Cheney Attempts To Prove He’s Not ‘Isolated’: On Saturday I Went ‘Shopping With My Daughter’

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/16/cheney-isolated/

Cheney Attempts To Prove He’s Not ‘Isolated’: On Saturday I Went ‘Shopping With My Daughter’

Last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said that President Bush was suffering from Nixon-esque levels of isolation:

The president is as isolated, I believe, on the Iraq issue as Richard Nixon was when he was hunkered down in the White House.

Yesterday morning on CBS’s Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer asked Vice President Cheney if he agreed with Reid’s statement. Cheney replied that it was a “ridiculous notion.” His rebuttal: “I spend as much time as I can to get out and do other things, be at home in Wyoming or, yesterday, I managed to go shopping with my daughter for a birthday present for granddaughters.” Watch it at link:

It’s good to know that Cheney isn’t isolated from his daughter or his ranch in Wyoming. But that doesn’t mean he and the President aren’t isolated from the American public on the issue of Iraq. Sixty-six percent of the American public disapprove of the Bush administration’s handling of the war. Fifty-three percent do not think the United States will succeed in Iraq.

Additionally, Bush’s approval rating now sits at 31 percent. Cheney’s favorability rating is at 18 percent. In comparison, Richard Nixon’s approval rating in the summer of 1973 (when the Watergate scandal was in full swing) was 39 percent.

Transcript:

SCHIEFFER: Senator Reid, who you mentioned earlier, the Democratic leader, said that he thought that President Bush has become more isolated over Iraq than Richard Nixon was during Watergate. You were around during those days.

CHENEY: I was.

SCHIEFFER: Do you think that’s true?

CHENEY: I do not. I think that’s a ridiculous notion.

SCHIEFFER: It’s a ridiculous notion. Do you feel you have become more isolated?

CHENEY: I don’t think so. I spend as much time as I can to get out and do other things. Be at home in Wyoming or yesterday I managed to go shopping with my daughter for a birthday present for granddaughters. But, you know, I obviously spend most of my time on the job.

[havocmom]

1. Mere fact that cheney is trying to be appealling by selling image of doting grandfather

tells me the man is sweating bullets.

Shopping with the daughter... and a big ring of SS protection. Yep, just a regular guy at the mall

:rofl:

Bunker Boy didn't sell it.

[gratuitous]

2. You want to "get out" Mr. Cheney?

I'll resist the temptation to turn that into something else, but really, Crash Cart, you want to show us all what a man of the people you are, and how you get out and hobnob with the hoi polloi? Stage a series of events open to the public, with a week's advance notice. First come, first seated, and no political screening of the audience. I predict that after no more than two such events, you run like a rabbit back down into your hidey-hole, and the public never sees your snarling, rodent-like visage again.

[babylonsister]

4. Now THAT'S wishful (?) thinking! I cannot imagine anyone in this

admin doing that; what a difference a few years makes. And this country has suffered greatly as a result.

[PsN2Wind]

3. While "shopping with his daughter"

he probably had more protection than McCain had in Baghdad.

[Marnieworld]

5. You're so isolated Cheney, you didn't even understand the question

They are just so full of shit. It makes me sick. :puke:

[maxsolomon]

6. isolated from REALITY, not our national religion

i just know he's going to die of a heart attack in his sleep on 1/20/09, and deprive us all of the satisfaction of seeing him up on charges in the Hague.

[DFW]

7. I remember back in November 2000

I was sitting in our office in Dallas when something like
ten black limos pulled up outside full of Secret Service
guys. We thought Clinton was making a surprise visit.
Nope, it was Cheney's wife on a shopping trip, and the
Supreme Court hadn't even ruled on the election yet.
She was no more than the wife of the vice-presidential
candidate, and she had protection as if she were Mick
Jagger.

Now, six years later, when Cheney is the most hated VP
in America since Spiro Agnew, he wants us to believe
that he went shopping with his daughter in an un-isolated
situation? Right, can you imagine Dick Cheney strolling
unaccompanied down some mall with his daughter? Even in
redder than red Wyoming, that's risky business. There
are people in Wyoming who have lost their sons in Iraq, too.

[irislake]

8. WOW!

But isn't that what all patriotic Americans are sposed to do? Go shoppin'?

[liberal renegade]

9. Nextime

try shopping outside the greenzone, I heard they have a heck of a sale on magic carpets, Dick......

[Vickers]

10. Did you buy a gallon of milk for $1.50, like your buddy Giuliani?

:eyes:

[LiberalFighter]

11. Exactly what the hell did he buy? Another shotgun so he could shoot his friend?