 “A smile is just a frown turned upside down and skewed a bit.” |
A new national poll suggests that favorable opinions of the former vice president are on the rise….
But the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey, released Thursday morning, indicates that a majority of Americans still have an unfavorable opinion of Cheney.
Fifty-five percent of people questioned in the poll say they have an unfavorable opinion of the former vice president. Thirty-seven percent say they have a favorable opinion of Cheney, up 8 percentage points from January when he left office….
“Former President George W. Bush’s favorable rating rose 6 points in that same time period”….
I only post this because the reporters won’t be able to figure out why the figures are up: People are starting to miss the cartoons:
Thanks, K B
#69
The Courts disagree. They have stated that some of the AUMFs are the equivalent of a formal declaration of war.
The bottom line is this: America is the greatest nation that ever existed. If your foreign policy is not based on that unarguable FACT you’re screwed and so are we. This is why O’pologist sucks so much. He needs to realize that a “citizen of the world” is inferior to a citizen of America. If America has to stoop down to be like the rest of the world, the human race has no reason to exist.
# 69 jccalhoun said, “Read your constitution. The USA hasn’t issued a declaration of war since 1941.”
Irrelevant. The Geneva conventions and rules regarding illegal combatants have NOTHING to do with US Constitutional declaration of war requirements. Fail.
Anyhoo. Back on topic. Why does the reclusive Darth Mal suddenly come out of the closet after 8 reclusive years in the veep’s office?
Word has it that he and Bush weren’t seeing eye to eye during the last couple of years. I wonder if it’s related.
#47, Cow-Patty,
# 45 Greg Allen said, “BTW, I’m going to try pleading conservative “honest disagreement” if I ever cause a car wreck.”
And, if I ever try to a car by running it over with a steamroller I’ll plead, liberal logic…
Uuhh?????
That is the definition of neo-con / Liebertarian economic theory.
Cheney is actually afraid he will be prosecuted for War Crimes so he is being preemptive in swaying American opinion.
When a few families of our fallen men and women come forward to say what they have lost because of his lies, American opinion will remain steadfast against him. Bush might be immune from prosecution, but Cheney isn’t, after all, his job title isn’t an office under the Constitution. Many don’t think he will be able to claim Qualified Immunity.
GOP strategist John Weaver:
“If it’s 2012 and our party is defined by Palin and Limbaugh and Cheney, then we’re headed for a blowout. That’s just the truth.”
75. Mr. Fusion
“When a few families of our fallen men and women come forward to say what they have lost because of his lies…”
Yeah, like the families of the dead loved ones really were looking for a Utopian society’s moral high ground instead of waterboarded answers as to where arms caches are located and used to kill their husbands, fathers, brothers and sisters.
RBG
Is he still proclaiming the relationship between the 9/11 hijackers and Sadam Hussein?
What a f*cking liar!
I think it is fascinating that any of you exist in reality. You all must live in fuzzy lined vacuums.
NEITHER side is right for The Republic.
But you keep holding onto tradition for tradition’s sake while the whole nation continues to spiral downwards like the UK.
Ex-colonial powers now slowly winding down into obscurity.
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It’s nice to see the nazis here backing their man.
#8 Agreed. We must give Cheney credit as great student of Adolf Hitler.
Adolf Hitler Quotes:
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it”
“How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.”
“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.”
“It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.”
“I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator”
“I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature”
“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.”
#79, RBG,
Yeah, like the families of the dead loved ones really were looking for a Utopian society’s moral high ground instead of waterboarded answers as to where arms caches are located and used to kill their husbands, fathers, brothers and sisters.
Yup. Keep spouting the nonsense.
Let’s see your logic here, … . America invades a country and soundly defeats their military. Then they start rounding up anyone who opposes America’s view of what the country should like. Then they round up all the bureaucrats that were employed by the former regime. Then they start wholesale torture of those prisoners. What information they hold we don’t know, but they might know the codes to the atomic bomb they might have planted near some American troops moving through the area.
We destroyed their already crumbling infrastructure. Now our tanks destroy the roads. We cut the electricity to a few hours a day. Unemployment soars to over 75% and there is no government to implement relief. Schools close. Hospitals are way over capacity and out of drugs and use makeshift bandages. Cars, houses, and businesses are routinely destroyed by the “liberators”.
Tens of thousands die. The numbers reach past the hundred thousand mark. No one knows how high it goes but the majority of civilian dead come long after the “victory”. All because of the vanity of some President wanting to win a war. And the lies told to get us into that war.
And all you think about is some bullet coursing through some soldier’s gut? War is hell, but it is war, fought with soldiers who know ahead of time that might happen on the battlefield. No soldier is expected to be tortured as some duty. That is why the Geneva Conventions were signed. Yet you consider torturing the enemy with no regard to the civility society requires to prevent all out Armageddon.
You are truly an effen, blind, mentally challenged asshole. It must feel good to realize that Alphie isn’t alone.
Gulf War II should never happened, but it had to, because Gulf War I cut off incomplete.
The liberals are already starting to miss Chaney and Bush.
Don’t worry you guys will be back in full form attacking Obama and his second in no time. The attacks have already started.
86 Mr. Fusion:
“Then they start rounding up anyone who opposes America’s view of what the country should like.”
We know from the Iraqi elections “anyone who opposes America’s view…” did not get rounded up. You’re just making stuff up. Again.
“Then they start wholesale torture of those prisoners.”
Your wishful thinking again. Start providing data, or you’ll be called on it each and every time. I think you meant to say, some of these people who have info you know nothing about were waterboarded. The rest is in your dreams.
Similar destruction happened when the Allies liberated Holland and Italy. Start thinking, Mr. Fusion. I assume the war some “President” wanted to win was Hussein against the Iranians? Or was it against his own people the Kurds? Oops, a little memory lapse, huh?
Read the Geneva Conventions and tell me if both sides have a mutual agreement on the subject of war. They don’t.
So by arbitrarily dismissing your list of pain & suffering brought on by war, including being shot, you are saying torture is torture but only if everyone agrees on paper it’s torture.
14 seconds of waterboarding is not Armageddon which again only highlights your requirement for wild exaggeration and unclear thinking instead of any semblance of truth.
RBG