Dick “Darth Vader” Cheney

Caricatures of Dick “Darth Vader” Cheney, George W, Bush’s vice president, are the subject of this chapter. Cheney was a secretive but competent Washington operative. However many resented his policy ideas and tendency to keep things close to the vest, many also believed that he was the power behind the throne of George W. Bush. These were some of the reasons why caricatures of Cheney focused on the idea that he was an evil force. The portrait of Cheney that emerged was that of the Darth Vader of Washington politics, a portrait that was clearly an exaggeration, but one which he self-deprecatingly embraced after leaving office.