cnn.com - 12/23/2008
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Vice President Dick Cheney says he's comfortable with his accomplishments and isn't troubled by his ratings.
salon.com - 12/22/2008
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salon.com —
(updated below) Dick Cheney's interview yesterday with Fox's
Chris Wallace was filled with significant claims, but certainly...
among the most significant was his detailed narration of how the administration, and Cheney personally, told numerous ...
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Cheney says top congressional Democrats complicit in ...
slate.com - 12/23/2008
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slate.com —
Dick Cheney. Click image to expand. Dick Cheney
In an ever-escalating game of chicken between the executive...
branch and the rest of the world, Vice President Dick Cheney wants you to understand that he has done nothing wrong over the past eight years. ...
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Dick Cheney's unique gift for making hard questions easy ...
truthdig.com - 12/24/2008
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truthdig.com —
In the end, the shame of Vice President
Dick Cheney was total: unmitigated by any notion of...
a graceful departure, let alone the slightest obligation of honest accounting. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries December 23, 2008 One ...
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Cheney’s Legacy of Deception
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"So What?"
QandO —
... Of course the headline is "Poll: 23 percent say Cheney worst vice president ever" instead of "4 out of 5 don’t find Cheney to be that bad". Or said another way, here’s another poll used to manufacture a "news" story.
CNN poll finds that 23% of Americans think Dick Cheney is the worst Vice President of all time.
Althouse —
I'd say this is great news for Cheney. Only 23%. Because it's not as though most Americans have a whole list of ex-Vice Presidents to call to mind at a moment's notice. Most everyone knows Cheney. And then who? Were they tested on the depth of their knowledge? Maybe they remembered Al Gore, and also George H.W. Bush. And yet only 23% put Cheney last. I'd say that's a big pat on the back for Dick. ...
Brad Woodhouse: Another presidential legacy gets the Orwellian treatment; Reagan got away with it, George W. will not
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... No further proof is needed that the White House PR team is a shell of its former self with their decision to allow the always loveable, reassuring face of Vice-President Dick Cheney back on the airwaves again, despite the recent CNN poll that found 1 and 5 Americans think he is the worst VP ever. Darth Buckshot is still up to his old Jedi mind tricks, confidently looking the American people straight in the eye and insisting that waterboarding isn't torture and that the unimaginable human and financial toll of the war in Iraq was well worth it. Not stopping there, during ...
Dick Cheney’s Farewell Snarls
The Moderate Voice —
... , assures Cheney “Popularity Isn’t Everything” as a new poll shows 23 percent of Americans ranking him as the worst vice president ever. But the VP, who picked himself for the job, doesn’t require solace. “I’m very comfortable,” he says. “with where we are and what we achieved substantively. And frankly, I would not want to be one of those guys who spends all his time reading the polls.” ...
The ‘Worst’ in History
PoliGazette —
... Americans too enjoy playing this game, and the network CNN was more than willing to use this eagerness in order to create some screaming new headliens.. It asked the public their thoughts about Vice President Dick Cheney. Is he the worst vice president in history, CNN wondered? ...
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Poll: One in five think Cheney is worst VP in U.S. history
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 12/22/2008 — Cheney doesn’t get high marks in a new CNN/ORC poll.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – A new national poll suggests that one of out of five Americans think that Dick Cheney is the worst vice president in American history.
Twenty-three percent of those ...
Excerpts: Vice President Cheney Interview
abcnews.go.com 12/16/2008 — Transcript: Cheney Defends Hard Line Tactics In Exclusive Interview With ABC News, Vice President Dick Cheney Opens Up About His Hard Line Tactics Dec. 16, 2008 The following is a transcript from ABC News' Jonathan Karl's exclusive interview with ...
One in Five Americans Call Cheney Worst VP Ever
briefingroom.thehill.com 12/22/2008 — One in five Americans think Vice President Dick Cheney is the worst vice president in U.S. history, a new poll has found.
23 percent of Americans told a CNN/Opinion Research poll that Cheney is the worst vice president, compared to past vice ...
Vice President Cheney Calls Rush
rushlimbaugh.com 12/16/2008 — RUSH: We are happy and honored to welcome back to the program the Vice President, Dick Cheney. Mr. Vice President, thank you. As always, it's an honor and a delight to have you here with us. THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, Rush, it's great to talk to you ...
Cheney: If President Does It During War, It's Legal
huffingtonpost.com 12/22/2008 — On Fox News Sunday today, host Chris Wallace asked Vice President Cheney, "if the President, during war, decides to do something to protect the country, is it legal?" "I think as a general proposition, I'd say yes," replied Cheney.
Cheney went on ...
Cheney says Clinton just what Obama needs
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 12/16/2008 — Cheney is praising Obama's new national security team.
(CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama's national security team got an endorsement from an unlikely source Monday: Vice President Dick Cheney.
In an interview with ABC News, Cheney ...
Cheney: Obama Will "Appreciate" Our Expansion Of Power
huffingtonpost.com 12/17/2008 — In an interview with Rush Limbaugh (via Politico ), Vice President Dick Cheney predicted that the next president will appreciate the way he and George Bush expanded executive power.
"Once they get here and they're faced with the same problems we ...
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