Posted on 05/11/2009 3:08:09 PM PDT by SmithL
There's something about former Vice President Dick Cheney that's been struggling to get out like a rare bald eagle chick ready to hatch. After listening to his remarks this weekend about Rush Limbaugh (loves him) and Colin Powell (doesn't), and his jut-jawed "I don't regret anything" moment on CBS, I know what it is:
Mr. Cheney is now replacing Richard Nixon in the national political and cultural consciousness as the Gorgeous George of our era, the guy whose very existence makes some people furious and who brings to the surface all those intense and complex emotions about power and the people who wield it. And, like Mr. Nixon, the former Bush Veep can't help himself and won't ever stop reopening the wounds.
Forget Rush Limbaugh, dissed by Barack Obama at the one-big-happy-family White House Correspondents' Dinner. Mr. Limbaugh is just a voice, albeit successfully shrill and hugely popular. He's irritating or entertaining, depending on your politics. But he's no Nixon, whose image alone could trigger spasms in the national psyche.
Rush is often called bad but rarely evil.
This Cheney role comes just in time for those of us who were reminded by "Frost/Nixon" just how much we missed the original. As knotty as the man was himself, he could somehow make everything else seem clearer. Life without him appeared colorless, less darkly symphonic. While he was around, kicked after a defeat or voted in by a landslide, he provided psychological hand-holds in a post-1950s world where there was always mysterious and dangerous trouble lurking somewhere. He gave a face to your fears, whether you feared him or worried about the things he feared.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
"Reopening wounds" like, you know, pointing out that the president is weakening the country he swore an oath to protect.
Tee hee
Isn’t this the loser who went to the zoo for his birthday and a kymodo dragon lizard bit him on the toe?
Well if the Tricky Dick comparison applies, then Cheney will make a comeback in 2012 and liberate this nation.
Mr Cheney, your country is calling you. Please throw your hat in the ring for 2012.
At least in the minds of the people who buy ink by the barrelfull.
And to the degree that its true outside the news rooms, its a tribute to the effectiveness of the propagandist's art. This piece is a propagandist's tribute to himself.
Libs have CDS beyond control. Love ya Dick!
Pray for America, Our Troops and Cheney
Hey Bronstein, look out, theres a lizard looking for you, and it’s not Sharon’s attorney.
If would be poetic justice if the next terrorist attack is on SF. Not hoping, just saying. What color is the sky in their world?
What's wrong with hoping?
Cheney will continue to be the meanest, dumbest guy in the room for the MSM. That is until we get it again. Then, he'll be some kind of all-omniscient seer.
Rush and Cheney are public enemy #1 because they are exposing everything that this President is about. The sheeple can find out these things because they are too ignorant to recognize them.
I hope Cheney continues to talk. He is one of the only voices of reason on our side.
If Cheney gets that bionic heart thing working, there isn’t anyone better qualified to be president. There isn’t anyone I can think of currently on the scene who would be a better war-time president for certain.
It seems Mr. Bronstein avoided debating the merits of Mr. Cheney’s assertion that our nation is less safe under Obama.
Translation: reminding the left when they were wrong, dead wrong.
Long before Watergate or Vietnam, the left hated and despised Richard Nixon. Why? He defeated a five term Democrat to win his first office. He defeated one of their darlings, Helen Douglas, to win his Senate seat. Then, as a young congressman he exposed Alger Hiss and proved Whittaker Chambers right. They never forgave him. They thought they had got him in a scandal, but the Checkers speech drove a spike into that.
So, "reopening wounds" in the context of Nixon means reminding the left that they were wrong about the communist threat, wrong about Soviet espionage in America, wrong about Hiss, wrong about everything. And they can't stand it.
I read some of the comments appended to this article — it sure is clear there are a lot of hate filled Communists out there. And they are Communists, they may think they are “progressives” but they passed that exit on the interstate in a flash. Useful idiots, that´s all.
“What color is the sky in their world?”
Pink, of course, with a really delightful mauve sun.
I’m so proud of Mr. Cheney saying what he is saying, there has been one thing about this person:
HE SAYS IT LIKE IT IS I wonder if Leaky Leahy remembers what Cheney said to him?????
Phil Bronstein (born 1951) was the executive vice president and editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.
He was married to actress Sharon Stone from February 1998 until January 2004
In June 2001, he was seriously injured by a Komodo dragon. He entered its enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo after being invited in by the dragon's keeper. Bronstein was bitten on his bare foot, as the keeper had told him to take off his white shoes, which could have potentially excited the dragon
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