{"id":990,"date":"2011-09-08T19:59:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T00:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/?p=990"},"modified":"2011-09-08T19:59:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T00:59:06","slug":"dick-cheney-shares-his-vast-knowledge-of-the-automotive-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"Dick Cheney Shares His Vast Knowledge of the Automotive Industry…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Originally published in the Grand Rapids Press<\/em>,\u00a0September 3,\u00a02011<\/p>\n

It seems the only words used when describing Dick Cheney are either \u201clove\u201d or \u201chate.\u201d (A step up, I suppose, for what passes for public discourse these days, which is generally just \u201chate.\u201d) For me, it\u2019s \u201cdisappointment.\u201d Cheney was an integral part of the Ford administration, and I guess I have always hoped some more of Gerald Ford would have rubbed off on him. You know, the part about being an intelligent, fair-minded, approachable, thoughtful person. (Same goes for Donald Rumsfeld.)
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\nSo Mr. Cheney has written a memoir and in the book he opines about the automaker bailouts, specifically General Motors. He didn\u2019t write exactly what I have in the first panel — I rearranged the order — but they are all his words.<\/p>\n

What bothered me was the hypocrisy. Not so much the Halliburton thing (let\u2019s face it, that\u2019s the low hanging fruit). More his shtick as a man above it all — that nobody else could possibly understand all that he knows and has experienced and so it is not worth his time to answer questions or be accountable. Which might just be true in a lot of areas, but seriously, what does Dick Cheney really know about the automotive industry? I would say very little if he claims to have been willing in 2008 to let it implode just to make an ideological point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally published in the Grand Rapids Press,\u00a0September 3,\u00a02011 It seems the only words used when describing Dick Cheney are either \u201clove\u201d or \u201chate.\u201d (A step up, I suppose, for what passes for public discourse these days, which is generally just \u201chate.\u201d) For me, it\u2019s \u201cdisappointment.\u201d Cheney was an integral part of the Ford administration, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-rapids-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","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=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}