What started as an offhand remark was picked up and ran with by the MSM until you'd have thought it was a big deal among conservatives, which it wasn't. In true liberal fashion though, they had to create an issue where there wasn't one.
Personally, I'm more concerned that it's an empty suit than about its color.
But be all that as it may, remember the shit fit the DUmmies had when Cheney wore a parka to the Holocaust Memorial?
This breathless report was in "Latest Breaking News" in 2005 and the DUmbasses were all atwitter about it for days:
diamond14 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 10:22 AM
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WP: Dick Cheney, Dressing Down (cheney DEGRADES Auschwitz)
Edited on Fri Jan-28-05 10:23 AM by diamond14
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43247-20...
Dick Cheney, Dressing Down
Parka, Ski Cap at Odds With Solemnity of Auschwitz Ceremony
By Robin Givhan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 28, 2005; Page C01
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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.
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Just last week, in a frigid, snow-dusted Washington, Cheney sat outside through the entire inauguration without so much as a hat and without suffering frostbite. And clearly, Cheney owns a proper overcoat. The world saw it during his swearing-in as vice president. Cheney treated that ceremony with the dignity it deserved -- not simply through his demeanor, but also through his attire. Would he have dared to take the oath of office with a ski cap on? People would have justifiably considered that an insult to the office, the day, the country.
...........The vice president might have been warm in his parka, ski cap and hiking boots. But they had the unfortunate effect of suggesting that he was more concerned with his own comfort than the reason for braving the cold at all.
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, center, is flanked by his wife Lynne, right, and Israel's President Moshe Katsav, left, as leaders from 30 countries gather to remember the victims of the Holocaust on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops in Oswiecim, southern Poland on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2005. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1191511Now bear in mind that Cheney had severe heart damage at the time, indeed had suffered several heart attacks prior, and it is a medical fact that extreme cold places a huge burden on the heart and it should be avoided by those with heart disease. Yet there he was sitting outdoors in the snow and bitter January cold of Poland to pay his respects anyway, and the DUmmies derided him for choosing warm attire to protect his health.
Remember that level of hypocrisy next time a libtard objects to criticism of the President's appearance.
