{"id":843,"date":"2006-02-14T14:15:16","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T19:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/grouse\/"},"modified":"2006-02-14T14:15:16","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T19:15:16","slug":"grouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/grouse","title":{"rendered":"Grouse!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because I wasn’t the guy who got shot, I think the Cheney hunting accident<\/a> is pretty funny. Maybe not as funny as Bobby Knight plugging a buddy while grouse hunting in 1999, nor beating up his son on another hunting trip (broken nose, dislocated shoulder), but still pretty good.<\/p>\n

What I like is that it brings us to a bygone era, when the post of vice president was treated as a national joke. Chevy Chase built a career on stumbling over stuff as Gerald Ford. Bush Sr. was regarded as an imbecile (until he turned out to be a lot craftier than anyone expected from a former head of the CIA<\/em>). And Dan Quayle . . . well, I’m not even going to venture there.<\/p>\n

What I’m saying is, since I was a kid, the vice president was either a joke or an afterthought. It was only with Clinton-Gore that we got the “Team USA” treatment from the Pres\/VP tandem. With the 2000 election, that morphed into the “America, Inc.” campaign, where Bush’s strength was supposed to be in his ability to assemble a great “upper management” for the country. Of course, when his HR director named himself as the best guy to be chief operating officer, a light-bulb should’ve turned on.<\/p>\n

Still, after all the mistakes, I hope this accident is a sign that the role of VP is heading back to irrelevance. After all, it’s not like it helped Gore in 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because I wasn’t the guy who got shot, I think the Cheney hunting accident is pretty funny. Maybe not as funny as Bobby Knight plugging a buddy while grouse hunting in 1999, nor beating up his son on another hunting trip (broken nose, dislocated shoulder), but still pretty good. What I like is that it … <\/p>\n

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