Cheney doesn't know Dick.
Jul. 1st, 2004 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertangoI'm not 100% sure why there's all the fuss over Dick Cheney telling Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, "Go fuck yourself." After all, as I've said before, and said again, this Administration's motto is, "Fuck you!"
Sure, there's the irony of a senior member of my former party -- the party of "civilized Christian restraint" -- telling the world that insulting a Senator unimaginatively made himself, "feel better." Put all of that aside.
David Weinberger, one of the co-authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto (a book equally about politics as it is about business, if one thinks about it), points to an interview with Ron Reagan in the New York Times. In addition to being humane and funny throughout, here's Ron's take on Cheney, up close and personal from the funeral of his father:
How did your mother feel about being ushered to her seat by President Bush?
Well, he did a better job than Dick Cheney did when he came to the rotunda. I felt so bad. Cheney brought my mother up to the casket, so she could pay her respects. She is in her 80's, and she has glaucoma and has trouble seeing. There were steps, and he left her there. He just stood there, letting her flounder. I don't think he's a mindful human being. That's probably the nicest way I can put it.
Yes. One certainly gets that impression.
Sure, there's the irony of a senior member of my former party -- the party of "civilized Christian restraint" -- telling the world that insulting a Senator unimaginatively made himself, "feel better." Put all of that aside.
David Weinberger, one of the co-authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto (a book equally about politics as it is about business, if one thinks about it), points to an interview with Ron Reagan in the New York Times. In addition to being humane and funny throughout, here's Ron's take on Cheney, up close and personal from the funeral of his father:
How did your mother feel about being ushered to her seat by President Bush?
Well, he did a better job than Dick Cheney did when he came to the rotunda. I felt so bad. Cheney brought my mother up to the casket, so she could pay her respects. She is in her 80's, and she has glaucoma and has trouble seeing. There were steps, and he left her there. He just stood there, letting her flounder. I don't think he's a mindful human being. That's probably the nicest way I can put it.
Yes. One certainly gets that impression.
