Asked To Name Highest Moment In Office, Cheney Comes Up With '9/11'

[ccharles000]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/12/21/13492/534/506/675809


Behold, the first thing to come into Dick Cheney's mind when asked to name the highlight of the Bush Presidency:



Transcript:

WALLACE: Highest moment the last eight years?

CHENEY: Hmmm. Highest moment in the last eight years? Well, I think the most important, the most compelling, was 9/11 itself, and what that entailed, what we had to deal with. The way in which that changed the nation, and set the agenda for what we had to deal with as an administration.

Wallace nudged the vice president to add that 9/11 was also the low moment of the Bush years, but it tells you something about the darkness of Cheney's mind that this was the first thing to come to his mind when looking for bright spots over the past eight years was 9/11.

[babylonsister]

Very telling, isn't it. nt

[Hippo_Tron]

1. At least it's a better answer than Bush's which was "that time I went fishing"

[lligrd]

2. Yep, I Bet He Loved Hiding In The Bunker Planning To Nuke

the world and start WW III. Must have been a real high for the ass.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. It is indeed telling

Because, whether it was MIHOP or LIHOP, 9/11 is what enabled Bush to get his unitary executive, his war in Iraq, and his shredding of the Constitution. No wonder Cheney looks at it as the high point.

[firedupdem]

4. Very Telling is correct. n/t

[WinkyDink]

5. "The way in which that changed the nation"~~~I'll just bet he ranks this #1.

[rcrush]

6. Well Cheney IS very proud of how well he planned out 9/11

:hide:

[NYC_SKP]

7. Well, sure, it was HIS idea!!!

:tinfoilhat:

PNAC, "new pearl harbor", and all that...

[Sebastian Doyle]

8. Wow, Darth is honest for once.

For HIM, it was a great day. Went off pretty much as scheduled. Motherfucking treasonous bastard. :grr:

[Ikonoklast]

9. You mean the day he was in charge of war games?

And had the air defenses of our nation stand down?

The first time in American history a sitting vice-president took military command over NORAD?

Of course he would say 9-11.

It was his most successful endeavor.

[ecstatic]

10. Pure. Evil. He viewed 9-11 as an opportunity to push forth his

neocon ideology. :wtf: Disgusting! :puke:

[lunatica]

11. It was barely audible but he also said, "It was orgasmic, if you will..."

And for just an instant his eyes rolled back in his head as he lowered his head between his shoulders until his chin was resting on his chest, a sneering grimace playing across his thin bloodless lips....

:evilfrown:

[Kaleko]

12. Of course. Operation 'Patriot Act' went down almost as planned.

Dick must have been filled with pride and high hopes for a New Amercian Century: a hundred years of neocon rule worldwide.

[Clio the Leo]

13. That's like how * said in a recent interview.....

... conducted by CSPAN about life in the White House that his favorite room in the White House "was the kitchen" and his favorite presidential portrait was of "George HW Bush."

What made it even more hillarious is that, just as quickly as he said those things, he changed them to something he realized would sound more profound.

The KEY to giving a good interview is to NOT sound like you're making up the answers as you go along.

[Number23]

14. Holy hell. His "highest point"

was the lowest for the entire nation.

I guess the current economic crisis and Abu Ghraib must have been a close second and third... :puke:

[The Backlash Cometh]

15. Face it guys. Cheney is going to use 9/11 as a defense for going to war

against our Constitution. That's the argument we have to fight.

[peekaloo]

16. "Let's see, hmmm, shooting down a passenger plane or shooting a lawyer in the face?"

[tomp]

17. MIHOP. duh!

very, very bright spot for him.

[OwnedByFerrets]

18. Of course it was. It was the action that would achieve all their goals.

[MoonRiver]

19. Yep, he and * managed to pull off the greatest coup in American history.

Thanks, you despicable war criminal. Hitler would be proud. :puke::puke::puke:

[LynnTheDem]

20. "we need another Pearl Harbor"

What kind of American would ever say "we need another Pearl Harbor"?

Now imagine if that had been said by a Democrat...