Dick Cheney, Master of Denial
By Ben Cohen
The ability of Dick Cheney to convince himself he has done nothing wrong during his 8 years of disastrous tenure is nothing short of amazing. From Slate:
In an ever-escalating game of chicken between the executive branch and
the rest of the world, Vice President Dick Cheney wants you to
understand that he has done nothing wrong over the past eight years. In
fact, to hear him tell it to Chris Wallace on
,
we are all safer for his infallibility in the face of our own
complacency. His liberal critics, for their part, answer Cheney's moral
certainty by continuing to vigorously debate all the reasons to let him
off the hook. What other possible response can there be to all that
bristling manliness? History will remember Dick Cheney as the man who
managed to make President George W. Bush
.
