{"id":191352,"date":"2009-08-30T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/30\/dick-cheney-is-pathetic\/"},"modified":"2009-08-30T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T22:21:00","slug":"dick-cheney-is-pathetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/30\/dick-cheney-is-pathetic\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Cheney Is Pathetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Madeline <span>Albright<\/span> did not actually call Dick Cheney &#8220;pathetic&#8221;, she said that <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/08\/madeleine_albright_cheneys_statements_are_pathetic.php\">his statements about the Department of Justice&#8217;s investigations of torture &#8220;are kind of <span>pathetic<\/span>&#8220;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When we look at Richard <del><span>Milhaus<\/span><\/del> Bruce Cheney, he is pathetic, he:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He went to Yale, and flunked out by reason of alcohol<\/li>\n<li>Got busted twice for DWI<\/li>\n<li>Convinced Gerald Ford to drop Nelson Rockefeller as VP and replace him with Bob Dole in 1976<\/li>\n<li>Ran Ford&#8217;s losing campaign to Jimmy Carter, <\/li>\n<li>Spent 10 years in the Congress, some of it as House whip, and only sponsored a handful of bills (<span>IIRC<\/span>, about 2).<\/li>\n<li>As Secretary of Defense, he instituted the massive expansion of private contractors doing jobs that had previously been done by the <span>DoD<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>As head of <span>Halliburton<\/span>, bought Dresser Industries, and the billions of dollars in asbestos liabilities that came with that.<\/li>\n<li>Picked himself as Vice President.<\/li>\n<li>And then there is his time <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">as<\/span> Vice President.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This man has been a pathetic failure his entire life.  It needs to be understood that whenever he has made a decision, he has been deeply wrong.<\/p>\n<p>He is a sad pathetic old man, and he needs to be treated as such.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Madeline Albright did not actually call Dick Cheney &#8220;pathetic&#8221;, she said that his statements about the Department of Justice&#8217;s investigations of torture &#8220;are kind of pathetic&#8220;. When we look at Richard Milhaus Bruce Cheney, he is pathetic, he: He went to Yale, and flunked out by reason of alcohol Got busted twice for DWI &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1203,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dick-cheney","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191352"}],"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=191352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}