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Excerpt: "Dick Cheney calls his memoir 'In My Time.' This is, apparently, Cheney's time; we all just live in it. From the title on, Cheney the author seems hopelessly, blindly, foolishly, sloppily in love with his subject.... Cheney has written a 576-page love letter to himself. It ought to be a 576-page apology."

Former Vice President Dick Cheney in a cowboy hat, 06/15/09. (photo: Public Domain)

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+53 # universlman 2011-09-07 18:45

this shameless man somehow convinced the country that his administration's overreaction to the terrorists was somehow a blessing for the country while blaming the democrats for all of the negative consequences - he may be shameless but he is far from blameless however he twists the facts - go paul

+31 # angelfish 2011-09-07 20:54

Since it looks like the Cretinous Miscreants responsible for our disastrous Pre-emptive engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan will go unaddressed by this Administration, if God is Just, "dick" will reap his reward in the not too distant future. Never before has a man been so aptly named!

0 # Bill Clements 2011-09-12 07:46

Take solace in the fact that karma is inexorable; when you create the causes and conditions for suffering your fruit can only be suffering. You do not reap happiness from the seed of suffering.

+32 # futhark 2011-09-08 00:55

Dick Cheney's aggressive neo-con politics was a shotgun blast in the face for American constitutional government with guarantees of inherent individual liberties. His war mongering has cost untold billions of dollars, thousands of live, and generated only mistrust and enmity against the United States. The man is a coward and moral miscreant.

+9 # jfh4711 2011-09-08 01:51

Why do you so carefully avoid the obvious conclusion that Cheney & Co. made use of the terrorist's impossible scheme to bring down the WTC with nothing but kerosene? Poor Richard Clarke was not in on the fix to wire the buildings with thermite beforehand. The evidence, of un-ignited explosives, nanothermite, and molten steel amongst the human remains in the debris, along with numerous films of the controlled demolition and free-fall of the two 110 story towers and the 47 story WTC-7 9 hours thereafter are available at AE9/11Truth.com. We all need to get over our fear of being labelled as conspiracy nuts, when Dick Cheney was the Grand Consprirator of all time. Jim Houle

-3 # maveet 2011-09-08 14:55

Thank You Jim Houle. Absolutely.

+33 # Isar 2011-09-08 04:40

YES, he was the worst vice-president in history, including Aaron Burr....and Cheney served the worst President in our history. So...what have we learned from putting those two men in charge of the country? Perhaps the best thing about Cheney's book is that it serves as a reminder of the electorate's big mistake (and we can include the Supreme Court in that mistake also). Can it happen again? Well, of course it can. The talking-heads on television are now saying that Rick Perry "won" the debate. I say he is too dumb to be president, but I said that about Dubya. So maybe I'm the dumb one, huh?

+24 # AndreM5 2011-09-08 06:53

GWB WAS too dumb to be President but GWB wasn't the Prez, Cheney was. Plus, neither were elected if you will recall.

+18 # Terrapin 2011-09-08 09:09

Clarification: Cheney did not serve the worst President in our history ... He WAS the worst (and most destructive) President in our history.

+2 # tomo 2011-09-08 17:56

Isar: "Can it happen again?" It HAS happened again. Rumsfeld's right. Obama has put a kinder, gentler face on Evil. Evil (: drones, renditions, assassinations, cover-ups, persecution of truth-tellers) is the new COOL!

+4 # angelfish 2011-09-08 21:43

Quoting

YES, he was the worst vice-president in history, including Aaron Burr....and Cheney served the worst President in our history. So...what have we learned from putting those two men in charge of the country? Perhaps the best thing about Cheney's book is that it serves as a reminder of the electorate's big mistake (and we can include the Supreme Court in that mistake also). Can it happen again? Well, of course it can. The talking-heads on television are now saying that Rick Perry "won" the debate. I say he is too dumb to be president, but I said that about Dubya. So maybe I'm the dumb one, huh?

No Isar, you're NOT dumb! BUT, we've learned NOTHING! The fools who stayed away from the Polls in 2010 GAVE the House to the Fascists! We will be reaping their tainted crops for generations! Knowledge is POWER, Arm yourself intellectually and be prepared for their next assault on America. We have MET the enemy and he is a Wolf in Sheep's clothing that has usurped the, once GREAT, Party of Lincoln and placed it in the hands of the Anti-Christ! They don't love this Country, their "gods" are MONEY and POWER! RePudiate them in 2012!

+28 # fredboy 2011-09-08 05:45

One of the key lessons I have learned is most people believe they are right.

By the way, somebody tell Rick Perry his state is on fire.

+10 # OpenMind 2011-09-08 08:21

Yesterday I got a call from a television station pollster who wanted to know "who's winning the war on terrorism?" Let us not forget that Bin Laden's ultimate goal was to bankrupt the U.S.
http://articles.cnn.com/2004-11-01/world/binladen.tape_1_al-jazeera-qaeda-bin?_s=PM:WORLD
I'd say the terrorists are winning, eh? And Dick Cheney / GWB took the bait.
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+9 # Terrapin 2011-09-08 08:50

Don't you just want to WATERBOARD this shit until he confesses to the 9-11 attacks ... the assasination of JFK ... the burning of the Reichtag ... the Gunpowder Plot ...

+12 # kalpal 2011-09-08 09:43

How can you expect any right winger to admit any errors? The right is always right no matter how wrong.

Dick was raised by his parents to be a sniveling cowardly vicious scumbag whose failings are not his own but the fault of someone else.

Cheney like Bush was a coward and stayed out of any military conflict but learned all he needed to know from a movie theater seat or by watching TV.

He learned that it is easy to send others to die and to claim credit for any of their heroics.

He learned that lying gets you much more than truth and honor which is the right wing way for American thugs who imagine they are leadership material.

+20 # Isar 2011-09-08 10:11

Yes yes yes....we KNOW what HE WAS (still is)...and yet we still allow old men to send young men and women to die in foreign wars. We don't even blink anymore when a President uses an executive order and sends American troops to foreign lands. Keep in mind, that most of these young men and women come from the middle class and lower middle class families who now are struggling to save their jobs and homes. Most of these young soldiers went straight into the military out of high school, and many of them didn't get the opportunity to take advantage of the GI bill to get a college education...Why? Because they came home in body bags. We continue to allow this kind of insanity to happen over and over. WHEN will we rise up and storm the White House and Congress and stop the military complex that strips this country of its young men and women and the money that could be spent fixing all of our ailments....education, Social Security, National Health, roads/bridges/ JOBS!!!.....Oh my...so much of "the good life" is taken from us in order to pay for military action in countries most of us will never visit...and it is paid for with blood money. Shame on us.

+23 # Barbara K 2011-09-08 12:03

Cheney belongs in Prison, not making money on books. I hope no one wastes their money on his love letter to himself. He is a useless, costly piece of crap.

+4 # TrueAmericanPatriot 2011-09-09 06:59

Quoting

Cheney belongs in Prison, not making money on books. I hope no one wastes their money on his love letter to himself. He is a useless, costly piece of crap.

I agree Barbara K! If it were left up to me, I would send HIM AND HIS CRONIES to that hell-hole they created called ABU-GHARIB! A federal prison would be TOO GOOD for those vermin!

+1 # TrueAmericanPatriot 2011-09-09 07:03

I agree with you, Barbara K. Only I believe federal prison is TOO GOOD for these stuffed-suit outlaw!!! If it were left up to me, I would send the whole RAT-PACK VERMIN TO ABU-GHARIB...supplied with special forces veterans to water-board ALL OF THEM!!!

+10 # tomo 2011-09-08 17:58

It's not surprising to hear that Cheney's book is a dismal performance. For the most part, people who are pathological don't write good books.

+7 # David Starr 2011-09-09 09:39

No doubt, Begala's observations are more accurate than the "sermons" of Cheney apologists. Cheney, this slimey residue of the Bush regime, keeps on though; like a character out of Orwell's novel, 1984.

Like Bush and the other residue, Cheney is an abominable disgrace to the human race.

+8 # michelle 2011-09-09 22:40

My own act of resistance to the self-serving biographies of other republican clowns takes place in the library. I quietly move the book to the fiction section. Not much I know but at least I feel better.

+2 # vitobonespur 2011-09-11 18:18

I think it's time to forgive Dick Cheney...in fact I think I'll go buy him a mircowave oven.

(Even though I was being facetious it was really hard to type that without losing my lunch.)

+1 # Cassandra2012 2011-09-14 13:05

Cheney is a war profiteer on behalf of his ocmpanies --- Halliburton and KBR -- remember, the 'patriotic' companies that supplied the soldiers with flawed armor and Hummers that allowed tyhem to be killed easiluy , and fake turkey for Thanksgiving (that year Bush paraded around with a plastic one in Iraq?)
Not to mention his knowing that Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11 and was just a way to try to get at the oil and to allow spoiled-brat Bush to prove himself to his daddy in a personal vendetta against Saddam using other peoples' kids' LIVES!

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