This is a great read from the Jamaica Observer. re: Dead Eye Dick

[MazeRat7]

This made my "Presidents" Day.... hopefully it will yours..



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Swiftboating a shot friend
In Our Time
Wayne Brown
Sunday, February 19, 2006


'Now, this story certainly has its humorous aspects, but it also raises a serious issue, one which I feel very strongly about. Moms, dads, if you're watching right now, I can't emphasise this enough: Do not let your kids go on hunting trips with the vice-president. I don't care what kind of lucrative contracts they're trying to land, or energy regulations they're trying to get lifted.he'll shoot them in the face.'
(Jon Stewart, The Daily Show)

To begin with, certainly, it was funny.
Two Saturdays ago, on a bird shoot on a Texas ranch, the vice-president of the United States, on paper the second most powerful man in the world - though in reality, of course, the most powerful, given a president who's always been at his happiest riding his little bicycle down in Crawford -
- Last week Saturday Dick 'Darth Vader' Cheney, the snarling bag-man for Halliburton and Big Oil, King of the Gun Lobby, Defender of Wire-tapping at Home and Torture Abroad (and Torture at Home, too, for that matter), had, following the flight of a quail, spun and shot his geriatric hunting partner full of birdshot, in the chest, neck, face.

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O but it was funny, a barbaric version of the top-hatted gentleman slipping on a banana skin, and American comedians, amateurs as well as pros, went to town on it.
'Bush-Quail 2006', quipped a Democratic strategist.

'The CIA assured Cheney that Harry Whittington was actually a pheasant,' cracked a Democratic speechwriter.
'The worst part is, he was aiming at the special prosecutor,' suggested a John Kerry spokesman.

And then there were folks who dug up a Bush 2000 interview with the Houston Chronicle in which he advertised Cheney as 'somebody who is going to shoot straight with the American people'.
David Letterman's Top 10 list of 'Dick Cheney's Excuses' included: 'I thought the guy was trying to go gay cowboy on me.' (Whittington had apparently been approaching Cheney from behind.)
Letterman also contributed: 'We can't get Bin Laden, but we nailed a 78-year-old attorney.'
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Here the link if you care to read the entire thing....

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20060218T210000-0500_99071_OBS_SWIFTBOATING_A_SHOT_FRIEND_.asp

Enjoy.

MZr7