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Cheney/Edwards
Sometimes, it's a close call. I mean, Did Saddam like Osama? Who's to tell. But sometimes, it's just the facts, Ma'am. And this time, Cheney just out 'n' out lied.
Source: Los Angeles Times, 2004-10-06
Candidate: Dick Cheney
Cheney and Edwards Have Met Before
By Peter Wallsten Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — It was perhaps the most surprising tidbit of new information during the debate — that Vice President Dick Cheney had never met Sen. John Edwards until Tuesday night.
Except it wasn't true.
"I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session," Cheney said to Edwards. "The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight."
Except that isn't true, either. It's a good line, but it just isn't true.
Less than two hours after the debate ended, aides to Edwards and Sen. John F. Kerry distributed a photograph from the Feb. 1, 2001, National Prayer Breakfast showing Edwards and Cheney standing side by side.
"Congressman Watts, Sen. Edwards, friends from across America and distinguished visitors to our country from all over the world, Lynne and I are honored to be with you all this morning," Cheney said, according to the transcript.
Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt described the prayer breakfast photo as evidence of an "inconsequential meeting." Well, it was inconsequential until Cheney chose to lie about it.
Kerry-Edwards aides also pointed to news articles from January 2003, when Edwards escorted the newly elected senator from North Carolina, Elizabeth Hanford Dole, onto the Senate floor for her swearing-in by Cheney. Now, that was inconsequential.
Although Cheney is the Senate's presiding officer, he actually sits in the chamber only on RARE occasions, such as to break a tie vote and to swear in new senators. Not every Tuesday as Cheney would have us believe.
He does attend the GOP senators' weekly luncheons to discuss party strategy. But only Republicans attend, and since Edwards is a Democrat, he's usually not invited.
In fact, Cheney was teased by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), who he probaby does remember meeting before, for only associating with Republicans when, in an encounter on the Senate floor, Cheney cursed at Leahy. That particular incident was about the only time Cheney's presence in the Senate was noteworthy, according to the news coverage he'd excited.
A Cheney aide said after the debate that the vice president simply didn't remember meeting Edwards prior to Tuesday night — and that he certainly had never seen the North Carolinian on the Senate floor.
Perhaps the Vice President's memory would be better served if the Democratic Senators delivered a Brooklyn Raspberry to the old coot, en masse, so he'd remember them better.
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User Originated Comments:
From: femfem
2004-10-07 15:59:18
thank you new yorker!
From: new yorker
2004-10-07 13:47:52
no wmd...thats a fact
over 1,000 american
dead..fact
500 billion deficit..fact
not
enough troops..fact
no bin
laden..fact
bush is an idiot....fact
From: Yeah Right
2004-10-07 09:15:54
...another non-specific, lack-o-facts liberal.
"just the facts"... when did you lefties ever show
an interest in facts? dan rather is perfect
example of left-wing ideology.
From: Jack
2004-10-06 17:08:08
right the fuck on!!!
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