We live in times where the Vice President of the United States can gun down a man, and not explain himself before the public.
In an act of utter cowardice, from a man who routinely challenged John Kerry's war record and tried to attack Jack Murtha. They've owned up to the men, armed men, they've shot, while Dick Cheney has retreated into silence, while his gunshot victim lies in ICU at the age of 78.
What is so despicable is that Cheney's office didn't release the information about this. They were quick to brag about their bird murder hunts, 700 phesants, 400 quail. Who the hell are they feeding with all this killing.
This indicates something dark in Cheney's personality, which revels only in the act of killing, not the challenge of hunting.
Personally, hunting holds no appeal for me. I'd rather punch holes in paper. But I do fish, so I regard hunting as a personal choice and not a moral weakness. Sure, there is catch and release fishing, but if you take wild things from nature, that's what you're doing.
But what Cheney was doing was akin to tossing a rod and reel into a fish farm. If your goal is collection, fine. But don't call it fishing, any more than canned hunts are hunting.
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