Cheney is the Model of a Good Vice President
Other presidents, however, have looked more to substance and seasoning. Jimmy Carter chose Walter Mondale, Ronald Reagan went with Bush, Bill Clinton opted for Al Gore and George W. Bush selected Cheney. Each had his critics, but they had in common the most important attribute: being plausible presidents. When the prospective Democratic and Republican nominees of 2008 weigh their decisions, that quality should be first among all.
The lesson the Trib editorial page takes from the last 7 years is that Cheney would make a plausible President…
Really?
A secretive control freak who has shown nothing but contempt for the rule of law was a great choice. A man who manipulated the country to war by fearmongering and little evidence? A man that targeted Joe Wilson for retribution because Joe Wilson told the truth.
Really?
But it gets better. Who would make a good Republican VP? Condoleeza Rice, Tom Ridge, Lyndsey Graham, or Joe Lieberman. Rice has been an incredibly ineffective Secretary of State and was bullied around by Cheney. She has no major accomplishments as Secretary of State and has shown no ability to even deal with her supposed specialty–Russia. Lyndsey Graham is excited that he could buy rugs in a Baghdad marketplace and now he cannot, but he swears it’s going great. Tom Ridge apparently noticed the strange pattern of security alerts being tied to political events, but didn’t do anything about it as head of Homeland Security.
Don’t worry, it’s not about ideology, it’s about seriousness:
Pay less attention to these individuals and their ideologies than to their attributes: Every name here exemplifies the qualities of experience, substance and seriousness that are indispensable in a vice president.
They are all serious people you see. Very serious people who got us into a war based on faulty and misleading intelligence and insist that if things get better we have to stay, if things get worse we have to stay, or more simply, we have to stay.
But take the Democrats–every one of the ‘serious’ Democrats voted for the war. Apparently, only those who didn’t see one of the biggest mistakes in American foreign policy are serious.
Idiots.
May 12th, 2008 at
All of this is problematical anyway because I have it on good authority that Cheney will be staying on after January 20, 2009. His position that he has taken for several years is that the Vice-President is not part of the legislative or executive branch of government. As such the Constitution clearly does not apply to him at all.
Dick plans on staying around regardless of who is elected In November. We may need a lawyer to evict him from office.
May 12th, 2008 at
considering Nixon was a secretive control freak with contempt for the rule of law who actually was President, I guess technically Cheney would be plausible. He’d just destroy whatever confidence anyone has in government.
May 15th, 2008 at
I think that it is going to be quite the effort to remove these criminals from power. If McCain wins, they will go and he will be their new bought and paid for doddering, whipping boy.
If Obama wins, I seriously fear for his life and the resulting upheavel which is bound to happen – giving the criminals reason to call martial law. Since HD 51, along with all the signing statements, and FEMA’s power, that thought seriously scares the shit out of me.
I have a hard time seeing them giving up the power that took them 20 years to obtain.
Sorry to blogwhore, but read these posts:
http://livefrankly.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/orders-and-acts-and-lies-oh-my/
After reading this one, tell me you think that they will willingly walk away.
http://livefrankly.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/bush-officials-charged-with-war-crimes/
And, if we are very lucky, the war crimes charges will continue to haunt them until they are finally tried.
I think we are on the precipice of a possible revolution, the likes of which we have not seen in a long, long time, because either we are going to allow these people to usurp what shreds are left of the Constitution and allow them their unitary power forever, or we say NO and do something.
I fear for my country more than I ever have in my life.
May 16th, 2008 at
Did I do something wrong that my last post didn’t make it past the filters? I hope not.
May 16th, 2008 at
Whoooops…nevermind.