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What do you think about Dick Cheney

What do you think about Dick Cheney?

  • I think he was great, America needs a President like him

    Votes: 3 5.7%

  • America does not need a President like him

    Votes: 25 47.2%

  • We was a good Vice President

    Votes: 7 13.2%

  • other

    Votes: 18 34.0%
  • Total voters
    53
To every Bush hater, it's always Florida in 2000......
 
tres borrachos said:
He wasn't the monster people made him out to be. It's disturbing that so many people wish for his death.
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He was not only not a monster, but was extremely skilled and competent at what he did. Did he make mistakes or have errors in judgment? Of course he did. I defy anybody to name a single human being who has ever lived on Earth who didn't make any mistakes and who didn't have any errors in judgment. But those who hated him the most and probably would have murdered him if they could have gotten away with it could not find a single crime to hang on him. The closest they found was what I still believe was a mean spirited and trumped up charge against Scooter Libby who was on Cheney's staff. And that had nothing to do with Cheney.

And yes. There is no depth of hatred that surpasses the hatred some on the left have for a conservative who is good at his job.
 
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Dayton3 said:
To every Bush hater, it's always Florida in 2000......
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Don't forget this thread is about that other guy - Cheney - though it makes little difference. They both, and many others, were complicit in creating an unnecessary war.

The thing is, the Iraq War was not the result of an intelligence goof — rather, the country’s top office systematically misled the public about Iraq’s nonexistent WMD program, as well as Saddam Hussein’s link to Al Qaeda.

On Tuesday night, former CIA Deputy Director and Bush’s intelligence briefer Michael Morell appeared on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” where he, under an amount of good cable news duress, admitted that the administration intentionally misrepresented intelligence.

The show played a clip of Cheney saying, “We know [Saddam Hussein] has been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons. And we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.”

“Was that true or not,” host Chris Matthews asked.

“We were saying–”

“Can you answer that question? Was that true?”

“No, that was not true,” he finally said.
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Atiya said:
Former Dick Cheney, de Facto President of the GWB administration, was far more than mere controversial. GWB was a neophyte regarding Politics when a partisan USSC appointed him, the most unqualifed candidate to be president of the US. W was content to be president in name only while others did the work for him. This was the worse thing he could have done with a psychopath like Cheney. Dick Cheney went to Iraq for profiteering for "his" company, Halliburton, Control of Iraqi oil contracts, and to clean up the middle east (get rid of Saddam Hussein) for Israel. The latter being the neoconservatives main goal. Cheney does not know how to admit he was wrong and is all over the place blaming President Obama who wisely voted against invading Iraq.

I do not like Dick Cheney and words fail me in attempting to explain my loathing for this man. He was on the list for a heart transplant, and I am wondering to this day how it was he jumped to the head of the line, before others who needed a heart just as badly, to conveniently get a new lease on life?!
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President Obama was not a Senator when our lawmakers voted to invade Iraq. The "wise" vote against the invasion that you believe he made never happened. :roll:
 
tres borrachos said:
President Obama was not a Senator when our lawmakers voted to invade Iraq. The "wise" vote against the invasion that you believe he made never happened. :roll:
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You are correct. I keep reading/hearing he voted against the invasion of Iraq, but he has repeatedly voiced his opinion against the Bush action. Here is an excerpt from the link below:

"Barack Obama (who went on to win the election) was not a senator at the time of the voting of the Iraq War Resolution, but has repeatedly voiced his disapproval of it both before and during his senatorship, saying at an anti war rally in Chicago on October 2, 2002: 'I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.' "

Opposition to the Iraq War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
DifferentDrummr said:
Believing the Florida election was fair is no better than believing in Santa Claus.
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You're right considering the early, false call of Florida for Gore certainly caused several thousand nonvotes for George Bush in the panhandle.
 
Atiya said:
You are correct. I keep reading/hearing he voted against the invasion of Iraq, but he has repeatedly voiced his opinion against the Bush action. Here is an excerpt from the link below:

"Barack Obama (who went on to win the election) was not a senator at the time of the voting of the Iraq War Resolution, but has repeatedly voiced his disapproval of it both before and during his senatorship, saying at an anti war rally in Chicago on October 2, 2002: 'I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.' "

Opposition to the Iraq War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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That became clear when Sen. Obama appeared on Meet the Press last Sunday, Tim Russert reminded him of comments he made about Iraq during the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

Talking about how he would have voted on the '02 authorization, Mr. Russert flashed a quote from then-State Senator Obama on the screen that said: "I'm not privy to Senate intelligence reports. What would I have done? I don't know." In response, Senator Obama said it was probably the wrong time for him to speak out on the war.

Senator Obama's Curious Comments on <i>Meet the Press</i>*|*Rep. Jim McGovern
 
Gardener said:
What do I think of Darth Cheney?

Oh, I don't know.............
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We're not that evil. We created well ordered system of governance and succeeded for many years. Iraq... not so much.
 
Dayton3 said:
You're right considering the early, false call of Florida for Gore certainly caused several thousand nonvotes for George Bush in the panhandle.
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And considering that one candidate's brother had significant control over any "irregularities."
 
DifferentDrummr said:
And considering that one candidate's brother had significant control over any "irregularities."
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Given that he was the official elected by voters in Florida for that purpose among others what was he supposed to do?
 
Dayton3 said:
Given that he was the official elected by voters in Florida for that purpose among others what was he supposed to do?
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Gee. Um, recuse himself from the task due to a conflict of interest?

Nah, "conflicts of interest" are meaningless syllables to Bushes.
 
DifferentDrummr said:
Gee. Um, recuse himself from the task due to a conflict of interest?

Nah, "conflicts of interest" are meaningless syllables to Bushes.
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Are they allowed to do that in Florida?

And I'm assuming the Lt. Gov. would be the one to take over then so would they have any less reason to be possibly biased.

That said, I'm not sure if governors can selectively recuse themselves in matters like that. An election is not like a court case.
 
Dayton3 said:
Are they allowed to do that in Florida?

And I'm assuming the Lt. Gov. would be the one to take over then so would they have any less reason to be possibly biased.

That said, I'm not sure if governors can selectively recuse themselves in matters like that. An election is not like a court case.
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All 50 states have conflict of interest laws for every state job.
 
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