By Scott Hogenson | July 7, 2008
Philadelphia (CNSNews.com) – In an effort to drive up the negative perception of presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee Dick Cheney, Democrats rolled out an attack ad Sunday as part of the $3.5 million television campaign against Cheney and presumptive GOP presidential nominee George W. Bush.
The ad attacking Cheney looks at portions of Cheney’s voting record in Congress two decades ago. Observers in Philadelphia, home of the Republican National Convention, said it was unprecedented for one party to run attack ads on television while the other party was in the process of nominating their presidential candidate.
Jacobin
BY CHIP GIBBONS
– “Dick Cheney Should Be in Jail, Not Praised as a Hero by Democrats”
“Dick Cheney is an enemy of democracy in America and a war criminal. His warm reception on the floor of Congress by Democrats yesterday at the January 6 Capitol riot commemoration was shameful and disgusting…
…Numerous Democrats reportedly walked over to Cheney to shake his hand.
I find it difficult to put into words how shameful venerating Cheney like this is by anyone, much less the country’s supposed left-wing party — and it’s particularly jarring given that Cheney has dedicated his career to attacking democracy, the very thing the ceremony was supposedly in opposition to.
It’s necessary to remember a bit of history here. Cheney was the most powerful vice president in US history. He is most remembered for his role in promoting the Iraq War, an illegal war of aggression predicated on lies, as well as pushing the nation to the “dark side” after 9/11, which included torture, detention without trial (including of US citizens), warrantless surveillance, and other egregious departures from liberal norms of democracy.
All this was predicated on a shocking legal theory that gave the president sweeping wartime powers that neither Congress nor the courts could check. As they were fighting a global war with no borders, this meant that not even US citizens in the United States were safe from the wartime president’s rampages. This was illustrated by the case of José Padilla, who was arrested at the Chicago airport, declared an enemy combatant by George W. Bush, and held in a military prison for three and half years.
These are not the actions of a “defender of democracy” but of someone who constantly attacked and undermined and disregarded it. And while Cheney’s worst abuses came during the “war on terror,” they were the culminations of decades of his scheming against American democracy. Cheney’s long political career has been devoted to skirting and ignoring democratic norms however he sees fit.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dick-cheney-torches-trump-in-ad-hes-a-coward-200108029.html
My guess is the Yahoos will see that this attack ad won’t save his daughter from being relegated to the dust bin of history as a little whiny version of daddy dearest…and I suspect, there will many more favorable to Trump in 50 years if the truth is ever allowed to percolate in a free society… relative freedom survived over 2 centuries, I give it even odds.