Dick Cheney being true to his name

[willstrickland]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/24/cheney.leahy/index.html

 

"Cheney, who as president of the Senate was present for the picture day, turned to Leahy and scolded the senator over his recent criticism of the vice president for Halliburton's alleged war profiteering...

 

In response to Cheney, Leahy reminded Cheney that the vice president had once accused him of being a bad Catholic, to which Cheney replied either "f--- off" or "go f--- yourself."

 

 

Nice one DICK.

[Beck]

how can you tell when Dick Cheney is lying? His lips are moving.

 

Our VP is one of the most reprehensible politicians this country has seen in a long time.

 

A quote from Cheney about the energy policy "Conservation is a frivolous virtue." What a Dick

[cj001f]

My favorite is "I had other priorities in the '60s than military service."

[johndavidjr]

I think what he said was "conservation may be a personal virtue" but that it wasn't a consideration in developing the energy program.

[WhiteTrash]

 

Will, where do you find all the images of beer labels for your avtars? I think if they could sell gasoline at same price of COBRA, we'd all be better off...

[mtnnut]

Always interesting to see how the press reports this since it causes problems with swearing over the airwaves. King5 referred to him using the "F word", while KUOW (or it might have been NPR, I'm not sure which) said:

 

"Cheney told Leahy to do something that was anatomically impossible"

[cj001f]

Always interesting to see how the press reports this since it causes problems with swearing over the airwaves. King5 referred to him using the "F word", while KUOW (or it might have been NPR, I'm not sure which) said:

 

"Cheney told Leahy to do something that was anatomically impossible"

The Washingtonpost printed the word used. They also pointed out that Dick reads the newspaper!

[b-rock]

From Salon. Thought this was funny.

 

The "frank exchange" translated

 

When we hear a political conversation described as a "frank exchange of views," we think of two sober-minded individuals talking seriously to one another, making their best cases for their respective positions.

 

But when those words are used in the Bush White House, they apparently mean that somebody got an old fashion, Texas-style ass-chewin'. A spokesman for Dick Cheney told reporters Thursday that the vice president had just engaged in a "frank exchange of views" with Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy. What he meant, it now seems, is that Cheney told Leahy to "fuck" himself.

 

This insight into the meaning of "frank exchange of views" sheds new light on all sorts of Bush-Cheney conversations from the past. Wonder why the Arab world has been so wary of the President's war on terror? Maybe it's because Cheney went to the Middle East in 2002 for what a senior administration official called a "frank exchange of views"with Arab leaders.

 

Puzzled by the lack of international support for the war on Iraq? Maybe it's because Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has had such a "frank exchange of views"with his counterparts from other nations.

 

Once you understand the code -- "frank exchange of views" = "go fuck youself" -- even the strange syntax of George W. Bush himself begins to make sense. Immediately after meeting with South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung in Seoul in 2002, Bush told reporters that their conversation had been "so good that we didn't want to go into the meeting room where there was more people." Now the reason seems clear: Before they stepped before the cameras, Bush said, the leaders had a "very frank exchange."

[glacier]

I think he was just trying to be a bit more human...

 

[bunglehead]

 

Oh man, I love the WWN. It's one of the best papers in the country.

[Off_White]

Somebody needs to buy Dick Cheney a book for his birthday.