Yes, yes, it's terribly amusing...BUT

[Mythsaje]

I realize it's a very funny story on the surface of it. One of this country's most bloodless political figures accidently shoots a companion on a hunting trip. WE know we're only finding it funny because the guy wasn't seriously injured, but maybe we should tone it down a little lest we find our mockery thrown back in our faces.

[Libby2]

1. I disagree

Take your shots when you have them.

[NanceGreggs]

3. "Take your shots when you have them"

And that's EXACTLY what he did!!!!

[1620rock]

5. Yeah, like they would tone it down for us. n/t

[fryguy]

7. pun intended of course

bang bang bang goes the VPOTUS.....

[sandnsea]

18. Take the right shots

And so far we aren't really doing that either. It's a mistake to turn this into a total joke. The trick is admonishment combined with ridicule, so we appear to be on the high road while we're beating them into the ground. We don't know how to do that at all, that's why we always end up on the losing end of these spitting matches.

[Mythsaje]

19. Excellent point...

and something like what I was getting at.

[Libby2]

24. Well then it's high time we learned.

Hate to disappoint, but I'm going to joke about it and make fun of it until the cows come home.

[sandnsea]

25. Do it right, that's all I ask

Admonish and ridicule. Bad bad Cheney. Bad hunter. And on a game farm with planted quail, no less. What a joke. Tsk tsk tsk.

[Mythsaje]

28. More to the point...

Absolutely irresponsible and bordering on criminally negligent.

Taking down a lawyer with "friendly fire" isn't the way to reform the legal system. ;)

[karlrschneider]

30. I'm not all sure the "high road" is either understood or appreciated by

the unwashed masses these days. We have tried that path and mostly gotten boulders falling on our heads. The Reich-wingers have said for a couple decades "the best defense is a good offense" and it has worked. I don't mind playing on a reasonably level field but this shit recently is a 45 degree plane, and we're on the bottom 15 yard line, the referees are all on THEIR side and they make up the rules as they go.
:eyes:

[sandnsea]

37. You miss the point

Here's how you do it. Admonish and ridicule them, while placing yourself above reproach. Not taking the high road, just giving it the appearance of the high road.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x397685

[NVMojo]

2. we had a presidential blow job story thrown in our faces!

[cantstandbush]

4. And still do. n/t

[mtnsnake]

6. But we CAN make fun of it for just the reason you said

"the guy wasn't seriously injured".

Had he been seriously injured, the tone would be entirely different, you can rest assured.

[Mythsaje]

8. Oh, I know it.

But will THEY understand that? I'm not sure if they would.

[sandnsea]

20. What if there's complications and he dies

And no, the tone wouldn't be different, note the continuous shots on Laura the murderer, when there is no evidence at all that that was anything except an accident.

[mtnsnake]

21. Then this tone will come to an abrupt halt

Hopefully the guy will be perfectly fine, both for his sake, and for ours....so we can continue with our onslaught on this.

[sandnsea]

26. It'll be too late then

The DNC and Brady's have already released statements. And they weren't even very good ones.

[catnhatnh]

29. No evidence except the predilection of ALL Bushes ...

...to have AMAZING coincidences.....

[jbnow]

9. Not sure it isn't serious injury

On a CNN early interviews the hospital guy would only say stable condition.

But later interview noted he was in intensive care in stable condition.

If you are in intensive care a day later it isn't minor.

[Mythsaje]

10. Well, he IS almost 80...n/t

[fryguy]

11. the guys alive

its not like we're doing something as distasteful as say, politicizing the deaths of 3000 americans as a means to wage an illegal war, funnel profits to our friends, and strip citizens of their civil liberties......

[Mythsaje]

13. You'll get no argument from me on these points...n/t

[Armstead]

12. Oh it'll be thrown in our face anyway

If Bill Clinton had shot a hunting companion, the GOP and wingers would be harping on it for weeks. And calling for an investigation.

[Mythsaje]

14. Yeah, but we KNOW they're hypocrits...n/t

[Lorien]

15. So the whole nation is reading DU now?

sorry, but I don't practice censorship for fear of what any repug thinks.

[sandnsea]

16. It was criminal negligence

It truly was and just about any hunter in the country would be in serious legal trouble over this. That's our first mistake in not taking this seriously. And if we want to let that go, the second mistake is not labeling Cheney in a way that would be offensive to THEIR voters; a road hunter who road hunts on a GAME FARM no less, how weak is that.

[KG]

17. oh, dear. of course we should never mock the repooks, because you know

how sensitive they are, and they would never do the same thing to the dems! :eyes:

[president4aday]

22. Cheney bagged a terrorist. You know they're everywhere.

[radio4progressives]

23. sorry, but uh... i'm having a hard time feeling sorry for either of them

it's funny, but it's so classic because Cheney is that dangerous even among friends, and his friend is stupid to trust that evil bastard to hang with him with a gun. it's not as if evilness of Dick isn't well known, ya know what i mean? The Dick is dangerous even among friends.

[Cocoa]

27. I agree

it is terribly amusing. :-)

[louis c]

31. I wouldn't give a F*ck if he was dead

Wittington is the same scumbag as the rest. He's no innocent bystander. 2,200 American troops dead because of this lying shit head, Cheney. I'll reserve my sympathy for our soldiers. If he kills one of his own ass kissers, I don't give a F*ck.

[Mythsaje]

32. I'm not sure we can afford to think like that...

It's a human being.

[RC]

35. An evil human being.

How many people has he made suffer? How many innocent people are worse off because of these people? An evil human being.

[Mythsaje]

36. Perhaps...

but I don't think we're recommending that someone shoot all the evil humans in the world.

[louis c]

39. No, that's not the point

The point is this. I don't care if they shot each other.

[incapsulated]

33. Not only don't I care, I *encourage* him to shoot all his fascist friends

But that's just me.

[louis c]

41. I agree with you

[Junkdrawer]

34. Too Late...The "Deadeye Dick' T-Shirts are out...

http://www.cafepress.com/SURESHOTCHENEY

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

38. Cheney Shot A Companion On A Hunting Trip? LOL LOL Seriously? ROFL ROFL

Oh my god he really did that? LOL LOL LOL LOL

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[warrior1]

40. I feel more

sympathy for the animals they kill needlessly.

[Mythsaje]

42. Me too, actually,

but I really don't think too much of "sport" hunting in the first place.

[Ilsa]

43. He's a trigger-happy bastard. Always has been.

Doesn't care who the collateral damage is.

[Ksec]

44. And this idiot calls Dems irresponsible?

LMAO.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

45. They SAY it was "accidental"

Riiiiiiiigggghhhttt.

:rofl:

It needs to be thrown into their and the NRA's faces. Loudly. Often.

I ain't toning ANYTHING down.

[A Simple Game]

46. I was wondering why * went to the King funeral

instead of sending Cheney. Now I know!