Cheney: "Well, I'm the vice president, and they're not.''

[Heidi]

:grr:

In the interview, Cheney also said he doesn’t spend any time worrying about how the public or the media view him. When pressed to react to personal criticism from people with whom he has worked before, Cheney said: “Well, I’m vice president and they’re not.” http://www.kearneyhub.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17778832&BRD=268&PAG=461&dept_id=577571&rfi=6

"Well, I'm the vice president, and they're not,'' Vice President Dick Cheney said with a laugh at the close of a long interview, asked how he handles criticism from the likes of Brent Scowcroft, former national security adviser, an old associate who has said that he does not know Cheney anymore. http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2007/01/cheney_im_vice_.html

(My apologies if this is a dupe.)

[WinkyDink]

1. Have there EVER, EVER been any other Presidents or VP's who referred to

themselves this way so OFTEN??

[Heidi]

2. Not in my life time,

and I'm no spring chicken. If the Republicans can't see how dangerous, arrogant, insulting Cheney is, they should at least be able to see that he's tacky. :thumbsdown:

[Pab Sungenis]

4. Nixon.

Johnson used the third person a lot, too.

[Heidi]

6. Despots, both.

:grr:

[Heidi]

7. A comparison:

[Eurobabe]

10. LOL, good cartoon!

[Alamom]

29. Very good & so TRUE. n/t

[sarge43]

8. No, they usually snarked the job

John Adams: is the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

John Nance Garner: The vice presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit.

Harry Truman: Look at all the vice presidents in history. Who are they? They were about useful as a cow's fifth teat.

[XboxWarrior]

32. Remember SNL?

"I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not"!

At least it was funny in the 70's.......

peace

[H2O Man]

3. There is something

ironic about a vice president who had attempted to gain extreme power through secrecy and a shadow government, who is now being extremely exposed as a mean-spirited, incompetent, lying rat. His diseased mind is providing both serious journalists and comics with a huge amount of material to use to show what type of man led our nation into the mess we find ourselves in.

[Heidi]

11. I'm not convinced he has a diseased mind.

I believe mental illness demands compassion; I've seen nothing in Cheney's behavior to indicate he's anything but a self-involved war profiteer. Diseased spirit, maybe. :shrug:

[maddezmom]

5. I get the visual of a 2 yr old sticking their fingers in their ears & sticking their tongue out

http://www.post-gazette.com/images2/20040722ap_jennabushPJ_580

[Heidi]

9. Not to mention:

"I'm the vice president and you're not. Cackle-bwahahahahahaha-cackle!"

[rosesaylavee]

12. You know, I just read the Onion piece

about Bush granting himself more power as president. This is almost a companion piece to that one. These are scary times.

[salin]

13. Can you imagine the snide comments on Sunday Press shows

had Gore said this in an interview when he was VP? Somehow doubt that same snide talk will happen this coming Sunday - more likely they will just ignore the statement rather than kicking off a sneering echochamber on the point.

I also don't expect Dick will be talking with Blitzer anytime soon.

[Heidi]

15. If Gore had said the same thing, it would have been all over the news.

I'd like to see the press take the Cheney quote and run with it: ask him exactly what he meant, and ask him over and over and over again. :D

[salin]

18. Wouldn't that be great - as it would probably keep him OFF the air

after it happened a couple of times.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

20. This is where the media bias is so pernicious

It is also why a lot of congressmen and senators were stampeded into voting for IWR, the Patriot Acts, etc. They were afraid of what the spin would sound like, given the RW bias of the broadcast media.

I don't approve and I don't like it, but I'm sure some of them thought they might have lose their seats if they had voted differently.

If one more senate seat flipped republican in 2004, winning the senate in 2006 might not have happened.

[salin]

22. No question about it - not just media spin

but then running with repub smear. Think Saxy Chamblis winning over Max Clelland by running a Clelland supports Osama b/c he voted against HLS (which the admin fought creating for nearly a year). What is insidious is that the claim and ads (which were disgusting) probably would have been eye-rollers IF the media hadn't given so much airtime to GOP spin at the time of the vote - so that voters already had the idea 'primed' in their conscience. Yes, the media bias IS pernicious.

[nolabels]

14. This humble public servent is such a blessing to our country !

:loveya: He just makes me all giggly. :loveya:

[Heidi]

17. I know that I personally feel more secure just _thinking_ about it.

:scared:

[nolabels]

33. He is a "Hands on - do it your self" kind of guy

It was obvious that his big brain stormin "ah-ha" came when he chose himself to be George's running mate


http://911review.org/humor/Cheneygotagun.html

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. Here's something else I'll bet he brags about

[KharmaTrain]

19. As The Curtain Slowly Is Opened...Cheney Continues To Get A Pass

Consider how the media would have treated Al Gore had he acted the way crashcart has. It just makes you admire the job Gore did for his 8 years and what a class act he is against this arrogant POS. The corporate media has and still is very scared and indimidated by this guy.

Cheney plays by "boardroom rules"...a "big picture guy"...who can't be bothered with the trivial...or so he thinks. His hubris is a weapon to keep him from close scrutiny and it's worked when Wolfie all but pees in his pants when crashcart lowers the boom on him, or Russert is played like a bass fiddle. In the "big picture", none of us are as "smart" as crashcart and thus we can't understand the "complexities" of things and thus we must defer to his "widsom" without question. It's like a CEO who will drive a company to bankruptcy just to prove his product was viable while draining resources from more profitable lines to pay for his own largess. Sadly, instead of doing this for Haliburton, he weaseled his way into the booosh cabal and decided he was "in charge".

For the most part, Cheney's gotten away with his Svenghali role in this regime with very little overview. He relishes his dark hole as he operated levers of power with little concern about their affects or reprocussions. Worst of all, he's intimidated the manchild while creating a competition with him that has turned the Executive into a Byzantine political puzzle that obsessess on itself while the country falls into further chaos.

[Heidi]

21. "big picture guy" = master manipulator

If I could recommend a post, you'd get my vote. :thumbsup:

[KharmaTrain]

23. Thank You...Semantics Here Are Fascinating

He truly is a master manipulator and hates being exposed in any light. What the Plame affair is showing is how paranoid yet arrogant that he could control all facets of sending this country into a war for profit without any accountability...and his zeal to protect his "turf". Machiavelli would marvel at this guy.

[salin]

24. From somewhere... Strauss is smiling

ugh!

[KharmaTrain]

25. So Is Marshall McLuan, George Orwell and Wilson Key...

:toast:

[salin]

28. Yet - reality never quite works as well as literature or theory

I think that things are backfiring - and the "geniouses" who thought they were building a single-party majority to rule for a generation - will end up taking their own party down for a long-time. The questions are: is the damage done so bad that it can't be repaired? and is the corrupting influences in DC so deep (and politicians still living in 'fear' of the media bias/gop spin) that what emerges from a growing dem majority (and I do predict that it grows) will make serious corrections?

good to see you! :hi: Now i have to get in gear and go to work!

[EstimatedProphet]

26. He's stealing Chevy Chase's material.

[Heidi]

30. Pathetic, huh?

:hi:, my friend!

[EstimatedProphet]

40. Hi back!

Howzitgoin?

[Heidi]

42. Same ol'

cat rodeo. ;)

How're you and The Prophetess? :hug: to you both.

[EstimatedProphet]

44. Things are going good here

And bound to get better!

[The Backlash Cometh]

38. Okay, am I the only one,

who sees something else besides an eye?

[EstimatedProphet]

39. Nope, you're not

I've heard it referred to as a cowpie too.

[bdamomma]

27. Go F yourself Cheney!!

[Heidi]

41. He chooses, instead,

to f*ck us against our will. There's a word for that. :grr:

[maine_raptor]

31. Yea, well............I'm Human, and He's not. n/t

[Kolesar]

34. "We will see about that"

Impeachment is still an option.

[Heidi]

35. !

:thumbsup:

[The Backlash Cometh]

36. I wish he would remember his place.

Vice Presidents are for ceremonial purposes. They're not presidents.

[Heidi]

37. Right on,

and neither are they kings or gods.

[eppur_se_muova]

43. That argument has a limited shelf life. nt

[lovuian]

45. It shows he is delussional and thinks he is Somebody

when he works for the American People something he forgot

[Heidi]

46. I don't believe he's delusional.

I believe he knows exactly what he's doing. I wouldn't give him the benefit of the assumption of mental illness.