Posted on 08/13/2009 6:44:01 AM PDT by meandog
In his first few months after leaving office, former vice president Richard B. Cheney threw himself into public combat against the "far left" agenda of the new commander in chief. More private reflections, as his memoir takes shape in slashing longhand on legal pads, have opened a second front against Cheney's White House partner of eight years, George W. Bush.
Cheney's disappointment with the former president surfaced recently in one of the informal conversations he is holding to discuss the book with authors, diplomats, policy experts and past colleagues. By habit, he listens more than he talks, but Cheney broke form when asked about his regrets.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Believe me Cheney, you were not alone in your disappointment.
Bump for later...
“He’d showed an independence that Cheney didn’t see coming. It was clear that Cheney’s doctrine was cast-iron strength at all times — never apologize, never explain — and Bush moved toward the conciliatory.”
Yeah, no bias at all from the unnamed “participant” in the talks with Dick Cheney.
This person also praised President Bush as being “independent”.
Alas, if that were only the case.
The only thing Bush was “independent” from, was the solid conservatism represented by the likes of the redoubtable Dick Cheney.
A hit piece by WP which many Freepers who have BDS will believe hook, line and sinker as the WP tries to get some anti-Bush gossip out there to distract from Zero's sinking poll numbers.
Where is the BS and Barf Alert?
Those of us who see Bush clearly don’t need direct quotes from Cheney to understand how severely Bush failed in many many of his policies.
Then you fall prey to one of the MSM's cleverest tricks...MSM opinion cloaked in really bad journalism. Few or no or unrelated direct quotes from the principal people and many quotes from "unnamed sources" who were "there".
You are right, by the time this story is relayed to the Washington Post, by someone who would actually supply it to them, and then “enhanced” by the Post it probably bears little resemblance to what was said.
It’s amazing how gullible some people on this forum are. They want to believe it to be true so it HAS to be true, even if it comes from the Post.
In addition, you can see the leftist bias in the implication that Cheney was the boss and was upset that Bush became more independent.
Another shameless leftist attempt to divide us.
I'd be gobsmacked - & profoundly disappointed - to learn they hadn't.
For years, the press had tried to promote the absurd notion that GWBush was just a mindless Cheneybot who did the lockstep bidding of the 'real power behind the throne', his Vice President.
That was a crock then, it's a crock now. And any elucidation of their inevitable differences in office which Dick Cheney can now provide to dispel that bogus line of ludicrous propaganda propagated wholesale by the leftist media is certainly welcomed by me.
It will be interesting to see how many "conservatives" here fall in line with it.
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I thought his sentence was commuted. Not a pardon obviously, but not really "twisting in the wind" either. Or am I mistaken?
The knee jerk anti-Bush agreement with the WaPo is telling.
True. But I think this is much ado about nothing with the press trying to make more of this than there is.
Correct. We already know that Cheney disagreed with Bush on Libby and a couple of other issues. That's already been discussed ad inifintum. But now people are salivating at this story's implication that there was some huge rift between the two when Cheney himself says no such thing. The Post is jumping on board with Zero's strategy to just keep blaming Bush. And some Freepers just love going right along with the WH strategy.
Hear, hear. It is becoming more apparent that Bush DID distance himself from Cheney during the second term because Bush became more "squishy" and liberal.
IMO, Bush's strength, which we saw in his first term, came from Cheney and, today, I have far more respect for Cheney than I do Bush 43. Cheney's book should be an interesting read.
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