AP: Don't call ex-Vice President Cheney a has-been

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j-TvERr7OQkjI4DQ7uaSjrxclMwwD98C0N980

Don't call ex-Vice President Cheney a has-been
By DEB RIECHMANN – 45 minutes ago

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... 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."

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Real subheadline: "Great Patriotic Ex-Vice President Always Tells Truth"

Why do they keep glorifying this asshole 24/7?

Bring back OCTOMOM or something.

See also my post (also from AP): http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5708022

My question: Where is Tim Kaine, and why aren't we firing back hard?

Hopefully, the corporate mediawhores will eventually get tired of him and move on to something else. It's not like he keeps coming up with new material. At this point, he might as well record and release a greatest hits compilation CD of "Cheneyisms" for the corporate mediawhores to play on the air.

Walter Mears cites a GOP strategist and a Republican pollster to state that Cheney won the debate
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5708022


--AP makes no mention of Rumsfeld in article about the Bible references on the daily report to Bush--
The GQ article cited in the story
http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_9217
with this picture just under the title
AND HE SHALL BE JUDGED



NOW check out the AP story
Pentagon reports no longer quote Bible
1 day ago
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hQ8XHueNkKT1m2aLJG0q_y5paK3wD988UQQ00

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said Monday it no longer includes a Bible quote on the cover page of daily intelligence briefings it sends to the White House as was practice during the Bush administration.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said he did not know how long the Worldwide Intelligence Update cover sheets quoted from the Bible. Air Force Maj. Gen. Glen Shaffer, who was responsible for including them, retired in August 2003, according to his biography.

For a period in 2003, at least, the daily reports prepared for President George W. Bush carried quotes from the books of Psalms and Ephesians and the epistles of Peter. At the time, the reports focused largely on the war in Iraq.

The Bible quotes apparently aimed to support Bush at a time when soldiers' deaths in Iraq were on the rise, according to the June issue of GQ magazine. But they offended at least one Muslim analyst at the Pentagon and worried other employees that the passages were inappropriate.

On Thursday, April 10, 2003, for example, the report quoted the book of Psalms — "Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him. ... To deliver their soul from death." — and featured pictures of the statue of Saddam Hussein being pulled down and celebrating crowds in Baghdad.

"Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand," read the cover quote two weeks earlier, on March 31, above a picture of a U.S. tank driving through the desert, according to the magazine, which obtained copies of the documents.

We don't need the term has-been.

:hide:

he believed in an imperial presidency. if the president (and by associan, vice-dickhead) does it, it is legal. period.

Fuck you, you Marcos wannabe.