Posted on 05/23/2009 9:43:33 AM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON (AP) --
Dick Cheney refuses to be a has-been.
The former vice president's voice appears to carry even more weight than it did in the waning days of the Bush administration.
Some people want him to be quiet and disappear. Others are cheering the public relations tour that Cheney began halfway through President Barack Obama's first 100 days, defending the Bush administration's harsh interrogation tactics and other anti-terrorism policies.
Vice presidents typically fade away quietly.
Not Cheney.
When Obama released memos detailing Bush-era interrogation techniques and wouldn't completely rule out prosecuting or disciplining former Bush administration officials, Cheney couldn't stay silent.
"It wasn't like on Jan. 21, he planned that he was going to speak out in this way," said Cheney's daughter, Liz, a former State Department official who has traveled extensively with her father. "It was driven by events and I think he will continue to do it if he feels it's important to the public debate."
"You just have to know the way he works," she said. "He was watching what was going on. He knew it was wrong and he knew he had an obligation to say it was wrong."
The Cheney camp says it's not about politics.
In Washington, however, everything is about politics and Cheney's decision to make his case on talk shows and deliver speeches at think tanks cuts both ways. His message fires up conservatives, but also rallies Democratic opponents who don't miss an opportunity to portray the unpopular Cheney as the lead spokesman of the Republican Party.
"I would think the Republicans ought to be shy in using him as their front," said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He dismisses Cheney's appearances as if they were old TV reruns.
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First, there is Gore which makes all this pab a big fat lie.
Then there is the fact of an unsual event concerning a former vice president which is missing from the comrade’s article. That is the threat of conducting Marxist show trials against the previous, demonized, administration.
These people are so ignorant, they are insufferable. Maybe you are right that it is a mental disorder. Kind of like an axe murderer.
Cheney/Cheney for 2012!
Watch heads ‘splode. ;)
You betcha!
Dick Cheney is living proof that one man, with enough courage and conviction is a majority.
:-)
Especially the schmucks named Ridge, McCain and Powell!
I’ll sign on to that. :-)
We’ve learned something very useful about Precious and his crew—they can’t ignore bait. They always snap at it. This was so dumb on O’s part, to set up this debate and expect to win on his personality alone.
If that was ever true Algore changed all that. Thanks to ManBearPig the new paradigm for former VPs is "in your face all the time." Thanks, Al! I look forward to hearing Dick Cheney a lot. ;-)
I like that kind of thinking. Welcome to Free Republic. Great first post!
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