Cheney and his daughters are compared to a Greek family do you agree?
There is something Greek about the Cheney family’s obsessive persecution of President Obama. Ancient Greek, that is. It recalls the vindictive persecution of the House of Atreus by the Furies in Aeschylus’ great trilogy of tragic plays, The Oresteia. The Cheneys’ Fury-like pursuit of Obama is relentless, irrational, and unforgiving. First Dick Cheney, on three separate occasions, declares that Obama is making the country more vulnerable to terrorist attack, accuses the president of using the economic crisis as a pretext to expand the government, and agrees with a conservative talking head that Obama is “telegraphing weakness†to the terrorists. Like the Furies, the Cheneys stand for unreason and emotionalism. Revenge is their milk and their meat. Then his eldest daughter, Liz, proposes on Fox News that in the wake of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, the president send the mother of a fallen soldier to Oslo to accept the award on behalf of the U.S. military—as if it was Obama, and not her father, whose stupidity and greed has sent thousands of Americans to their death in Iraq. And recently, Cheney’s youngest daughter, Mary, announced the creation of an international consulting firm that will, no doubt, facilitate any and all opposition to the slightest Obama initiative. And just this past Wednesday there was Dick Cheney himself, the chief Fury, publicly accusing Obama of putting at risk American troops in Afghanistan by “dithering,†charging that Obama is “afraid to make a decision,†and saying that the president is endangering the American “homeland.†Cheney’s public belittling of Obama, his near-seditious claims that Obama is working against the country’s best interests and allowing America’s enemies to gain the upper hand—such vengeful attacks by a previous vice president, let alone by any former high elected official, against a sitting president are without precedent. You feel that in Cheney’s grim zeal he is not simply refusing to leave the stage, but reliving his glory days fighting the good Manichaean fight against absolute evil—this time against a president who is, in Cheney’s mind, the moral extension of the shadowy terrorists he pursued while commandeering the White House. Then, too, perhaps Cheney was so used to bending to his will the emotional weakling he served under for so long that his drubbing of Obama is simply the only way he knows how to relate to a president. There is something primitive—something along the lines of magical thinking—about the way the former vice president projects his psyche onto reality. For Aeschylus, the Furies represented, in fact, a primitive age, where unreason ruled and vengeance was the only form of legal redress. Rational justice had yet to be born. The Furies were personifications of the murdered dead, who wreaked their revenge on the murderers. Such wild, lethal doomfulness seems to be Dick Cheney’s native element. The primal sin of the House of Atreus, which aroused the Furies’ centuries-long vindictive wrath, was Tantalus’ murder of his son, Pelops, whom he tried to serve up to the unwitting gods. Resurrected by the gods, Pelops has a son whom he names Atreus, and Atreus repeats the family curse. He kills his half-brother to get his money and then murders and serves up as dinner his brother Thyestes’ children to Thyestes as payback for the latter’s adultery with Atreus’ wife. From then on, the descendants of the House of Atreus turn on and murder each other in an endless cycle of revenge: father kills daughter, wife kills husband, son kills mother. Yet in the final moments of Aeschylus’ trilogy, Athena breaks the power of the Furies and votes to acquit Orestes of the crime of killing his mother (who had murdered Orestes’ father). Thus Athena replaces unreason with reason, and revenge with the spirit of clemency. Like the Furies, the Cheneys stand for unreason and emotionalism. Revenge is their milk and their meat. Obama’s Age of Reason—the advent of Athena—drives them into a rage, which in turn impels them to pursue Obama relentlessly to punish him for his crimes against what their hearts know to be true.
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Excellent analogy! Cheney and his misfit children are attempting to elevate the failed legacy of the Bush/Cheney era. And you are right, it was the stupidity and greed of Bush/Cheney that put our children in harms way in Iraq...a war that should never have been, a war that both lied about. The Bush/Cheney administration will go down in history as one of the worst administrations. Republicans of Cheney's era will not survive the 21st century. The American people are not stupid...they see through his constant goading and innuendos. It is professional jealousy at play!
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You are right, but its not like republican will care to listen to truth.
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Well, first off let's attribute the writer -- Lee Seigel of "The Daily Beast", not known as a right-leaning website. That said, Lee Seigel is a tool. And so is his waste of internet space writing this. It should come with a warning: "Do not operate heavy machinery after reading this." Lee tried desperately to come off sounding artsy and sophisticated, but failed miserably. Instead he ended up sounding like Leo Gorcey of The Bowery Boys, just using big words out of context to try and impress the reader. And let's not let little things like "facts" stand in the way of boring the reader, either. [Quote] Cheney’s public belittling of Obama, his near-seditious claims that Obama is working against the country’s best interests and allowing America’s enemies to gain the upper hand—such vengeful attacks by a previous vice president, let alone by any former high elected official, against a sitting president are without precedent.[/quote] Oh, really, Lee? Did you forget about Former Vice President Al Gore's rant that President Bush "Betrayed" the country by using 9/11 as a reason to invade Iraq? I guess that little speech on Feb 8th, 2004 by a previous vice-president against a sitting president doesn't count, does it Lee? Sound advice to Lee -- Give it up. And when your IQ hits 50, Sell.
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Cheney and his Daughter are idiots, war criminals and dangerous to our country. They should be imprisoned and waterboarded. Both of them. Got it already?
5 :
The Cheneys are all nuts.
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We have a president ( a stupid one) that can't shut up about a previous administration. When you keep calling people out they come out. This is only one reason why this president is going to be a complete disaster for his party, his chosen race, and the country who's constitution he swore to uphold. I think the press is beginning to see what he really is and how much damage they have done.
