Yes Virginia there is a Character Issue
He will admit to this. Vice President Cheney's first (and second inclination) was to say nothing. Unconcerned though cognizant of the responsibility of a public servant to serve transparently. The power is the publics power. Winning an election is not buying power, it is to gain the privilege to act upon trust. To insist on privacy, raises concerns of 'private arrangements.' A public servant caught up in a question of laws and public safety
Cheney Shoots Fellow Hunter in Texas Accident . is obliged to be forthcoming. Mr. Cheney not possessed of a great deal of extraneous and expansive imagination is perhaps too close to the reality that he is not the public's servant at all, but rather the servant of the interests that have placed him where he is. Back in Holliston where I grew up. Still in those days merely one of those towns out past Framingham, and living on the outskirts of that town towards Milford at that. You could hear gunfire out in the woods most weekends. I could never tell what they were shooting at. Most likely simply nothing, but if you went around later you would find shotgun shell casings and beer cans. Generally in a one to one ratio. Same was true of the duck blind out at Forges pond in Plymouth, where we had lived previously. It has never occurred to me to doubt that shooting and drinking formed a single unified activity. Katherine Armstrong's story, would have us believe differently. Yet this sort only tells the truth - to the masses - when they have no better reason not to. When they "got no dog in the hunt," but here she had a couple of dogs in this hunt. Something Cheney said this week, other than his "l'etate, c'est moi! assertions about being able to classify and declassify information at will
The Cheney Fallout. Rather it was when he tried to remind folk he was down there in Texas without his PR flacks. In truth he panicked without them, he had no native sense of how to act, no real idea of the right thing to do, or how to behave. None at all. Ran away like a coward or little boy. At the same time the intensity of modern media scrutiny is incredidibly caustic and has the ability to strip the persona off a person who is not behind the shield wall of public relations management. It can permenantely damage psychologically an average citizen caught up in directed light of some scandal. Most politicians are hardy types at this sort of media attention and can endure short periods unaided. Mr. Cheney, apparently, is not willing to take that risk. He will direct it against others but lacks what it takes to take it. As an aside I read an essay (in the book Japanese Horror Cinema) a while back that seemed to be arguing that the point of the Ring horror movies was the inability of current (I use current to avoid saying modern or postmodern) societies to reliably create a body of stable usable persona's. Ones that can withstand impersonal technological duplication, event and material replication, without dissolving into, dissolved by, chaos, here representing one facet or element of evil. This is why I keep a copy of Lafcadio Hearn next to my Henry Adams. You gotta read 'em together.
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