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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 05/11/2009 : 03:49:40
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I find it a bit odd that suddenly the swine Cheney is all over the media when he spent most of the last eight years skulking under a flat rock somewhere. I don't find it strange at all that he prefers Rush Limbaugh to Colin Powell as an example of a good Republican -- draft-dodging birds of a feather, eh? Endorsing a Democrat is no different from becoming a Democrat, according to former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Appearing on CBS' Face the Nation Sunday morning, Cheney said that he thought Colin Powell had left the Republican Party by supporting Barack Obama for president last year.
Bob Schieffer had asked Cheney who he'd prefer as spokesman for the GOP: Rush Limbaugh or Colin Powell.
Powell has said that Republicans need to move to the center and that Limbaugh diminishes the party by injecting nastiness into public life. Limbaugh has responded that Powell is “just another liberal” and should become a Democrat.
Choosing between the two men is apparently easy for Cheney, despite the fact he worked alongside Powell for four years during the first Bush administration.
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Of course, Powell has his own mendacity problems, but really; Rush?! One supposes that Colin wasn't enough of a liar to suit him. And of course, there's that military service thing. The only soldiers he truly likes, it seems, are dead ones.
But that ain't all; he sez that "hundreds of thousands of American lives have been saved" by uncovering terrorist plots through torturous interrogations, but doesn't back that up with any evidence beyond accusing Obama of "sitting on" memoranda. Former vice president Dick Cheney insisted Sunday that intelligence extracted from tough interrogations of suspected Al-Qaeda militants had saved “perhaps hundreds of thousands” of US lives.
Defending anew the former administration's controversial policies, Cheney accused President Barack Obama's team of sitting on memoranda that he said would justify his claim about the value of the intelligence produced.
“No regrets. I think it was absolutely the right thing to do,” he said on CBS television, adamant that techniques decried by critics as torture were essential to break the resistance of captured extremists.
“I'm convinced, absolutely convinced, that we saved thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of lives,” Cheney said, arguing again that Al-Qaeda was bent on attacking a US city with a nuclear device.
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Therefore, I'm calling bullshit on every word that comes out of his foul mouth.
I turned on the local TV news early this morning, to see who shot whom and did I know any of them, and there he was, lips flapping like grandma's polka-dot bloomers on the clothesline. Already knowing what bile he had to spew, I switched channels.
Yeah Dicky, just keep blatherin' on, ol' buddy. You're becoming a huge assist in the fragmentation of your party, and I'm loving every minute of it. 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
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and Crypto-Communist! 
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
 Posted - 05/11/2009 : 08:13:18 [Permalink]
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Hey filthy, give the guy a break. He's trying his best to defend the Cheney Presidency. He doesn't have much to work with though and he's doing the best he can under the circumstances. Much to Cheney's relief, Howdy Doody has apparently retired to a trunk somewhere in Texas. After eight years of doing it, what a bother it would be for Cheney if he had to take time out to pull on those broken strings again...
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 05/11/2009 : 09:58:18 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Hey filthy, give the guy a break. He's trying his best to defend the Cheney Presidency. He doesn't have much to work with though and he's doing the best he can under the circumstances. Much to Cheney's relief, Howdy Doody has apparently retired to a trunk somewhere in Texas. After eight years of doing it, what a bother it would be for Cheney if he had to take time out to pull on those broken strings again...
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But... but, the Cheney Presidency, perhaps better known as "The Burning Bush," or simply "Flaming Asshole" is not defensible by or to anyone with more than the most rudimentary powers of reason. I'm sure that the Freepadoodles over there at Free Republic would slither bare-bellied over fire ant nests for him, but, y'know, there's that powers of reason thingy again. It's a real stumbling block for the neoconservatives and just might lead to their ultimate extinction. Which would be to the great benefit of the Republican party, if it's not too late already.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 05/11/2009 : 10:32:44 [Permalink]
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The Charlotte Observer is having one of their on line meaningless opinion polls on "Who best represents the Republican Party?" As of right now Rush - 237, Colin - 177, Neither - 149.
I left this comment, obvious to anyone except the neocon koolaid drinkers.
Having two virulent gas bags representing the Republican Party will benefit the Democrats. They are effectively driving away moderate republicans and independents through their demands for 100% conservative compliance in thought and action. Ensuring minority status for the Republican Party for at least a generation.
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Just keep on runnin' your mouth, Dick!
