{"id":190735,"date":"2009-10-30T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/30\/evil-a-cheney-family-traditon\/"},"modified":"2009-10-30T15:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T20:37:00","slug":"evil-a-cheney-family-traditon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/30\/evil-a-cheney-family-traditon\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil: A Cheney Family Traditon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/level-of-class-that-you-would-never-see.html\">Obama&#8217;s trip to Dover<\/a> to pay his respects to the dead whose caskets were coming back that day.<\/p>\n<p>I figured that at some point, some prominent Republican would try to cast it ad evil and sinister, and <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/10\/liz-cheney-bush-had-more-class-than-obama-when-it-comes-to-fallen-soldiers.php\">out of the gate comes Liz Cheney<\/a>, on the John Gibson Show:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;I think that what President Bush used to do is do it without the cameras. And I don&#8217;t understand sort of showing up with the White House Press Pool with photographers and asking family members if you can take pictures. That&#8217;s really hard for me to get my head around&#8230;It was a surprising way for the president to choose to do this.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Only, neither George W. Bush or&#8230;You know&#8230;.<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Her Father<\/span> ever went to pay their respects to the dead.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, they were they supporessed any and all photographs, whether the family assented or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I mentioned Obama&#8217;s trip to Dover to pay his respects to the dead whose caskets were coming back that day. I figured that at some point, some prominent Republican would try to cast it ad evil and sinister, and out of the gate comes Liz Cheney, on the John Gibson Show: &#8220;I think that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,969,1051,978,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-evil","category-hypocrisy","category-politics","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}