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Old 02-16-2006, 06:48 PM   #165 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by billege
The thread is pretty much off course. Seriously, it is.

Anyone want to try to bring it back to somthing discussable?

Like, this maybe:

For me, I'm annoyed at how it was handled. Regardless of what any other politician has done, at any time, I have a view of how somthing like this should be handled.

My view:

Cheney shoots the guy. Obviously, the Service is there, and the medics are there. They start helping the guy who has been shot.
The guy goes to the hospital for care.
The local authorities are notified. The guy's family is notified.
The family is brought to the hospital to be with the 78 year old guy who's got pellets in his face and chest.

Cheney makes a call to Bush up in DC. (This happens right after Cheney's made sure the guy's in the hospital okay and the family is informed and has had a chance to talk to him personally.)
He says somthing like:
"Hey dubya, I screwed up while hunting and shot Harry. Yeah...I know...it was stupid....I feel like absolute shite about it...yeah he's in the hospital...yeah the family knows....yeah he's being taken care of.
Man I feel awful. I want to go on TV and get this right out to the public. Let's make sure this is out there, and everyone knows. Yeah....yeah it's thier business, I think so too. Yeah, I am the VP of the US of A, the public totally should know if I shoot a guy. Yes sir, I'll get on the news with this right away."

Then Cheney has a press conference and says "Good evening America, I have to tell you somthing I personally did that was really stupid. I shot a guy while hunting. It was totally my fault, and I feel wretched about it. The gentleman in question is a buddy of mine, Harry, and he's 78 years old. I can't tell you how awful I feel about this. I'd like to ask all of America to put Harry in your hearts and prayers. He's doing okay, and for a gunshot wound it's not nearly as bad as it could have been. I'm sorry I was responsible for such an unfortunate event, and I'll be speaking more about this later. We'll have a Q&A session in three hours."

Now that, that'd have been classy.

Why can't we have that kind of honesty and dialogue with our elected leaders?
Yes that would have been classy, but as long as you have partisan hatred and people standing up for someone no matter what he does and accuses the other side of a witch hunt no matter what the truth is.... you'll have politicians playing games and doing whatever they damn well please, because they know the partisan card is better than a get out of jail free card.

As demonstrated here, these people will bring up the past, talk about 35 years ago, blame the press for making it bigger than it is..... Jesus fucking Christ the VP shot a 78 yr. old man accidentally or not... HE SHOT A MAN IN THE CHEST FACE AND NECK AND IS GETTING OFF SCOT FREE.... NO CONSEQUENCES WHATSOEVER.

So the jokes are told to make it less serious, the partisans come out and make excuses and Cheney gets off.

This is one of the saddest and most pathetic events in our governments history.

How sad partisanship comes before country and justice.
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