rssLeave Liz Cheney Alone!
Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 4:46 pm
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This is a Slate piece about Liz Cheney — daughter of Dick and a former State Department official — and what her senior undergraduate thesis on executive power from Colorado College tells us about the Bush presidency. As far as I can tell, it is entirely sincere. This is not an Alan Sokal/Social Text-style hoax determined to parody Slate by tricking Slate into running the most absurdly Slate-ish piece — in which something is superficially clever but substantively hollow — of all time. If it is, and I have escaped its subtlety: bravo, author Zac Frank, bravo.
If it needs to be said, though: Liz Cheney’s senior undergraduate thesis tells you nothing at all about the Bush presidency.
Liz Cheney would have been 21 or 22-years-old when she submitted her thesis. Her views were still forming. The idea that someone would read some sort of meta-textual significance into the fact that both the thesis and the Bush administration took a sunny view of a powerful chief executive is daffy. If I went to the bar this evening and told someone, “You know what has predictive capability for determining how people will behave in positions of authority? What their children write as undergrads. Well, their big papers, anyway,” I would be viewed as someone with poor reasoning skills. I’m betting neither Frank nor his editors actually stated his thesis out loud before running his piece.
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Comment posted January 30, 2009 @ 6:11 am
Actually, it doesn't strike me as “daffy” that two of Dick Cheney's kids (Liz Cheney and George Bush) apparently hold the same views on this topic.
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Comment posted January 30, 2009 @ 6:07 pm
Actually, I agree. I hope the same standard had been applied to Michelle Obama's thesis.
Comment posted April 24, 2009 @ 8:07 am
Liz needs to go away too. I am so sick of these murderers and condoners of torture. If this practice worked so well how come they had to waterboard 1 guy 180 something times in 1 month? If this was such an effective method why wasn't the info obtained in the 1st 5-10 times. Why are these people trying to justify their actions and the actions of their parents and friends at our expence through fear?
They say it worked because we weren't attacked again. BS, what about the anthrax on innocent, congress and news people? within 2-3 months of 9/11? What about all the various “terrorist attacks” on our allied countries, London, Spain, etc. So much for sovlving the probelm with their methods. Dick Cheney and his kin and his obtuse cohorts need to go away. If they don't go away then they should be fair game for Treason against the USA. They lied about Iraq-9/11 connection and used torture to illicit the confessions that fit their agenda of fear. Hmmm…sounds very much like the Downing Street memos.
Time for you people to crawl back into the cesspool and worm-around in the slime and filth. It saddens me to think that they have truely done nothing to improve anyone's situation in our country or the world. Financial colapse, global fear these things appeal to them?
Comment posted May 27, 2009 @ 12:11 am
The Cheney kid ought to be in an English alphabet class along with Caroline Kennedy and Hillary C. Nancy Pelosi knows the alphabet somewhat or can sound out words….ABCDEFG, now I've learned my ABC's???? I don't think so!!
Comment posted May 27, 2009 @ 7:11 am
The Cheney kid ought to be in an English alphabet class along with Caroline Kennedy and Hillary C. Nancy Pelosi knows the alphabet somewhat or can sound out words….ABCDEFG, now I've learned my ABC's???? I don't think so!!
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