Throw a blue dress into this discussion, and I am going to pass out from the reverse deja vu.
He has staff that's supposed to handle these things for him, to advise him on the best course of action, and to take action should he be unable to.
It's the office of the man who is second in command in the Executive Branch of the government of the United States of America for God's sake.
Throw a blue dress into this discussion, and I am going to pass out from the reverse deja vu.....
It is not even the same thing. This was not a deliberate cover up and the press was informed. The local media was told about the incident, but the poor WH press corp got their feelings hurt because they weren't told first??? The VP and his SS and others were more concerned about getting his friend to the hospital. Could it have been handled differently, of course but to act like this is in any way like the "blue dress" incident is bizarre. Besides the media didn't get near as worked up over that issue than they have this one. Cheney's was an accident, Clinton's was a full "blown" planned event.
Hey, we also have some saying that this "occurred in Cheney's private life". Where have we heard that one before?
And we've had agonizing efforts to somehow stake the position tht Cheney was not careless - as if the gun somehow discharged itself, just as SUVs jump curbs and hit pedestrians.
This is turning into high farce in a hurry, and it really shows the problems all around nowadays in politics. What is missing is rational behavior all around:
- Careless hunting causes an accident.
- The release of this news is poorly managed.
- The press goes into full jackal mode and completely overreacts to such.
- The moonbats start crafting whacked-out conspiracy theories.
- And the knee-jerk attackers go after anyone offering a reasonable critical assessment of the process - even a seasoned PR professional spokesman like Ari Fleisher, without stopping once to think through what he has said.
- And any criticism becomes a desire to have Cheney's head, when it is offered to simply point out the errors in judgement that happened here, so that they might be avoided in the future.
Theater of the absurd.