Randi talking about the Cheney "Parka Photo" right now!

Good stuff... :D

There is a photo making the rounds here in GD right now. Classless prick, that's all I can say.

the forum you're posting in.... ;-)

I think DU should get credit for this story! :)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3015613&mesg_id=3015613

http://www.airamericaradio.com/weblogs/alfrankenshow/

you can get a close look at the whole ensemble, including the lace up hiking boots

"i draw the line at fashion crimes" lmao!

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43247-2005Jan27.html

The freepers are blowing chunks today like yesterday. My guess is that the phone calls will be very interesting. Also it's Randi's birthday today.

At the end of the Al Franken Show Katherine Lanpher mentioned that it was Randi's birthday and Al just says, "Oh God." Joe Conason was on the show and he wished Randi a Happy Birthday, as did Lanpher, but Franken was conspicuosly silent.

I don't think there's a problem with them.

and Randi thanked Al for his autographed card to her.

happy birthday - right as their show started

You know that if Clinton did this, Rush would be exploding right now.

Clinton has more compassion and taste in his earlobe than heart-less, class-less Cheney will ever know.

The Right would have taken the one frame of video during the day where he may have had the slightest smirk on his face, distort it and claim he was "laughing at Auschwitz." They used to do that crap to him all the time, and still do.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3020938
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...in that photo. Let's call him Forrest Gumption.

Cheney has NO CLASS, neither does his disgusting wife!

wtf?

I must be missing something

it's not that he's wearing a parka but he's at freaking AUSCHWITZ.

He looks like my grandfather about to shovel his sidewalk.

He's wearing HIKING boots for shits sake, and a hat that has cursive embroidery on it. Look at everyone else -- decked out in black, completely formal wear.

but I guarantee you there has to be suitable outerwear that offers just as much warmth as a parka. Face it, he looked like he was decked out for a photo-op, which he was.

and I have enough damn sense to dress appropriately for somber occasions! Cheney was just being an arrogant ass as always.

he is the vice pres of the usa! It really is possible to get a dark wool and lined coat..and suitable but warm hat and boots to wear. If he is so old and feeble that he cannot do these minimal things in his representation of his country, then he is too old and feeble to be the vice president.

I would imagine that there are warm overcoats that would protect his health and show a sense of respect for the dead.

doh

Is that what you're missing?

would have done just as well. He just didn't care enough to think it through.

Cheney was appropriately attired for his inauguration ceremony.

Why couldn't he at least look like he cared about this event and give it the solemn respect it deserved.

If he's too sick to wear appropriate attire to a solemn function, he's too sick to be VP. Additionally, don't even friggin tell me he couldn't find a nice, warm, appropriate overcoat to wear instead. He's a multimillionaire, I'm sure he can afford a nice warm overcoat. Fuck that. It's bullshit and it's insulting and he did it on purpose.

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Just where is his protocol officer? You know at this level you should have an aide to instruct you in what is expected, where. Who is his protocol officer? I'd be looking for a new one.

and somebody was fired over it.

There is no way Cheney would have done that on purpose.

Somebody on his staff messed up "big time".

Completely naive and arrogant enough to not know how to address for such an occasion, maybe, but I don't believe he had a bad advisor.

they would've trotted out that explanation at the time. Nope, this one isn't "bad staffing" other than the fact that Cheney's staff are either too afraid or too stupid to point out to him that he ought to wear something more appropriate.

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They inform their charges on who is who, related to whom, how to approach, what to say, names and ages of children, how to greet, what to wear, what not to say.

And everyone has one on foreign trips, or when they are posted overseas. Or if they don't, they're stupid.

No one who has the job of protocol officer to the VP would be that stupid or that incompetent. This is elementary. And even if, in some alternate universe, one of his lackeys didn't know better, how many State functions and funerals has Cheney attended over the years? More than one could count. He knows the drill.

Even, given that Cheney's an evil POS, I don't think he's senile. He knows what's appropriate attire. No....he's giving Auschwitz victims, Europe, and the American people the finger. He did it on purpose!

this is just silly. I absolutely despise cheney but this is just stupid, childish even.

move on to something worthwile other than what friggin jacket somebody is wearing. Makes ya look like knee-jerk reactionary thugs.

IMHO

the gloves are off. Sorry, this was a somber occasion and Cheney looked like he was dressed for a fucking ski trip. Silly or not, it's symbolic of what little respect this administration has for anything and anybody.

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Protocol officers exist to make sure that Americans are not embarrassed overseas and to keep the foreign press off our backs, to make friends and influence people.

I am sorry if it is not worth your time, but I guarantee you it is worth America's time. To disrespect an occasion such as this and the country it is held in is very serious for the image and diplomacy of our country.

I imagine the foreign press will be commenting on the stupid Americans.

"Protocol officers exist to make sure that Americans are not embarrassed overseas."

dude...the world alreay hates us and we cant be any more embarrassed than we are now....in no particular order

-we illegally invaded a soverign nation
-we illegally hold and torture people
-we support dictators
-we overthrow democratically elected governments
-we wont sign the land mine treaty
-we are wanting to create mini-nukes to use
-we wont send our share due to the UN

I could go on all day..

One stupid coat doesnt compare to any of the above.

meaningful talks to. And then he insults them. Mock their solemn occasions. Way to go.

This incident is perfectly emblematic of the "Diplomacy is for pussies" attitude of this administration. The chimp and all of the lesser apes believe that they are too exalted to be concerned with appearances; and if the entire civilized world just happens to find their behavior inappropriate, well they can just fuck off.

It's not knee-jerk to expect that our elected (sic) officials have some class when they go abroad.

And another thing....

I'm old enough to remember President and Mrs. Kennedy. Jackie ALWAYS carried herself with class and dignity, even in the midst of her grief after the assassination. Comes from good breeding, I suppose. And JFK, likewise.

Cheney is just a coarse, crude, gutter rat. What can we expect?

One wonders if that "depression look" on their faces has to do only with their coming face-to-face with the horrendous history of auschwitz, or if in coming face-to-face with that horrendous history in auschwitz they realize that they are facing the horrific history of their 'don't care about human kind' power grab in Iraq; the thousands of killings that have been committed in his name as VP of an oil power grab administration; a sniff of the truth about who they really are .. a knowing that he is just as much a killer of human beings (fallujah, the occupation of iraq, the forced elections, etc) as hitler was...history hit the cheneys in the face... but is it that they are looking at their own murdereous history of horrors? is it their own murdering 'i will get what i want no matter how' history that is hitting them in the face in those parka pictures, i wonder.

That is all.

Just my opinion, naturally.

protective bodysuit.

that the 60th anniversary of auschwitz's liberation calls for a level of dress more formal than ice fishing.

cheney knew.

also stayed there. They didn't have parkas and boots, overcoats, dress shoes, hats. Cheney is just reprehensible.

Didn't they have those heaters for the outdoors? Why does he need to dress like a classless outdoorsmen going ice fishing? It's great to dress like this when you are going hiking or hunting, but to a solemn occasion?

...then this is the only appropriate alternative.



Caption: Painful Memories : A concentration camp survivor wipes away tears during a ceremony at the former Nazi deathcamp, Auschwitz in Birkeneau, Poland on January 27.

Photo Credit: Katarina Stoltz, Reuters

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