{"id":2068,"date":"2004-07-06T12:53:46","date_gmt":"2004-07-06T17:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2068.html"},"modified":"2004-07-06T12:53:46","modified_gmt":"2004-07-06T17:53:46","slug":"he-can-get-along-with-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/he-can-get-along-with-others\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;He can get along with others&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing some research on the period immediately before and after Bush chose Cheney as his running mate four years ago and I came across an amusing quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The thing that distinguishes Dick Cheney is that he can get along with others. He&#8217;s a persuasive person. He can&#8217;t stand the politics that divides people into camps and pits people against each other.&#8221; &#8212; George W. Bush, July 26, 2000<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess Cheney can stand divisive politics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A3699-2004Jun24.html\">a little better now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A brief argument between Vice President Cheney and a senior Democratic senator led Cheney to utter a big-time obscenity on the Senate floor this week. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Cheney, serving in his role as president of the Senate, appeared in the chamber for a photo session. A chance meeting with Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (Vt.), the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, became an argument about Cheney&#8217;s ties to Halliburton Co., an international energy services corporation, and President Bush&#8217;s judicial nominees. The exchange ended when Cheney offered some crass advice. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;F&#8212; yourself,&#8221; said the man who is a heartbeat from the presidency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing some research on the period immediately before and after Bush chose Cheney as his running mate four years ago and I came across an amusing quote: &#8220;The thing that distinguishes Dick Cheney is that he can get along with others. He&#8217;s a persuasive person. He can&#8217;t stand the politics that divides people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}