{"id":57,"date":"2006-10-10T07:18:55","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T11:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/10\/i-don%e2%80%99t-like-dick-cheney-and-it%e2%80%99s-not-helpful\/"},"modified":"2006-10-10T07:18:55","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T11:18:55","slug":"i-dont-like-dick-cheney-and-its-not-helpful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"I Don\u2019t Like Dick Cheney&#8230; and It\u2019s not Helpful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script language=\"JavaScript\" src=\"http:\/\/hostingprod.com\/js_source\/geov2.js\"><\/script><script language=\"javascript\">geovisit();<\/script><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"GRBJ0568.gif\" alt=\"GRBJ0568.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/images\/grbj\/GRBJ0568.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Originally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Business Journal,<\/em> October 2, 2006<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Dick Cheney has stopped in Michigan a couple of times recently campaigning for local GOP candidates. I don\u2019t like Dick Cheney. There. I said it. And I mean it. I really, really don\u2019t like the guy. Let the search engines spread the word: John Auchter does not like Dick Cheney.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">It\u2019s nothing personal. No&#8230; wait, maybe it is personal. I suppose it could be. With such a laundry list of reasons, it\u2019s definitely possible for personal reasons to be in there. It\u2019s hard to tell. I put Cheney somewhere in between Donald Rumsfeld (whose gross incompetence and deflection of responsibility infuriates me, although he has never\u00a0&#8212; thank God\u00a0&#8212; personally sent me to war without proper equipment) and Mike Greenlace (who was my caddymaster at Warwick Hills in 1977 and was a mean, patronizing, jerk-face SOB).<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I guess what I\u2019m trying to say is that I have a healthy dislike for the current vice president even though I might not be able to quantify it completely. It\u2019s a righteous dislike. I\u2019m entitled to it. There\u2019s nothing wrong with it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">However, at a certain point even a vigorous and justified dislike can start to cloud judgment. For instance, when the whole &#8220;ABC 9\/11 docudrama blaming the Clinton Administration for failing to stop the terrorist attacks&#8221; broke, my very first reaction was to defend the actions of Bill Clinton. Not because it\u2019s a good idea to reflexively defend the actions of Bill Clinton (um, it isn\u2019t), but because it was the opposite view of a certain Mr. Cheney. I had no idea what the 9\/11 commission had said about this subject or what the actual truth was. But I was willing to call into talk radio and try to sound like I did.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">So that\u2019s what I was trying to say with the comic: Dislikes are fine but not typically helpful when clear thought is needed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Well, that and the fact that I really, really, really don\u2019t like Dick Cheney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, October 2, 2006 Dick Cheney has stopped in Michigan a couple of times recently campaigning for local GOP candidates. I don\u2019t like Dick Cheney. There. I said it. And I mean it. I really, really don\u2019t like the guy. Let the search engines spread the word: John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-rapids-business-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}