Remembering Why Americans Loathe Dick Cheney

[Born_A_Truman]

As the former vice president releases his memoir, it's useful to recall the many reasons why the vast majority of Americans disapproved of his tenure

When Vice President Dick Cheney left office, his approval rating stood at a staggeringly low 13 percent. Few political figures in history have been so reviled. As his memoir, In My Time, hits bookstores today, and he does a series of friendly interviews in the press, some Americans with short memories might wonder, "Why is it that so few were willing to endorse his performance in office?"

This is a reminder.

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LINK to all the reasons ...

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CONCLUSION

Dick Cheney was a self-aggrandizing criminal who used his knowledge as a Washington insider to subvert both informed public debate about matters of war and peace and to manipulate presidential decisionmaking, sometimes in ways that angered even George W. Bush.


After his early years of public service, he capitalized on connections he made while being paid by taxpayers to earn tens of millions of dollars presiding over Halliburton. While there, he did business with corrupt Arab autocrats, including some in countries that were enemies of the United States. Upon returning to government, he advanced a theory of the executive that is at odds with the intentions of the founders, successfully encouraged the federal government to illegally spy on innocent Americans, passed on to the public false information about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and became directly complicit in a regime of torture for which he should be in jail.

Thus his unpopularity circa 2008, when he left office.

Good riddance.

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I won't be reading his self-serving lying ass book either.

[Hekate]

Long before Dubya left D.C. I knew that Dick Cheney was without question the most vicious, evil f*ck who had ever soiled that city.

I will probably read portions of his tome when it comes to Costco, then leave it behind. The interviews he's given (and rebuttals from some of the folks he's thrown under the bus) are revealing: he's proud of his record. I have not sought the out these interviews, but some of MSNBC's better newspeople have shown and commented on portions.

Vicious, evil, psychopathic criminal.

[Born_A_Truman]

I will turn the book backwards on the shelf like I did Palin's book when I saw it at Target.

[RoyGBiv]

He'sth an athhole. Look at that haircut. Anybody got a haircut like that, you know he'sth and athhole.

[azmouse]

People are already comparing Cheney's POS lying ass book to Bush's POS lying ass book, and finding many discrepancies.
You'd think they would have spent at least some of their 8 years in office getting their story straight.

[Hekate]

(08-30-2011 06:28 PM)azmouse Wrote:  People are already comparing Cheney's POS lying ass book to Bush's POS lying ass book, and finding many discrepancies.
You'd think they would have spent at least some of their 8 years in office getting their story straight.

I get the feeling they don't like each other very much any more.

[nofurylike]

excellent! thank you for that, Pat!!

[Ikonoklast]

May he live long enough to suffer every bit as badly as the people he had tortured, and to see everything he worked forty years for crumble into dust.

[Willinois]

Would someone please put this man in prison?!