becki I can honestly say that I am not a fan of the former Vice President for various reason's which I have made known many times. That said though, I think the salary and compensation issue is a little bit of a stretch when its pretty clear that most of his stock options if not all of them went to good causes. The other thing of note that the accusations for war were somehow related to the former Vice Presidents relationship to Haliburton/KBR are completely misguided and serve to mislead people in my humble opinion. My personal opinion is that the former Vice President acting on bad intelligence and a personal history with Iraq as well as long term view of a pax Americana beat the drum loudly for war along with several aides when the more prudent thing to do would have verified before making the commitment that led this nation into Iraq. I think it a bit unfair though to judge the man based on his business success and that is why I don't.
I can understand why. I went to church with his childhood neighbor whose children played with the Cheney kids. Also, in that small Wyoming town where I lived, where Lynn Cheney was Homecoming Queen and he her escort, good and honorable people are loved and held dear. Their reputation was of the highest, and Dick was the most popular Congressman who was ever reelected 5 times in the Equality State.
I have no compunctions about defending a man of such caliber of him, even if he did accidentally shoot a lawyer once.
Your background becki gives you an insight that just about every other American does not have the privledge of having on the former Vice President personally. I am sure all of those from Wy. especially those from your home town look upon him with pride as you should. My opinions are my own and generally taken from my own life experiences , while yes they can be somewhat harsh I suppose when it comes to those that lead this nation , I'm of the opinion that every citizen of every stripe should hold their leaders to the highest of standards. Mine is personally born from my own experiences in the service of this nation and seeing the the tragic waste of all those good young men and women in a misadventure beyond measure. I stand surpremely proud of all the good young men and women who have served and still serve this nation and am in awe of their unquestionable loyality to our beloved nation. So when I see a leader of this nation not take into consideration in my humble opinion ALL the consequences that might arise from such a commitment I tend to call him or her into question for that.
That's your privilege, and I respect freedom of thought and speech.
It's just that when you're on the 50 yard line, and the two teams are right there in the middle, and you see somebody trying to beat up your quarterback over and over in a way that is inconsistent with fair rules of play, it leaves a certain impression people on the top row may not be able to make out. So when they try to break his leg, and it keeps not breaking, you just send up a little thank you to God for the gift of health in the face of brutality.
I knew every false word that was said against Cheney from the get go. Oddly, I was born in Houston, where my uncle was a Judge that occasionally hung his hat at his office visited frequently by Sr. President Bush. My uncle didn't hang with anybody in business or personally who didn't have an unimpeachable character, and so I have a double-dose of trust in that administration for near flawlessness of character. My side of the family were army brats, hazed so often we were fighters and do not back down from scraps. That false story I mentioned above about JHHatfield? He was a Texas State Penitentiary inmate incarcerated for trying to kill his boss with a firebomb. He petitioned then-governor George W. Bush for a reprieve, but after looking at the facts and talking to the family of the man he attempted to assassinate, he declined the pardon, so JHHatfield had to serve his final year and was so pissed off, he decided to con his way back into the world by writing a "revealing" book called "Priviledged son." about the alleged misdeeds of young George W. Bush in the Texas National Guard. He completely made up a story that Bush II had gone AWOL, which was not true. He named 4 witnesses he had interviewed. When the postman rang the second time, JHHatfield had already convinced Little Brown and Co. to hustle out thousands of copies just as Governor Bush was declaring he was going to run for President. The copies had already been printed when the President of Little Brown and Co stepped down, saying he failed to check the witnesses and the background of JHHatfield's life of crime against authorities.
But ta-da! The Democrats used the unpublished book for their platform. A few years later, Dan Rather brought up the same garbage and lost his job at CBS.
People shouldn't tell lies about good people. They just shouldn't do it.
But when it comes to electing a President, Republicans first have to walk on water, and when they do come up with a reasonably good fellow, the character assassination end of the party comes out with false facts, overdramatized small farts blown up into sewers larger than the national debt so people will in fact, not notice the national debt.
Using JHHatfields' book of four false testimonials from Bush acquaintances who testified they hadn't even been contacted by JHHatfield, much less given an interview to him, and an utter absence of evidence Bush had ever done anything but honorable service in the Texas National Guard, the Dem spin machine blew a lot of sewer gas but in the end, Governor Bush became President Bush.
I watched the whole thing, wondering how could people be so willing to someone who lied over someone who's adult life has been spent in public service to other citizens of state and country?
I just have a little squeaky voice, Navy1960, but I know what I saw, and I saw a lot of lying called and disproven, yet the left-leaning tower, once revered as the Fifth Column, have lost their way and taken half the country into a land where lies are cherry picked and truth is concealed.
They concealed President Bush's record of cleaning up most of the Texas brownfields, his conservatism, and his humane treatment of people living in Texas, his wife's war on illiteracy, and lifelong pledge support of minority and other artists.
Thank you for your service. My big bro was in charge of maintaining fighter planes on the Midway for years. He wound up being a Master Chief of some kind, don't know much about titles, but he said they made way for him because he was a hard worker, and he refused to go to officer training. Funny how the Navy was the best place he could ever have been and I was proud of his supporting role.He retired over a decade ago.
Have a great evening.
