Oily Ancestors
[Mary] Cheney also expressed some impatience with women who complain about the difficulties of “having it all,” noting that one of her forebears “gave birth in the back of a wagon and had no support system,” living in a tent on the oil fields outside of Casper, Wyo.
Oil is in the Cheney blood! LOL
on February 2nd, 2007 at 8:27 pm
A recent Time Magazine profile of Vice President Dick Cheney opened with the following anecdote:
When Richard Bruce Cheney was a student at Natrona County High School in Casper, Wyo., he was a solid football player, senior-class president and an above-average student. But he wasn’t the star. That distinction belonged to Lynne Vincent, Cheney’s girlfriend and future wife. A straight-A scholar, Lynne was elected Mustang Queen, the equivalent of most popular girl. She was also a state-champion baton twirler, a big deal in 1950s Wyoming. To begin her routine, Lynne would set both ends of a baton on fire and throw it in the air while her boyfriend stood inconspicuously off to the side holding a coffee can filled with water. When Lynne was finished with her pyrotechnic act, she would pass her flaming baton to Cheney, who, while the audience applauded and Lynne curtsied, would quietly douse the fires by sticking each end of the baton in the coffee can.
Kind of like his current role, except the baton is the world, and the coffee can might be filled with fuel oil.
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/usa/dick-cheney/
on February 5th, 2007 at 4:43 am
There is a country mile between mother Mary and her forebears. I sincerely doubt if mother Mary ever faced much hardship.
on February 5th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
On the other side of the women who have it all there are still women in this country who figuratively are still giving birth in the back of wagons with no support system. It is called no health insurance.