Cheney Shoots Man In Texas

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Cheney Shoots Man In Texas
Tweet Topic Started: Feb 12 2006, 03:05 PM (2,414 Views)
Photobitstream	Feb 18 2006, 08:23 PM Post #121
Darron - Austin, TX Posts: 1,025 Group: Members Member #229 Joined: December 15, 2005	Actually, what Cheney admitted to was having one beer at lunch, about five hours before shooting Whittington in the face and chest. The beer doesn't bother me nearly as much as Cheney spinning 180 degrees to shoot a bird. That is a major breach of hunting safety etiquette.
	"Their chief weapon, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was much too late, just how heartless and greedy they actually were." Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions


spikefish	Feb 18 2006, 08:52 PM Post #122
Spike-Gulf of Texas Posts: 127 Group: Members Member #248 Joined: December 30, 2005	Where did the 180 degree swing come from? If a hunter is facing north, a 180 degree swing makes him shooting south, behind him, not what happened. Conjecture about what happened is just that, conjecture. No one knows exactly what actually happened, not even the people who were there. I wonder what the other party members have to say, especially the guide, so far un-named.
	Gulf of Texas


roscoe	Feb 18 2006, 10:03 PM Post #123
Member Posts: 1,142 Group: Members Member #53 Joined: July 17, 2004	Rumor has it everyone present at the Blast party were blindfolded and put on a plane to be debriefed. :ph43r: :ph43r: :ph43r: :ph43r: :ph43r: :ph43r: :ph43r:



TexasShadow	Feb 18 2006, 10:15 PM Post #124
Jane Posts: 5,534 Group: Members Member #18 Joined: June 26, 2004	well, I understand the ire, because normally, anyone who shot a guy would certainly go to the hospital with him and hang out until he was sure the guy wouldn't die... and the reason cheney didn't go COULD very well be that he had more than one little beer that afternoon and didn't want to be in a position to have to take an alcohol test....... but that's the Sheriff's responsibility to get that and evidently he didn't do his job... so what else is new? rich and powerful people get away with things the ordinary guy can't get away with. it isn't right, but that's the way it is.
	"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."


spikefish	Feb 19 2006, 12:00 AM Post #125
Spike-Gulf of Texas Posts: 127 Group: Members Member #248 Joined: December 30, 2005	"...........cheney didn't go COULD very well be that he had more than one little beer that afternoon and didn't want to be in a position to have to take an alcohol test......." It also COULD be that he is the Veep, and shouldn't go running around haphazardly. There were many Secret Service agents there, and many other folks quite able to take care of Mr. Whittington. We should all remember that certain people, because of their position, do not have the luxury of free movement.
	Gulf of Texas


passinthru	Feb 19 2006, 12:52 AM Post #126
John - Gainesville, FL Posts: 6,166 Group: Members Member #6 Joined: June 6, 2004	I admit I don't like the man much. I do think Spike is right; if the VP showed up at the hospital it would have become a media circus at a time when Whittington needed treatment and rest. Cheney is remorseful; Whittington is forgiving. After all, he is an attorney and can pursue the matter in court at little or no expense to himself if he thinks there was negligence involved. If a friend was drunk and shot me, I wouldn't be in much of a forgiving mood, even if it was the VP.
	Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, more money...


justme	Feb 19 2006, 08:45 AM Post #127
Member Posts: 434 Group: Members Member #55 Joined: July 18, 2004	I feel that Cheney is a decent and honorable man---and therefore must have his reasons. Besides the friend that he accidental shot has nothing but praise for Cheney--so who are we to criticize.



cmoehle	Feb 19 2006, 09:14 AM Post #128
Chris - San Antonio TX Posts: 36,959 Group: Members Member #1 Joined: June 6, 2004	Whittington also praised the press: "I compliment you on what you've done-I've read and seen many of your reports and I know your job isn't easy. (source)
	Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. --Barry Goldwater


Photobitstream	Feb 19 2006, 09:37 AM Post #129
Darron - Austin, TX Posts: 1,025 Group: Members Member #229 Joined: December 15, 2005	justme Feb 19 2006, 08:45 AM I feel that Cheney is a decent and honorable man...
	"Their chief weapon, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was much too late, just how heartless and greedy they actually were." Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions


Stoney	Feb 19 2006, 09:38 AM Post #130
Huntsville, AL Posts: 2,771 Group: Members Member #216 Joined: October 22, 2005	I watched it live. Whittington came through the door with startling energy for a man his age, say nothing of the trauma that he'd gone through. He was very gracious in his demeanor and his words. I would say that his goal was to down play the incident and that he did a very good job of doing that. His comments about the media were a little surprising, but seemed genuine.
	The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. Henry David Thoreau


CalRed	Feb 19 2006, 10:07 AM Post #131
Member Posts: 1,087 Group: Members Member #128 Joined: November 30, 2004	Just another project the media tried to make a big deal out of and now has egg on their face, as usual. A poll was mentioned on TV last night that said 57% of Americans believed Cheney acted responsibility and this was just another accident. 27% believed Cheney acted improperly. Just another case of the extreme liberal media trying to make something out of nothing and by now they should realize they are just making fools of themselves. Naturally they would cater to the 27% and not mainstream America. Cheney has been, and will continue to be, the best Vice President we have ever had. A great deal of George Bush's success has been attributed to the advice and knowledge of Cheney. Remember he was elected and then re-elected by the American people, not the media. But of course the Bush haters will never be satisfied until they get another liberal Democrat back in office. Probably will be a long, long wait however.
	Something instead of Nothing? "I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing." Alan Sandage


cmoehle	Feb 19 2006, 10:50 AM Post #132
Chris - San Antonio TX Posts: 36,959 Group: Members Member #1 Joined: June 6, 2004	Liberal? Not quite. Robert Novak, Republican Malaise Quote: When Dick Cheney finally broke his silence by answering questions from Fox's Brit Hume last Wednesday, four days after the hunting accident, many Republicans could hardly believe it. They were stunned that the vice president indicated he had no regrets about the way the incident was handled. Every Republican I contacted had regrets in abundance. Bush-bashers delighted in exaggerating Cheney's post-accident conduct as a metaphor for everything wrong with George W. Bush's presidency in its sixth year. Nevertheless, there are supporters of the president (and the vice president, as well) who believe the handling of the accident does reflect structural problems in the Bush White House. Those defects were present from the start of this presidency and remain, in the absence of a basic reconstruction after Bush's re-election.... Emphasis added. Bush haters are as emotionally blind as Bush lovers.
	Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. --Barry Goldwater


roscoe	Feb 19 2006, 11:46 AM Post #133
Member Posts: 1,142 Group: Members Member #53 Joined: July 17, 2004	Newspapers were sold out as they hit the stands showing the gory pictures and the details of the massacre at the ranch in texas. All the cable news shows both con and lib were very busy raising their ratings off this monumental earth shattering event. Reporters were gearing up their attitudes and quaffing their hair to perhaps ask the special question that might land them an award. Everyone either made money, fame or notieriety from a simple stupid accident. Cheney and his buddy the lawyer are most likely laughing about the whole thing. Bush is saying to himself as he stares into space this job sucks.



5thwheeler	Feb 19 2006, 12:13 PM Post #134
Get the message? Posts: 1,018 Group: Members Member #161 Joined: March 16, 2005	Quote: Cheney has been, and will continue to be, the best Vice President we have ever had. Yeah, and I can't wait for him to be the best ex-Vice President we have ever had. Me thinks its us that have been had.
	History 101: When a popular myth is believed to be factual, teach the myth. Its not possible to underestimate the intelligence of the voting populous. Hummm, after seeing the results of the 06 election, I may have to modify my perception of the voting populous and refer to them as "Late Bloomers".


silverfox	Feb 19 2006, 07:10 PM Post #135
Member Posts: 252 Group: Members Member #227 Joined: December 11, 2005	Seems to me that the non conservatives don't like Chaney because of his straight forward and plain talking demeanor. I have always wondered why the left seems to denigrate him. Could it be that they can not deal with plain talking people or is it that they want to speak poorly of anyone who has power that they want desperately. Chaney seems to have real friends and maybe that is why the left don't like him I think that speaks volumes of his charactor. Also he seems comfortable in his own skin-- I never heard him become shrill about any of the dirt slung against him.


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