Dec 22 2008
Cheney, Worst VP in History?
Only one in five Americans say that Dick Cheney is the “worst Vice President” in history. The other Americans either can’t read or have no access whatsoever to any type of media. Or, they didn’t know he was vice president. (See: Poll: 23 percent say Cheney worst vice president ever)
I think it’s amazing that 77% of Americans don’t think he’s the worst VP in history. He’s not been a do-nothing VP. Instead, he’s actively spent the last 8 years damaging this country, maybe even more so than Bush himself. I think his worst crime is not pushing for torture, as terrible as that is, but his relentless pursuit of and protections for fossil fuels and companies like Exxon. This led to an 8-year delay in fighting climate change and these never-ending wars for bogus reasons like “fighting terror”. These were resource wars, and resource access wars (Afghanistan) and Dick Cheney pushed hard for them.
