07-05-2003 20:18									#1
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quote: Cheney to be Bush running mate US Vice President **** Cheney has agreed to be President George W Bush's running mate in the 2004 elections, despite a history of heart trouble. "The president has asked me if I would serve again as his running mate. I've agreed to do that," he told The Dallas Morning News. Mr Cheney has been a leading hawk on Iraq and is one of Mr Bush's closest advisers. He has had four heart attacks - the most recent in 2000 - but he insisted that past health problems would not deter him from running for re-election. "Everything is fine," he said. "If I ran into problems where I felt I couldn't serve, I'd be the first to say so and step down." Mr Cheney, 61, underwent quadruple bypass surgery in 1988. "I've got a doc with me 24 hours a day, who watches me very carefully," he said. Halliburton role He said he did not know when Mr Bush would officially announce his bid for re-election. CAREER MILESTONES 1969: Political staffer, Nixon administration 1975-77: Chief of Staff to Gerald Ford 1978-89: Congressman 1989-93: Defence Secretary 2001: Vice President Mr Cheney's business connections are under scrutiny as the Securities and Exchange Commission investigates accounting practices at the oil services firm Halliburton, where he was formerly chief executive officer. Halliburton's role in post-war Iraq has now been expanded to include operating Iraqi oilfields. Previously, the US Army Corps of Engineers had described the contract given to Halliburton - run by Mr Cheney between 1995 and 2000 - as putting out fires at oil wells during the conflict. Analysts say that in foreign affairs, Mr Cheney has been the main White House bridge between the Pentagon and the State Department - although he is thought to lean more towards the Pentagon. Aide to Bush senior As defence secretary under George Bush senior, he planned and co-ordinated the 1991 campaign along with Colin Powell, now secretary of state. He later left the political limelight to run Halliburton between 1995 and 2000. On returning to politics, he was charged with developing a national energy policy as the head of an Energy Task Force commissioned by the president. Born in Nebraska, Mr Cheney grew up in Casper, Wyoming. He won a scholarship to Yale but dropped out after a few terms and returned to Wyoming. Mr Cheney later returned to college to get a masters at the University of Wyoming. He became a political staffer in 1969, and six years later was appointed chief of staff in President Gerald Ford's White House - at the age of 34 he was the youngest person to have held the position. His career then took him to Congress, where he became a staunch Reagan supporter before taking the job of defence secretary under George Bush senior. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/...cas/3007929.stm Published: 2003/05/07 14:46:39

Looks like Bush will once again just be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

	07-05-2003 20:26									#2
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He's trying to keep things open for his brother in 2008. They're trying to create a dynasty. Hopefully Bush and Cheney will be back in the private sector in 2004.

	07-05-2003 20:28									#3
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Hopefully, that phantom pretzel will rear it's ugly head again.

Modern medicine can only keep Cheney going for so long.

	07-05-2003 21:47									#4
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For the liberals, would you prefer a (brighter, less popular, more conservative) Cheney in power? Or would you rather have Bush-boy in there. Or is it like being asked which eye to shove a railroad spike in?

	07-05-2003 21:50									#5
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Cheney is in power. But yeah, it's more like the RR spike. And not liking Bush doesn't automatically make you a liberal.

	07-05-2003 21:53									#6
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Forget you liberals, Bush will win reelection. Your hopes are far off and unrealistic. So far there is not one democrat that poses even a remote possibility in defeating Bush. Thumbs up to Cheney.

	07-05-2003 21:57									#7
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Bush couldn't even beat Gore in an election. You think that he'll beat a better candidate who isn't an absolute bore?? Especially after the loss of 2.7 million jobs on his watch, a stagnant economy, record deficits, and the lies leading up to Iraq? If anything, the Democratic primaries will simply be a "Who will beat Bush" election.

Fez, you should really leave American politics to the people who live in the country and know what's going on. Your opinion is dually noted, but it's grossly irrelevant.

	09-05-2003 00:23									#8
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Bush should just pick Boris Yeltsin as his running mate and be done with it.

	09-05-2003 00:45									#9
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Sava, it will be the next 18 months that determines the election, not the last. Always seems to work that way...

	09-05-2003 00:50									#10
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I think Bush will be beatable, if either the economy gets worse (or doesn't get better) or(/and?) the democrats can get a good candidate (though frankly I'm a little uninspired by the selection so far )

	09-05-2003 00:52									#11
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Uhhh... Sava... Bush did beat Gore in the election.
Remember, the popular vote doesn't mean squat

If the economy has any kind of upward movement before the next election, Bush will look pretty good.
If the economy stays in the dumps... the Dems still have to find somebody the people like... and they sure haven't found anybody yet that a majority of Dems will support.

So Sava... it's a matter of opinion at this point, and nothing else

	09-05-2003 00:57									#12
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quote: and they sure haven't found anybody yet that a majority of Dems will support.

...whose name isn't Bill Clinton or George Bush .

	09-05-2003 01:10									#13
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quote: Uhhh... Sava... Bush did beat Gore in the election. Remember, the popular vote doesn't mean squat

so says Chief Justice Rhenquist (sp?)

	09-05-2003 01:13									#14
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Thats another thing that blows in this country - the electoral college and the system rigged so that only two parties have a viable option of winning.

	09-05-2003 01:15									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia Thats another thing that blows in this country - the electoral college and the system rigged so that only two parties have a viable option of winning.

sorry but we can't have people who aren't funded by corporate America getting elected...

	09-05-2003 01:20									#16
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quote: so says Chief Justice Rhenquist

Um no... so says the vote. Remember the recounts done by the papers? If the recount would have gone on as planned, Bush would have won.

The court simply said enough is enough. There were equal protection violations in the voting (agreed upon by SEVEN justices) and five said because the Florida Safe-Harbor provision says the vote had to be certified by the date of the SC opinion, the pre-recount vote should be declared official. The four in the minority said Florida should get another week to fix the equal protection problems and do an entirly new recount. Of course that might have ran smack against the safe-harbor law.

	09-05-2003 01:22									#17
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quote: Bush would have won.

create a thread if u want to lose an argument about this

	09-05-2003 01:26									#18
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There will be a decent candidate. Plenty of these guys have more stature than Clinton had.

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hopefully they can keep mr happy in the cage

	09-05-2003 01:47									#20
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Sava: No, the recount would have been in Bushes favor even the San Fransisco Comical...er... Chronical gave in on that point. The funny part was that the only one out of the dozens of different methods for not counting or counting miss votes (Remember dimpled chads, and hanging chads, and pregnant Chads?) that would have resulted in a Gore victory was the first method originally put forward by Bush's team (and shot down by Gore's team).

Gore could have won right off the bat if he had more savvy advisors.

BTW Jefford is still looking like my favorite Dem. candidate even if he does keep putting his foot in his mouth.

	09-05-2003 02:16									#21
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I was right! No way **** would give up the power he has.

I wish more than anything else (even more than world peace) that Bush lose the next election, but I won;t make any predictions. What is interesting is that IF Bush wins, this puts the Rep.s in a strange place for 2008, since Cheney is as likely to be elected president as Al Sharpton, and probalby would not run.

	09-05-2003 02:17									#22
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quote: even the San Fransisco Comical...er... Chronical gave

I've heard it called the Moronical, but never the Comical.. I like that.

	09-05-2003 02:29									#23
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I heard a guy in Mendocino call it that once and I've remembered it ever since.

	09-05-2003 02:45									#24
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quote: Originally posted by GePap I wish more than anything else (even more than world peace) that Bush lose the next election

Wouldn't one begat the other in your opinion?