Dolores Bohinsky – 10/5/04

This page was last updated on October 5, 2004.

Scary: President Cheney; Dolores Bohinsky; Beaver County Times; October 5, 2004.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“Thank goodness. According to the calendar, the name calling, lies, and backstabbing between the two presidential candidates will soon be over, much to everyone’s relief.

[RWC] Is Ms. Bohinsky kidding? The anti-Bush crowd has been name-calling, lying, and backstabbing since 1999. What makes her think it will stop after we re-elect President Bush?

“In all the letters to the editor that I have read, not one has mentioned that if Bush gets elected and something would happen to him we would have Dick Cheney as our president.

“To me that is a scary thought.”

[RWC] Why is it a scary thought? It would have been nice if Ms. Bohinsky had provided some reasons. Is innuendo all the anti-Bush/Cheney crowd has left?

Let’s compare Cheney and Edwards.

Edwards was a trial lawyer from the time he graduated from college until he was elected to the Senate in 1998. None of the bills for which he was the primary sponsor became law and he held no leadership positions. During the primaries, Edwards did not win in his state of North Carolina. In fact, he did not seek re-election as senator because he felt he could not win.

The following is from the Bush-Cheney web site. “His [Dick Cheney’s] career in public service began in 1969 when he joined the Nixon Administration, serving in a number of positions at the Cost of Living Council, at the Office of Economic Opportunity, and within the White House. When Gerald Ford assumed the Presidency in August 1974, Mr. Cheney served on the transition team and later as Deputy Assistant to the President. In November 1975, he was named Assistant to the President and White House Chief of Staff, a position he held throughout the remainder of the Ford Administration. After he returned to his home state of Wyoming in 1977, Mr. Cheney was elected to serve as the state’s sole Congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was re-elected five times and elected by his colleagues to serve as Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee from 1981 to 1987. He was elected Chairman of the House Republican Conference in 1987 and elected House Minority Whip in 1988. As Secretary of Defense from March 1989 to January 1993, Mr. Cheney directed two of the largest military campaigns in recent history - Operation Just Cause in Panama and Operation Desert Storm in the Middle East.” Of course, Cheney also has four years of experience as vice president. In the private sector, Mr. Cheney served as CEO of Halliburton from 1995 – 2000.

Regardless of who becomes president, I hope nothing happens to him that requires the vice president to take over. If it becomes necessary, however, I believe it’s clear VP Cheney is far more qualified than Sen. Edwards.