Hoagland on Cheney: Lost His Mind?
Jim Hoagland wonders whether U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney has, yes I’m serious, lost his mind isn’t emotionally the most stable person in the world. As Paul Mirengoff points out, he doesn’t actually offer substansive evidence to back this up, but hey, he’s getting a lot of bloggattention.
The question should not be whether Dick Cheney ‘lost his mind’, but whether he lost his position as the most influential member of the Bush administration (besides Bush himself of course) permanently, and whether his unpopularity and physical health problems force him to step down.
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Hoagland has been fading faster that David Ignatius, a brilliant and non-ideological colleague at the Post, has been rising in the public marketplace of ideas.
Hoagland himself used to drop by the US Embassy in Saudi Arabia and bitch about US foreign policy way back in the last century when I got his drivel firsthand.
I think Hoagland is projecting some of that perceived mental instability onto Cheney. Hoagland is over the hill and needs blog-attention.
“Hoagland is over the hill and needs blog-attention.”
I agree – that’s what he most likely tried to accomplish with this column.
And, well, it worked.