Dick Cheney: History "Beginning to Come Around" on Bush

[sabra]

Source: CBS News

At groundbreaking ceremony in Dallas for the George W. Bush Presidential Center today, former Vice President Dick Cheney said "history is beginning to come around" to a more positive view of former President George W. Bush.

Cheney said that Mr. Bush, whose approval rating upon leaving office was just 22 percent, always understood that "judgments are a little more measured" with the passage of time. He added that Americans "can tell a decent, goodhearted stand up guy when they see him."

Cheney lauded Mr. Bush as a president who refused "to put on airs," stating that he was thrilled to find that the most powerful person he knew was "among the least pretentious." He said Mr. Bush was someone who could "walk with kings, yet keep the common touch," added that "there were no affectations about him at all - he treats everyone as an equal."

He spoke admiringly of Mr. Bush's actions in the wake of the Sept. 11th attacks, telling the former president that "because you were determined to throw back the enemy, we did not suffer another 9/11 or something even worse."

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20022971-503544.html?tag=stack

[HughBeaumont]

1. Adjectives fail me.

Get impaled multiple times, you vampire.

[butterfly77]

36. Lol!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: I had similar thoughts when I heard this earlier today.

[saigon68]

38. FUCK HIM ---Draft Dodging Mother-Fucker

What a Scum Bag--- Real "Draft Evaders" I don't have a problem with---- Cowardly Fucks like him can Be eaten by sharks or some other Nasty demise.

[mediaman007]

2. We now know that not only is he a slacker, but he's a plagiarist too!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. Already?

:rofl:

[truthisfreedom]

4. History can't come around fast enough on bush.

To bite him in the ass, that is... I hope he suffers now that he's admitted torture.

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[Botany]

6. Jesus Dick we do have memory "... he treats everyone as an equal"

bush wiping his glasses on CBS staffer's shirt



bush wiping his hand on Bill Clinton's shirt after having to shake some "common people's" hands in Haiti

[No Elephants]

27. Hey, you wouldn't expect him to wipe anything on his own clothes, would you?

[bemildred]

7. Google "Bush Torture" and see what it's "coming around" to Dick. nt

[Cobalt-60]

8. Cheney is fascist vermin

A war criminal that belongs on the end of a rope.
Who gives a shit what he says?

[El Supremo]

9. Never put on airs?

[DCKit]

20. Geez, he looks gayer than Truman Capote in that second pic. n/t

[No Elephants]

24. And your point is?

[DCKit]

29. Just sayin'. I wouldn't be caught dead in that getup at a drag show.

The talent would steal my clothes, and I'd have to go home nekkid.

I thought he was into uber-macho drag, solely.

[lumpy]

63. Truman Capote wanna be? Halloween costume?

Undercover agent? Mafia lord?

[No Elephants]

28. OMG. In the second pic, he looks like a bad version of Abrahamoff.

And that's going some, given that Abrahamoff looks like a bad version of Abrahamoff.

[saigon68]

39. "Bring Em On" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

[yellowcanine]

10. Of course the obvious question is: When did Dick Cheney become an historian?

And the statement makes no sense unless he considers the Bush memoir to be "history". Because that is the only thing that changed between last week and this week in terms of anyone writing about the Bush presidency.

[No Elephants]

30. A lot of folk have been waiting for him to become history.

[Solly Mack]

11. "...decent, goodhearted..." people don't sanction torture

Just saying

[Capitalocracy]

12. A "presidential center"? Of coooourse!

It is beyond even W.'s profound level of hypocrisy to open a library named after himself.

[Frisbee]

13. It's easy to treat everyone as your equal....

when nearly everyone is superior (at least intellectually).

[pinboy3niner]

14. And if anyone knows about decent, goodhearted stand up guys...

...it's Dick 'Darth Vader' Cheney? :rofl:

[Grassy Knoll]

15. .

[Zoeisright]

16. He's still alive?

"Only the good die young" is certainly true.

[JBoy]

17. Dunno about that, but Hannity certainly did a "reach around" the other day on Bush.

[sofa king]

18. A haiku for you, Dick

Playing roach races
With their little lies and big
Winner gets crushed, too

[DCKit]

19. Who knew the Dick could do satire?

I've always thought he was immune to humor any less subtle than shooting a guy in the face.

[Botany]

21. Dick really looks like hell

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/former-vice-president-dick-cheney-history-library-12162358

[Glimmer of Hope]

59. He does. Poor thing!

[lumpy]

64. He is hellish.

x

[japple]

22. Biggus Dickus lives in his own little world with its special

and alternate history.

[Kip Humphrey]

23. If you don't have a heartbeat, you're dead IMHO.

[causamortis]

26. Star Wars

I bet right before Darth Vader died he may have thought, "You know not everything that Emperor Palpatine guy did was all bad, I mean that star destroyer was a pretty good idea.."

[ensemble]

25. well...

If "history" comes around on Bush, that tells me a lot about "history". And yes Dick, 9/11 was the best thing that happened to George.

[No Elephants]

31. I'm guessing Herodotus was a revisionist--and not the first!

[smiley]

32. fuck you cheney

nt

[fascisthunter]

33. Lol ...although I bet they will send out their media lackeys...

to do just that. I wonder if it can be done, just think of the run-up to Iraq. The funny thing is all the effort is a waste, it only works short term. In the end, history writes itself.

[SemperEadem]

34. history according to whom? The voices in your head?

bush is no where near being exhonerated for the fukkery he both brought to this nation and put this nation through and is still being put through.

No--history will be decidedly and deservedly brutal to him, as it should be. He must never be allowed to get off the mat from this.

[awoke_in_2003]

35. of course it is....

Americans (collectively) have short attention spans and an even shorter memory

[mnhtnbb]

37. F*ck you and your boy, Cheney. Revisionist history according to whom? Sarah f*ing Palin?

[Skittles]

40. yes - it is called "REVISIONIST"

[AsahinaKimi]

41. Americans "can tell a decent, goodhearted stand up guy when they see him."

Where? Who? Sorry, not buying..

[Jefferson23]

42. ROFL. n/t

[laundry_queen]

43. This is going to be the new narrative

First Cheney, then everyone else is going to worm their way out and repeat this crap about Bush is now being viewed favorably. First in interviews on Fox, then other networks, everyone will be mentioning that they think his image is 'coming around'. Soon the general public, sheeple that most of them are, will think, "hmm. Everybody else seems to think he's not that bad. I guess those Bush years weren't so bad." Soon every anchor and program will be repeating about Bush's image rehabilitation and then they were start video montages of the 'good times' and of patriotic moments (ie 9/11). They will compare the 'good old days' to the decay that is going on now (which is directly related to Bush, but if it's not mentioned in tv-land it doesn't exist) and pine over all these wonderful ol' republicans. People will once again be reinforced with crap about how things were better then. Soon, everyone, the public and even some on DU I suspect will be repeating the new narrative that Bush was a decent president. Voila, the new truth is born.

[Generic Other]

44. Instead of wanting to burn him off like an annoying wart

we now only want to shrink him like a inflamed hemorroid. Instead of thinking he's lower than dog turds smeared on our shoes, we now merely think he's as rank as a quivering lump of coughed up phlegm we stepped on while walking on the sidewalk. Instead of thinking he smells like a bucket of fish entrails, we mostly think he smells like his mother's room at the nursing home. Vast improvement.

[AndyTiedye]

45. May History Come Around FOR Bush and Cheney

[Tiggeroshii]

46. I actually read this headline as "history begining to bite bush in the ass for authorizing torture."

Guess Dick and I are on different brainwaves.

[Drale]

47. This is one of the few people

who I truly hope dies soon. He is a stain on the human races underwear, and needs to be cleansed.

[Marie Marie]

48. It's official...

Cheney's lack of blood flow has cut off the oxygen to his withered brain and he is beginning to hallucinate. Delusions of grandeur in the guise of rewriting history. More like "pretend to be king yet keep that immature sophomoric touch". Off to Hell with both of them.

[unkachuck]

49. "can tell a decent, goodhearted stand up guy when they see him."

....no they can't....didn't they elect you and your chimp twice?

....and today on TV, you looked like warmed-over death....how are you feeling dickie after the evil and mayhem you've inflicted on the planet during your life?

....good I hope, we wouldn't want you to die too soon....

[Thor_MN]

50. They better bury Dick in an undisclosed location, or put in a drainage grid

that empties into a sanitary sewer, because there are going to be lots of people that want to piss on his grave. My dream job would be to own the nearest beer concession...

Unless the phrase President Palin or Bachmann comes into play, Bush's place in history, worst president ever, is assured.

[Jefferson23]

51. US must begin criminal investigation of torture following Bush admission

10 November 2010

Amnesty International today urged a criminal investigation into the role of former US President George W Bush and other officials in the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" against detainees held in secret US custody after the former president admitted authorizing their use.

In his memoirs, published yesterday, and in an interview on NBC News broadcast on 8 November 2010, the former President confirmed his personal involvement in authorizing "water-boarding" and other techniques against "high value detainees".

"Under international law, the former President's admission to having authorized acts that amount to torture are enough to trigger the USA's obligations to investigate his admissions and if substantiated, to prosecute him," said Claudio Cordone, Senior Director at Amnesty International.

"His admissions also highlight once again the absence of accountability for the crimes under international law of torture and enforced disappearance committed by the USA."


http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/us-must-begin-criminal-investigation-torture-following-bush-admission-2010-11-10

[classysassy]

52. The Bush library

should be a cell at Gitmo.

[classysassy]

53. The Bush library

should be a cell at Gitmo.

[cory777]

54. Cheney, noticeably thinner, lauds Bush at library groundbreaking

Source: Yahoo News

Former Vice President Dick Cheney looked thinner at a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday in Dallas for George W. Bush's planned presidential library. It was the first time Cheney has been seen at a major public event since he underwent surgery in July to install a heart pump implant.

The former VP, on hand to introduce Bush at the ceremony, made no mention of the quarrels Bush wrote of in his recently released memoir, "Decision Points." Rather, he praised Bush as a president who handled his job "with courage, with clarity and with strength of heart."

Though Cheney looked gaunt and somewhat frail compared with his days in the White House, he was his usual self, even managing to get in a dig at President Obama's stimulus plan at the ceremony. "This may be the only shovel-ready project in America," Cheney joked at one point, looking over his shoulder at Bush. According to the Bush foundation, the estimated $300 million library is already fully funded with private donations.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20101116/pl_yblog_theticket/a-noticably-thinner-cheney-lauds-bush-at-library-groundbreaking

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[DesertFlower]

55. he's an evil SOB.

[Javaman]

60. he's reverting to his true form of ghoul. nt

[cory777]

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[The Second Stone]

58. Bush's plagarized idiography has sealed his reputation

As a dumbshit pawn.

[NikRik]

61. It will come around when they are all sharing a prison cell !

[LiberalFighter]

62. Damn I wish Cheney was 20 years older.

Then he would be dead.

[Blasphemer]

65. God they are shameless

It's only been two years and the country is still in ruins and yet they are already trying to sell some Saint Bush narrative.

[ProudDad]

66. "History" is written by the "winners"...

So, yep, if the "Permanent War Economy(tm)" and the "War on Terra(tm)" continue to be pushed by both right-wings of the Corporate War Party, bush WILL be whitewashed into something resembling a hero...

Cheney's just stating a fact of today's insane world...