Cheney Shoots, Politics Ensues
PunditGuy | Feb 12, 2006 | Comments 3
After the report today about Dick Cheney’s hunting accident, I read this crap.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ — James and Sarah Brady made comments today related to Vice President Cheney’s reportedly accidental shooting yesterday in Texas.
“Now I understand why Dick Cheney keeps asking me to go hunting with him,” said Jim Brady. “I had a friend once who accidentally shot pellets into his dog – and I thought he was an idiot.”
“I’ve thought Cheney was scary for a long time,” Sarah Brady said. “Now I know I was right to be nervous.”
Those who hate Bush, Cheney, or anyone associated with their administration will take any opportunity they can to make political hay from bonafide accidents that occur. It was Bush falling from bikes before, and now it’s gonna be the gun-toting wild-eyed Veep who is so mean he’ll shoot his own friends.
I wish politics was just about politics.
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The Politicizing of an Accident
It’s an accident, not an incident. There are no political angles here. But that won’t stop both sides of the aisle from making it into one.
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So… Cheney shoots like Gerald Ford golfs:
I’ll know I’m getting
better at golf because I’m hitting fewer spectators. …
This whole story strikes me as similar to the Clinton-Lewinsky story where people made a really big stink out of an event that is basically not the american public’s affair. Obviously this was all an accident and I’m sure Mr. Cheney apologized to his friend and his friend’s family. My read on the situation is that the Bush administration was content to keep it at that, despite the clamouring for a public apology, and only backpeddled on that stance when they realized that the victim of this accident was a 70 something year old man who may not bounce back, had a minor heartattack, and could have died.