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Wyoming GOP primary 2022

VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: "As most of you know, I have spent a lot of years in public service, and first came to work in Washington, D.C. back in the late 1960s. I know what it's like to operate in a highly charged political environment, in which the players on all sides of an issue feel passionately and speak forcefully. In such an environment people sometimes lose their cool, and yet in Washington you can ordinarily rely on some basic measure of truthfulness and good faith in the conduct of political debate. But in the last several weeks we have seen...

Oh, oh! President Bush has bypassed the Senate to name hard-nosed John R. Bolton the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Now Teddy Kennedy, John Kerry, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd and Dick Durbin will be unhappy and uncooperative. They'd be even less happy if we moved the United Nations to sunny Greenland. * * * Vice President Dick Cheney is being credited with saving the life of Helen Thomas, the veteran left-wing liberal White House correspondent. Ms. Thomas declared that she would commit suicide if VP Cheney ran for President. Cheney, displaying compassion for the ugly old hag, announced that...

WASHINGTON - A thoughtful reference to an opponent's child or a callous comment to score political points? Those were the competing reactions yesterday to Sen. John Kerry's mention of Vice President Cheney's openly gay daughter, Mary, during the final presidential debate - a mention that provoked an angry response from her parents. Asked by moderator Bob Schieffer of CBS whether he thought homosexuality was a choice, Kerry replied: "We're all God's children, Bob, and I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was, she's...

AND NOW HE'S ATTACKING DICK CHENEY At the same speech last night, The Poodle also took a shot at Vice President Cheney's deferments he received while not serving during the Vietnam War. Amazingly, Kerry still can't let go of the Vietnam War. "The vice president even called me unfit for office last night. I guess I'll leave it up to the voters whether five deferments makes someone more qualified to defend this nation than two tours of duty." So let me get this straight...five deferments to avoid serving is wrong, but three questionable Purple Hearts used to get out of...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Typically a break from partisan warfare, this year's Senate class photo turned smiles into snarls as Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly used a profanity toward one senior Democrat, sources said.</p> <p>Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who was on the receiving end of Cheney's ire, confirmed that the Vice President used profanity during Tuesday's class photo.</p>

THORNBURY -- Dissatisfied with their school’s choice of commencement speaker, about half of Saturday’s graduating class at Cheyney University rebuffed U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., by standing and turning their backs to him during his speech. Just as Santorum began his address, dozens of the 324 graduates stood and faced the audience. One graduate left the area. Many in the crowd applauded the students’ actions. "Don’t hide from controversy," Santorum told the students as many carried on conversations, at times almost drowning out the senator’s words. Santorum continued with his speech, raising his voice to be heard among the noise...

THORNBURY, Pa. - U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum was greeted with boos, jeers and turned backs Saturday while giving a commencement speech at Cheyney University, a historically black college, a newspaper reported. "I know my selection as commencement speaker was not met with unanimous approval," Santorum said, according to the Daily Local News of West Chester. While most of the master's degree candidates remained seated during Santorum's speech, more than half of the graduating undergraduates stood and faced away from the senator in silent protest, the paper reported. A scattering of audience members also joined the protest. Santorum admitted that a...

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, keynote speaker Dick Cheney made an appeal for unity with Europe when he spoke of "our common understanding that today’s threats must be met where they are or those threats will come to us." He also stated that the key to security is through prosperity, adding: "But while we know that security and prosperity are mutually dependent, we must go a step further and ask how they are best achieved. The answer lies in the values of freedom, justice and democracy…Democracies do not breathe the anger and the radicalism that drag down whole...

APRIL 09, 2003 Cheney: U.S. Did Not Target Journalists VP Defends Administration's FOI RecordBy Mark FitzgeraldNEW ORLEANS -- Vice President Dick Cheney brushed aside criticism that military forces targeted foreign journalists in Iraq. Cheney spoke Wednesday morning to newspaper editors in New Orleans just as U.S. Marines were helping Iraqi citizens tear down a statue of Saddam Hussein in the center of Baghdad."The suggestion that somehow the United States would have somehow deliberately attacked journalists is absolutely false," Cheney said. "With all the efforts we've taken so that journalists can report [the war] in real time, the idea that we...