Cheney to LSU grads: Embrace your inner crony

[Cocoa]

tells them if you play your cards right you can get into that cool cabal like I did...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0605200084may20,1,4870308.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

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The vice president, 65, cited his first disastrous meeting with now-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the 1960s when Rumsfeld was a congressman and Cheney was interviewing for a fellowship on Capitol Hill.

"Things didn't go all that well," Cheney recounted. "In fact, he pretty much threw me out of his office."

He said Rumsfeld's impression of him was "that I was kind of a detached, theoretical, impractical academic type. And I thought he was a brash young politician with attitude. We were both right."

Rumsfeld, as it turned out, a few months later gave Cheney his first job in the executive branch and later hired him to work in President Gerald Ford's White House.

"I can promise you that there will be people like this in your life--who keep an eye on you, and reward your efforts, and help bring out your strengths," the vice president said.

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[Dudley_DUright]

1. Academic type?

Not in this lifetime Cheney. Your strengths run more towards "war criminal".

[rodeodance]

4. that is the last thing I have EVER thought of Cheney as!

[Cocoa]

6. Cheney flunked out of Yale

no one that flunked out of a school the Chimp graduated from can be called an academic type.

[shain from kane]

2. You mean do anything to bring out your weakness for the

all mighty dollar, including sending others to do the dirty work. Greed rules his life.

[NJ_Lib]

3. At least we now know who we have to thank for...

... Dick...

Cheney, an "Academic Type"...? BAAAHAAAHAAA....

[Captain Hilts]

5. When you're ABD you have to act 'academic' . nt