Dick Cheney Calls 9/11 the "Highest Moment" of the Last Eight Years

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Lucky, have I told you lately how much I you?

I too love persistently angry people who post one-liners simply to get a reaction out of people

[Fandango 1,439]

Lucky, have I told you lately how much I you?

I too love persistently angry people who post one-liners simply to get a reaction out of people

as opposed to your one liner here that is so non confrontational?

Hokay.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Lucky, have I told you lately how much I you?

I too love persistently angry people who post one-liners simply to get a reaction out of people

as opposed to your one liner here that is so non confrontational?

Hokay.

Confrontational? Not at all - I really do like people who behave that way.

[Jasman0717 9]

Cheney's 15 minutes is coming to an end.......I think

[Fandango 1,439]

Lucky, have I told you lately how much I you?

I too love persistently angry people who post one-liners simply to get a reaction out of people

as opposed to your one liner here that is so non confrontational?

Hokay.

Confrontational? Not at all - I really do like people who behave that way.

I didn't find Lucky's comments in here angry or reactionary. Yours to him, on the other hand...well that's a different story... *shrug*

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Lucky, have I told you lately how much I you?

I too love persistently angry people who post one-liners simply to get a reaction out of people

as opposed to your one liner here that is so non confrontational?

Hokay.

Confrontational? Not at all - I really do like people who behave that way.

I didn't find Lucky's comments in here angry or reactionary. Yours to him, on the other hand...well that's a different story... *shrug*

*shrug* I wasn't talking about this thread.

[Fandango 1,439]

Lucky, have I told you lately how much I you?

I too love persistently angry people who post one-liners simply to get a reaction out of people

as opposed to your one liner here that is so non confrontational?

Hokay.

Confrontational? Not at all - I really do like people who behave that way.

I didn't find Lucky's comments in here angry or reactionary. Yours to him, on the other hand...well that's a different story... *shrug*

*shrug* I wasn't talking about this thread.

Oh so it's some spillover grudge you've carried over to harbor in a completely neutral thread? I'm sorry then, I was unaware of that....my bad!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Lucky, have I told you lately how much I you?

I too love persistently angry people who post one-liners simply to get a reaction out of people

as opposed to your one liner here that is so non confrontational?

Hokay.

Confrontational? Not at all - I really do like people who behave that way.

I didn't find Lucky's comments in here angry or reactionary. Yours to him, on the other hand...well that's a different story... *shrug*

*shrug* I wasn't talking about this thread.

Oh so it's some spillover grudge you've carried over to harbor in a completely neutral thread? I'm sorry then, I was unaware of that....my bad!

Yes - like the ongoing one you seem to have with Steven

Still I'm sure you've been around long enough to have seen how Lucky posts here most of the time. I don't care really - but you do the passive-aggressive thing pretty well.

[Fandango 1,439]

Yes - like the ongoing one you seem to have with Steven

Still I'm sure you've been around long enough to have seen how Lucky posts here most of the time. I don't care really - but you do the passive-aggressive thing pretty well.

My 'thing' with Steven is usually based on opinions of topics...not personality conflicts. We happen to disagree quite often, but I harbor no resentment towards him at all, and I happen to think he's a pretty nice guy. We're just on opposite ends of the spectrum on usually every topic

I'm just trying to point out part of a cycle....Lucky is pretty straightforward and to the point, which is why I his posts. It can be offending if you're on the receiving end, I'm sure, because he (to me) proves his case with very little ease and humor. But if people harbor grudges and carry them over into other threads...well then every thread is going to turn into a sh!t fling, and it'll just be the same thing over and over....*shrug* You call him angry and reactionary, yet you're the one sat here poking him for no reason at all....I don't see the point...but hey whatever.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yes - like the ongoing one you seem to have with Steven

Still I'm sure you've been around long enough to have seen how Lucky posts here most of the time. I don't care really - but you do the passive-aggressive thing pretty well.

My 'thing' with Steven is usually based on opinions of topics...not personality conflicts. We happen to disagree quite often, but I harbor no resentment towards him at all, and I happen to think he's a pretty nice guy. We're just on opposite ends of the spectrum on usually every topic

I'm just trying to point out part of a cycle....Lucky is pretty straightforward and to the point, which is why I his posts. It can be offending if you're on the receiving end, I'm sure, because he (to me) proves his case with very little ease and humor. But if people harbor grudges and carry them over into other threads...well then every thread is going to turn into a sh!t fling, and it'll just be the same thing over and over....*shrug* You call him angry and reactionary, yet you're the one sat here poking him for no reason at all....I don't see the point...but hey whatever.

When someone routinely slanders people to provoke a reaction - I think it only fair to respond in kind.

As to the flaming most of these threads (including this one) seem to be started with that in mind - given how unpopular the current adminstration is, and how partisan a lot of the members are. Its doomed to failure.

We can disagree on the rest.

[Fandango 1,439]

When someone routinely slanders people to provoke a reaction - I think it only fair to respond in kind.

As to the flaming most of these threads (including this one) seem to be started with that in mind - given how unpopular the current adminstration is, and how partisan a lot of the members are. Its doomed to failure.

We can disagree on the rest.

Respond in kind? You say he likes to provoke reactions, so you give him exactly what he allegedly wants. Logical? Not so much.

I'm not defending Lucky here cos he's more than capable of doing that himself, but I find your reaction to him really peculiar, so that's why I commented.

This thread didn't turn personal until you made it so....don't blame the thread for it. It's only doomed to failure if people cannot remain calm and keep the perspective that this is only a flippin mb...

[Mags 112]

Come on, come on.

I've just realised how much I hate that bloody emoticon.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

When someone routinely slanders people to provoke a reaction - I think it only fair to respond in kind.

As to the flaming most of these threads (including this one) seem to be started with that in mind - given how unpopular the current adminstration is, and how partisan a lot of the members are. Its doomed to failure.

We can disagree on the rest.

Respond in kind? You say he likes to provoke reactions, so you give him exactly what he allegedly wants. Logical? Not so much.

I'm not defending Lucky here cos he's more than capable of doing that himself, but I find your reaction to him really peculiar, so that's why I commented.

This thread didn't turn personal until you made it so....don't blame the thread for it. It's only doomed to failure if people cannot remain calm and keep the perspective that this is only a flippin mb...

What's logic got to do with it? I choose to not like the guy's online persona

[Tahoma 2,292]

I can't imagine why Vice President ####### Cheney is so modest when asked about the high point of his administration. Just look at a few of his many achievements to choose from:

> As the head of the committee to choose a Vice-Presidential running mate for Republican Presidential nominee George Bush in 2000, ####### Cheney scoured the land for the best candidate, and then...he chose himself.

> One of his first major achievements in office was when he gathered his industry buddies (including his friends at Enron) together in a secret meeting so they could write a secret new energy policy for America. Even though we were not allowed to attend the secret meeting, nor read the secret report about it, he was generous enough to let us see one page from his secret report...a map of the oil fields in the Middle East.

> It took him only 13 visits to the CIA to cook the pre-war intelligence on Iraq.

> He talked his sidekick, Scooter Libby, into taking the fall for him when he outed Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA agent. This was a stroke of genius because he killed two birds with one stone: he got away with treason for divulging the identity of an undercover agent; and he diverted our attention away from the report about his hoax regarding Iraq trying to buy yellow-cake uranium from Nigeria.

> He successfully talked his boss, a fellow draft-dodging chicken-hawk, into an illegal and immoral war.

> Vice President Cheney will almost certainly be inducted into the Halliburton Hall of Fame during the first round of voting. It may not be enough that he was Halliburton's CEO, and a big shareholder to boot. What will certainly put him over the top are the billions of dollars of fat war contracts handed to Halliburton on a silver platter...as the only bidder.

> Believing in the old saying about doing a job right by doing it yourself, Vice President Cheney disregarded all of the weapons inspectors in Iraq and decided to look for the weapons of mass destruction himself. While his trillion-dollar inspection has so far only cost 35,000 dead or seriously wounded Americans, countless tens of thousands of dead and seriously wounded Iraqis, some two million "internally displaced" Iraqis, two million more Iraqis who fled their homes to other countries, and instability in the Middle East, his diligent search for weapons of mass destruction continues.

> He discovered a new interpretation of the Constitution that allowed him to deny due process of the law to anyone he didn't like. He even generously approved a free airline ticket for each and every one of those 500 guys who were released, after they rotted for years at Guantanamo...without a trial nor any other evidence of wrongdoing.

> He carefully polished America's international image when he ignored national law, international law, military law, and the Geneva Convention, by bringing torture back into vogue. And when the torture business picked up, Vice President Cheney saved taxpayer money by outsourcing torture jobs to Third-World countries through his new extraordinary rendition program.

> He graciously pointed out to all Americans how wrong we were all of this time to think that the Vice President is a member of the executive branch of our government, and instead, as the head of the Senate, was a member of the legislative branch...and therefore, did not have to abide by the law that requires him to turn over his email and other info to the public when he leaves office. The Vice President is still working on his rationale about why he, as a member of the legislative branch of government, can claim executive privilege when it comes to testifying before Congress.

> Perhaps his greatest achievement was his nomination as the National Rifle Association's new poster boy...after shooting his hunting buddy...and having his buddy apologize for it!

There are those who wrongly blame Vice President Cheney for not paying attention to the August 2001 National Intelligence Estimate that warned of Osama Bin Laden's attack on us. You can't blame ####### Cheney for something that was his boss' job. Besides, ####### was busy at the time...reading his oil maps.

[alienlovechild 75]

The true Highest Moment of the last 8 years will be when the change of administration officially takes place.

The converse is probably true for the incoming Obama administration. Obama won't live up to the hype as the "new Lincoln-JFK-FDR-Reagan-MLK". I've heard all those comparisons and more to a man who has no accomplishments and the minimal qualifications.

No matter. We'll get the usual responses how other posters don't believe Obama is the Messiah but how Bush is the worst president ever. It's all very black and white (no pun intended). Ironically, I think Obama will make Bush look better as Obama comes down to earth and has to deal with reality. As I've said before, Bush was supposed to the dumbest guy around but Obama seems to be following most of his policies so far.

One poster had it right with the signature cartoon with Bush wins 51% of the vote=nation divided and Obama wins with 52%=nation united. Expect good press for Obama unless it's the end of the world but Bush will get most of the blame for that, too.

Edited January 18, 2009 by alienlovechild