{"id":2386,"date":"2008-02-10T16:11:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T22:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-dark-lord-speaks-2\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T16:13:48","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T22:13:48","slug":"the-dark-lord-speaks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-dark-lord-speaks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Lord Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepage.time.com\/transcript-of-cheneys-speech-to-cpac\/\">The Page &#8211; by Mark Halperin &#8211; TIME<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>REMARKS BY THE VICE PRESIDENT AT THE CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL ACTION CONFERENCE<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/markhalperin.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/cheneycpac.jpg\" alt=\"dick!\" align='left' \/>President Bush has been tough and courageous. He\u2019s made the right decisions for the right reasons, and he always reflects the best values of the American people. I\u2019ve been proud to stand by him and by the decisions he\u2019s made. And I would support those same \u2014 and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"highlight\">would I support those same decisions again today? You\u2019re damn right I would. (Applause.)<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The important thing to remember, six and a half years after 9\/11, is that the war on terror is still real, that it won\u2019t be won on the defensive, and that we have to proceed on many fronts at the same time. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[W]hen the last chapter is written, it\u2019ll be said that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"highlight\">our nation became more prosperous and more secure because George W. Bush was President of these United States. (Applause.)<\/span>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cheney At CPAC: Would I Do It Again? &#8220;You&#8217;re Damn Right I Would&#8221; &#8211; Politics on The Huffington Post<\/p>\n<p>The crowd was adoring. There was a standing ovation as Cheney entered, and a woman shouting: &#8220;We Love You!&#8221; Attendees clamored for a good &#8220;Cheney shot,&#8221; with one young conservative pumping his fist after catching an unobstructed wide lens take of the Vice President on his camera.<\/p>\n<p>And they got some red meat. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The crowd loved it, and him. As Cheney said upon entering the room to a grand applause:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A welcome like that is almost enough to make me want to run for office again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/02\/07\/cheney-at-cpac-would-i-d_n_85514.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Page &#8211; by Mark Halperin &#8211; TIME REMARKS BY THE VICE PRESIDENT AT THE CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL ACTION CONFERENCE President Bush has been tough and courageous. He\u2019s made the right decisions for the right reasons, and he always reflects the best values of the American people. I\u2019ve been proud to stand by him and by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-dark-lord-speaks-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Dark Lord Speaks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}