http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/31/palin-laughs-as-opponent_n_122776.html
Good christian values at play
Good christian values at play
Why? Did you know Dick Cheney left his job as CEO of Halliburton making 44 million a year to become George Bush's VP? Did you also know that ALL of his future stock options have been placed in a trust and will be donated to charity?
Dick Cheney is my kinda guy -- a self-made, selfless national treasure.
Why should President Bush and VP Cheney be thrown in jail? Because they were assholes toward our enemies?
If that's the case then I hope John McCain and Sarah Palin turn out to be even BIGGER assholes.
:toast:
Why? Did you know Dick Cheney left his post at Halliburton making 44 million a year to become George Bush's VP? Did you also know that ALL of his future stock options have been placed in a trust and will be donated to charity?
Dick Cheney is my kinda guy -- a selfless national treasure.
Why should President Bush and VP Cheney be thrown in jail? Because they were assholes toward our enemies?
If that's the case then I hope John McCain and Sarah Palin turn out to be even BIGGER assholes.
:toast:
Good lord if you believe all that shit you just shoveled it really isn't worth going on. You live behind a safe wall of delusion.
Dick Cheny gave up NOTHING. You are a damn fool JoeC. Remember who owns you? I own you.
ON "MEET THE PRESS" last Sunday, Vice President Dick Cheney said, "Since I left Halliburton to become George Bush's vice president, I've severed all my ties with the company, gotten rid of all my financial interests. I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven't had now, for over three years."
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That is the latest White House lie.
Within 48 hours, Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey pointed reporters toward Cheney's public financial disclosure sheets filed with the US Office of Government Ethics. The sheets show that in 2002, Cheney received $162,392 in deferred salary from Halliburton, the oil and military contracting company he ran before running for vice president. In 2001, Cheney received $205,298 in deferred salary from Halliburton.
The 2001 salary was more than Cheney's vice presidential salary of $198,600. Cheney also is still holding 433,333 stock options.
Flushed into the open, Cheney spokeswoman Catherine Martin said the vice president will continue to receive about $150,000 a year from Halliburton in 2003, 2004, and 2005. If President bush wins a second term, that means Cheney will make at least $800,000 from the company while sitting in office.
Martin said the payments did not represent a lie. She said Cheney had already earned that salary. She said Cheney took out an insurance policy that would guarantee the money would be paid to him no matter what happened to the company.
Five years ago, America was in a tizzy over President Clinton's "That depends on what the meaning of is, is." That was over lying about sex. For that, Clinton was impeached. Now, we have a vice president who tells America he has severed his ties even as his umbilical cord doubles his salary. To him, it depends what the meaning of i$, i$.
We know what the meaning of i$, i$ to Halliburton. It is by far the largest beneficiary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. With no-bid, no-ceiling contracts, the company has already amassed $2 billion in work. It is doing everything from restoring oil facilities to providing toilets for troops. A year ago Halliburton was staring at nearly a half-billion dollars in losses. In the second quarter of 2003 it posted a profit of $26 million.
No conflict of interest has been proven between Cheney's salary and Halliburton's Iraq work, but even before the invasion and occupation, Cheney's concern about the public's perception led to years of deception.
In the summer of 2000, he told Larry King that quitting Halliburton for the vice presidency means "I take a bath." He gave up a $1.3 million annual salary, but most people would have settled for mere shower droplets of his $33 million "retirement" package. By strange coincidence, at the time of the Republican National Convention, Halliburton gave about $280,000 to Republican candidates for office in the first half of 2000. It gave less than $10,000 to Democrats.
At the time, Cheney said: "I will take whatever steps I have to take to avoid any conflict of interest. That is to say, by the time I'm sworn in on January 20, I will have eliminated any possibility that I have a continuing financial interest in Halliburton stock or share price. . . . I will do whatever I have to do to guarantee that there's no conflict."
Cheney has set up the 433,333 stock options in a charitable trust. But his whole vice presidency has been a general conflict of interest, symbolized by his secret industrial society known as the Energy Task Force. Cheney has resisted all efforts by the General Accounting Office and advocacy groups to provide documents that detail the proceedings of the task force. In the two and a half years since the task force was convened, the White House has been on a rampage to slash or gut environmental measures.
Cheney's latest attempt to play Americans for fools came in the very same interview during which he was forced to say "I did misspeak" about Saddam Hussein having nuclear weapons, a falsehood that whipped up support for the invasion. The question is how many more misspeaks and lies Americans will tolerate. Back when Clinton was in trouble, Cheney's wife, Lynne, said, "The Clintons are very good at defining and creating new realities that are based not on absolute truths, but on what they believe to be true at any given moment."
Clinton will be forever tarnished for "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." Dick Cheney's continuing salary from the top profiteer of an invasion fueled by his sexed-up claims of Saddam Hussein's weapons is the creation of a new, mad reality. Cheney has said in so many words, "I did not have financial relations with Halliburton." Americans must determine whether that lie is as sexy as lies about sex. With nearly 300 American soldiers dead, one would hope so.
Derrick Z. Jackson's e-mail address is jackson@globe.com.
© Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company.
ON "MEET THE PRESS" last Sunday, Vice President Dick Cheney said, "Since I left Halliburton to become George Bush's vice president, I've severed all my ties with the company, gotten rid of all my financial interests. I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven't had now, for over three years."
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<!------ End OAS MJX Ad tag ------></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>That is the latest White House lie.
Within 48 hours, Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey pointed reporters toward Cheney's public financial disclosure sheets filed with the US Office of Government Ethics. The sheets show that in 2002, Cheney received $162,392 in deferred salary from Halliburton, the oil and military contracting company he ran before running for vice president. In 2001, Cheney received $205,298 in deferred salary from Halliburton.
The 2001 salary was more than Cheney's vice presidential salary of $198,600. Cheney also is still holding 433,333 stock options.
Flushed into the open, Cheney spokeswoman Catherine Martin said the vice president will continue to receive about $150,000 a year from Halliburton in 2003, 2004, and 2005. If President bush wins a second term, that means Cheney will make at least $800,000 from the company while sitting in office.
Martin said the payments did not represent a lie. She said Cheney had already earned that salary. She said Cheney took out an insurance policy that would guarantee the money would be paid to him no matter what happened to the company.
Five years ago, America was in a tizzy over President Clinton's "That depends on what the meaning of is, is." That was over lying about sex. For that, Clinton was impeached. Now, we have a vice president who tells America he has severed his ties even as his umbilical cord doubles his salary. To him, it depends what the meaning of i$, i$.
We know what the meaning of i$, i$ to Halliburton. It is by far the largest beneficiary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. With no-bid, no-ceiling contracts, the company has already amassed $2 billion in work. It is doing everything from restoring oil facilities to providing toilets for troops. A year ago Halliburton was staring at nearly a half-billion dollars in losses. In the second quarter of 2003 it posted a profit of $26 million.
No conflict of interest has been proven between Cheney's salary and Halliburton's Iraq work, but even before the invasion and occupation, Cheney's concern about the public's perception led to years of deception.
In the summer of 2000, he told Larry King that quitting Halliburton for the vice presidency means "I take a bath." He gave up a $1.3 million annual salary, but most people would have settled for mere shower droplets of his $33 million "retirement" package. By strange coincidence, at the time of the Republican National Convention, Halliburton gave about $280,000 to Republican candidates for office in the first half of 2000. It gave less than $10,000 to Democrats.
At the time, Cheney said: "I will take whatever steps I have to take to avoid any conflict of interest. That is to say, by the time I'm sworn in on January 20, I will have eliminated any possibility that I have a continuing financial interest in Halliburton stock or share price. . . . I will do whatever I have to do to guarantee that there's no conflict."
Cheney has set up the 433,333 stock options in a charitable trust. But his whole vice presidency has been a general conflict of interest, symbolized by his secret industrial society known as the Energy Task Force. Cheney has resisted all efforts by the General Accounting Office and advocacy groups to provide documents that detail the proceedings of the task force. In the two and a half years since the task force was convened, the White House has been on a rampage to slash or gut environmental measures.
Cheney's latest attempt to play Americans for fools came in the very same interview during which he was forced to say "I did misspeak" about Saddam Hussein having nuclear weapons, a falsehood that whipped up support for the invasion. The question is how many more misspeaks and lies Americans will tolerate. Back when Clinton was in trouble, Cheney's wife, Lynne, said, "The Clintons are very good at defining and creating new realities that are based not on absolute truths, but on what they believe to be true at any given moment."
Clinton will be forever tarnished for "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." Dick Cheney's continuing salary from the top profiteer of an invasion fueled by his sexed-up claims of Saddam Hussein's weapons is the creation of a new, mad reality. Cheney has said in so many words, "I did not have financial relations with Halliburton." Americans must determine whether that lie is as sexy as lies about sex. With nearly 300 American soldiers dead, one would hope so.
Derrick Z. Jackson's e-mail address is jackson@globe.com.
© Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company.
There's nothing in that article that contradicts my original statement.
But I did love this part:
arty:
So because Dick Cheney has been moving swiftly to stamp out all enviro-wacko'ism (remember, Cheney is a radical free marketer, like I am) it's a "conflict of interest" and he's done something wrong?
The left doesn't like his values and policies, so they demonize him...without a SHRED of evidence to back up their delusions.
Dick Cheney did indeed "take a bath" in order to serve his country.
Bravo, Mr. Vice President. :aktion033
You are dumber than a bag of hammers, heatohio.
But I did love this part:
arty: So because Dick Cheney has been moving swiftly to stamp out all enviro-wacko'ism (remember, Cheney is a radical free marketer, like I am) it's a "conflict of interest" and he's done something wrong?
The left doesn't like his values and policies, so they demonize him...without a SHRED of evidence to back up their delusions.
Dick Cheney did indeed "take a bath" in order to serve his country.
Bravo, Mr. Vice President. :aktion033
You are dumber than a bag of hammers, heatohio.
There's nothing in that article that contradicts my original statement.
But I did love this part:
So because Dick Cheney has been moving swiftly to stamp out all enviro-wacko'ism (remember, Cheney is a radical free marketer, like I am) it's a "conflict of interest" and he's done something wrong?
The left doesn't like his values and policies, so they demonize him...without a SHRED of evidence to back up their delusions.
Dick Cheney did indeed "take a bath" in order to serve his country.
Bravo, Mr. Vice President. :aktion033
You are dumber than a bag of hammers, heatohio.
hno: Your claim that he left his job implies that he actually cut ties, which he claimed in a national tv show. He was proven to be a liar. He was taking in money from a company that he was doing favors for. How fucking stupid do you have to be to not understand that this is a conflict of interest? As for your claims that he's donating that money, I'd highly doubt that. In fact I'd say there is no way in hell he does. If you believe that it just goes to show who I'm dealing with. No wonder it's so easy to own you in debates. I'm dealing with quite possibly the only person who may be dumber than the shit I stepped in today.
joe c is always going to take mccains side. funny though even though you can find threads where he said he will never vote for mccain. joe c is to be looked at and viewed at as a side show clown more or less.
palin is limited. went to university of idaho, idiot school. i equivalate her actions to a typical sconnie running around drunk in his pick up. should have took pawlenty
palin is limited. went to university of idaho, idiot school. i equivalate her actions to a typical sconnie running around drunk in his pick up. should have took pawlenty
Doing favors for whom? Oh, you mean the Halliburton contracts in Iraq?
The same Halliburton that was employed by the US government under Bill Clinton?
Our government does business with Halliburton. Anything else?
*yawn*
There is no conflict of interest.
It's true -- your article even partially discloses this.
That shit belongs to the dog you claim should have the same rights as humans.
:nohead:
I don't give a shit what other president used them. I'm not a democrat so you won't get me by saying that "my" guys did this or did that. They got no bid contracts and he was benefiting from it. That is a conflict of interest. If you don't know that then I don't know what to say. Oh, using toilets make someone better. Do I really need to explain why this is completely absurd?
There is no other company in the world that logistically can provide the services Halliburton does -- except maybe one in France.
Would the loony left rather we gave away all those American jobs to the French?
This "no bid contracts" talking point the loony left regurgitates over and over is laughable.
There is not a grain of truth to it WHATSOEVER.
Dick Cheney did nothing wrong -- except leave a job that was paying him millions to earn 300K as VP in the Bush administration.
Would the loony left rather we gave away all those American jobs to the French?
This "no bid contracts" talking point the loony left regurgitates over and over is laughable.
There is not a grain of truth to it WHATSOEVER.
Dick Cheney did nothing wrong -- except leave a job that was paying him millions to earn 300K as VP in the Bush administration.
