 “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
# 60 jccalhoun said, “I guess all the USA soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are illegal combatants then since we didn’t legally declare war on either nation…”
Wrong. Try again.
You can fool all of the people all of the time if you have a big enough advertising budget.
# 16 Patrick said,Small time evil.
Kennedy’s & Johnson’s lies resulted in > 50k US deaths.
Right on target and how quickly people forget.
# 35 Greg Allen said, on May 23rd, 2009 at 9:09 am Obama is trying to fix Bush’s multiple disasters.
Obama does NOT fix anything he just acts as a pander to buy votes. That, as you know, is how he got elected.
# 44 Greg Allen said, on May 23rd, 2009 at 10:04 am >> (You’d wouldn’t be ignorant of this, if there was a fairness doctrine.)
Are you really so incredibly stupid as to believe in the good of the so called fairness doctrine.
You would really advocate using law or regulation to force people to listen to Democrat propaganda because they will not listen to it by free choice?
Didn’t the Chapter 11 of Air America Radio teach you anything?
It’s not about choice it’s about FREE choice not having some Democrat scold jam something down your throat.
#56
American contractors like Blackwater are sponsored by the US government and therefore the US government would represent them should they be captured and they would be covered under the Geneva Conventions.
We’ll see if it will be possible to isolate the Arab world without a presence in Iraq. I don’t think it will be. I think that Iraq is an ideal lightening rod for terrorists and strategically placed to thwart any sort of stupidity from Iran, Saudi Arabia and even Pakistan.
#59
Correct.
#60
A: We did declare war. Read up on the AUMFs.
B: The men fighting are sponsored by or are members of the US military and thus do not qualify as enemy combatants. If the French suddenly decided to attack US troops in Iraq, they also would not be illegal enemy combatants but rather soldiers of an opponent and therefore covered under the Geneva Convention. The French government would act on their behalf were they to be captured. You are a “lawful” combatant (i.e. a solider) if you are a member of an organized military whose government ordered you to a combat zone.
Think about all the stories you grew up with
How did the bad guys behave?(like Dick) What were the villains like?(Dick) Even after they are beaten and you think the fight is finally ending they some how reach up from the ruins of the battle for one last attempt usually shooting/stabbing some one in the back or trying to press the button to set off the(insert destructive device of your choice here) We had an election and the Cheney doctrines were soundly defeated as a matter of fact Cheney and his side kick Bush did more to lose the election for McCain and the Republicans then anything else. Now he is working on hurting the GOP chances in 2010. If he would just shut up the left would split and the far left would go after Obama for being a lightweight on the Cheney crimes. As it is they can still go after Cheney himself keeping the left together. Cheney you and you ideology lost BIG, now take your waterboard and go home.
Anyone into History??
Look up the families and soforth in politics..BACK to about Lincolns day, until TODAY.. look up their relations to others..
A: We did declare war. Read up on the AUMFs.
Read your constitution. The USA hasn’t issued a declaration of war since 1941.
If people in this thread are being sticklers for definitions when defining “torture” and “enemy combatant” then let’s be sticklers for “war” as well…
#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.
Go Cheney go…about time someone confronted the man mucking up America with so much Government…it will collapse into a third rate power.
#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.”
#77 The country is center right…that’s why you statists want the party to be Democrat light…so it keeps losing.
Whoever can articulate FREEDOM best, will lead us next election…and will win…
Most don’t want the Government telling them what’s good for them to eat, drive, wear….they don’t like it when the Government taxes what they like…because its “not good for them” and they know the ecosystem, which has survived every test, IS NOT FRAGILE…we do NOT help the planet when we use only one square of toilet paper… or pay $5+ a gallon for gas…
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!