasty, a stent to bring to the top job.""
I would vote for him, also. His baggage aces the baggage of John Kerry: Wierd wife, surfboard, shotgun he doesn't know how to even carry, a faulty memory of his days in Viet Nam, etc, etc,,.......
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