Must Read: "The Curse of Dick Cheney"--he's a jinx!

[blue neen]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story?id=6450422&pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single7

"Should George W. Bush win this election, it will give him the distinction of being the first occupant of the White House to have survived naming Dick Cheney to a post in his administration. The Cheney jinx first manifested itself at the presidential level back in 1969..."


There are also details of his five deferments, etc. An excellent article in the latest Rolling Stone!

[Momgonepostal]

1. Pretty funny article!

I loved this: (italics mine)

"Cheney's manner and authority of voice far outstrip his true abilities," says Chas Freeman, who served under Bush's father as ambassador to Saudi Arabia. "It was clear from the start that Bush required adult supervision -- but it turns out Cheney has even worse instincts. He does not understand that when you act recklessly, your mistakes will come back and bite you on the ass."

[blue neen]

2. Yeah...how about "Wrote right-wing columnist Robert Novak

(then) White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney...is blamed by Ford insiders for a succession of campaign blunders."

Robert Novak!

[chimpymustgo]

3. Fantastic article. Funny how we know so little about Cheney.

Especially put into the context of his entire career. He is one scary, evil SOB.

[enough]

4. A must read.

It's even scarier than it is funny. Yikes, what a career.

Interesting remark near the end of the article: "Those who have known him over the years remain astounded by what they describe as his almost autistic indifference to the thoughts and feelings of others. "He has the least interest in human beings of anyone I have ever met," says John Perry Barlow, his former supporter. Cheney's freshman-year roommate, Steve Billings, agrees: "If I could ask Dick one question, I'd ask him how he could be so unempathetic."

Sounds a lot like his soulmate GW, and his longtime buddy Rumsfeld.