Cheney shoots a 78 year old man wearing an orange vest

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To further the Bush Asministration's claim to Monumental Incompetence, we now have the spectacle of our vice president, Richard Cheney being the first sitting vice president to shoot someone since Aaron Burr. A very stupd accident, Cheney ddid a full 180 pull and shot a man wearing a bright orange vest.
We don't expect Cheney to apologize or even have the guts to come out himself and explain all the unanswered questions--like was alcohol involved?? The mans a coward and will never address the American people publically,without a screened audience (neither will Bush)
Why do I say he's a coward?? Cheney shot a 78 year old man, who was wearing a bright orange vest, in the face. Thats the fact but here's what m,akes him a coward: Does Cheney come out front and tell the truth about it? Does he say he's sorry and try to come up with an explanation? No, he hides behind his spokespeople (also just like Bush) who say he "did nothing wrong" Like shooting a man wearing a bright orange vest isn't at least a "mistake"
Turns out Cheney shouldn't have been hunting birds AT ALL because he didn't have the license stamp but I guess they won't acknowledge that as a mistake either.
The most questionable thing of all is not that he shot the guy accidentally but that he hid from disclosing the news. Why did they let K Armstraong divulge the news a day later? Cheney maintains an intensive media stadff and spokespeople and it shold have come from them the moment it happened.
For a man who has 2 DUIs and never stopped drinking, it becomes a legitimate question, especially given the news that Cheney's staff waited overnight wihtout saying anything anf then had the owner of the property deliver the bad news.
Sticking to form, Cheney's staff denies he did anything wrong.

Now I know whhats going to be said next: Kennedy and Chappaquidick, like that makes it all right? Right?
So Cheney and Bush get off for all their alcohol problems because 42 years ago, Kenedy drove his car off a bridge, killing a campaign worker. But Laura Bush also killed a teenager while driving and we don't see any fingers pointed there, do we? Didn't trhat even the score out?
In any case, these arguments are specious because these are the people who promised to bring accountability back to the White House--but what theyve done is the biggest BuckPassing in history.
And this is more of the same--already theyve stated to blame the victim--for wearing a bright orange vest in Cheney's line of fire.
As always, the biggest interst is the way they handled this case--eavde, evade, evade. Stonewall, stonewall stonewall. Its someone else's mistakee, not ours.
Cheney only pulled the trigger

Here's Lettermans 10 reasons why Cheney shot the guy.


10. "Heart palpitation caused trigger finger to spasm"

9. "Wanted to get the Iraq mess off the front page"

8. "Not enough Jim Beam"

7. "Trying to stop the spread of bird flu"

6. "I love to shoot people"

5. "Guy was making cracks about my lesbian daughter"

4. "I thought the guy was trying to go 'gay cowboy' on me"

3. "Excuse? I hit him, didn't I?"

2. "Until Democrats approve medicare reform, we have to make some tough choices for the elderly"

1. "Made a bet with Gretzky's wife"