Cheney's daughter -- is she off limits, or is he off his rocker?

[SexyGolem]

I saw at this privacy site that Cheney is once again making the TV rounds to tell everyone that people who don't agree with the Troop surge are aiding and abetting terrorists, and therefore terrible themselves. Meanwhile Cheney's daughter is about to pop out a mini-terror of her own. Where Dick goes, the questions follow "What's the whole story on your baby's baby daddy?" Cheney, somewhat understandably, does not wish to discuss it, even saying that Wolf Blitzer was "out of line" when he asked about it recently.

The writer here said "The administration's political base is made up off conservatives who are probably offended at Ms. Cheney's lifestyle. For any other politician I would find this subject out of bounds, also. But not for these guys who have crossed the Potomac river, walking on the backs of evangelicals."

I'm not sure I agree. I mean, I agree with what he said factually, but I'm not sure that it follows that Cheney's hypocracy should cause his daughter to be dragged into the spotlight. On the other hand, the wiki on Mary Cheney says "In July 2003 she became the director of vice presidential operations for the Bush-Cheney 2004 Presidential re-election campaign." This seems to provide better reasoning to me to justify bringing her into the national debate, i.e., she has involved herself as a public figure, espousing her father's candidacy and thereby his views, and so she has made herself a person of interest.

What'cha think?

 

[Tymeless]

one way or another i don't care about his daughter, the one thing i feel i have a problem with is simple the lies and deceit both him and bush have doled out to people, and the fact that people who say they are christian just to get votes bother me. would god support big business or would god want the wealth spread more evenly throughout the population?

 

[naughtyinsilk]

IMHO, anybody regardless of political leanings, sexual bias etc, should be left alone by the media when they are pregnant. The consequences of too much pressure & stress can result in them losing the baby, and thats too high a price to pay under any circumstances.

 

[Etoile]

If the media want to talk about Mary Cheney's pregnancy, that's fine. She's a somewhat public figure, and she's highlighting a topic of interest. However, I think talking to her dad is the wrong approach. If the media have questions, they should talk to Mary Cheney, her wife, or their appointed spokesperson.

 

[naughtyinsilk]

If the media want to talk about Mary Cheney's pregnancy, that's fine. She's a somewhat public figure, and she's highlighting a topic of interest. However, I think talking to her dad is the wrong approach. If the media have questions, they should talk to Mary Cheney, her wife, or their appointed spokesperson.

I think you are right in regards to who they should talk to, however waiting nine months until the baby is born, I still feel is the also the right thing to do.
Having seen close up the scrutiny & pressure that the media can bring, which can sap the strength of anyone, I feel the mother & unborn babys health is too high a price to pay for a topic of interest.

 

[blklthrjkt]

The real problem I have with Dick Cheney is that he seems to believe that he should be judged by a different standard. He says questions about his daughter are off limits yet he accepts and cultivates support from radical homophobes. It would seem that "his" life should be private and his own business, but my life should be subject to attacks and unfair laws.

What this really shows is his elitism and belief that he is of a different class of people that the rest of us Americans. He feels he is of the "ruling class" and the last time I checked, we don't have that in our Constitution.

 

[Smuttboy2]

Has anyone ever been interviewed themselves?

I have been more than once, not about my lifestyle per say, but something I fight for all the time.

I can tell you, the press today is the most wicked, crooked, and dis-honest people ya will ever see. 90=% anyway.

I will never ever trust them again. What ya say to them will be twisted to fit their agenda and theirs only.

I have NO use for them and never will.

Sorry for the rant....but they boil my blood.

 

[Night_Jasmine]

If there's one thing that most political parties avoid, it's the homosexual community. They don't want to have to face the problems that beset the community and find it easier to 'sweep it under the rug' so to speak. Case in fact - marriages, equal rights as far as one partner being ill and any and all paperwork being null if that partner goes into hospital.

Instead of being ashamed, Cheney and his daughter, who seems interested in politics, need to try to show that family is important and try to approach the political world on making things better for people like us.

The thing is, the media doesn't help. Unless you follow CNN and catch the small headlines, you don't see about the things like what's going on in Massachusets. My friend was commenting the other day about if I find someone and want to get married again, swinging up there. I told him that it's now iffy and shared what was going on. Needless to say, he was stunned because he hadn't heard about that and this is a guy who follows just about every news headline.

 

[naughtyinsilk]

Its easy to forget living in the UK, how much things have improved for the GLBT community here in the last 25 years. With pension rights, same sex partnerships and the right to adopt, all enshrined in law, things are so much better these days.

Discrimination & homophobia, is now the exception rather than the rule, and a lot of people like myself in their 40s, grew up in households where our parents, taught us acceptance and tolerance.

The most disgraceful case of discrimination that I can think of occuring within my circle of friends in the last 15 years was in what up until then I would think the last place to find it.

My post op mtf ex, and her girlfriend went to a lesbian club. After about half an hour they were approached by one of the organisers and asked to leave. The explanation that they were given was that they had had complaints from other members, apparently the club had a no TS or TV rule as they didnt regard them as real women. Rather than cause a scene my friends left, very upset about it, and when they arrived back home, we couldnt believe what had happened.

Unfortunately for the club organisers, my father went apeshit over the incident, and as the licensee of the venue where the club was held, told the organisers theyy were no longer welcome to use his premises. Instead, he set up a mixed gay/lesbian nite, where nobody would ever be humiliated like that again.

 

[Wolfman1982]

Thank goodness, I live in a country, where I can vote for more than two parties.

But things haven´t improved much, since Axel and Eigil were married , when it comes to GLBT . Here where I live.

 

[interfacial]

I think Mary Cheney herself is off limits, as she shouldn't be dragged directly into anything just because her dad is the VP. But, because Cheney is the second in command of an administration that has made these things an issue, it is not wrong for these things to be asked to him.

He does have the right to not answer them, though, and label them as private family matters. It's not as if he has authoritarian control of his family or the right to impose his beliefs on his family. I think that he has a good relationship with his family, even though they do not adhere to his political and/or moral beliefs, is a very good and american thing.

So, asking is not off limits, but it's not something you can really expect him to answer, either.