George W. Bush has been observing some sort of protocol or tradition that says that a former president should not attempt to interfere in national political affairs. Dick Cheney, though, does not have any scruples about doing precisely that.
Cheney has been debating Obama--in public forums if not face to face--on the matter of the torture of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay prison.
The American voters have repudiated the Cowboy Culture of Bush-Cheney. Mr. Cheney should accept that he has had his day in the pulpit and simply shut up.
Copyright © 2009 by Richard Stein
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W says that it's "liberating" for him to be out of the oval office. If he and his would like to know just how liberating it is to have a troublesome, ignorant, and brutal regime out of the oval office then perhaps W should poll the real universe instead of just his own. As for Cheney, I wouldn't expect any better from some old and huffy, overweight, bitter, obstructionist, mean-spirited and self-indulgent career criminal. Actually given Cheneys credentials and contributions to mankind, Dickie Poo might be better suited in sharing for life in an intimate setting with the likes of someone he could relate to one on one say like cellmate Bernice Madoff. Waterboarding might be allowed for the two in such a setting so as to help pass time and allow the perfect match to each reflect on their good old days and lifetime hard won accomplishments. T Yoder
ReplyDeleteWell, at least in one respect I can't feel Cheney is so bad. That's his recent comments on gay marriage.
ReplyDelete"I think freedom means freedom for everyone," Cheney said. "As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, something that we've lived with for a long time in our family."
Today he said gay couples should have "any kind of arrangement they wish."
"I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, any kind of arrangement they wish," he said, adding that regulations on marriage have traditionally been handled at the state level rather than the federal level, and should remain in states' jurisdictions. "Different states will make different decisions and I don't have problem with that."