Cheney's Cold
Be sure and read this WaPo article about Cheney's doofus clothing choices for the ceremony at Auschwitz pictured above. Here's how it opens:
"At yesterday's gathering of world leaders in southern Poland to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the United States was represented by Vice President Cheney. The ceremony at the Nazi death camp was outdoors, so those in attendance, such as French President Jacques Chirac and Russian President Vladimir Putin, were wearing dark, formal overcoats and dress shoes or boots. Because it was cold and snowing, they were also wearing gentlemen's hats. In short, they were dressed for the inclement weather as well as the sobriety and dignity of the event.
"The vice president, however, was dressed in the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower.
"Cheney stood out in a sea of black-coated world leaders because he was wearing an olive drab parka with a fur-trimmed hood. It is embroidered with his name. It reminded one of the way in which children's clothes are inscribed with their names before they are sent away to camp. And indeed, the vice president looked like an awkward boy amid the well-dressed adults.
"Like other attendees, the vice president was wearing a hat. But it was not a fedora or a Stetson or a fur hat or any kind of hat that one might wear to a memorial service as the representative of one's country. Instead, it was a knit ski cap, embroidered with the words "Staff 2001." It was the kind of hat a conventioneer might find in a goodie bag." ....
Saw this first at the wonderful World O'Crap, which featured the following commentary:
Hey, it's hard work operating a snow blower. Danged hard work. And it's hard work being the Vice President. And it's cold work too. So, if Dick chose to wear his casual ski parka with his name embroidered on it, the "Staff 2001" ski cap that he got in the office white elephant exchange, and his second-best pair of hunting boots to this ceremony, who are we to criticize him for failing to respect the solemnity of the occasion? At least he didn't tell the other dignitaries to "go f--- themselves."
Well, not that we know of, anyway.
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