Thu
Jan 8 2009
08:42 am
Vader: I'm actually 'lovable'
By: gonzone

Darth Vader said Wednesday that his image has gotten a bad rap in the press and that he is in fact “a warm, lovable sort.”

Vader conceded in an interview with CBS radio that he sometimes expresses himself “rather forcefully toward some of my compatriots, like Pat Leahy from Vermont” but dismissed as a caricature the idea that he is a “Dick Cheney-type personality.”

“I think all of that’s been pretty dramatically overdone,” the vice president said. “I’m actually a warm, lovable sort.”

Vader also insisted that his influence within the Bush administration was overstated throughout the past eight years. “The notion that somehow I was pulling strings or making presidential-level decisions. I was not,” he said.

“There was never any question about who was in charge. It was George Bush. And that’s the way we operated. This whole notion that somehow I exceeded my authority here, was usurping his authority, is simply not true. It’s an urban legend, never happened."

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MDB's picture

Not Darth Vader

Submitted by MDB on Thu, 2009/01/08 - 9:13am.

Dick Cheney is not Darth Vader.

Vader, of course, redeemed himself in the end. Cheney shows no signs of turning from the Dark Side, even in the waning days of the Evil Republican Empire.

Cheney strikes me as being more like this guy:

C. Montgomery Burns.

or maybe this guy:

Emperor Palpatine

"I'm not a member of any organized political party. I'm a Democrat." -- Will Rogers

gonzone's picture

And if that didn't make you laugh

Submitted by gonzone on Thu, 2009/01/08 - 9:12am.

Then read this.

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Hunter S. Thompson

MDB's picture

I'm willing to do my part to

Submitted by MDB on Thu, 2009/01/08 - 9:20am.

I'm willing to do my part to help out that vital American industry!

Why, I'll even volunteer my services to work in it! Help them reduce how much they're spending on employees! I think its just the patriotic thing to do in these troubled times!

"I'm not a member of any organized political party. I'm a Democrat." -- Will Rogers

MDB's picture

Buhs's Response

Submitted by MDB on Thu, 2009/01/08 - 9:28am.
“There was never any question about who was in charge. It was George Bush. And that’s the way we operated. This whole notion that somehow I exceeded my authority here, was usurping his authority, is simply not true. It’s an urban legend, never happened."

In a later statement, President Bush said, "These aren't the droids we're looking for" and instructed the press to "move along."

"I'm not a member of any organized political party. I'm a Democrat." -- Will Rogers

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"This whole notion that

Submitted by Andy Axel on Thu, 2009/01/08 - 10:45am.

"This whole notion that somehow I exceeded my authority here, was usurping his authority, is simply not true. It’s an urban legend, never happened."

Bitch, please. I was born at night, but I wasn't born last night.

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lovable liberal's picture

Worried

Submitted by lovable liberal on Fri, 2009/01/09 - 2:42am.

Your headline had me worried about identity theft.

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