"Hogwash"

dd74 · 01-24-2007, 05:15 PM

Vice President Cheney didn't come off very well today in his interview with Wolf Blitzer. The vitriol was there, but the substance is long gone. He's gone from committed to defensive, particularly with his stance on Iraq. No wonder Republicans are second-guessing his credibility, which Cheney simply calls "Hogwash."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/24/cheney/index.html

74-911 · 01-24-2007, 07:17 PM

Every night I pray to the Gods that nothing happens to W. because if anything happens to him Darth Cheney becomes president and I truly fear for the republic if that happens.

Moneyguy1 · 01-25-2007, 10:27 AM

Had the wrong interviewer when I commented on another thread. It looked to me like his beliefs are so hard-wired that they are incapable of being changed. More to the point, I wonder if anyone really pays attention (outside the White house that is) to the VP anymore.....

Dan in Pasadena · Dan in Pasadena's Garage

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Originally posted by 74-911
Every night I pray to the Gods that nothing happens to W. because if anything happens to him Darth Cheney becomes president and I truly fear for the republic if that happens.

+1,000,000

That guy is the very personification of the fat assed, fat cat, uber connected, corporate privileged, "I know-everthing-and-cannot-be-questioned" jackasses ever.

Rick Lee · Rick Lee's Garage

All those comments just make me love the guy more.

island_dude · 01-25-2007, 02:33 PM

I guess somebody has to love him.

The guy came into the job with a particular set of ideas and decided that he needed to find the facts to justify them. That he or Bush actually think that they have the right to not be questioned after four years of getting nowhere it incredible. He and Bush have had pretty much free reign since 9/11 to do almost anything. In fact I am continually amazed at how far they have gone in pursuit of dead ends.

I am not part of the camp that says that he has been lining his pockets over this war deliberately, but I think his biases were clearly that his former company could get the job done. They guy is intelligent, but I we will never see eye to eye on much of anything.

I do think that the question about his granddaughter was just tacky.

Superman · 01-25-2007, 02:38 PM

That is the only reasonable position for Mr. Cheney to take. At least, as long as he's continuing to award hundred million dollar no-bid contracts to Haliburton.

lendaddy · 01-25-2007, 02:39 PM

Cheney is dangerously close to perfection.

Rick Lee · Rick Lee's Garage

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Originally posted by Superman
That is the only reasonable position for Mr. Cheney to take. At least, as long as he's continuing to award hundred million dollar no-bid contracts to Haliburton.

Really? I never knew the VP's office was handling procurement for the feds. What evidence do you have of this? When did that change? BTW, Halliburton's fed. contracts are for far more and $100 million and they were long before this administration came to power too.

on-ramp · 01-25-2007, 02:55 PM

can we expect anything more from a big oil ex-CEO ?

they send young men and women to get their limbs blown off in Iraq even though there was never any CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER to the US, unlike what we were told..

lendaddy · 01-25-2007, 02:57 PM

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Originally posted by on-ramp
can we expect anything more from a big oil ex-CEO ?

they send young men and women to get their limbs blown off in Iraq even though there was never any CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER to the US, unlike what we were told..

He eats babies too.

Rick Lee · Rick Lee's Garage

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Originally posted by on-ramp
can we expect anything more from a big oil ex-CEO ?

they send young men and women to get their limbs blown off in Iraq even though there was never any CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER to the US, unlike what we were told..

Please pass the bowl this way.

Tim Hancock · 01-25-2007, 03:09 PM

I can think of no other person on the face of the earth that I would rather have as president of the United States and that is the honest to god truth!

Rick Lee · Rick Lee's Garage

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Originally posted by Tim Hancock
I can think of no other person on the face of the earth that I would rather have as president of the United States and that is the honest to god truth!

+1000

lendaddy · 01-25-2007, 03:12 PM

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Originally posted by Tim Hancock
I can think of no other person on the face of the earth that I would rather have as president of the United States and that is the honest to god truth!

I completely agree.

Nostril Cheese · 01-25-2007, 03:14 PM

why?

Tim Hancock · 01-25-2007, 03:19 PM

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Originally posted by Nostril Cheese
why?

He is a smart "take no ****" kind of guy who has proven himself on both the private and public playing field. I have been totally impressed with every sound bite I have ever heard from him. He is not swayed by political correctness and is not afraid to call a spade a spade.

Seahawk · 01-25-2007, 03:36 PM

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Originally posted by Rick Lee
Really? I never knew the VP's office was handling procurement for the feds. What evidence do you have of this? When did that change?

Rick,

They are, of course, not doing any such thing...but doing any homework on FAR Clauses, etc, would prove taxing.

Better to rant than to actually learn federal procurement rules and regs.

Superman · 01-25-2007, 03:39 PM

I'm so embarrassed.

Rick Lee · Rick Lee's Garage

I've met Cheney and seen him speak in public several times and I always came away very impressed. I love the fact that he's not a lawyer or a career pol. And I love the fact that he failed out of Yale not once, but twice, yet everyone calls him smarter than Bush. He gets libs in such a tizzy that he must be doing something right.