Vice President Biden: familiarity breeds… — 10 Comments
Cheney was the most significant, and greatest, Vice President in American history. Joe Biden has reclaimed the title bestowed on the office by FDR’s first Vice President, John Nance Garner, “His Superfluous Eminence”.
Joe the serial plagiarizer has been considered a doofus for quite some time, so this should not come as a big surprise. While many hold Joe Biden in low regard, they don’t hate him, but laugh at him.
Ditto what zfredz said. It’s s shame Cheney didn’t have good enough ticker, nor enough votes, to be President.
Is it possible to get negative numbers?
Gringo – Cheney did give us Liz.
BTW, how do you think these ratings will affect Beau Biden’s decision to run for daddy’s old seat?
a Democratic senator and one of her Democratic House colleagues each successfully intervened with GM to save a constituent’s dealership from forced closure. One of her constituents, whose dealership had been in the family for 90 years, told her that the $15 million dealership had been rendered worthless overnight, and, Bachmann said, “GM is demanding that she hand over her customer list,” probably to give it to surviving GM dealerships that once were competitors.
That my friends is tyranny….
Well, Cheney was pretty highly respected one year into the Bush administration. The demonizing and plunge in popularity occurred later. So Biden’s not doing so bad, he’s still way above Cheney’s later lows. But really, who thinks the public even gives a thought about Joe Biden one way or another?
nEW yORK suffers due to liberalism in the future….
Whether you agree with Cheney or not, at least when you look at him, you get the feeling that somebody’s home.
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Baklava, all I can say is wow……and GM desrves to die.
What gets to me is that the demonization of Cheney was unnecessary. What has he done, above and beyond other Vice Presidents — even Republican Vice Presidents — to get him labeled as Evil Incarnate?
(Or have you forgotten all those “Cheney-Satan 08” bumper stickers?)
Personally, I think this resulted from the primary liberal cognitive dissonance of the Bush years: “Bush is an idiot. Bush is an evil idiot, who would get a lot done if he weren’t such an idiot. Hey, he IS getting a lot done! But it can’t be him, because he’s such an idiot. Who’s pulling his strings?… Must be the guy in the ‘secure undisclosed location’; there’s no other reason for keeping him hidden…”
In other words, I think Dick Cheney suffers from BDS fallout. (I must say, he’s handling it very well.)
In re negative numbers: I’m reminded of the wit who said, in 1980, that Americans weren’t really voting for Reagan, they were voting against Carter… and that if Reagan had run unopposed he would have lost. (It’s pretty amazing, the lengths people will go to in order to demonize someone, isn’t it?)
respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline
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Cheney was the most significant, and greatest, Vice President in American history. Joe Biden has reclaimed the title bestowed on the office by FDR’s first Vice President, John Nance Garner, “His Superfluous Eminence”.
Joe the serial plagiarizer has been considered a doofus for quite some time, so this should not come as a big surprise. While many hold Joe Biden in low regard, they don’t hate him, but laugh at him.
Ditto what zfredz said. It’s s shame Cheney didn’t have good enough ticker, nor enough votes, to be President.
Is it possible to get negative numbers?
Gringo – Cheney did give us Liz.
BTW, how do you think these ratings will affect Beau Biden’s decision to run for daddy’s old seat?
And speaking of tyranny…
http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2009/10/24/george-will-profiles-michele-bachmann/
a Democratic senator and one of her Democratic House colleagues each successfully intervened with GM to save a constituent’s dealership from forced closure. One of her constituents, whose dealership had been in the family for 90 years, told her that the $15 million dealership had been rendered worthless overnight, and, Bachmann said, “GM is demanding that she hand over her customer list,” probably to give it to surviving GM dealerships that once were competitors.
That my friends is tyranny….
Well, Cheney was pretty highly respected one year into the Bush administration. The demonizing and plunge in popularity occurred later. So Biden’s not doing so bad, he’s still way above Cheney’s later lows. But really, who thinks the public even gives a thought about Joe Biden one way or another?
nEW yORK suffers due to liberalism in the future….
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/tax_refugees_staging_escape_from_qb4pItQ71UXIc0i6cd3UpK
Whether you agree with Cheney or not, at least when you look at him, you get the feeling that somebody’s home.
–
Baklava, all I can say is wow……and GM desrves to die.
What gets to me is that the demonization of Cheney was unnecessary. What has he done, above and beyond other Vice Presidents — even Republican Vice Presidents — to get him labeled as Evil Incarnate?
(Or have you forgotten all those “Cheney-Satan 08” bumper stickers?)
Personally, I think this resulted from the primary liberal cognitive dissonance of the Bush years: “Bush is an idiot. Bush is an evil idiot, who would get a lot done if he weren’t such an idiot. Hey, he IS getting a lot done! But it can’t be him, because he’s such an idiot. Who’s pulling his strings?… Must be the guy in the ‘secure undisclosed location’; there’s no other reason for keeping him hidden…”
In other words, I think Dick Cheney suffers from BDS fallout. (I must say, he’s handling it very well.)
In re negative numbers: I’m reminded of the wit who said, in 1980, that Americans weren’t really voting for Reagan, they were voting against Carter… and that if Reagan had run unopposed he would have lost. (It’s pretty amazing, the lengths people will go to in order to demonize someone, isn’t it?)
respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline