Point man Cheney viewed as liability

[Thom Little]

By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
Baltimore Sun
Friday, Nov. 25, 2005


To put more sting into a new commercial attacking President Bush over the war in Iraq, producers made a last-minute change, adding footage that showed Bush with Vice President Dick Cheney.

The edit was prompted by Cheney's dismal approval ratings in public opinion polls, said Tom Matzzie of MoveOn.org, the anti-war group that is running the TV ad over Thanksgiving weekend. He called Cheney, the most influential figure in Bush's inner circle, "as unpopular as a comic book supervillain."

While Bush struggles through one of the most difficult periods of his presidency, Cheney is increasingly being portrayed as a liability, someone associated with the administration's most divisive issues, including its use of disputed intelligence to justify the war, its policy on torture and its harsh criticism of those who question Bush.

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Conservative activist Grover Norquist drew upon a different comic book analogy to describe Cheney: The vice president has "stepped out and, like Superman, put his hand out in front of a speeding train for this White House, which is the assertion that we've been lied into war."




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[UTUSN]

1. And Yet the $s Keep Pouring in n/t

[emald]

2. and he found out the train was made of kryptonite

which destroyed him. To bad.