--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@>
> wrote:
> <snip>
> > Thanks- great summary in the 2003 article of Cheney. I tend
> > to trust common sense a great deal, and there's just gotta be
> > something seriously wrong with someone who obsessively kills
> > small animals to relax...
>
> My mother developed a deep, primal loathing for
> Cheney right at the start of the the 2000 campaign,
> which kind of surprised my sister and me. We
> didn't like him, goodness knows, but we didn't quite
> see why she was so passionately against him. We
> couldn't get her to be specific about why, other
> than the way his mouth twisted on one side.
>
> But she apparently sensed something about him she
> couldn't articulate that my sister and I missed, at
> least before he got into office. But it wasn't
> long after that that we started congratulating her
> on her intution.
>
> She died (at the age of 93) shortly before the
> hunting incident; my sister and I were very annoyed
> that it hadn't happened while she was still alive,
> because she would have enjoyed it immensely.
>
> (Not the old guy getting shot in the face, obviously,
> but Cheney's embarrassment.)
>
Sounds like a really fun person- your Mom I mean. I enjoy the
effortless wisdom that older (everything's relative, right?) people
have. Being around for that long, they just *know* stuff, and they
don't mind sharing it.
