{"id":3886,"date":"2010-02-14T16:30:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T21:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2010-02-14T18:48:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T23:48:36","slug":"tragic-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/14\/tragic-flaw\/","title":{"rendered":"tragic flaw?…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Some are stronger than others. I couldn’t watch Cheney this morning. I tried, but before he finished his first sentence, I was out of there. I have a choice as to what I listen to, and just his smug face and his voice pushed the channel button on my clicker. I couldn’t help it. A sample from the report on USA Today<\/strong><\/a>:<\/div>\n
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The Christmas Day bomb plot<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
Cheney says "enhanced interrogation techniques" — including waterboarding — should have been available for suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab: "I think you ought to have all of those capabilities on the table. Now, President Obama has taken them off the table. He announced when he came in last year that they would never use anything other than the U.S. Army Manual which doesn’t include those techniques. I think that’s a mistake."<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
What kind of person goes out of their way to lobby for Torture? First, it was a secret. Then Abu Ghraib showed it to the world in all it’s ugliness, but we denied it. Finally, we found out about the Yoo Memos – then Extraordinary Rendition. Now we know that the Torture program went on from the beginning. If it was such a swell idea, why did they keep it such a secret? There is, in this story, an example of a blatant tragic flaw. Cheney is absolutely consistent in his insistence that he never show "weakness" or "wrongness." He would still be saying that Hussein had WMD and supported al Qaeda if he were left to his own devices. My favorite example of his notions about weakness was his comment<\/strong><\/a> when John Murtha voted with Nancy Pelosi after the 2006 Congressional sweep:<\/div>\n
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Murtha “and the other senior leaders … march to the tune of Nancy Pelosi to an extent I had not seen, frankly, with any previous speaker,” Cheney said. “I’m trying to think how to say all of this in a gentlemanly fashion, but [in] the Congress I served in, that wouldn’t have happened.” But his implication was clear: When asked if these men had lost their spines, he responded, “They are not carrying the big sticks I would have expected.”<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
One presumes that Cheney made the decision to play tough guy early on with his "dark side" comments on September 16th, 2001. Eight and a half years later, he’s still pushing the idea. Even though many right wing nut jobs are having trouble sticking with him, he picks this issue to talk about. But more than that, the etiquette has always been for previous office holders to hold their tongues about their successors. Cheney hasn’t just ignored the etiquette, he gives us a running commentary of Obama, always negative unless Obama happens to do something Cheney supports, and then he adds a dig:<\/div>\n
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"I’m a complete supporter of what they are doing in Afghanistan. I think the President made the right decision to send troops into Afghanistan. I thought it took him a while to get there<\/strong>."<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The tragic flaw? Never changing his mind? Never showing weakness? Never being wrong? Unfortunately, for Cheney, the real tragic flaw is never being right<\/font><\/strong>…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some are stronger than others. I couldn’t watch Cheney this morning. I tried, but before he finished his first sentence, I was out of there. I have a choice as to what I listen to, and just his smug face and his voice pushed the channel button on my clicker. I couldn’t help it. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}