“Few have ever risen so high
By on Dec 31st, 2006 at 12:32 pm
“Few have ever risen so high
with so little guile or calculation.” — Vice President Dick Cheney, on former president Gerald Ford.
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Dick should be the next one to the gallows.
December 31st, 2006 at 12:38 pmYo, Dick, go eat one.
December 31st, 2006 at 12:38 pmHe’s just jealous of Ford. Cheney wanted the best “deal”.
December 31st, 2006 at 12:38 pmCheney on the other hand…
December 31st, 2006 at 12:40 pm“Few have ever risen so high with so little guile or calculation.â€
…said VP “Dick,” and I have no idea how the old f*cker did it.
December 31st, 2006 at 12:44 pmMe, personally — I used every trick in the book to get to be the undesignated president — I get to be president and still remain in undisclosed locations.
December 31st, 2006 at 12:52 pmcheney would know about guile:
guile –noun
December 31st, 2006 at 12:53 pminsidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.
—Synonyms trickery, fraud, craft. See deceit.
And Mr. Cheney, few have ever sunk so low with so much. Congratulations.
December 31st, 2006 at 12:54 pmI have lost all faith in President Bush. I recently found out this morning that Bush decided not to attend the ceremony because he had to cut cedar wood at his ranch (I believe he decided not to appear at the wake ceremony because of the letter that criticized the purpose of the war in Iraq). He should’ve attended out of respect for the former deceased president.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:00 pmEven though this is not pertaning to this blog, I must voice my opinion. I really feel like the President and his administration are equivalent to the mob. Many people, including his constituents, are biased toward the President’s methodical plan to win the war in Iraq, but Bush has made the decision not to adhere to any of their views. There’s no way that we can win this war. I believe Bush and Cheney are in Iraq for profiteering purposes. I pray to God that all of the filth within our government is revealed.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:08 pmRegarding Ford’s pardon of Nixon, Cheney also said that Ford understood that there is no healing without pardons. Sounds like Cheney is trying to plant suggestions in the public’s minds before his upcoming trial.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:12 pmSpudge…our “Daryll” is “Daryl” with one “L”, I believe.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:17 pmThere are few people more qualified to speak of guile and calculation then Cheney, the sum of those calculations being chaos and disaster.
War Crimes are an un-pardonable offense.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:19 pmwell, daryll… see, “miracles never cease”… you have “seen the light”…
now, help us fix this mess… thanks.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:19 pmMaybe it’s Daryl’s other brother named Daryll.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:21 pmDamn! Spudge took the words right out of my mouth and beat me to the punch.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:22 pmSpudge…our “Daryll†is “Daryl†with one “Lâ€, I believe.
Comment by Republicans Are The Fear And Smear Party — December 31, 2006 @ 1:17 pm
nope – here’s a classic:
Whenever I want to masturbate, I read the Bible.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:23 pmComment by Daryll
#18 LOL!
December 31st, 2006 at 1:24 pmNo it’s me, I may be a republican, but I can no longer defend insanity. So much government funding could’ve been utilized for education, health care, etc., rather than this war. Our men and women are dying for no common cause. I’ve heard from a few of my fellow officers that there is a good portion of Iraq that doesn’t have adequate water or electricity. The Iraqi people are turning against us. It’s sad that a soldier believes that, if he abandons this war, he would be considered an unpatriotic servant to his country. No, no, no, they tried to complete an unjustly war to the best of their ability, but the Iraqis have chosen to not accept freedom. It’s time to create an exit plan.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:35 pmComment by Daryll — December 31, 2006 @ 1:35 pm
Amazing Grace !
December 31st, 2006 at 1:38 pm
That’s definitely NOT Daryll.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:40 pmDaryll?
December 31st, 2006 at 1:41 pmHalleluia! or whatever. Darryl have you seen the light, or the carnage, finally??
Yippee, spread the word dude only 29.9999% of you left.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:44 pmDaryll, a little late in coming, but satisfied that at least YOU have seen the light. The majority of troops polled now think more troops is not the answer. There is a growing antiwar movement within the military now, patterned after the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Welcome aboard!
December 31st, 2006 at 1:45 pmLooks like Daryll finally ran out of Kool Aid.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:49 pmHalleluia! or whatever. Darryl have you seen the light, or the carnage, finally??
Yippee, spread the word dude only 29.9999% of you left.
Comment by freebird9 — December 31, 2006 @ 1:44 pm
Trust me, I will. Something must change or I can see our country heading toward damnation/ the Great Depression.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:49 pmDaryll, a little late in coming, but satisfied that at least YOU have seen the light. The majority of troops polled now think more troops is not the answer. There is a growing antiwar movement within the military now, patterned after the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Welcome aboard!
Comment by Uncle_Ho — December 31, 2006 @ 1:45 pm
But sadly his fellow Neocons are still in their delusional state.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:55 pmFew have ever risen so high with so much guile and calculation as Vice President Dick Cheney
December 31st, 2006 at 1:55 pmTrust me, I will. Something must change or I can see our country heading toward damnation/ the Great Depression.
Comment by Daryll — December 31, 2006 @ 1:49 pm
I agree. Will you help us keep this from happening by supporting the impeachment of Bush and Cheney?
December 31st, 2006 at 1:57 pmNat, the neocons need to quit hiding behind their draft deferments and enlist to fight in Iraq.
December 31st, 2006 at 1:58 pmWow!..Daryll, is that realy you.? Well, if true I say welcome to the eye’s wide open crowd and as usual I send ,Blessings
December 31st, 2006 at 2:03 pmI think George blew off the funeral because there was no way to spin-dry him from his vacation bender fast enough for public viewing.
December 31st, 2006 at 2:09 pmNat, the neocons need to quit hiding behind their draft deferments and enlist to fight in Iraq.
Comment by Uncle_Ho — December 31, 2006 @ 1:58 pm
You know they don’t like getting their hands dirty and besides they have their own personal army they can abuse and send them off to fight ill-conceived and nonessential wars.
December 31st, 2006 at 2:13 pmIs this one of the signs of the apocalypse , when rabid wingnut posters like Daryll start to be coherent?
December 31st, 2006 at 3:31 pmDaryll
Good to see you seeing it. Welcome.
December 31st, 2006 at 3:48 pmDaryll has always been the accomplice who can’t ride or shoot, and waits in a side canyon to distract the posse as they ride by in pursuit of the train robbers….
December 31st, 2006 at 7:25 pmThis thread started out about the nefarious little Fuddthucker who slipped out the back door as Ford was pardoning his boss….
See how neatly Daryll the Divine Doorknob spun us off onto Irrelevant George?
I am highly suspicious of Daryll the Divine Doorknob.
December 31st, 2006 at 8:02 pmDaryll’s change of heart is certainly a bit suspicious. What has brought on this epiphany Daryll?
December 31st, 2006 at 9:47 pm“ONLY” just ONE soul-losing sellout of JFK and his fellow Americans!
December 31st, 2006 at 10:14 pmDaryll’s change of heart is certainly a bit suspicious. What has brought on this epiphany Daryll?
Comment by JPark
Personally, I think he got laid.
December 31st, 2006 at 10:18 pm#45 Well, that CAN soften any man.
December 31st, 2006 at 10:24 pmIt’s done wonders for Daryll — if that really is Daryll. :)
December 31st, 2006 at 10:26 pm#47 A change from extreme right Bush water carrier to flaming lib? Nah, it isn’t him.
December 31st, 2006 at 10:30 pmThe Iraqis “chose not to accept freedom”?
When was our invasion and occupation ever about freedom?
December 31st, 2006 at 11:19 pmThat was a PR line used to sell the war.
Interesting comment by someone with so much blood on his hands. Cheney ought to know about rising high due to gile and calculation. Although, Cheney is soon going to find out that the old adage is true “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” Investigations are going to paint a trail to this crooks lap-then how about trying him for war crimes. Bush and Cheney have more blood on their hands then Saddam could ever dream of having. And the Bush and Cheney blood is due to greed!!!!
January 1st, 2007 at 8:50 amBig Dick has the ability to speak well when necessary and lull you to sleep and then hit you with the most remarkable incidious remarks
January 1st, 2007 at 11:54 amever spoken. Big Dick of all the cronies should be held responsible for his actions since the Ford administration//
#52: Please refer to Cheney as little Dick the big Prick.
January 1st, 2007 at 1:55 pmSpoken by the master of guile and calculation…
January 1st, 2007 at 4:58 pmI just don’t know how you folks can do it.You watch the headlines like hawks, you are always into it up to your eyeballs, and you manage to keep you sanity. I had to give up t.v. a couple of years ago; got a satelite radio for no news or comercails; desubscribed from all the news mags & papers, just to get my meds down to a little less than half of what I started with.
I’m not totaly out of touch yet; I still look at the headlines on the papers on my way home and I still surf the net for a couple of hours a week. Any more than that, I would probably be living in a padded cell wearing a coat that is all sleeves. How do you do it and not go nuts?
Patrick
January 1st, 2007 at 5:54 pmDeat Patrick
January 1st, 2007 at 7:48 pmI think there are more than a few of us who decompress by posting on this web site.
Congrats on dumping all that excess media input!
Happy New Year !
The dice are rolling, and the heads will follow…………
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January 1st, 2007 at 10:41 pmRemember back in 2000 when a guy named Dick Cheney was head of Bush’s search committee for VP? Cheney dutifully interviewed a number of candidates and then lo and behold, selected HIMSELF as the most qualified canidate.
That move alone deserves an award for “guile and calculation” like no other.
Someone who’s ve been entrusted to do a confidential job of interviewing candidates for VP and then ends up selecting himself has broken the trust placed in him and should have been held up as an object of scorn and ridicule.
It should also have been a major red flag that there was something extrmely fishy going on.
January 2nd, 2007 at 9:04 am… Add to that the fact that the constitution forbids the Prez and VP from being inhabitants of the same state.
Cheney had lived in Texas for decades, worked there, voted there, paid Taxes there. Cheney was the one candidate that Bush couldn’t possibly choose for VP for the simple reason that it was unconstitutional. When Repubs belatedly discovered that quaint archaic document called the constitution Cheney scurried off to Wyoming to switch his voter registration – as if simply switching your voter registration is sufficient to call yourself a resident of another state. Cheney continued to reside in Texas. The Press and the opposition party once again dropped the ball on this.
Imagine how the right wing would have reacted if Edwards and Kerry had been both residents of Massachusetts, or Clinton and Al Gore had both been residents of Arkansas? You think they wouldn’t have screamed bloody murder that the Dems are subverting the sacred constituion? You think they would’ve accepted the dodge of the vp candidate jetting off to another state to switch his voter ID card?
January 2nd, 2007 at 9:30 amHow many people realized that Cheney is actually reviewing all legislation before it goes to the president’s deks and that no VP has ever done this before? Talk about giving him an inch and he’ll take a mile… (see URL).
January 2nd, 2007 at 9:51 am“Few have ever risen so high with so little guile or calculation… by simply being in the right place at the right time…”
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:28 pm