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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (11976)2/14/2006 7:53:10 PM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541518
 
According to a recent Newsweek poll only 29% believe Cheney is honest and ethical...

huffingtonpost.com

<<...Now is the autumn of Bush’s discontent, according to the NEWSWEEK poll, taken by phone of 1,002 Americans over Thursday and Friday nights. The president can take some solace in the fact that 42 percent of Americans believe he is honest and ethical. Only 29 percent believe that Vice President Dick Cheney is. And more than a quarter of Republicans, 26 percent, believe the vice president is not honest and ethical. The growing credibility gap could have ramifications across the president’s agenda: 56 percent of Americans say Bush “won’t be able to get much done;” only 36 percent say he “can be effective.”...>>



To: ChinuSFO who wrote (11976)2/14/2006 7:57:55 PM
From: MrLucky  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 541518
 
Instead he tried to hide behind the "priviledge of the VP" excuse

And where is that written?

BTW, I'm not defending Cheney. Based on what little I know, the local press should have been notified more promptly, after the local police did their work.

AFAIC, the WH press corps are a bunch of ego-driven hacks who need to be informed last a lot more often.