Dick Cheney Poll: Please Help!

[H2O Man]

Does VP Dick Cheney remind you more of: {a} Spiro Agnew; or {b} Aaron Burr? Why?

Thank you for your participation.

[hlthe2b]

1. Elmer Fudd...

reason? sorta obvious, methinks...

[MADem]

10. The Whittington WABBIT!!!!

A weal wascal!!!!

[Poiuyt]

12. Yup

[Cocoa]

2. lol

:-)

[Journeyman]

3. LOL. . .

ah, the unexpected. . . always the most humorous. . .

[Road Scholar]

4. Boss Hawgg! LOL

[tinfoilinfor2005]

5. He reminds me of the Frank Langella character in the movie Dave. n/t

[melody]

18. As well as the Langella character in the movie Dracula n/t

[H2O Man]

21. Dirty Harry, perhaps?

"In all the excitement, I've lost track of if I killed five birds, or six. Well, you feeling lucky, old man? ... Go ahead, make my day."

[melody]

23. Yeah, he's got the jaw and drawl thing going for him. n/t

[H2O Man]

26. Or how about the guy from Taxi?

"You talking to me?"

6. I would need a short history lesson first n/t

[blogslut]

11. here ya go

http://blogslut.com/zero10.html

[Roho]

14. me too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Burr

When it became clear that Jefferson would drop Burr from his ticket in the 1804 election, the Vice President ran for the governorship of New York instead. Burr lost the election largely due to a personal smear campaign orchestrated by his own party rivals, the Clintons of New York. Hamilton also opposed Burr, due to his belief (still controversial) that Burr had entertained a Federalist secession movement in New York. But Hamilton exceeded himself at one political dinner, where he expressed a "still more despicable opinion" of Burr. After a letter regarding the incident written by Dr. Charles D. Cooper circulated in a local newspaper, Burr sought an explanation from his erstwhile friend.

Hamilton had written so many letters, and made so many private tirades against Burr, that he could not reliably comment on Cooper's vaguely-worded statement. Burr demanded that Hamilton recant or deny everything he had ever said regarding Burr’s character, but Hamilton, having already been disgraced by the Maria Reynolds scandal, could not afford to make this gesture. Burr responded by challenging Hamilton to personal combat under the code duello, the formalized but largely antiquated rules of dueling. Both men had been involved in duels in the past, usually on the periphery, but Hamilton had particular qualms because his beloved son, Philip, had rashly entered into a fatal duel in 1802. Hamilton, who deplored dueling but nevertheless felt his honor was at stake, agreed to the challenge. The two would nevertheless use the same pistols owned by Hamilton's brother-in-law, which are now preserved by JPMorgan Chase & Co.

On July 11, 1804, the enemies met outside of Weehawken, New Jersey. When the duel began, Hamilton and Burr fired within seconds of one another. Hamilton's shot went astray, intentionally according to a letter he prepared before his death but Burr shot and fatally wounded Hamilton. The bullet entered Hamilton's abdomen above his right hip, piercing Hamilton's liver and spine, and he died the following day. Burr later learned that Hamilton intended to avert his fire during the duel. His response: "Contemptible, if true." Burr was later charged with murder in New York and New Jersey, but was never tried in either jurisdiction. He escaped to South Carolina, where his daughter lived with her family, but soon returned to Washington, D.C. to complete his term of service as Vice President. He presided over the Samuel Chase impeachment trial with the "impartiality of an angel and the rigor of a devil." Burr's heartfelt farewell speech in March 1805 moved some of his harshest critics in the Senate to tears.

[BuyingThyme]

7. Dick Cheney actually knew Sprio Agnew, so I'm going with

Spiro Agnew.

[blogslut]

8. Spiro Who?

;););)

[CatWoman]

9. Yosemite Sam

sorry :D

[H2O Man]

13. While I do not have a link,

it is being reported that Cheney nailed the poor fool squarely in the middle of the back. Asked by a reporter on the scene why he had not shoot one of the game birds being released by White House aides, VP Cheney snarled, "I had other priorities."

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

15. Neither, because

Cheney has fewer scruples than Agnew and less honor than Burr.

[H2O Man]

17. Oh, very good!

I like that.

[leftchick]

22. perfect answer!

:applause:

[burythehatchet]

16. Sith Lord

[bleever]

19. I'll pick Aaron Burr, because of their influence on the Treasury.

Burr killed the guy who founded it;
Cheney found the guy to kill it.

[Pithy Cherub]

20. Darth Cheney actually tries & shoots somebody and steals money.

:shrug: real problems answering that one on the fly...

[NBachers]

24. Whattabout Colonel Klink?

See what I mean? As a bonus, I've also thrown in a few KKKarls.

[H2O Man]

25. Texas Radio & Deer Hunting ....

"Johnson, Kearns noted, liked to impose tests of manhood, of which his most notorious was bringing politicians to his ranch and insisting they kill deer. John Kennedy, filled with deep distaste, had killed his deer after the 1960 election. I never heard that Robert Kennedy killed a deer at the LBJ ranch.* But Johnson imagined he had, or at least said so for the purpose of tormenting Hubert Humphrey: 'Bobby Kennedy got of of them. You're not going to let Bobby get the best of you, are you?' At the same time Kennedy read books, quoted poetry, and was (so Johnson thought) the darling of intellectuals.

* Nor has Jean Kennedy Smith any recollections of RFK's killing deer. He did go deer hunting at the ranch and was disgusted at Johnson's practice of shooting deer from the comfort of an elevated concrete structure. 'This isn't hunting,' he said on his return, 'It's slaughter'."

-- From Arthur Schlesinger's "Robert Kennedy and his times," page 674 (8 quoted from William vander Heuvel's "On His Own: Robert F. Kennedy, 1964-1968)

In my haste, I left LBJ off of the list. In truth, I think his saying, "He ain't a pimple on a good man's ass" fits any attempt to compare Cheney to LBJ. However, I felt this quote from Arthur's book needed to be included.

[H2O Man]

27. Okay .....

maybe I am the only one who thinks this is funny. Hmmmm .... I was flipping through the channels, waiting to get a turn on the computer, when I encountered the movie "Rambo:First Blood" on tv. I told my kid that it was based upon Cheney's hunting trip.