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Photos of Romney and Cheney together forbidden at Wyoming fundraiser
Former Vice President Dick Cheney remains so unpopular with the American people that photographers at a Thursday night fundraiser for presumptive Republican nominee Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) were ordered not to photograph the two men together, according to Think Progress. Romney supporters and handlers fear that photos of the candidate…
Cheney says Canada ‘too dangerous’ for visit
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has foregone a trip to Canada on the grounds that it’s “too dangerous,” according to a report in Canada’s National Post. Cheney was set to appear at an event in Toronto on April 24, but canceled on grounds that the risk of trouble from protesters…
Cheney: Don’t blame political class for Tucson massacre
US system ‘designed for political combat,’ former VP says Arguing that the Jan. 8 shooting in Tucson was the act of a “lone, crazed gunman,” former Vice President is deflecting blame from the “political class” for the massacre that took the lives of six people and seriously injured Rep. Gabrielle…
Bush-Cheney campaign pressured papers to keep campaign manager’s sexuality secret
THE FOLLOWING RAN ON RAW STORY, NOVEMBER 11, 2004. Two New York newspapers received calls from the Bush-Cheney campaign during the Republican National Convention urging them not to run a story suggesting that the campaign manager and public face of the campaign was gay, RAW STORY has learned. Bush-Cheney campaign…
Neocon: Obama can save presidency by bombing Iran
“Here is an idea for Barack Obama to salvage his tottering administration by taking a step that protects the United States and its allies,” begins neoconservative scholar Daniel Pipes. “He needs a dramatic gesture to change the public perception of him as a light-weight, bumbling ideologue, preferably in an arena…
Rasmussen: 58% want underwear bomber waterboarded
The latest Rasmussen poll indicates that a majority of Americans support hard-line attitudes towards the would-be terrorist who attempted to blow up an airliner on Christmas day. Of those polled, 71% would like to see the crime investigated by military rather than civilian authorities, and 58% believe that Umar Farouk…
‘Draft Cheney’ group wants Dick back in the White House
Cheney: ‘Not a chance’ I’ll run for president Dick Cheney in 2012? One new political group, led by a prominent former Log Cabin Republican, thinks it could — and should — happen. Despite the former vice-president’s low approval ratings among the American public, the organizers of Draft Cheney 2012 believe…
Decidedly Not Fascism
Dick Cheney, our fourth branch of government (it’s true – it’s in the Constitution right after Taco Bar Tuesday), does something which is in no way deserving of criticism or rebuke as a step towards fascism. Members of Vice President Cheney’s staff censored congressional testimony by a top federal official…
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