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February 28, 2006
That's Why They Call Him Dick
There's something really interesting going on in today's PC. Scott Stantis wants you to believe that he's no Republican toady - he'll go after the Vice President just like everybody else, even though it's two weeks later and nobody really cares anymore. In fact, he'll even make a joke about Dick Cheney's deferments during the Viet Nam war. Take that, Boondocks!
But Stantis is a "conservative" - at least that's what he keeps saying. So he can't really go after the veep, can he? Nope.
Winslow and Carmen are off on their morning jog, still obsessing over the shooting of an elderly man in the face by the veep. The punchline? "Sorta explans all his military deferments, huh?"
NO, it doesn't. Dick Cheney never picked up a gun in an effort to protect this country. He never went to the shooting range and performed so poorly that the military thought it best that he stay at home. Dick Cheney avoided going to war, even though he has no problem sending the sons and daughters of others who actually served to fight in a war he lied to go to.
Cheney sought FOUR deferments because he was in college (the fourth because he went off to graduate school - much more important than fighting off the Red Menace). Then when college alone wasn't a good enough excuse, and he was still under the age limit of 26, NONE MONTHS AND TWO DAYS LATER his daughter was born. That's right - the guy knocked up his wife so he couldn't be drafted. When the sixth time came around, he was over 26 and he couldn't be drafted.
So this little bastard who loves to run around hunting pen-raised quail and show off his big gun dodged the draft FIVE TIMES. Remember that the next time he starts banging the war drums and wants to send your kids off to fight again.
I have to admit, Stantis is pretty clever about having it both ways. His ardent followers will say, "Look! He goes after both sides!" while the rest of us go, "Geez, why does he have to make it seem like Cheney didn't go to Viet Nam because he's a bad shot instead of a coward?"
But I guess that's what happens when you get so used to talking out of both sides of your mouth.
Comments
Damn Abe Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Bill Clinton, too. All of 'em banging their war drums and sending off our kids to fight. But if we had Kerry in there, it would be perfectly acceptable, of course.
Posted by: sacki at February 28, 2006 01:35 PM
The real question is: would Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, Clinton and Kerry all lie to go to war in Iraq? Don't think so.
Posted by: The Furnace at February 28, 2006 01:41 PM
It's not a war, it's a mission.
Posted by: j kendall at February 28, 2006 04:11 PM
I saw a great bumper sticker today (and I paraphrase slightly, I'm sure): "YeeHaw is not a foreign policy."
Posted by: Magpie at February 28, 2006 04:49 PM
