Cheney speaks to servicemembers aboard USS Kitty Hawk

[lebkuchen]

This is a "big time" propaganda piece in Stars & Stripes, designed to make the DinC shine while he's in the media spotlight created by Fitzgerald.

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=43770

More than 4,000 servicemembers crammed aboard the USS Kitty Hawk for 20 minutes with the U.S. vice president Wednesday.

Vice President Dick Cheney boarded the Navy aircraft carrier for quick handshakes and a speech that gave the troops something to write home about.

“I can’t wait to tell my parents,” said Seaman Alexander Johnson as a 19-gun salute was being rendered topside, “and they’re Democrats.”

[Erika]

1. But Cheney declined to go to Vietnam

As he stated "He had other priorities"

[oldtimecanuk]

2. Ya know what, we can only do so much for these kids... If they are...

mesmerized by Dick Cheney, there is absolutely nothing that can be done to alter there thought process cause they have been brain washed from the get go..

ww

[GreenZoneLT]

4. Eh, it's just the celebrity

It's not Cheney, it's the fact that he's the vice president that has the kid excited. Kid's probably never even seen a mayor before, or an admiral for that matter.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. I'll bet that cheney has that old fat man smell.