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Dick Cheney’s memoir will have ‘very strong views,’ daughter Liz says
The Washington Post ^ | 5/18/11 | Associated Press

Posted on 05/18/2011 7:40:56 PM PDT by Jewels1091

NEW YORK — Dick Cheney has finished his memoir, according to his daughter, and the book is scheduled to come out on Aug. 30.

Liz Cheney said that the former vice president’s manuscript was turned in at the beginning of the month. She said the book, currently being edited, will be “very straightforward,” with “a lot of in-depth analysis of really critically important issues.” Cheney’s memoir, “In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir,” is being published by Threshold Editions, a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster run by Republican strategist and former Cheney aide Mary Matalin.

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To: Melas

I don’t know what a VAD is, or what the stages of heart failure are (everything seems to have stages these days), but VP Cheney has been looking very frail over the past year. So sad. I wish him all the best, although for a man with his heart disease history, he’s beaten the odds, it seems.


21 posted on 05/18/2011 8:30:27 PM PDT by Wolfstar ("If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his friend." Abraham Lincoln)
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To: KoRn
I wish Cheney could have run for President in 2012.

Ditto. Cheney was the one I supported most on that ticket. His 2000 nomination speech was great.

22 posted on 05/18/2011 8:32:56 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Obama will be president until 2017.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

GWB might have disappointed you self-styled real conservatives, but you folks have seriously dissapointed me.


23 posted on 05/18/2011 8:33:11 PM PDT by Wolfstar ("If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his friend." Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Wolfstar; fatima

Rumsfeld is underappreciated even here on FR. But if I had to pick a govt figure to be stranded on a desert island with (does this sound like a canteen idea or what?) — it’d be Rumsfeld, for sure.


24 posted on 05/18/2011 8:34:37 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (America is in dire distress and nobody is lifting a finger except to strike the keyboard.)
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To: Jewels1091

Hard to imagine Cheney with strong views;) Can’t wait to read it, sad to see he needs to make a decision regarding a heart transplant.


25 posted on 05/18/2011 8:36:21 PM PDT by freedom_is_earned
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To: Jewels1091

I am shocked. Shocked.


26 posted on 05/18/2011 8:37:19 PM PDT by FredZarguna (It looks just like a Telefunken U-47. In leather.)
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To: Wolfstar
I don’t know what a VAD is, or what the stages of heart failure are (everything seems to have stages these days), but VP Cheney has been looking very frail over the past year.

Heart failure is called the cardiologist's cancer. It can lead to wasting as the tissues don't get enough nutrients and oxygen. Sometimes the heart will recover after a period with an LVAD. If not, he'll need a transplant.

27 posted on 05/18/2011 8:37:27 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

Sounds like a thread to me:)


28 posted on 05/18/2011 8:38:29 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today:))
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To: Wolfstar

>>> GWB might have disappointed you self-styled real conservatives, but you folks have seriously dissapointed me. >>>

Self styled conservatives? I voted for Bush twice and he was clearly better than Gore or Kerry so I don’t apologize for those votes - but he was no conservative. He had some conservative views but it wasn’t who he was. I suspect Cheney’s book will point this out. The “new tone” pointed it out too.


29 posted on 05/18/2011 8:41:20 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (American Thinker Columnist / Rush ghost contributor)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Well he did the most important thing a President can do...went after the creeps who attacked us, and he didn’t care who didn’t like the ways he did it, he just did it! And he didn’t care who whined about water boarding, he just ordered it done. And if you read any of the special ops books published after 9-11, he actually took a cooler and dry ice so they could bring GWB osama’s head on a platter!


30 posted on 05/18/2011 8:54:01 PM PDT by Jewels1091
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To: FredZarguna

Shocked that Rummy’s is good? Or were you sarcastic? I couldn’t tell.

But I would expect nothing less. Rummy was perhaps the most intelligent man in the administration. His press briefings were priceless. And I also know his former speech writer (not me) and he’s a good writer and he helped with the book.


31 posted on 05/18/2011 8:54:55 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (American Thinker Columnist / Rush ghost contributor)
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To: fkabuckeyesrule

I really enjoyed Bush’s book too. All of the Bush and Rumsfeld detractors should read those books. I think they’d come away with a very different take on those men.

Rummy’s book is unique in that it really takes advantage of the Internet. It’s a great way to do a book like that. There’s a website that functions as a companion to the book. For most footnotes you can actually go look up the whole original document. If he refers to some memo, or some cable, he’s got the originals scanned in and indexed.

I got lost for many hours rummaging around in the footnote documentation. It’s really fascinating to see some of that stuff. You get a much better feel for the subject matter.

I’ve never seen anything like it.


32 posted on 05/18/2011 8:58:21 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Jewels1091

Well that’s what we call doing the job he asked to have - and from what I can tell he did not do it alone. But I admit he did do a good job in a lot of ways. And he is likeable. HOWEVER....

The problem was that he refused to engage the enemy in the arena of ideas and therefore a pretty decent President ended up with a 26% approval rating simply because he would not engage — and it led to a discrediting of the entire conservative movement and the entire GOP — which led to the election of the worst President in our history.

When he would not defend himself, he was refusing to defend US who supported him and that is not forgiveable IMO.

That is Bush’s legacy, a decent President who nonetheless gave us Obama.


33 posted on 05/18/2011 8:59:20 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (American Thinker Columnist / Rush ghost contributor)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

President Bush DID NOT give us bambi! Every single conservative who sat on their butts (to teach ‘them’ a lesson’) and every union thug that invented people that voted gave us bambi. Well, what lesson was learned? That a majority of the American population can be pretty damn dumb and the country goes down the crapper?


34 posted on 05/18/2011 9:03:25 PM PDT by Jewels1091
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To: C. Edmund Wright

I don’t think W threw either Libby or Rummy under any bus. To pardon Libby is to say that he was guilty of something. To commute the sentence still gives him the option of winning an appeal. Rumsfeld was ready to go when he went. He speaks pretty frankly about it in his own book. There is just no doubt at all that Rumsfeld had, and still has, an enormous respect for George W.


35 posted on 05/18/2011 9:03:53 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Jewels1091

I’ll agree the stay at home voters helped give us Obama too, but there were not enough of those to make the difference. I did not stay at home.

But if you don’t think Bush’s new tone and his refusal to fight the ideological fight has not done tremendous harm to the conservative movement and to the Republican Party, then you are not paying attention to how critical the arena of ideas is and how critical the “bully pulpit” is as a weapon of the Presidency.

As Rush said on the day after election day 08 ...the first few seconds of his show “the new tone has come home to roost.” And indeed it has.


36 posted on 05/18/2011 9:07:35 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (American Thinker Columnist / Rush ghost contributor)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Nonsense.

Bush didn’t give us Obama... the media did. The prospect of a “first black President” was just too juicy of a thing. That’s how somebody with zero executive experience and no real job in life gets elected. The media asked no questions. From the moment he began his campaign it was a forgone conclusion, especially once McCain became the opponent. There was never a chance.


37 posted on 05/18/2011 9:12:45 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Rummy’s book is outstanding, and he’s a great man. I’m looking forward to reading Cheney’s book soon. My (sarcastic) shock is in reply to the headline: a book by the VP has “strong views?” Really?


38 posted on 05/18/2011 9:13:58 PM PDT by FredZarguna (It looks just like a Telefunken U-47. In leather.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Self-styled REAL conservatives. Don’t overlook the adjective I used. As for GWB, he was indeed a conservative president, moreso than most of those “real” conservatives here will credit. If I wasn’t responding to you via my cell phone, I’d provide a list of the numerous conservative policies he instituted. He was, in several respects, more conservative than Reagan.


39 posted on 05/18/2011 10:02:54 PM PDT by Wolfstar ("If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his friend." Abraham Lincoln)
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To: martin_fierro
caption for that pic:

That's Darth Cheney to you, O'Bongo.

40 posted on 05/18/2011 10:22:09 PM PDT by skeptoid (The road to serfdom is being paved by RINOs, and Lisa Murkowski is their mascot.)
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