flipflopper

Dick, Haven’t I already written a post about you? This one is about a week or two too late, but I have been kind of busy. I wrote a post titled “Cheney says Obama is Making America Less Safe?“. In this post, I was hacking on good ole Dick for criticizing Obama’s actions towards Gitmo. What I didn’t write about in that post was the complete and total absence of Dick Cheney for 8 years while being the vice president of the United States, then suddenly he comes out of hiding to tell us how the country needs to be ran? Think about how many times you saw him make a speech, or hold a press conference while he was in office? You can probably count them on 1 hand. However, in the last month or two, I have seen him on TV at least 7 different times trying to persuade the American people that we are being lead in the wrong direction.

Where did his new motivation come from? Maybe its because the Republican party is in shambles and needs a new leader after he and his buddy George W. disgraced the American White House with their terroristic tactics and antics to rule the world. After all, his biggest downfall was George W… Now there isn’t much to stop his rise to the top of the Right except for maybe Rush’s rear end.

I don’t think that is the case however. I think he is speaking out now because he can. Dick seems like a very intelligent man, and I get the feeling he didn’t put himself out in the spot light too much at the time because he knew the direction in which the White House and its administration was headed.
Instead he somewhat (as much as you can while being vice president) distanced himself from it all. Why you ask? Wait until our next presidential election. Cheney is going to be the front runner for the republican party. So I guess in a since, my first assumption was on target, but we all know what happens when someone assumes… It makes an ass out of u and me.

Also I thought it was rather amazing that Cheney completely flipped sides on the gay/lesbian marriage. I can’t find a clip for that, but he apparently believes in gay marriage now and said that all people should be free, not just some… Hmmm… He almost sounds like a liberal.

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1st 100 days

Why did Fox News not cover the live town hall speech that President Obama gave at  Arnold, MO’s town hall for his 100th day in office?

Now Fox being the un-biast news channel that they are, I assumed they would have played at least 5 minutes of the speech on live national television. I was watching the speach on CNN when I decided to see Fox New’s coverage of the speech. Unsuprisingly, there was no such coverage. However, there was a stuffy Right Winged Senator on the show jabbering about something, so I figured I would listen to what he had to say for a while. Obviously it must be more important than what the President of the United States of America has to say right? Well, I was right. While all of you were listening to some meaningless 100th day in office publicity stunt, I was learning that Obama’s first 100 days in office are already showing signs of all the horrible things the Clinton’s did while in office. Yes, Hillary was mentioned too. The Trillion Dollar spending, talks of downsizing the military, the blow jobs in the oval office… I’m not quite sure they mentioned the last one, but I figured if he is following so closely in Former President Clinton’s foot steps, might as well right?

Well anyway, I was at work so I had to shut off the show for a minute to get a cup of coffee. I work for the government by they way, so that’s pretty much what my day consists of, coffee and news. So I shut it off, go get my cup of coffee (I was rather liberal with the cream but kind of conservative on the sugar), and I go back to watch the rest of this history lesson that was being given on Fox News. Fortunately for me, I get back to my chair and realized that I had missed the rest of the lesson, but was lucky enough to see some guy standing in a pig pin with several large hogs talking about the swine flu. Now I’m not taking this swine flu thing lightly, but come on man… The President of the United States of America is giving a speech and Fox News  has some idiot standing in the middle of a pig pin while the news anchor at the studio can only talk about how she can actually hear the pigs snorting. She thought it was the greatest thing in the world. She was so amazed and humored that she could actually hear the nasty animals. So at this point, I realized that I am the idiot because I am the one watching this shit, so I promptly turned the channel back to CNN so that I could listen to how Obama is going to run this country like Clinton did so we can get back on our feet after 8 years of shame and embarrassment.

So while all you Fox News guys/gals want to sit around and Clinton Bash like you did the last 8 years, the rest of the educated, mindful people of America will listen to what the President of the United States is saying and come to our own conclusions about how he is running this government. We don’t need Bill 0′Reilly’s spin on things.