The Real DICK Cheney, he's back, he's back

[jku]

I love this man. I fully support him as VP. Vote Bush/Cheney '04.

[jku]

As for the war, we should be glad Saddam is gone.

[Benwa]

I always felt Cheney was running the show. W just seems like someone to stick out front. Sometimes I think W is a surplus animatronic puppet gotten from an old Disney World ride. Cheney and Rumsfeld are sitting in some room manipulating him with playstation controllers. Any minute now there will be a bug in the system and W will go into "Welcome to the hall of presidents..."

It doesn't surprise me he has a record for DUI. He was 21? That must've been a really long time ago. Was he driving a Model T?

It's no surprise that a select rich are going to make alot of money over the lower class soldier and the dead Iraqi civilian. The rich always work over the poor, always will to. Unless drastic changes are made in the ways we live. How did we let ourselves get duped like this? Everywhere there is civilization, the poor far outnumber the rich. How did we relinguish control over to these boneheads. I say "we" because I'm assuming most people on this board don't clear 7 or 8 figures a year. Just the figures to the left of the decimal point, $15,000.25 doesn't make a seven figure income ha-ha.

[jku]

George W. Bush is an honest leader who is unfairly portrayed by the left as an idiot and a liar. But if you think about it, Bush really does have the country's best interests as heart.

[pisces2473]

Supposedly Bush the elder did well at Yale, but few know that he was just passed along due to WWII beginning (this happened at a LOT of schools, not just Yale). He didn't do a whole 4 years.

And Bush the younger WAS on the Yale baseball team, though only for his freshman year.

Don't forget, Bush the elder didn't do everything on his own either...his father helped him too.

(BTW I work for Yale that's how I know all these random facts, since the university is sooo proud of the "family.")

[jku]

Q: What do you know about the Skull & Bones Society? Wasn't the Bush family part of this group? I heard Sen (and future President) John Kerry was too. Is this group really that powerful, or is there a lot of hype around it?


I'm a little suspicious of Kerry. He seems like he's hiding something, like he's been less than truthful about his past.

[coll214]

Working at Yale, I've heard both sides of the neverending questions about the Bushes. Sr. did well, while W. just skated by with mediocre grades, and they were both in the Skulls & Bones. It's probally gotten so much hype for 2 reasons; since there was a movie based on the club at Yale (The Skulls) and it's a very old institution at the school. People just assume since it has select members and has been around awhile, there must be something going on within the group. I'm sure your right Weirdbrake, that it's just hype.

And pisces, not everyone loves Bush and his family here. I know some who would rather hide the fact that W. went here than broadcast it. Not to mention that he was born in CT too. He doesn't like being reminded of that.

[pisces2473]

Skull and Bones is a secret society (Yale has several, but so does a lot of other schools) which has been the subject of a lot of controversy because of its secrecy. Most of the other societies at Yale and other places are a little more open, thus a lack of mystery surrounding them. I don't really know what to make of them, whether there are a lot of coincidences (like how many bonesmen become high officials within the government) OR if it's really some masterminded plan. I know a bonesman, he's a great guy and has a lot going for him. He would have had the same amount of opportunities on his own merit even if he hadn't been a bonesman. He's said it's really not a big deal and NOTHING like the movie "The Skulls."

You can do a search for info about Skull and Bones--a lot of it is a bunch of conspiracy theory crap, but there are some decent articles AND a recently published book. Besides the guy I mentioned above, a family friend did some work on the "tomb." There are really coffins in there and bones and all sorts of creepy stuff.

Yes, John Kerry is a bonesman...people say that the next election will be a bones vs. bones showdown, lol.

Coll--you're absolutely right about not everyone at Yale loving the fact that the family has such a history with the school...but it seems like the administration (esp. our president) likes it a lot. W. doesn't even put down on his official bio that he was born in New Haven--like he's embarrassed or something. Did you notice they took those signs down announcing New Haven as the birthplace of our 43rd president? LOL I don't want him associated with this area anymore than HE does!

PS. When I said "our president," I meant Richard Levin, president of Yale University.

[coll214]

Guess I should have said that. ..The movie was extremely loosely based in reality. There are secret societies at the old ivy league schools, and that's the fact they based it on, not in fact what happened to Yalies within the society.

[pisces2473]

Coll, I didn't direct that "PS" at you--that was for WeirdBrake, LOL.

[coll214]

oops...i wasn't clear. i meant i should have mentioned the movie was loosely based in reality. :) lol