WP: Cheney Mixes Stinging Rhetoric With Retail Politics

[kskiska]

In Vice President Cheney's final push before next Tuesday's election, talk of nuclear annihilation and escalating war rhetoric have blended with balloon drops, confetti cannons and the other trappings of modern campaigning with such ferocity that it is sometimes tough to tell just who the enemy is.

At an appearance in Pennsylvania after the final presidential debate, Cheney fired up the political faithful in a hotel ballroom by saying John F. Kerry is constitutionally unable to fight, let alone win, the war on terrorism. "It's just not in him," Cheney said to supporters, who were cheering even before he had gotten, as he likes to say, to the "good part."

"I'm delighted with where we are now, heading into the final home stretch of this campaign. We're going to take the fight to our adversaries, wherever they may be. We're going to carry Pennsylvania!" Cheney told the roaring crowd.

It was the kind of dual-use dig that has come to define Cheney's style and strategy in this campaign. Dangerous leaders must be defeated, whether Abu Musab Zarqawi, the Jordanian blamed for kidnappings, beheadings, car bombings and other attacks in Iraq, or Kerry in Massachusetts.

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Cheney's mix of mass casualties and retail politics has been on full display on recent campaign stops, where grim terrorist warnings and attacks on his Democratic opponents have veered -- gleefully at times -- toward piling on.

One moment, the vice president will munch a pumpkin doughnut from a supporter, the next he'll warn that hundreds of thousands of Americans could be killed. He'll caution that extremists are trying to kill infidels -- "And we're the infidels," he says -- then schmooze with a local official about fly fishing.

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[Fovea]

1. Cheney -- Coulter in 08!

I wish all of here at DU the best in the upcoming civil war.
Make sure you have water and food put back, and remember to buy something with a common caliber.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. OK, what about the thrombosis that will send this evil bastard

to his grave. What is taking so long?

[TaleWgnDg]

3. May Dick Cheney reap what he has sowed, four-fold . . .

and may it entangle him for his lifetime, including his politicizing and pontificating hypocrisy regarding his own daughter's sexual orientation.




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on edit: Could the WashingtonPost be questioning the mental health of Mr. Cheney? We all know that the prez is crackers and that it's been peering over the horizon of the media recently, e.g., the LATimes, NYT . . . hmmmmmm???


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[saigon68]

4. An Evil cowardly Chicken-hawk Draft Dodger

While brave young men were dying in the jungles of Viet-Nam, this pathetic pantywaist was figuring out new innovative ways to dodge the Draft. ( 5 deferments at last count)

Courage had nothing to do with his stand like Muhammad Ali and others.

He is a milksop baby who lets others do the dying for his war to engorge the rich with even more filthy lucre.

Limp Dick Cheney was in it--- to live a life of luxury and a life to obtain power and dominion over amerika's poor and working class.

He is a dark evil representative of the Devil on earth.

[Voltaire99]

5. If America prefers this guy to Kerry-Edwards...

Really, I would have thought the permanent scowl might have tipped off even the slow ones by now. Not to mention the trail of lies and corpses.

Jesus fuck, was I wrong: they look into the cracked mirror of Cheney and see themselves!