Cheney says despite Christmas card, U.S. does not see itself as an empire

Cheney says despite Christmas card, U.S. does not see itself as an empire

Saturday, January 24, 2004



(01-24) 13:11 PST DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) --

Asked on Saturday whether he considered the United States to be an empire, Vice President Dick Cheney had the perfect dodge: Ask my wife.

Lynne Cheney was responsible, the vice president said, for the quote from Benjamin Franklin on the family Christmas card: "If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?"

"That quote was selected by my wife," Cheney told the man who asked the question after Cheney's speech at the World Economic Forum. "She would have to explain why it was on the Christmas card."

The quote reflects Franklin's musing over the importance of God in the affairs of men, the vice president said. "It did not refer, or should not be taken as some kind of indication, that the United States today sees itself as an empire."
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/01/24/international1606EST0594.DTL

Don't you know we will not tolerate anyone even _attempting_ to grow to threaten out hegemony?

Excuse me now, I got a date with the Harkonens...we've got to get things dune.

she has that "evil look" in her eyes...Never trust anyone like her and her "plastic" smile..But, that entire misadministration has that same look..wonder if they went to the same "LIE" school!

that first husband/wife interview. They didn't blink, and kept their eyes glued to the interviewer(don't remember who). Truly unnatural.

She is an integral part of the PNAC accord. She also heads up a site call NGO Watch that watches non-governmental organizations and maligns the ones that don't follow the US mantra of empire. She is one crazy witch.

Jazzgirl:mad:

over their own crimes...on the same day that the press is reporting a SIX MILLION DOLLAR BRIBE ! taken by cheney's haliburton employees in Iraq.....and the press reported cheney's vacation and dinner with the Supreme Court Justice, who will soon hear cheney's case about hiding OUR papers from the U.S. Government energy meetings because enron and other thieves were there....

don't let up on these criminals...KEEP FIGHTING !!!

their ship is sinking and the rats are jumping off....

There have been such things, you know. What a squirrelly phrase.

They have no concept of anything maybe thats why she tried to do away with shuting down the arts projects

on edit: They are all culturally illiterate

which threw Christians to the lions for "entertainment"?

'United States sees itself as an empire.' He knows most people in this country don't want that. Only PNAC and its supporters.

So is Dick saying he didn't see the cards or that he didn't pay attention to what Lynne had put on them? He expects us to believe that, coming from an administration that considers the political significance of every communication? What a weenie.

the STUPIDEST thing I have ever heard of putting on a Christmas card. Even on a generic "holiday card." Do these people even know what a Christmas card is for, or what it represents? Their ignorance of religion and culture and complete lack of sensitivity confound me. They seem capable only of understanding money and power and how to ruthlessly grab as much as possible of each before they die.

...before the Constitutional Convention that the members begin each session with prayer, officiated by a member of the clergy. And, in his own notes about the motion, Franklin observed that only three or four members of the entire convention were in favor of prayers. Yet, in 1892, the Supreme Court included his words in its argument that the United States is a Christian nation.

The fight to keep our government secular has been going on a long, long time.

Cheney blames his wife for this.

...James Baker takes the credit.