Posted on 02/18/2006 10:45:54 PM PST by jmc1969
If, as he ponders the Threat Matrix at his daily intelligence briefing, Cheney really sees himself as a modern Achilles or Hector on the plains at Troy, he is not just being grandiose.
Cheney is often lauded as that rare No. 2 who, having no political ambition for himself, can give his all to the president. But Cheney's aloofness from the ebb and flow of politics and public opinion has apparently dulled his senses in a way that is not helpful to his boss, who has been busy lately defending his administration from criticism that it was badly out of touch during Hurricane Katrina.
Sounding less than convinced himself, Bush tried to calm down the hunting-accident press flap. Cheney, said Bush, had done "just fine" with Fox News anchorman Brit Hume, who was granted an exclusive interview with the veep four days after the shooting.
But the shooting incident once again drew attention to the unusual nature of Cheney's power. He remains by far the most powerful vice president in history, and one of the most secretive and mysterious public officials to ever hold such high office in America. He is caricatured as a Darth Vader, spooky, above the law; nefarious.
Has he been transformed, warped, perhaps corrupted—by stress, wealth, aging, illness, the real terrors of the world or possibly some inner goblins.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Cheney's popularity should increase after this.
It isn't everybody that can claim to have shot a lawyer.
Cheney's Secred World?
If I had a Photoshop handy, I think I'd have to convert that bright red "Newsweek" into "The National Inquirer." You couldn't tell the difference.
How is this any different from previous issues of Newsweak?
Evan Thomas's father was a Commie, and so is he
...almost makes you wonder what big news is breaking out there right now while the MSM discusses this...
Un F'N believable. The idiocy of this tpe of article is laughable.
This appeared in MAD magazine right?
Hey, look mom, no facts!
Just made up hearsay and outright, libelous slander and below the belt personal denegration more suited to high school gossip.
The MSM and Newsweak mark a new low.
....by the media.
Newsweek is crap. I cancelled a (free) subscription years ago, and never missed it once.
IMHO the Democrats and their major supporters on the far left (Their Base) are not rooting for America, their only concern regaining power, and if by supporting our enemies in the hope that they will kill additional thousands of Americans to make Bush look bad, they are standing ready to facilitate the ambitions of our enemies if it means they will return to power.
SAD, VERY SAD
Did you notice how they took special care to mention that the guesthouse was known as "Uncle Tom's Cabin?"
*rolls eyes*
didn't bother reading the whole. I think I got Evan's intent with the head line.
Cheney, evil, will shoot you if you trie to expose it, and don't you dare open your mouth against him, even though only enemies of cheney have openly opposed him, and accused him of things that would make darth vader scream into the air "PADME!!!!!!" Only a republican can be this evil and Cheney is the definition of evil.
thats my headline summary.
or the other form is "I'm a complete lunatic and can't function without hating someone so I pick a good, decent and honest man like cheney, but I'm gonna insult him as much as possible because he can't really defend himself. I was the loser no ass having geek in highschool, so I will take all of my 50 year old virginal aggression out on a decent person who doesn't play the game of washington hyperbole, which is the only language I understand"
But I might be exaggerating.
but I'm not.
So, a split-second mistake as a result of a hunting partner stepping out of the hunting line is a "shot heard round the world"?
Did Newsweek have a similar tabloid headline when Bill Clinton deliberately put a cigar up a woman's vagina?
There ... fixed it .....
Actually I didn't think the article was that bad.
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