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Dick Cheney, Profile In Courage?
- Thread starter AAAintheBeltway
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Quote from Madison:
your political posts are always fun to read -- there's some kind of strange fascination in the paradox of a smart guy writing such absurdly inane things. can cognitive dissonance alone produce such masterpieces? an effect of anti-hippie nixon-era propaganda indelibly absorbed during formative years? or just playing the troll, bs'ing to start flamewars?
assuming you're sincere -- what exactly about cheney "personifies dignity and integrity"!? his 5 draft deferments? time served in the nixon admin. meltdown years? all that dignified work running multinational oil outfits? the steadfast fleeing into "secure bunkers" on 9/11? (let the cowardly commoners fight wars and choke on toxins in the rubble - noble men of dignity and integrity have other priorities...) or all the visionary initiatives over the past 7 years, like wild spending, debt expansion, dollar debasement, and financial enslavement to the chinese?
or does the integrity lie in de facto opening of the US-mexican border? the prompt and selfless katrina response? in the exertion of more police power, maybe - do free speech zones and wiretapping and offshore bases (in cuba no less!) and incognito "renditions" show a lot of dignity, maybe? impeccable dignity in "misspeaking" during speeches in the lead up to a useless war? is the integrity in hiding the coffins of fallen soldiers? in back-door drafting reservists? or is the integrity in going on international tv and declaring iraq a wild success 4 years in, with a straight face?
I think it's unfair to blame Cheney for everything this administration has done. I highly doubt he was in favor of the wild spending, etc but he was overruled by Karl Rove.
Your criticism illustrates why politics has become so poisonous. I can understand that you disagree with the man and his positions, but why do you have to go beyond that and turn him into some comic book Dr. Evil? We see this over and over with democrats, from Judge Bork to Dan Quayle to Cheney, even poor Scooter Libby. For some reason it's not enough to disagree with someone. You have to destroy them personally, ruin them if possible. Of course when the shoe is on the other foot, when some corrupt democrat is called to account, then we hear endless wailing about "mean republicans" engaging in the "politics of personal destruction."