Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Win Smith who wrote (125989)	12/2/2009 8:12:39 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541054

The mystery is that Cheney has been through this process before. As chief of staff in Gerald Ford's White House, he was in charge of the transition to the Jimmy Carter team after Ford narrowly lost in 1976. Anyone who dealt with him then was impressed by his openness, his awareness of continuing national interest, his lack of bitterness -- and overall his resemblance to the George W. Bush of 2009. Whenever I read comments like this about Cheney, I'm reminded of Brent Scowcroft's similar comment. When asked to offer a comparison between the Cheney he worked with in the first Bush WH and the Cheney as VP, Scowcroft said something like he really didn't know this Cheney nor know what happened to the old Dick Cheney, the one he much preferred.