Word: cheneys
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When Dick Cheney arrives in your state, he comes with instructions. Don't send him to a rally; he doesn't like crowds. Don't send him to a county fair; he doesn't like shaking hands. And no one wants a repeat of the "polka incident," when a woman at a Polish festival grabbed a grimacing Cheney for a dance. He'll go to fund-raisers, but don't expect any schmoozing. Last Wednesday night at the Senate's annual dinner for major donors, he sat with lobbyists at a table guarded by the Secret Service and then slipped...
...more likely to catch Dick Cheney on the campaign trail if you're a seven-year-old. The man likes a school and listening to his wife, Lynne, read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar": a captive audience under adult supervision, and no rope line. Cheney's staff quickly penciled in a school last week when they realized they would be in Pennsylvania for two days doing nothing but fund-raisers. They cobbled together an event at Academy Park High School in Sharon Hill, Pa., which the principal didn't learn about until 3 p.m. the day before. The gym was only...
...Cheney, chosen for his governing potential and his Desert Storm credentials, was preceded on stage by a onetime veep contender, Governor Tom Ridge. The governor spoke more than twice as long as the candidate did, and with 10 times the animation. When his brief turn came, Cheney ventured out from behind the podium with a hand mike, but this just gave him the air of an infomercial host faking enthusiasm for his product. He concentrated largely on the campaign's latest theme - "education recession" - and then touted the benefits of joining the military. A student asked Cheney what he would...
...wasn't joking, and it was as off-key in its own way as Dan Quayle's response in 1988 that the first thing he would do was pray. Like Quayle, Cheney has come to be seen as a drag on the ticket, violating the first rule of veepdom: Do no harm. First, there was his uncompassionately conservative record, voting no on everything from Head Start to college-student aid to the Older Americans Act, which offers support services to the elderly. This prompted the joke that Cheney's never met a welfare program he liked. When the New York...
...Bush wants to sweat the Arabs - his last name and Cheney's connections are supposed to make this easier than it was for Bill Richardson. He wants to lift regulations on the construction of U.S. oil refineries, which he says are clogging the supply line, and create a privately managed Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve in case refineries, as they are now, aren't up to the job of supply. He'll promote an energy alliance with Mexico and Canada, energy resources in non-OPEC regions, and establishing a meeting of G-8 energy ministers to encourage independence from OPEC...