Saturday, September 10, 2011

Book Review! In My Time by Dick Cheney

You know the whole phenomenon we saw with Alvin Greene winning the South Caroline primary is not entirely unprecedented in U.S politics. In dick Cheney’s book he writes about running against a fellow by the name of Jim Rogers who’d won the Wyoming democratic primaries. He was a bartender and was rumored to have checked in the wrong box in paperwork fillings to run for state legislature.
That was a fact that I found interesting in what is largely a very dull book. It starts out with a bang, goes into a very detailed account of what actually transpired in the White House on the morning of 9-11. However, reading the book which is nearly 600 pages long is like watching hours and hours of C-SPAN. He is not a gifted political writer like Ron Paul or a hilarious provocateur like Michael Savage. He is a former statesman, a little on the pompous side. Indeed, it is not as good a book as Where’s the Birth Certificate?” or nearly as engaging a read.
Occasionally I pick up some sort of intriguing tidbits. At the time that Saddam Hussein’s forces where entering Kuwait, apparently Chaney was sent to meet with that Mubark despot they just kicked out of power in Egypt, and Saddam’s diplomat’s and he were coming literally in and out of the same door, one right after the other. You do get these occasional tidbits like that only a figure in the very top positions would know. Apparently, during the same conflict the emir of Qatar was in a limo with Chaney, turned around and asked “So, are you going to nuke Saddam?”. Pretty funny and pretty intriguing, but I’m not sure they really save this book though. I have a feeling Chaney phoned this book into ghostwriters, to be honest. It is not entirely surprising or exciting to know that Dick spent a lot of time fishing and hunting with Halliburton employees during the Clinton years. A lot of things in his book are not at all surprising if you watch the news with any regularity. Chaney actually wrote the sentence “the attacks of 9/11 had a significant impact on the nation’s economy”.
Thanks guy.
What is somewhat revealing is that Dick Cheney points the finger in the Valerie Plane thing on Rich Armitage, who was Deputy Secretary of State. Apparently, there’s a tape of Rich Armitage mentioning the whole Valerie Plane is a spook to Bob Woodward four times.
Here’s the YouTube:

Cheney goes on at length to defend Scooter, his buddy, for quite some time.
Can you imagine that all this deal was made about Valerie Plaine by the left in this country and yet there are people in the American left who view Bradley Manning as a hero?

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  1. Man, sounds like an interesting book. I'll have to check it out on audio. You can find this best seller and more at PremierAudiobooks.com. Pretty good prices and you can download audiobooks too. toolhttp://premieraudiobooks.com/sql/nyt/nyt_best_sellers.php

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