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Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy? - 7/22/2007 4:17:34 PM

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By Evan ThomasNewsweek July 30, 2007 issue - Dick Cheney may be a taciturn man, writes author Stephen F. Hayes, but the vice president can become animated discussing doomsday scenarios. In his new biography, "Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President" (578 pages. HarperCollins. $27.95), Hayes tells the story of the Cheney family, sitting around their new big-screen TV in Jackson Hole, Wyo., on a recent Fourth of July, watching the 1997 movie "The Peacemaker." Starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman, the film is about a plot to blow up New York with a nuclear bomb. Partway through the movie, Cheney's wife, Lynne, entered the room and asked what was happening. The question was directed at no one in particular, but the vice president launched into "a 10-minute, scene-by-scene synopsis of the action," according to Lynne's brother Mark Vincent. She interrupted to clarify her question: "What's happening now?"

Cheney, writes Hayes, woke up on the morning of September 12, 2001, asking: when is the next attack? A lot of Americans woke up that day asking the same question, but while many have been lulled back into semicomplacency, Cheney has never stopped worrying and wondering and—it must be said—trying to do something about it. The vice president has become a kind of modern-day prophet of doom. He is seen by many Americans as slightly creepy, if not sinister. Of course, he could be right: Al Qaeda may well be, as recent intelligence reports suggest, gearing up for another and possibly more catastrophic attack. But what makes Cheney so dire, so animated by gloom?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19886673/site/newsweek

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RE: Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy? - 7/22/2007 4:24:05 PM

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I am thinking the hemorroids. I am not a doctor, so ----

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RE: Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy? - 7/22/2007 4:29:17 PM

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But it's an educated guess, Ron

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RE: Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy? - 7/22/2007 4:33:25 PM

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Could be projection...

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RE: Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy? - 7/22/2007 4:36:55 PM

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Another possibility is if we get terrorized and we gotta throw down, everybody is gonna be to busy to notice what a poor fuckin' shot he is

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RE: Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy? - 7/22/2007 9:34:53 PM

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Perhaps it is the 2008 election, or more likely the 2009 investigation.

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RE: Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy? - 7/22/2007 9:40:55 PM

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Yeah, the NEW Administration is going to be investigating Bush and Cheney and all their cohorts for a while after 2008.
Sell your stock in Haliburton.
And a bunch of other companies too.

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RE: Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy? - 7/22/2007 9:41:13 PM

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yanno, this might just be me, but if my commander in chief was gonna take a happy pipe up the ass, I would take it for him---perhaps there is some form of sorrow in mudville tonight...................

Oh, yeah, not one of these fuckin cowards stood up in the first place.

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RE: Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy? - 7/22/2007 9:45:47 PM

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Hmmm...I think he may have cramp in his hand from having it up Bush's arse for almost 7 yrs...making the little puppet talk, no way that guy could ever walk and talk at the same time otherwise...

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RE: Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy? - 7/22/2007 9:50:34 PM

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yanno, this might just be me, but if my commander in chief was gonna take a happy pipe up the ass, I would take it for him---perhaps there is some form of sorrow in mudville tonight...................

Oh, yeah, not one of these fuckin cowards stood up in the first place.

Ron

Ron, you don't really think that Dick Cheney is going to jump on the grenade for Bush now, do you?
You have two rich guys there who are used to *other people* jumping on the grenade for (them.)

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RE: Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy? - 7/22/2007 10:43:11 PM

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Maybe it's because doom earns him billions?

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But what makes Cheney so dire, so animated by gloom?

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RE: Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy? - 7/23/2007 10:55:58 AM

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Another possibility is if we get terrorized and we gotta throw down, everybody is gonna be to busy to notice what a poor fuckin' shot he is

You are calling a man who got a head shot on a quail a lousy shot?

I mean, I know the quail was six feet tall, armed, and wearing orange, but still.

A head shot!

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RE: Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy? - 7/23/2007 10:57:57 AM

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Perhaps it is the 2008 election, or more likely the 2009 investigation.

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Bush / Cheney for Prison, 2009.

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p.s. Probably a bad time to read The Dead Zone.

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RE: Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy? - 7/23/2007 12:13:12 PM

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I don't think they'll do it, but their best bet is to let the axe fall on Cheney, FOR EVERYTHING. I mean confess to every little thing and get locked up NOW. Then in a few months Bush can pardon him.

Of course these cocky bastards are going to think "They'll never get us".

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RE: Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy? - 7/23/2007 12:21:38 PM

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I don't think they'll do it, but their best bet is to let the axe fall on Cheney, FOR EVERYTHING. I mean confess to every little thing and get locked up NOW. Then in a few months Bush can pardon him.

Of course these cocky bastards are going to think "They'll never get us".

T

Might be why Cheney is being so gloomy. They might be having this very conversation with him.

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edited to point out that I hope they have a nice bus picked out for him.

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RE: Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy? - 7/23/2007 12:25:40 PM

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Yeah, the NEW Administration is going to be investigating Bush and Cheney and all their cohorts for a while after 2008.
Sell your stock in Haliburton.
And a bunch of other companies too.

Popeye,
Why do you think Haliburton is moving to Dubai? I have a feeling it's got a lot to do with being untouchable by US law when a new administration decides to really look into the dealings of the current one. Have to wonder of the Bush family will be opening a new ranch in Saudi Arabia soon too.

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RE: Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy? - 7/23/2007 12:31:03 PM

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Chronic constipation?

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RE: Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy? - 7/23/2007 12:52:32 PM

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Because the curtain is falling and it'll soon be time to pay the piper.

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RE: Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy? - 7/24/2007 1:42:20 PM

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If you worked for Bush could you be anything else but gloomy?

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RE: Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy? - 7/24/2007 1:48:03 PM

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Why is Dick Cheney so gloomy?

Umm... maybe because he knows where he's spending eternity?

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