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Dumb analysis. Everyone was pissed about Clinton oval office sex and lying
about it. The only division was whether it was worth impeaching him over
it. When people start talking about impeaching Cheney because he shot the
guy, than you might have something to bitch about.


"Scott in Florida" <MoveOn@outa.here> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:13:33 -0500, Sean Elkins
> <sean_elkins@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>In article <jR2Jf.16384$rH5.11484@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
>> "Art" <begunaNOSPAMPLEASE@mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>>GIANT SNIP[color=darkred]
>>>
>>> So, really, all the Cheney-haters have to go on is two men out shooting
>>> and having a few beers with a couple of women not their wives, one guy
>>> who ends up shot, the shooter refusing to talk to the Sheriff until the
>>> next morning or to the press until 4 days later, a detailed account of
>>> an unavoidable accident given to the local press 21 hours later by
>>> somebody who did not see it, an evasive but false insinuation that none
>>> of the shooters were drinking which was later deleted, and the doctor
>>> downplaying for days the fact that the injuries were severe enough to
>>> be life-threatening and inconsistent with some of the details of the
>>> official account. That's all. Nothing remotely suspicious, not like,
>>> say, Kerry's war record, or Hillary's involvement in Vince Foster's
>>> death.
>>>
>>> That's what's so great about the Bush administration, and Cheney in
>>> particular; even if nothing whatsoever remotely bad happened, they
>>> cover everything up until it looks like the plot of a bad film noir;
>>> because of course they know what they would do with any information
>>> they got about any incident, however innocent, involving their
>>> political opponents, and how their loyal public swallows the Koolaid
>>> without question and asks for more."[/color]
>>
>>Isn't this all about Cheney's "personal life"?
>>
>>I thought what we learned from Monicagate is that "his personal life
>>doesn't matter." Both involved shots to the facial area. The only
>>difference is that Cheney's was accidental.
>>
>>
>>
>>Why should this be news----it doesn't impact his ability to run the
>>country? Isn't that the line we heard so many times after Monicagate?
>>BTW, this is a rhetorical question because someone was actually
>>physically injured, versus just being humiliated for life. I realize the
>>difference, but I do seriously ask why we aren't supposed to care what
>>HillBilly does in the Oral Office while we are supposed to care what
>>Cheney does in a Texas field?[/color]
>
> Excellent....
>
> Would it be a double standard? <g>
>
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> Scott in Florida[/color]