Scripting News: The Bushes are scaring me

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The Bushes are scaring me

Have you been following the world travels of Vice-President Cheney?

What the hell is he doing?

It's beginning to remind me of the waning days of the Nixon presidency, when the administration had been whittled down to Nixon, Kissinger, Alexander Haig and not much else. At some point it stopped feeling like they were officers of a great country, and rather individuals, desperate to recall the trappings of power, and the harder they try, the more they reveal how alone they are. But it's scary, because whether or not they've lost their gravitas, they still have the power to blow up the world.

NY Times: "A suicide bomber blew himself up this morning outside the main gate of the United States military base at Bagram while Vice President Dick Cheney was inside the base. Mr. Cheney was not hurt in the attack."

Then Condoleeza Rice compares Saddam Hussein to Adolf Hitler. That's so over the top. She talks about "Chapter 7" as if we know what that means. Sounds like a special form of bankruptcy, but I doubt that's what it means. She's so incredibly dishonest, it's better to assume that everything she says is a lie than to try to sort out the truth from the lies.

Last update: Thursday, June 3, 2010; 4:00:32 PM

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Dave Winer, 55, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in New York City.

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