If Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney or Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, the administration's leading neoconservative, had been aware of the brutal war America had fought in the Philippines, or of Wilson's misadventures in Mexico, or of the blighted history of Western imperialism in the Mideast, they might still have invaded Iraq.
Think ESPN basketball announcer Dick Vitale or a public address announcer at a professional boxing match.
Mr Mondale was no insurgent but rather a classic, boring, inside-the-Beltway, establishment candidate like John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, Dick Gephardt or even Al Gore.
Any Tom, Dick, or Harry can develop the next Angry Birds, and we should encourage such innovation by ensuring that developers can protect their inventions.
So for every Picasso, there's a Cezanne, who if you go to Le Musee d'Orsay and you look at all of his greatest works, they're all painted in his 50s and 60s, or for every Melville who writes Moby Dick at 28 or 29, there is a Mark Twain who writes 'Huckleberry Finn' in his late 40s or early 50s.
Most press reports have in some way insinuated that other people presently or formerly associated with the office of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney who have concerns about or responsibility for the Iran portfolio have also been of interest to the FBI.
There was a time two or three years ago when Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld and some other people in the Pentagon were very much the ascended influences in the run up to the Iraq invasion.
Yet policymakers are as in as much denial that there is a big problem (i.e. with the euro rather than any individual country) as Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson were that there was a housing bust, as Dick Fuld was that Lehman was toast, or as the IMF was that Thailand, let alone Asia, had profound economic weaknesses.
Think Dick Cheney at the end of the Ford administration or Jim Jones who went on to Congress from Oklahoma at the end of the Johnson administration.
Now it looks as if he is more interested in avoiding hard questions about Dick Cheney's spell as head of Halliburton or his own ties to dubious energy chiefs.
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Vice President DICK CHENEY: That the president of the United States or any member of this administration purposely misled the American people on prewar intelligence is one of the most dishonest and reprehensible charges ever aired in this city.
Did Tom Harkin endorse Dean out of principle, or did he privately confide to Gephardt supporters that Dick would be a better President but Howard has a better chance to win?
This sort of thing is much better accomplished in novels (alternative histories such as Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle") or movies ("mockumentaries" like "This Is Spinal Tap").
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All of which raises the ironic thought that the most powerful man in the 106th Congress will be not Mr Livingston or Trent Lott, his counterpart in the Senate, but the Democrats' leader in the House, Dick Gephardt.
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