and every day at work, the guy you replaced, all his friends, and everyone who tried out for your job, are there..in your face, criticizing your efforts. They have their friends writing articles and are posting them on the bulletin boards at work, in your neighborhood, and in the papers, about how awful you are at your job..how you did not deserve the job...how much better ANY one of them would be at the job, how much better the previous guy was at the job..

and yet the job is an important one... a job that needs undivided attention, and as few distractions as possible...

could be the head of surgery at a major hospital

or principle at a school

or manager of a nuclear power plant

or fire chief

or any job really..

I've been around a very long time, and I have NEVER EVER EVER seen the likes of what Cheney & his pals are doing..and how the press is carrying the water for them.

In case they have not noticed, the STORY here is the fact that the previous administration is MEDDLING, and trying to UNDERMINE their legally elected successors.

Gore & Clinton did not trash talk Bush..Carter did not trash talk Reagan.. Ford did not trash talk Carter..

Nixon was seen as a tragic figure and was let off the hook once he was out of office, and pretty much ignored.

This is dangerous. It's dangerous to our president, to our international standing, and to our whole government.

We are devolving into Banana Republic territory, where "formers" are berated, demonized and in some cases "disappeared".