Say what you will about Joe Biden

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...at least I don't have to look at him everyday.

Traditionally, a federal office displays the picture of the president and the picture of the head of the department of agency. But one of the little-remarked-upon acts of unmitigated ego during the Bush years is that Dick Cheney's photo was hung along side Bush's and the appropriate agency head in federal buildings worldwide. Since January 20, however, sanity has returned, and it's only been Obama and Clinton on the walls at State -- no Biden. Today I spent the day at the Pentagon and, sure enough, it was Obama and Gates on the wall, but no Biden.

Yeah, there are a million bigger things to detest Cheney for, but none seems quite so pathetic as his apparent insistence that his snarling visage greet every federal worker and visitor worldwide.

[Lorizael]

He was in the FAA building, too. I never knew that wasn't traditional, but it always seemed kind of odd that he was there.

[-Jrabbit]

It's little tidbits like this that make you such an awesome poster, Rufus.

[Patroklos]

I am not sure why posting pictures of some of you chain of command is more odius than others. I find the whole picture of the President everywhere to be just as stupid.

[Kuciwalker]

Actually it sounds disturbingly proto-fascist.

[Imran Siddiqui]

In the Sam Nunn Federal Center in Atl we had Bush and Cheney in an obvious two picture enclosure (no department heads, because a bunch of different depts are there). Now Obama's picture is in a frame on another place on the wall and the two picture enclosure is used for more... bulletin board stuff.

[Imran Siddiqui]

... come to think of it, this may explain his need to say crazy ass things. If he's not in every federal building, he feels left out and needs to be plastered on cable news so you still have to look at him.

[Solomwi]

I hate to rain on your parade, Rufus, but there's a more practical reason for the change. Can you imagine an entire federal government mesmerized by Biden's teeth every morning as soon as they walked in the front door? It would be disastrous.

[-Jrabbit]

Wiggy needs to weigh in on this.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I hate to rain on your parade, Rufus, but there's a more practical reason for the change. Can you imagine an entire federal government mesmerized by Biden's teeth every morning as soon as they walked in the front door? It would be disastrous.

No more disastrous that the federal workers -- 92 in all, I believe, between 2001 and 2008 --who were trampled to death while rushing to get past Cheney's snarl.

[loinburger]

They didn't have Cheney's picture up at the Air Force Research Lab, but that's probably because a. there were only eight picture places on the wall and adding a ninth would be a pain in the ass and b. nobody gave a damn about us.

[KrazyHorse]

Actually it sounds disturbingly proto-fascist.

It sort of is. I honestly don't recall seeing pictures of the PM in Canadian federal offices. I could be mistaken, though, as I've had a lot more experience dealing with US federal bureaucracy than Canadian federal bureaucracy in the last few years.

[Arrian]

There are a number of things that we do that are proto-fascist. Pledge of Allegiance, anyone?

Gosh, I'm so happy my tax dollars are spent putting pictures of Obama up everywhere. Let's get some teabaggers on this!

-Arrian

[rah]

Cheney's picture was up in those spots only because he was really in charge. During every emergency, Cheney was in a bunker under washington preparing responses, while GW was reading to school kids or opening a food store.

[Wiglaf]

OH LETS BASH CHENEY!!: ITS DOING SUPER ORIGINAL THINGS LIKE BASHING CHENEY THAT MAKES YOU SO INT ERESTING RUFUSSS!! :MAD: :MAD: :B: :B: B: :B:

CHENEY WAS SECRETARY OF YOUR DEFENSE FOR 4 YARS.! This is A MILITARY POST SO THAT IS WHY HIS PHOTOS WAS IN the pentagon. During that time Joe Biden was plagiarizing and doing cocaine off dead whores. Perhaps they took Cheney's portrait from the Pentagon basement because THEY HAD ONE ALREAYD AND WANTED TO HONOR THE MAN. I have never known a man more dedicated to his country than Dick Cheney and I have met everyone from Tobey Mcguire to Carl Weathers to Ronald Ragan. HE WILL DIE soon and is frail and yet he himself continues to go on talk shows to keep this country safe.