Cheney’s hometown newspaper endorses Obama, rips Bush legacy.
Cheney’s hometown newspaper endorses Obama, rips Bush legacy.
Today, Vice President Cheney’s hometown newspaper, the Casper Star-Tribune in Wyoming, endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) for president. The paper endorsed Bush-Cheney in 2004. Today’s editorial states:
The next occupant of the White House will inherit a national economy that’s collapsing and two wars our nation has been fighting for years, depleting valuable resources we need to fix a multitude of domestic problems. Far too many of our nation’s citizens live paycheck to paycheck, worried about whether they’ll have a job next week or if a medical crisis will bankrupt them.
What America needs most in these troubled times is a president who will move the country in a positive direction. The candidate who is most likely to chart a new course that will lead us to better days is Obama. Moreover, he is the best candidate for Wyoming
The endorsement comes two days after Cheney campaigned for McCain in Casper. Thus far, at least 50 daily papers have switched from backing Bush in 2004 to supporting Obama.
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What happened to that smell of victory wafting out of Florida?
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:37 pmStick a fork in Bushco., they're done.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:38 pmHow will Cheney angle that? Oh yeah, MSM is in the liberal tank...
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:38 pmWhat a bunch of ingrates.
Per capita, Wyoming receives more than seven times the amount of homeland security funding than New York.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:44 pmIt's going to be surreal watching Darth and Dubya walk out of their bubble on January 20th, even though they've signed onto Secret Service protection to transfer them from one bubble (our White House) to another (either their ranches or Paraguay). Also, don't rule out either of them wearing dissent earmuffs in public.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:45 pmKinda slow on the draw? Theyda been dead in the old west!
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:46 pmGaging from his rather lackluster performance as he endorsed McCain and ol'what's-her-name in Wyoming on Saturday, I'm guessing we will see very little of Dick Cheney from now on.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:47 pmI'm sure he will be preoccupied with shredding and burying everything he possibly can. If it looks like justice will catch up with him, he may very well remove himself to some undisclosed location overseas in some country which has no extradition arrangement with the United States.
Sounds like a legacy to me.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:47 pmWhen the Republicans loose the west, they are in big trouble!
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:48 pmshoeless Says:
"What a bunch of ingrates."
In the eyes of the corporate militarists, New York is the next New Orleans. Expendable.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:49 pmI would suggest to everybody associated with the newspaper that they graciously decline any invitations to go bird hunting in the near future.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:49 pmWhat America needs is a press without a bias.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:50 pmDamn librul Casper, Wyoming media!
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:52 pmIt really says something about the Bush/Cheney administration (and the GOP in general) when so many newspapers are endorsing Obama -- even in Republican strongholds.
Newspapers are supported by advertisers, not subscribers. And it's the people with the money who influence the editorial position of the paper most of the time, which is why so many of them lean conservative.
So you KNOW it's bad when so many papers are hopping to the other side. The GOP has made such a mess of things that even newspapers are finding it hard to spin gold out of the trash heap.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:52 pmThe (Obama) endorsement comes two days after Cheney campaigned for McCain in Casper
- - Mission Accomplished, Dick.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:53 pmAnd in other news, two feet of snow has fallen in Hell this morning.
All ski resorts are open and in full operation.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:54 pmoh sheet... i hear he's off on a hunting trip today...
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:55 pmhis buddies might oughta stay clear...
Hopefully there will soon be legislation to assure that representatives from both viewpoints are equally heard.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:55 pmDead-eye Dick, "So?"
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:55 pmI suppose I should be grateful that they've changed their tune, but I am still angry at the idiots who endorsed (and voted for) Bush Co. for a second time in 2004.
It was obvious to anyone with a working cortex that Bush was a lying, incompetent, POS even then.
Grr!
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:56 pmBam_Bam Says:
What America needs is a press without a bias.
No, what America needs is a Fair and Balanced press. I'd recommend Fox News.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:57 pmBam_Bam Says
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:50 pm
What America needs is a press without a bias.
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Impossible. Even if a news medium was perfectly neutral and perfectly balanced, somebody would find it skewed.
Even media who fawn over McCain and attack Obama are considered to be part of the "liberal media" by the far right, for example. And any medium thought by the far right to be "fair and balanced" (Fox News, The Weekly Standard, etc.) would be considered very right-leaning by everyone else.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:57 pmcaption:
"I think I'll tie on a Chernobyl Ant. Might as well get a few more casts in before the gas wells get here."
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:57 pmPASS THIS VIDEO ON TO OTHERS:
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:58 pmTell VT to Elect Charlotte Dennett to Prosecute Bush, she'll appoint Vincent Bugliosi"
http://Tinyurl.com/ElectDennett
What took you so long? Did you finally pull your heat out of your ??
Where were they (anyone endorsing Obama that endorsed The Disaster) four years ago??!!? Where were they eight years ago, for that matter?
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:00 pmNevar Says:
“I think I’ll tie on a Chernobyl Ant."
My favorite lure; they glow in the dark all night and basically gut the fish at the same time you're reeling it in...
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:02 pmI'll bet Bam Bam likes the Moonie newspaper.
The Moonies founded, own, and control the Washington Times
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:02 pmCheney's endorsement is the kiss of death to any republican candidate even among republicans !
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:04 pmZimzone Says:
There's another appropriate fly he could try, but TP won't let me say it.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:08 pmIt references a particular type of Creek that begins with a B
That may be well and good, however, the polling is very high in McCain's favor in Wyoming.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:10 pmshoeless Says:
What do you have against The Moonies?? You wouldn’t be referring to the Moonies in a derogatory manner would you? Not the Left!! The people that have humanity only for people out of the womb? No!!
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:12 pmshoeless Says:
I’ll bet Bam Bam likes the Moonie newspaper.
Looks like you're accurate.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:15 pmWhat Think Progress needs is a troll claiming to be a "Latin King" who is NOT afraid of the big scary black man!
Just sayin....
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:16 pmPoor Bam_bi - you got nuttin', eh?
Awwwwwww.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:16 pmNevar Says:
I bet you are a Daily reader of the Al Ahram Newspaper.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:21 pmAfternoon Bam Bam. Are you suggesting the press has just one bias? If so what might that be? Do you think all press source have the same bias? What factors do you think give rise to the bias of the press. Thanks.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:24 pmI think Bam Bam tried the Chernobyl Cheddar Freedom Fries.
Didn't Fred Thompson star with her in the Flintstones?
Fred was on the talking heads yesterday, explaining how attracted he is to Palin. When asked which of the 'hardcore' interviews he disagreed with, he simply stated; 'I didn't listen to any of them.' But...he has an opinion on the matter.
Bam Bam, when did Fred Flintstone change his name to Thompson?
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:27 pmthe bambams of the world will never be satisfied...
after all, as we know, "reality has a liberal bias".
it's a fact.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:27 pmLooks like Sarah Palin got punked more than once last week. Someone needs to learn to vet information better...
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:34 pmHere I was, just hopin' a troll would pop its little head up so we could get in a game of Whack-A-Troll™, and all we get is a slow-witted, gimpy Bam_Bam.
That's hardly worth the effort to lift the mallet.
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:52 pmEvening ralph. I think it is time to start thrusting our arms down into the burrows and pulling them out ourselves. Still since they seem to be becoming an endangered species, I am not sure that would be in their best interests...
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:57 pmDo I remember Daryll predicting the rapture if Huckabee didn't win?
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:04 pmGuess he's gone now as well... alas...
Bam_Bam Says:
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What do you have against The Moonies??
Bam Bam, why do you hate America, and the Constitution of the United States of America?
The Right's America-Hating Preacher
...a viciously anti-American religious figure has invested billions of dollars in financing the U.S. conservative movement and put fat wads of cash into the pockets of many prominent Republicans, including members of President George W. Bush’s own family.
In a speech to his followers on Aug. 4, 1996, Moon vowed that the church’s eventual dominance over the United States would be followed by the liquidation of American individualism and the establishment of Moon’s theocratic rule.
“Americans who continue to maintain their privacy and extreme individualism are foolish people,” Moon declared. “The world will reject Americans who continue to be so foolish. Once you have this great power of love, which is big enough to swallow entire America, there may be some individuals who complain inside your stomach. However, they will be digested.”
On May 1, 1997, Moon told a group of followers that “the country that represents Satan’s harvest is America.” Moon also declared that “Satan created this kind of Hell on Earth,” the United States. He again denounced American women as having “inherited the line of prostitutes. … American women are even worse because they practice free sex just because they enjoy it.”
Lashing out at the United States again, Moon decried American tolerance of homosexuals, whom he likened to “dirty dung-eating dogs.” For Americans who “truly love such dogs,” Moon said, “they also become like dung-eating dogs and produce that quality of life.” [Washington Post, Nov. 23-24, 1997]
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:06 pmActually Daryll just morphed into Rapture Ready and recently acknowledged that his kooky god blew it on the Huckabee thing but assured us all that it didn't matter. I inquired as to how a god could be so fallable but he never got back to me on that one...
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:07 pmWhen capitalism collapses you see how fast the “rugged individualists” jog Left.
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November 3rd, 2008 at 5:13 pmWe've certainly noticed how quickly the mavericks blended into the herd when it looks like they are going to get branded...
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:17 pmmission acomplished dick.... is usually a good thing and can result in a birth or at least a happy ending
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:48 pmsee ya dick please ride off into the sunset and take ur bush with ya and keep on goin till your neck deep in the ocean
Well, we know the Casper Star-Tribune is staffed with leftist kooks right, Dickles?
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:12 pmhell has a newspaper?
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:32 pm.
When your port of call refuses to throw you a life line, you know your ship is sunk.
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November 4th, 2008 at 1:34 am