Last night I dreamt that I was Dick Cheney’s house guest. He was very solicitous and kept apologizing that his other guests were all from the Heritage Foundation, or some other right wing think tank. He would say: “I really wanted to make sure that there would be some liberals here too, but it just worked out this way. I don’t want you to think I only socialize with conservatives. I have all sorts of friends.”
I told him it was not a problem and he shouldn’t worry about it, but all through the dream he kept coming up to me to make sure I had found the food, or the bar, or whatever and apologizing about all the conservative guests. It was then that I knew, he only ever had conservative guests to his house and that apologizing about it was his way of making me feel awkward and an outsider, but he did it so subtly and with such a smile on his face, that it almost amused me.
