1966,grad school,Cheney chose computerized regression analysis of

[Algorem]

congressional voting records as subspecialty to poli sci:"Dick Cheney picked an especially unglamorous subspecialty, computerized regression analyses of congressional voting records. He so impressed the elders of the Wisconsin political-science department that, as soon as he was finished with his graduate coursework and had only his Ph.D. dissertation left to do, he was made an American Political Science Association fellow, which meant going to Washington for a year to work in a government office. In 1968, Cheney went to work for Bill Steiger." http://newyorker.com/archive/content/?040906fr_archive06 Interested in computer voting applications in 1966?Sorry,paranoia,into your heart it will creep.Need lithium or something.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. .....................................................

[hootinholler]

2. Outstanding Find!

Vice-President Cheney is a man with a powerful anti-charisma. The way he got to be chairman of the Halliburton Company, supposedly, is that he was on a fishing trip (fly-fishing, of course) on the remote Miramichi River, in New Brunswick, with a bunch of big corporate names—
...
To the unanointed, Cheney's debate with Joseph Lieberman, in October, made it clear for the first time what Bush saw in him. He has a way of answering questions about government policy which communicates the feeling that he has really mastered it, that he isn't just spouting prepared talking points. One should think of the debate, though, as the merest peek at what underlies the cult of Cheney.
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A former aide of Cheney's told me this story: "When I went to work for him and we were alone in a car for the first time, I tried to chat with him. It was like trying to talk to Gary Cooper. Then I switched to legislation, and he came on. The parts of his brain reserved for small talk and popular culture have been emptied out and refilled with public policy. When he was in the House"—in the nineteen-eighties—"we had to tell him who Madonna was."

Real insight.
-Hoot

[demodonkey]

3. I met a journalist who told me when you meet Cheney in person...

you can just feel the waves of evil emanating from him.

She said he is one of the few people she ever met in her lifetime that she seriously avoided shaking hands with.

[Algorem]

8. He looks like he's rubbing it in here,

stole from http://www.bradblog.com

[Scout1071]

9. That's what I thought also..

He might as well have his middle finger extended.

[Zan_of_Texas]

4. Thanks! Very interesting article. And that paragraph IS interesting!

[hootinholler]

5. kick

[Acryliccalico]

6. Kick n/t

[hootinholler]

7. Ping

[RaulVB]

10. Kick (n/t)

[Mr.Green93]

11. The truth is out there

Interesting article,thanks.