Dick Cheney was born in 1941
What's fascinating is how Cheney's unslakeable rage has bypassed such arch-liberals as FDR and LBJ. Or the moral turpitude of the Clenis. I have no doubt that he would ever impugn Republican presidents, but...I mean fucking Nixon, people. I know Nixon did some good things, but most of the good things Nixon did are things Cheney probably hates: affirmative action, the EPA, the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, wage and price controls, opening to China, losing Vietnam...
And then you have those RINOs like Ike and Bush 1.0. But, OK, of all the liberal presidents, Cheney ranks Obama below Kennedy, whose main accomplishment is nearly eradicating life on earth through nuclear brinksmanship over Cuba and screwing the entire secretarial pool. He ranks Obama below perhaps the most liberal president of all time in LBJ, who began the process of insuring the uninsured and allowing the "help" to vote.
Lionel Trilling once wrote that "the conservative impulse and the reactionary impulse do not, with some isolated and some ecclesiastical exceptions, express themselves in ideas but only in action or in irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas."
And that's pretty freaking astute.
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