billcihak said:
I have to say I never understood the Cheney hate.
Y'now,my mom's from Wyoming. Grew up in a little mining town called Hanna-it doesn't exist anymore
After she graduated from high school, and the mine closed (for a while--last time I was there, they were strip mining) her family moved to Casper, and her siblings, all but one of them, graduated from Natrona County High-there aren't a lot of people in Wyoming, so even what passes for a "major city" in Wyoming (Casper-
currentpopulation, 55,000-second only to Cheyenne) had only one high school, at that time.
My uncle, Gary-second youngest of my mom's fiver siblings-the family comedian-graduated with Dick Cheney. So did his wife.
Dick Cheney, a guy who dropped out of Yale, because he couldn't cut it, got
six academic deferments from the Vietnam war draft, voted against economic sanctions against South Africa's apartheid regime during the Reagan administration (to his credit, he claims to just not believe in sanctions), twice convicted of DUI, voted against a Congressional resolution to call on South Africa to release Nelson Mandela,and
was one of the primary drivers for justification for the invasion of Iraq after 9/11.
Know what my uncle Gary, his first wife Mae Lee, and his current wife, Kay-and just about everyone in Casper who knew him- says when the subject of Dick Cheney comes up? What I guess they've been saying for, like, I dunno,
55 years????
"Dick Cheney,
before he dicks you" :lfao: