Yes, this is a scary picture!
Actually, looking at this picture reminded me of something. Dick Cheney ran as not-the-president. His entire shtick was to not be the president. And looking at his face, his presence behind the president, and his in-office behavior has encouraged this connection:
Do you remember the kid in school that acted up? Do you remember what was said about him/her? That s/he came from an abusive family, was often neglected or locked out of the house and that this young person was just seeking attention. And in the pursuit of attention, negative attention is better than no attention at all. Now think about this administration.
As the Bush/Cheney junta is coming to its end, soliciting funds for a presidential library, and focusing on legacy issues amid the worst approval ratings ever, there is one sick thought: Bush and Cheney will be immortalized.
Yes, when new monuments are erected neither name will grace them (except the sewage plant in San Francisco) and nobody will ever confuse Bush with Washington, Lincoln, or Roosevelt, but in desperate times, infamy might be mightier than fame.
The unitary executive, the most scandalous, unconstitutional things to come along in centuries was dubbed by Frontline as "Cheney's Law". These two idiots won't just be lame Trivial Pursuit questions, or #43 in a list of presidents which all run together. They get their own space in the presidential and vice presidential halls of fame. They get exhibits with such paraphernalia as a torn Bill of Rights, a young Supreme Court justice's glasses, and blood-soaked hands. Bush will be remembered. We forget that not everyone wants to be the hero of the story--often being the villain is an uncontested road to immortality.
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