"Dead-Eye Dick's" Dark and Dangerous Influence

[Bob T]

* “DEAD-EYE DICK’S” DARK AND DANGEROUS INFLUENCE

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Dear Thirsters:

The following essay arrived on the evening of November 6, just two days after the election. It is by Thirster at Willamette University GREG FELKER, political scientist and Thailand specialist. To back up his essay, Greg provides the link to a deeply documented article in the New York Review of Books, about the subterranean influence of the guileful Richard Bruce Cheney on the guileless George Walker Bush.

I concur with Greg’s essay, and find the New York Review article to be 95% credible, and well worth your time to read. I believe future historians will rate Mr. Bush as the worst and most destructive president in American history, and will attribute much of his failure to the huge dark influence of Mr. Cheney. However, this cannot happen UNLESS citizen pressure TODAY forces Mr. Cheney’s records to be archived for use by posterity in the usual way – a pressure that “Dead-Eye Dick” is currently resisting.

Let me know if I am wrong on either score. This is a deadly serious matter.

Thanks, Greg!

Best,
Bob
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BY GREG FELKER:

Bob,

We can see the dawn, but our long national nightmare is not yet fully over. That nightmare's most frightening aspect is not any of the monstrosities of abuse of power we have seen, but rather the haunting, dim consciousness of how much our government has done and does without our knowledge. Can accountability and checks on the will to power be restored? It is a government ostensibly of, by, and for the people, yet such a notion is plainly despised by the individual who, according to this disturbing piece in the New York Review of Books, has actually ruled us for the last eight years. I speak not of Bush, but of the dark star around which the Administration actually revolved, that Machiavellian paranoiac from the Wyoming plains: "the Angler".

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22060

Greg