Cheney hunts ducks with SC GOP leaders in Colleton Co.

[Robbien]

Dec. 22, 2004 - Colleton County authorities say Vice President Dick Cheney made a trip to South Carolina to hunt ducks with a group of elected officials.

Sheriff's Major Steve Bazzle says Cheney arrived in a military helicopter at the Pon Pon Plantation Monday night and left before lunch Tuesday.

A Charleston newspaper says the vice president was joined by Governor Mark Sanford, Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator-elect Jim DeMint. Spokesmen for those officials would not confirm or deny the reports.

The Charleston Post & Courier newspaper reports Cheney and his party shot their limit of ducks.

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2722993&nav=0RaPUSOZ

[Wickerman]

1. No Supreme Court Justice?

Damn, Dickie is getting downright flacid in his old age.

[MAlibdem]

2. duck is delicious...

mostly because it has such a high concentration of fat.

but mmmmmm, duck...

[sniffa]

3. what a phoney

he's just doing this for a photo-op.. he's never even fired a gun before... he didn't kiLL that duck..

oh sorry, i thought this was about john kerry

[oneighty]

4. Shot their limit!

When I lived in that area the well to do were often 'Caught' seeding the abandoned rice ponds with food for the ducks. Then hunting required no skill-just point and shoot.

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[slay]

25. Thankfully there's an enforced limit because these people always want more

These high level business people only do the right thing when they are forced to. They only care about what other rich business people want. :mad:

[oneighty]

26. Serious

I killed a lot of creatures as a commercial fisherman. I never did it for fun.

What do these wealthy people get out of killing the birds? Surely they do not bother to dress them out and actually eat them? Do the dead birds get wasted twice?

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[goclark]

5. Plantation? How insensitive

of the VP and the Senators to give our minds an opportunity to step back to a time that was so mean spirited.

Well, maybe it is an appropriate setting to remind us that everyone of us that voted for the Democratic Tickets have been put on a plantation for the next four long years.

[RamboLiberal]

6. Was it a canned hunt? Last couple of years that's how Cheney

has shot ducks and pheasants. He caught a lot of flack last year after a newspaper reported the hunt at Rolling Rock in PA was a canned hunt where farm raised pheasants and ducks were released for the VP to shoot. His party last year took around 500 ducks and pheasants in a very short time.

BTW, I remember reading the VP has quite an arsenal including full auto weapons that he takes out to the Secret Service range.

I think we ought to ship Uncle Dick over to Iraq where the ducks shoot back!

[MidwestTransplant]

7. Sure never fired one in combat...or even the military for that matter

Why bother when you can just go shoot at the range. Let the other folk shoot while getting shot at.

[LiberalFighter]

9. You would think he would had accidently shot himself dead by now.

[AndyTiedye]

13. No Way

Not unless he has a gun that fires wooden stakes.

[rkc3]

14. Or holy water.

[AndyTiedye]

16. Nah, Holy Water Just Annoys the Undead

It burns a little, but unless you had a fire truck full of holy water
it wouldn't really hurt them.

[LiberalFighter]

20. How can water even be holy with all of the contaminants allowed under gw*?

[LiberalFighter]

19. Probably doesn't even have a loaded gun

[Anakin Skywalker]

24. Heh Heh Heh. Great Point.

[AZCat]

8. Quack-quack!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

:)

[lebkuchen]

10. He duck hunts while our troops are sitting ducks

Symmetry for the holidays

Thanks DICK.

[politicasista]

11. What a joke!

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[SOS]

12. A guy as fat as Cheney

needs more food?

[Anakin Skywalker]

23. You Know Rethugs.

They are gratuitous in everything. They don't know moderation.

[fryguy]

15. VP pandering to the NRA more?

is there an industry out there that they won't suck up to or help out while shitting on the rest of the world?

[OnlyInAmerica]

17. Am I the only one

Who thinks "duck hunting" is code for "meeting with people to figure out a new way to screw the American people"?

[Robbien]

18. Kinda like a power breakfast, only outdoors and no bacon and eggs

or a closed door meeting, without the door.

[Vidar]

21. Quick. Arm the ducks.

[Massachusetts]

22. Quick Quack , the Dick is armed....

[goforit]

27. How many ducks did he knock off........5000?

Wonder what cheney wanted with the Christian Satans of
South Carolina?

[Bombero1956]

28. easy to shoot your limit

when you fly to the hunt in an AH-64 Cobra.

[mitchum]

29. Was Lindsey disappointed when he learned they were going to be hunting...

"ducks"?
I think he may have misheard the original invitation