28 October 2006

Dick Cheney ♥'s Halloween

I'm not talking about the fact that the vice-President is just plain spooky. I'm referring to Tony Snow's listen-to-what-he-says-not-what-he-means clarification of the Vice President's remarks on water boarding yesterday.

Just a reminder of the issue when Cheney was asked in an interview if "a dunk in water is a no-brainer if it can save lives" he replied "well, it's a no-brainer for me...We don't torture. That's not what we're involved in."

Thank heavens Presidential spokesmodel Tony Snow cleared things up for us.

"You know as a matter of common sense that the vice president of the United States is not going to be talking about water boarding. Never would, never does, never will."

From now on all we have to when we hear a politician say something that we know they are not stupid enough to actually say even though we just heard them say it is to realise, using our "common sense", that they didn't actually say what we just heard.

I feel much better knowing, that with Halloween coming up, when he heard "dunk in the water" Dick was actually thinking of everyone's favourite autumnal party game Bobbing for Apples!

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