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Cheney Disses Sarah Palin

Why did she quit as governor again? he asks

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 2, 2011 11:57 AM CDT

(Newser) – Dick Cheney is ruffling more feathers in his memoir media blitz, this time Sarah Palin's. Politico takes note of this zinger in an interview with Laura Ingraham: “Well I’ve never gotten around the question of her having left the governorship of Alaska midterm," he says. "I’ve never heard that adequately explained so that I could understand why, how she decided in her first term to step down and still be—I’d like to know more about that.”

Cheney, who was answering a question about whether Palin was the best choice for VP in 2008 when he made that observation, had earlier warned that vice presidents must have "thick skin." (And as we all know, Karl Rove really, really doesn't think that Palin does.)

Former Vice President Dick Cheney is interviewed on the Fox & Friends Wednesday.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is interviewed on the "Fox & Friends" Wednesday.   (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
In this Aug. 12 photo, Sarah Palin is interviewed by Sean Hannity of FOX News in Iowa.
In this Aug. 12 photo, Sarah Palin is interviewed by Sean Hannity of FOX News in Iowa.   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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DJFREy
Sep 3, 2011 12:24 AM CDT
Growing up during the Vietnam War, I recall watching Huntley-Brinkley and seeing the weekly American death toll while in grade school. In 1971, I enlisted in the Army and studied (hopped) Vietmamese (Zipanese) from Jan. to Dec. 1972. My orders to ‘Nam were canceled in Jan. 1973. Instead of serving in SE Asia, I served at a desk in the National Security Agency where I learned, from experience at age nineteen, the government lied. No one in the Bush administration ever described a delivery system whereby WMDs would actually threaten US. Here are under radar facts about the decision to invade Iraq. http://napoleonlive.info/what-i-think/dick-cheney-doinks-history/
Spudsy
Sep 2, 2011 11:39 PM CDT
"Sarah, I am your father"  - Darth Cheney. 
greenlantern1
Sep 2, 2011 8:28 PM CDT
Did you show a thin skin when you fired General Max Dugan?   Didn't he do a great job for the MDA?   Clifford Spencer
 

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