There is a lot of bad stuff about Lincoln that is quite true. Recently, several books have been published on the stuff, and the Lincoln idolators have gone ape (read lots of ad hominem).

Thank you, Peter. Honorable people do honorable things. Just do the right thing, and the est will probably fall in place. If it doesn’t, well you did the right thing and you can still hold your head up even when you lose. The Apostle paul, I’m sure went to the block with his head up. It didn’t end that way, but the welcome he got on the other side, I’m sure, was deafening.

“Indeed CNN reported today that nearly a quarter of the country consider him the worst VP in our history!” [breathless italics Fliterman's]

Wellllll, as the Church Lady used to say, let’s break that down, shall we?

“nearly a quarter of the country” –read, half of the left

“consider him the worst VP in our history!” –no doubt, they’ve arrived at this judgment soberly, adding italics only afterward, after carefully and dispassionately weighing the merits of the arguments for Cheney rather than, oh, Aaron Burr, William Rufus de Vane King, Levi Parsons Morton or, heaven help us, Henry Wallace.

But let me put it another way. President Bush’s approval rating, last time I checked, was a bit below 25%. He’s lost all but his most staunch supporters. So if I tell you that nearly a quarter of the country thinks President Bush is the most courageous politician they can remember, will you be impressed by their sheer weight of numbers?

For those of us who can read, and don’t have an axe to grind, it’s not too hard to find out that Cheney was born in 1941. This means he turned 18 in 1959. Not much happening militarily just then, and the forces didn’t need large numbers.

He was married in 1964 (age 23, just to keep track) . By the time things heated up in Vietnam a couple years later, he was not only married, but a newbie father. Cheney recieved his fifth (and final) deferment in January 1966 because his wife was pregnant.

Apparently, in some quarters, a man who pursues an academic career during peacetime is a coward and a slacker, especially when he gains a deferment while trying to finish his degree, and take care of his wife and child.

That’s quite different from turning 18 in 1967, and going for deferments right away.

I suppose there will always be people who feel the need to tear down someone else. Never saw the point to it, myself.

Ah..so easy easy to set off one with B.D.S. Hate is a powerful emotion.

You may be right about their differences. Kipling had a full head o’hair and Cheney is bald as a baby’s butt….Kipling wrote about stuff, Cheney was the man in the ring.

re “that nearly a quarter of the country consider him the worst VP in our history!”

Since when do intelligent folks like me and you reference popularity polls based on the stupid to prove a point, most of whom couldn’t pass that civics test Lex posted a while back? ..Plus, most of ‘em probably suffer from B.D.S.! LOL.

re- ““at an undisclosed location”

Perhaps Betheda or Walter Reed?

Circular, ain’t I?

Merry Christmas Flit.

b2

Thank you, Sir.

There is something deeply hideous about disparaging a courageous and decent man,
and something deeply honorable in speaking up in the defense of his good name.

The mainstream media worldwide is devoted to the destruction of Judeo-Christian
values and society, and the fruit of their work is readily evident. May truth and justice
prevail.
Best regards, Peter Warner.