5.18.2009

Why the Caged Bird Sang

Some thoughts on why Dick Cheney is such a chatty patty lately after being inexplicably terse for the past eight years. Of course, it could be so that he provides a foil to Obama, you know, make him look much less evil in comparison while he goes about following the same damn policies. - Ed.

Dick Cheney has been doing a lot of talking lately. From his most recent barrage of public statements, we have gleaned that he loves Rush Limbaugh, doesn't much care for Colin Powell, believes President Obama is about to sell the Sixth Fleet to the Taliban for pennies on the dollar and thinks torture is a nifty and effective tool that saves lives and defends freedom. Really, this isn't anything we haven't heard before from our growly, snarly, face-blasting former vice president. But it does beg the question: What the hell is he up to? NPR's Ron Elving posited the question in a Wednesday article titled "What is Dick Cheney Trying to Accomplish?"

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