Parka, Ski Cap at Odds With Solemnity of Auschwitz Ceremony
"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.
"It is also worth mentioning that Cheney was wearing hiking boots -- thick, brown, lace-up ones."
Organizations amplify the personalities of their leaders.
Aphorism of Zen Master This
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When Cheney dies, raise the flag, have a party, and if you can, wear cutoffs to the cermony.
Oh, and bring a picture of him, in his parka, at Auschwitz.
But, ah, look deeper. Consider the mode of dress not willfull, but an unconscious display of the political sociopath.
Note too that if Bush went, coward that he is, he would have had to take the entire US Army to surround him and protect him. Lots and lots of people would like to kill that man. Well, not so much kill him, as, well, sort of step him, pinch him off the vine like a tomato horn worm or such. (I mean, if you stepped on him, you'd have to clean you shoe, all that sort of stuff).
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