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No one shot on Cheney's quail hunt
WASHINGTON - Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Vice President d*ck Cheney went quail hunting last week, and the senator lived to tell the tale.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford joined Cheney and Graham for two days of hunting on a plantation that friends of Chambliss own in southern Georgia.
The outing was Cheney's second hunting trip since he accidentally wounded a close friend, Texas lawyer Harry Whittington, in February by spraying pellets into his face, neck and chest.
Even though almost 10 months have passed since the embarrassing episode, it was fresh on the minds of the Cheney group -- and was still remembered by some of the folks they met.
A local gun-shop owner cracked wise about the incident when Cheney and the rest of the hunting party walked in, Graham said.
"It was brought up a couple of times," Graham said in an interview. "He makes people feel comfortable so they can joke about it."
Cheney broke up other guests at a dinner by recalling President Bush's reaction when the vice president returned to the White House after the incident.
"Dang, d*ck, you shot the only trial lawyer who supports me!" Bush mock-scolded Cheney.
Graham said Cheney handles the joking about the incident well.
"It's every hunter's worst nightmare," Graham said. "It could have happened to anybody. I felt so sorry for him, but what can you do? It hurt him personally a great deal."
After requiring a faxed request for an interview, an aide to Cheney said his boss would not comment.
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I'm STILL waiting for someone to name their band "Hunting With Cheney."
"Yesterday Mr. Hall wrote that the printer's proof-reader was improving my punctuation for me, & I telegraphed orders to have him shot without giving him time to pray." -Mark Twain
"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist."
Ayn Rand
". . .and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe, and saw."
"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist."
Ayn Rand
". . .and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe, and saw."
