The Compleat Dick Cheney

[JohnnyRingo]

I just finished a Rolling Stone article about Dick Cheney.
I was shocked that it read like a political history lesson post 1967 in that he seemed to have a hand in EVERYTHING.

From college dropout to appointing himself VP, this has to be one of the oddest success stories of ALL time.

The good news is ...There seems to be a "curse" in that no one taking the advise of Dick Cheney has ever met success. (including Halliburton).

If you have the time, this is the most fascinating polit story I've read in RS in months. Scary, yet encouraging at the same time.
Just when I thought I'd heard it all, I realize I don't know Dick.

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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6450422?

The Curse of Dick Cheney

The veep's career has been marred by one disaster after another

By T.D. ALLMAN


Should George W. Bush win this election, it will give him the distinction of being the first occupant of the White House to have survived naming Dick Cheney to a post in his administration. The Cheney jinx first manifested itself at the presidential level back in 1969, when Richard Nixon appointed him to his first job in the executive branch. It surfaced again in 1975, when Gerald Ford made Cheney his chief of staff and then -- with Cheney's help -- lost the 1976 election. George H.W. Bush, having named Cheney secretary of defense, was defeated for re-election in 1992. The ever-canny Ronald Reagan was the only Republican president since Eisenhower who managed to serve two full terms. He is also the only one not to have appointed Dick Cheney to office.

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In his first test-drive at the wheels of power, Cheney had played a central role in the undoing of a president. Wrote right-wing columnist Robert Novak, "White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney . . . is blamed by Ford insiders for a succession of campaign blunders." Those in the old elitist wing of the party thought the decision to dump Rockefeller was both stupid and wrong: "I think Ford lost the election because of it," one of Kissinger's former aides says now. Ford agreed, calling it "the biggest political mistake of my life."

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"He has the least interest in human beings of anyone I have ever met," says John Perry Barlow, his former supporter. Cheney's freshman-year roommate, Steve Billings, agrees: "If I could ask Dick one question, I'd ask him how he could be so unempathetic."

[cheshire]

1. Just like a dick sticking his head into everything and f**king it all up.

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. Gee! Just like Bush!

Both miserable failures.

[grace0418]

3. Hmmmm

"If I could ask Dick one question, I'd ask him how he could be so unempathetic."

Is it because he's pure unadulterated evil perhaps?