Comments on: Cheney swore off ‘moderate’ campaign promises a month after 2000 election.

By: I. B. Leary

I. B. Leary — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:14:07 +0000

Wow! dick cheney Is a Dick! “Once a liar, always a liar.”

When will we learn?

By: Keith H.

Keith H. — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:19:22 +0000

Dick was like, ‘campaign’s over, time to focus on what’s important, first things first, we have a ‘pearl harbor moment’ to plan for’.

By: theswan

theswan — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:15:48 +0000

As a moderate republican Chaffee was hated by the cons from the beginning. His father was Sec of the Navy who had lost considerable military installations for his state. Chaffee obviously didn’t want to be the guy to loose it all. Who knows if the Navy War College would have been next? Obviously not a good position to be in when your hated by your own party higher ups. I’m sure that he had the gun to his head. Voting against the war made him right for Rhode Islanders but not from the hawkish military standpoint that was vogue.

By: familyman

familyman — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:36:29 +0000

How nice of him to tell us this eight years after it happened!

By: Mickey

Mickey — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:18:09 +0000

Lincoln Chaffee recalls Cheney saying the campaign was over and that our actions in office would not be dictated by what had to be said in the campaign shortly after the 2000 election.

Sometimes, a single phrase confirms something you’ve known for a very long time, but never been able to put your finger on exactly. This little piece summarizes it all. On the first read, it confirms that Dick Cheney is a liar, and that what he says is simply whatever he needs to say to get what he wants. Next, it confirms that what Dick Cheney says isn’t binding. And, while we’re at it, it was said in private – in secret. Dick Cheney lives in a secret world.

But after you’ve had some time to think about it, it confirms something else. Dick Cheney is saying it – not the President. Dick Cheney was in charge from the outset.

For review:
* Dick Cheney is a liar
* what Dick Cheney says isn’t binding
* Dick Cheney lives in a secret world
* Dick Cheney was in charge from the outset

By: fletc3her

fletc3her — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:07:07 +0000

Remember this is Dick, give me personal access to all your confidential files so I can decide whether you are fit to be Vice President, psych!, I was going to be Vice President all along, Cheney. If you thought this man was honest after that incident then you probably still think Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of WMDs which he just hid really welll. This man does not have a shred of honesty, integrity, or common sense.

By: Tawdry

Tawdry — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:34:49 +0000

9/11 didn’t change everything. It fell into this administration’s lap. If you remember, the Project for a New American Century documents stated “what we need is another Pearl Harbor” and that’s exactly what they got.

By: Freedom Rebel

Freedom Rebel — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:19:19 +0000

#33 Progfin Says

I agree, I don’t think he would have written a book had he been re-elected. He is the only Republican that didn’t vote for the war. I will give him that, and I did respect him also for that.

But it’s his responsibility to uphold what we the people expect of elected officials. To cry foul, if something is wrong. Keeping it a secret makes you an accomplice in a crime. The crime and wrong doing is not being honest to the American People. If he had said something sooner, he may have been able to rewrite history. One person can make a difference. If your not heard, like Keith did on his show, keep yelling til the cry of outrage is deafening.

That is why I lost all respect and consider him no better than the rest of the Republicans. He knew better and did nothing, I’m not sure what is worse.

By: bratboy

bratboy — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:41:45 +0000

Whoops! My last comment was for another thread. Sorry!

By: bratboy

bratboy — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:39:48 +0000

Mcbush, like all the other right-wingers, has no idea what he is talking about. He has no oars in the water. Mindless.

By: bratboy

bratboy — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:37:35 +0000

I doubt seriously if anyone here is surprised by little dick’s statements. A good word to describe him is “sleazy.”

By: Hemlock for Gadflies

Hemlock for Gadflies — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:30:18 +0000

Isn’t it about time that we start calling this for what it is — the Cheney Administration? It’s obvious that W is merely a puppet. Look at the way he “won” the nomination — it was basically a foregone conclusion that Bush was going to be the Republican nominee by mid-1999 (check NEXIS). Why? It seems obvious to me — Cheney and the neocons had already captured the party and we’re looking for an inoffensive buffoon to run interference. So Bush could spout all he wanted about “compassionate conservatism” and yada-yada, Cheney knowing full well that he’d be in charge regardless.

By: Progfin

Progfin — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:25:34 +0000

Was he a RHINO…Republican In Name Only (a Republican term for thinking, moderate, independent members of their party)?

Would he have written the book and said these things if he had been re-elected? I doubt it. Of course then he’d tell folks that he was trying to make things work from the inside.

It’s a sad scene in this country. Check out Iaccoacoa’s book “Where Have All The Leaders Gone?” which applies to both parties…and some of the “independents” like Lieberman

By: artmann11

artmann11 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:32:11 +0000

It can’t really be party loyalty can it? What about country loyalty? What about logic & fact loyalty? The day a Democratic president advocates a preemptive war I’m leaving.

It’s like the trolls. You can’t imagine they could possibly be real, but hey, I’ve met them. They could be my father. Not actually my father. He’s not crass and is in fact intelligent. Even more frustrating. After arguing politics with him my entire adult life I still keep thinking someday I’m going to find that magic argument that will lift the veil. On the other hand, some people must shift their views, otherwise the elections in 2006 wouldn’t have given the advantage to the Dems. How does that happen?

I hate to say it but it’s his evangelical church. They hate Muslims, hate gays, hate abortion and embrace an open-ended global religious war that will lead to the final battle, Armageddon. I used to be a believer myself and I cannot comprehend how Christianity ended up so far off course since the 80s. Well, yes I can. Merge politics with religious and you end up with the worse of both.

By: wwasse

wwasse — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:20:29 +0000

OK. Perino says we get input only at the elections. Of course BushCo reserves the right to ignore whatever they said and promised during the election. Ignore for the moment the very serious questions about whether or not they won either election…

Wonderful,

By: ucsbclassics53

ucsbclassics53 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:54:36 +0000

I think that the senator might have been a bit intimidated. After all, this is a thuggish administration at play here. Chafee has been my favorite Republican because he at least had integrity when he was not intimidated.

By: Jane E. Schneider

Jane E. Schneider — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:09:29 +0000

Onoclea, I agree. These people all swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies foreign or domestic…and it’s hard to say which enemies are more sinister, the terrorists or the Bush administration. Terrorists can only kill me; the Bush administration takes the heart out of me and tries to kill hope.

By: Jane E. Schneider

Jane E. Schneider — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:01:29 +0000

I suppose this is better late than never. I had always respected Chaffee for his integrity, so I don’t understand how he could have kept this secret for this long. I’m incredibly disappointed by his silence until now. But I’m disgusted, sickened and outraged by the idea that Cheney actually convened a meeting to tell these Republicans that the Bush/Cheney campaign was nothing but lies? And they all did NOTHING? WTF?!

By: onoclea

onoclea — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:57:53 +0000

artmann11 Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 11:15 pm

It can’t really be party loyalty can it? What about country loyalty? What about logic & fact loyalty? The day a Democratic president advocates a preemptive war I’m leaving.

It’s like the trolls. You can’t imagine they could possibly be real, but hey, I’ve met them. They could be my father. Not actually my father. He’s not crass and is in fact intelligent. Even more frustrating. After arguing politics with him my entire adult life I still keep thinking someday I’m going to find that magic argument that will lift the veil. On the other hand, some people must shift their views, otherwise the elections in 2006 wouldn’t have given the advantage to the Dems. How does that happen?

By: singe_101

singe_101 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:39:28 +0000

Halleljujah, Mr. Chafee.

That RNC acceptance speech is such a far cry, taunting us with what they would do the opposite of including “uniting” Washington with Bush since he wasn’t deep into D.C. politics. But he’s the most sinister and politically dreadful president ever, using every obscure and harmful trick.

That speech is what the Republican party should have DONE and run on… and probably still should have lost, but as a respectable adversary.

Don’t be too hard on Lincoln. Yes, we all would have liked for him right at that moment to confront these cretins and call them out on their BS. Unfortunately, unless that’s FROM big oil, “defense”, or a Saudi I don’t think that would matter. They just said their “So?” to almost 300 million Americans, what is one senator?

Then he did call them out, voting against the war and other policies, becoming a pariah for having an opinion rather than trotting along with some blinders on like the good horses.

The worst part isn’t him TELLING us now since he obviously could think for himself and vote for his sworn duty, it’s that Bush/Cheney won in 2004. How? I do suspect foul play but they still did such a terrible job of delivering on 2000.