"rw" wrote in message
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riverman wrote:
"Tim J." wrote in message
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rw wrote:


This is politics, not the real world. Cheney's a laughingstock, so
he's finished.

Yeah, there goes his run for President.



Doesn't matter. I don't think he ever had a clear shot at it.

You guys are pretty naive about what "politics" means. It's not just about
running for office. Cheney has another 2 1/2 years as VP, and since he's
the one who really runs things in the "Bush" administration that's a big
deal.

And what leads you to believe that this is going to change anything? You
pointed out the salient fact yourself......Cheney runs things.....but you
seem to have missed the primary implication.

When these guys came to power the story they tied to spin (successfully)
was that they were more competent than the previous administration. Even
though we've seen time and again that they're actually appallingly
incompetent (the Iraq debacle, the Katrina ****up, the Social Security and
Medicare messes, etc., etc.), this hunting accident highlights Cheney's
incompetence in a particularly stark way.

True.....but it doesn't matter.

Wolfgang
who knows that lord acton was right too......and also missed the point.