Bush: Cheney Is A ‘Half-Glass-Full’ Kinda Guy
Bush: Cheney Is A ‘Half-Glass-Full’ Kinda Guy
Last week, Vice President Cheney said that the United States has “had enormous successes and we will continue to have enormous successes” in Iraq. This claim contradicted President Bush’s speech two weeks ago, where he said the “situation in Iraq is unacceptable to the American people — and it is unacceptable to me.”
Today on NPR, senior correspondent Juan Williams asked Bush whether there’s a “conflicting message” between Bush and Cheney. Bush brushed him off, saying that Cheney is a “person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.” (We’re assuming he meant “glass half full.”) Listen here:
Here are some recent examples of Cheney’s “half-glass-full” views of Iraq:
“I think we have made significant progress.” [1/27/07]
“If you look at what’s transpired in Iraq, Chris, we’ve made enormous progress.” [1/14/07]
Before the war, this mentality also led the Vice President to predict that the United States would be “greeted as liberators” in Iraq.
Transcript:
WILLIAMS: Well another question about Vice President Cheney. He said last week that– here I’m quoting, “We’ve encountered enormousness successes and we continue to have successes in Iraq.” Two weeks ago you said, “There haven’t been enough successes in Iraq.” So it seems like there is a conflicting message there.
BUSH: Oh I don’t think so; I think the VP is a person expressing a half-glass-full mentality. And that is, he’’s been able to look at — as have I and I hope other Americans have — the fact that the tyrant was removed, 12 million people voted and an Iraqi constitution is in place that is a model for — and is unique — for the Middle East.
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Half full of what?
January 29th, 2007 at 2:59 pmHalf full of blood, yes.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:00 pmYou can’t have success’ and yet have a situation that is unacceptable? I fail to understand what TP is saying. You can certainly have success yet find yourself in a place not acceptable. It simply requires new success’.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:03 pmKrazny - what was that? Some kind of telepathy?
January 29th, 2007 at 3:04 pmGood one’s RuCerious and Krazny. When I think of the eternal optimist I naturally look to Darth Cheney. He is always so cheerful, non violent and soft spoken. Those rumors about swearing on the Senate floor or firing a weapon into a man’s face are just hogwash.
I hear Rosanne Rosannadanna telling this story and finishing with “Nevermind”.
jeeeesh.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:05 pm186 Ton Shot - Paladin ASP outside Fallujah, Iraq.
CHECK THIS WEAPON USED IN NEAR FALLUJA … ITS LIKE A NUKE BOMB
can anyone tell me what this weapon is
January 29th, 2007 at 3:06 pmThe only way this would be true is if THERE IS NO GLASS.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:08 pmPathetic! Listen to the recording and you have the Retard in Chief straining to articulate the expression. Even then he butches what is a common benign expression “The glass is half full.”
Instead he stutters with “person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.â€
Can we get that mental health Assessment yet?
January 29th, 2007 at 3:08 pmGosh I can’t wait until the end of Bushisms, no matter how entertaining some of them have been.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:08 pmReally? A “glass-half-full” guy?
Maybe it’s just me, but I always saw Cheney as a “smash the top of the glass off on the bar and threaten to cut your throat out with the jagged edge if you didn’t hand over 800 billion in oil profits” kind of guy.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:09 pmWe know Dubious is desperate and clutching at straws when he agrees to an interview with NPR..
I heard it this morning, and the careful and deliberate utterance of the “half -glass full” line was priceless….
January 29th, 2007 at 3:10 pmHe was sooo close to blowing it… anyone checked on KKKarl lately?
AK47, 186 Ton Shot is an upgraded daisey cutter and being tested for options for Iran facilities.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:11 pmCheney is a “person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.†(We’re assuming he meant “glass half full.â€)
My God, this poor man can’t get anything right.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:12 pmThe fat little coward is half a loaf short of a sandwich.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:12 pmHow does he take a leak in the morning?
The Selective Service Board tried and couldn’t find his dick.
Just the kind of glass half full guy you would want to follow into battle.
Soldier take that hill. It’s not crawling with mines and sniper fire, it’s going remarkably well! That kill zone I order you into is in its last throes.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:12 pmHalf full of blood, yes.
— RUCerious
Puppy blood, only fresh blood from a wide eyed, innocent puppy keeps Darth Cheney’s heart pumping, don’t ya know?
January 29th, 2007 at 3:13 pmMr Sunny Optimism! Yes sir, that’s Our Cheney!
Old Dick “Turn your frown upside-down” Cheney can’t help but be bubbly and optimistic! It’s in his nature!
I read in TigerBeat that his #1 Pet Peeve is “gloomy gusses”!
January 29th, 2007 at 3:13 pmOr, on second thought, maybe he really did blow it
January 29th, 2007 at 3:14 pmPerhaps he was supposed to say:
“I think the VP is a person expressing a half-assed fool mentality….”
The half glass is full so it brimming with goodness? If it is a half glass is it a shot glass? Since it is full then mission accomplished, it cannot be more full . Time to send the boys home and have the parade.
Heckuva job Chimpy
January 29th, 2007 at 3:17 pmBush brushed him off, saying that Cheney is a “person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.â€
Maybe he was trying to say is that Cheney is a “person reflecting a half-assed, full of shit mentality.â€
January 29th, 2007 at 3:18 pmRoger
i see this TP’s post here as more humorous rather than substanative; but the point Juan Williams is making is that the Vice president continues with his blabbering “positive” b.s. about Iraq whilst Bush isn’t even trying to do that anymore - these can easily be defined as a: Conflicting messages
(despite the logic you pointed out, that it is conceivably possible to have success and an unacceptable situation)
but the real point: Iraq descends into civil war caused by actions coerced throug lies, majority of americans want the occupation ended and you have the president talking about the sitaution being unacceptable (so we’ll send more troops) and the vice president talking about there being many success in Iraq… blablabla
January 29th, 2007 at 3:20 pm12/ Your Conscience
Thanks, Daisy Cutters were for clearing forest Areas originaly so helicopters can land in makeshift forests .. what a weapon ,, Not nice though
January 29th, 2007 at 3:22 pmCaption:
January 29th, 2007 at 3:27 pm“heh, heh, I just cut a big one, heh,heh”
Half full of lies.
-GSD
January 29th, 2007 at 3:28 pmYou can’t call the glass half full if there are only two drops of liquid in it.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:28 pmHe is a positive thinker. He’s wrong so many times but he’s positive about it.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:29 pmMaybe the class is half full of shit.
-GSD
January 29th, 2007 at 3:29 pmIn actuality, Dick the Prick is just like GDumbya. They’re both glass-totally-empty kinda guys. All alcoholics are.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:29 pmI think “The Chimp” meant to say “Cheney is a my bank account is half full” type of guy.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:30 pmIt seems that the VP’s office lost control of bush giving the message that “All is well on the Iraq front,” and they are working OT to cover the constant prezidental goofs. The only problem for cheney is that he prefers to have others deliver his messages so now, who is going to give him any consideration? The timing is interesting, especially with the trial facts that are coming out on a daily basis and officially confirm his reputation as a liar.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:33 pmCheney knows that the ‘librul media’ will parrot his lies about Iraq without the smallest amount of scrutiny. Morons like Blitzer will let him run right over them while letting the veep get away with his dishonesty and arrogance.
What can you do? The MSM isn’t suddenly going to grow a spine or a brain. The Bush administration won’t change. The Dems can’t or won’t do jack about Iraq. All we can do is just count down the days until these loathsome vermin leave office. Then it’ll be time to begin the clean up of the toxic mess they left behind.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:37 pmSeeing what he does with “Fool me once” and “Half-full glass”, we’re now waiting for aWol to butcher the “Do unto others” saying.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:38 pmYou can certainly have success yet find yourself in a place not acceptable.
Comment by Roger_Roger — January 29, 2007 @ 3:03 pm
Right. Because we all know success so often leads to unacceptable situations. So unacceptable, in fact, Pres Bush have to mention the word “mistake” in the same breath.
And I bet you think sound policy decisions inevitably lead to some of the biggest military blunders in history.
Keep lowering the bar, Roger*2 -you are doing a great job.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:38 pmFull of sh*t.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:39 pmWTF? Half-glass full mentality?
Trust an empty vessel to say something that dumb.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:39 pmBush brushed him off, saying that Cheney is a “person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.â€
Maybe he meant to say half-assed full of shit mentality? Maybe.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:45 pmCould it be the chymp meant
January 29th, 2007 at 3:46 pma half ass gas bag full?
“Half-a**ed, fully mental” is how my tired and/or warped mind first scanned the headline. Not far from the truth, except “half-a**ed” is an upgrade.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:47 pmIRAQI HOSPITALS AILING UNDER OCCUPATION
January 29th, 2007 at 3:48 pmdefinitely a martini glass.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:48 pmYou can certainly have success yet find yourself in a place not acceptable...Comment by Roger_Roger —
Sure, if you find financial and power success by doing things that are unacceptable to others in the world but not to you. And BTW BushCo didn’t “find” themselves in this position. They put themselves there.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:50 pmJust consider the source. Bush said this.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:51 pmWhat do expect from a vice-president who is half-assed about everything.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:52 pmEnourmous success = “Dick’s” fat wallet is wearing a callus on his ass.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:59 pmHe must carry that wallet in his left back pocket…… it’s pinching the sciatic nerve on that side……..
January 29th, 2007 at 4:06 pmWhat Bush meant to say was Cheney was a “Half-Ass-Fool” kinda guy.
January 29th, 2007 at 4:09 pmIf the one is half full, the other must be half empty which combined together would give us one complete numbskull. Gee, aren’t we lucky and rich in national leaders?
January 29th, 2007 at 4:11 pm“I don’t understand what America has turned into. We kill children and think nothing of it. The United States should be on trail for mass murder. I know you will not use this and I don’t care but Bush and company will someday sent to jail for what they have done. And no I don’t support the troops seems like to me they love the art of killing and don’t care who it is.”
January 29th, 2007 at 4:11 pmCheney is actually right to feel optimistic since, from his perspective, the war IS going well: The contractors are making a zillion bucks with little effort - thanks to the US taxpayer. Nobody HE knows has even been scratched, we’re killing lots of foreigners, the US will have bases in the Middle East for a long time and the price of oil is sky high. What’s there for HIM to complain about?
January 29th, 2007 at 4:14 pmLast week, Vice President Cheney said that the United States has “had enormous successes and we will continue to have enormous successes†in Iraq. This claim contradicted President Bush’s speech two weeks ago, where he said the “situation in Iraq is unacceptable to the American people — and it is unacceptable to me.â€
There’s a clear and consistent way to reconcile these two statements: Enormous successes in Iraq are unacceptable to the American people and unacceptable to the President. Does that make sense? Well, it’s Bush and Cheney talking, so I’d have to say No.
January 29th, 2007 at 4:16 pmBush and Cheney, the King and Queen of denial.
January 29th, 2007 at 4:18 pmBoth bush & cheney together make two glasses full of bulls***!!
January 29th, 2007 at 4:20 pmstefan,
that is a good point; excpet for popular opinion the war is “enormously succesfull”.
The image I have is a Half of glass that is full; kind of lowering the expectations rational like Roger*2
January 29th, 2007 at 4:25 pmYou can certainly have success yet find yourself in a place not acceptable.
Comment by Roger_Roger — January 29, 2007 @ 3:03 pm
Only if you grow a conscience….
These sociopaths have no such thing.
January 29th, 2007 at 4:28 pmIf it is his plan, well hell, it is half full even when empty.
January 29th, 2007 at 4:28 pmWhat’s there for HIM to complain about?
Comment by stefan — January 29, 2007 @ 4:14 pm
Good point! From where he resides, it is all good news.
January 29th, 2007 at 4:30 pmThe adage: Half glass full simply doesn’t cut it when it means that someone is lying through his teeth. Denial is not just a river in Egypt! Obviously, Cheney is lying again!!
January 29th, 2007 at 4:30 pmBut, then, Cheney is a “half glass full” kind-of-guy….his booze glass was always “half full” on the day of his hunting trip where he was so impaired that he shot his buddy in the face….so, yes, one would have to “literally” say that Cheney’s glass is always “half full” …..
January 29th, 2007 at 4:32 pmBush: Cheney Is A ‘Half-Glass-Full’ Kinda Guy
Cheney: Bush Is A `Half Glass Empty ” Kinda Guy When It Copmes To Drinking
January 29th, 2007 at 4:33 pmHow can Bush continue to look like such a jackass when he has to make up these idiotic, inane lies to cover the butts of his cronies and misfits? He looks like a bigger fool doing it. Is there no nadir to which this guy will stoop to making himself look like a bigger buffoon?
January 29th, 2007 at 4:33 pm“Cheney is a ‘person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.’â€
Bush is a “person reflecting a half-brain-full mentality.â€
January 29th, 2007 at 4:34 pmCheney’s heart condition is technically responsible for not pumping enough blood to his brain - hence, his narcolepsia when attending speech-related functions….he’s suffering from senile dementia and is impaired most of the time. Now he’s delusional at best in making this ridiculously untrue statement (does he think people are as out of touch as he is?)…..senile at worst!
January 29th, 2007 at 4:35 pmYeah, his glass pipe is only half full, someone load him up.
January 29th, 2007 at 4:36 pmSaying a glass that is actually half-full is “half-full” is being an optimist. Cheney is offering people a glass that is empty, or almost-empty and trying to convince them they should be greatful they are getting so much to drink.
That’s just flat-out lying.
January 29th, 2007 at 4:37 pmBush looks like he just ripped a big ol’ stinky one, and the crowd has yet to smell it.
January 29th, 2007 at 4:37 pmCheney is a “person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.â€
After hearing our “leaders” speak like this, we’re all bound to be persons with half glass full mentalities…as in, “Bartender, gimme half a glass of [Jack, Jim, {name yer poison}]”
January 29th, 2007 at 4:38 pmAre Dumbo’s ears getting larger and more pointed or his head shrinking? Just wondering…??
January 29th, 2007 at 4:45 pmCheney and all the other war profiteers have had, indeed, enormous successes. No doubt that that. It’s just that the American people, over 3,000 dead troops, 22,000 injured troops, and 600,000 dead and injured Iraqi ciizens haven’t been having so much success.
Push for impeachment and conviction of both of them. We are running out of time!
January 29th, 2007 at 4:46 pmCheney has to lie all the time, there’s no other way for him to interface with the human race.
January 29th, 2007 at 4:47 pmI am sorry Mr. President; was that “half-glass-full” or “Half-ass-fool”?
January 29th, 2007 at 4:57 pmYes, Cheney is half full of lies and half full of insanity. Now, Bush, he is a full kind of guy… fully illiterate, fully insane, fully full of lies, fully stupid and fully a dry drunk.
January 29th, 2007 at 5:00 pmIsn’t it great to live in country run by complete nincompoops?
January 29th, 2007 at 5:07 pmHECK OF A JOB DICKY.
January 29th, 2007 at 5:10 pm(Followed shortly by VP being fired)
Another nugget of delusion by das fuhrer
January 29th, 2007 at 5:11 pmI think people are being awfully hard ont he shrub. Maybe he was trying to be honest and meant to say Cheney is a “Half-ass…”
See how easy it is to give a man the benefit of the doubt?
January 29th, 2007 at 5:43 pmNo Bush fool, Cheney is a creepy criminal kinda guy!
January 29th, 2007 at 6:16 pmThat is exactly what I was thinking when I read this.
January 29th, 2007 at 6:23 pmthat NPR interview was amazing. without a script, Bush really sounds bad. Especially with questions he hasn’t rehersed an answer for. Deer in the Headlights.
January 29th, 2007 at 6:25 pmjuan also pointed out dubya’s mistake, many times over, of referring to the “DEMOCRAT party”… knowing full well it’s the DEMOCRATIC PARTY, he has only repeated what he’s been drilled…
January 29th, 2007 at 6:47 pmand tried to blame texas… “i don’t pronounce words real good” (paraphrased)
…
Well, katy, since Bush keeps saying the Democrat Party, I keep saying the Republic Party. It’s that simple :)
January 29th, 2007 at 7:46 pm“You know, Juan, Dick’s gotta a haffa glass full mentality. Kinda like when you shoot your hunting partner’s face into prime chuck with buckshot and he almostest dies, but he don’t. Then from his blood-soaked hospital bed apologies to YOU, and guess what? Tomorrow will be another sunny quail huntin’ day.
Or when you tell your chief of staff to lie to invest’gators about some spy thinga-mah-bobble. Fool gets his-self indicted and put on trial AND YOU DON’TIT! Magiclistical. Gotta love the guy.
Speakin’ of glass half-full, top me off with a little Jack, wontcha?”
January 29th, 2007 at 9:10 pmBack Your Watch, Smirkey. Chensaw will ruin your presidency..
January 29th, 2007 at 9:11 pmHalf glass full? Uhh…okay…
You know, if I could shoot an old man in the face, screw the country and not even pretend to do otherwise and get away with everything I did I’d be a “half glass full” kind of guy myself.
January 29th, 2007 at 9:44 pmWell at least Cheney didn’t kill the old man…
January 29th, 2007 at 10:30 pmThe glass was really entirely full the day before. Cheney took 3 shots at it and still only hit half the glass.
That’s what Bush was really talking about.
January 30th, 2007 at 3:45 amThis comment is far less damaging than Bush’s response to a question from an enlisted man. The question “What do we do if sending in more troops doesn’t work?” Bush replied “A lot of people are looking at this in a negative way, We need to move ahead feeling like it’s going to work…” There is the biggest argument against the plan. There is no plan in place if it doesn’t work. That’s what got us into this mess in the first place. Are we expecting this group of 21,500 to be greeted as liberators? If you want to embolden the enemy keep up this kind of wishfull thinking. They are eating it up. Why hasn’t the press picked up on this. Headline “Bush asks American People to “feel” like this is going to work.”
January 30th, 2007 at 11:15 amBeing a half full glass guy is why the republican women polled said Mr. dick was a sexy guy .Who would have believed it ?
January 30th, 2007 at 11:56 amGood one Ben ! Got real good laugh outa that one.
January 30th, 2007 at 11:58 amMr. Cheney knows the facts and sees the progress that is truly being made in Iraq…yes its not complete yet…we are fighting an unconventional enemy…we will probably be fighting them for the remainder of our lives…they are training their children that we are no better than animals and we should be killed. I’d rather them be fighting it out over there than over here. After reading thru call the comments there is not one comment
from someone that has looked at the facts and they are only spoken in
bumper stickers that do not have America’s best interest in mind but just enjoy feeding their hateful spirits.
May God Bless America and Each and Everyone of You.
January 30th, 2007 at 1:30 pmI hope you will be enlightened someday.
Patti Eisenhut -
Rather than fight them in Iraq, why not Afghanistan? Why not Egypt (where most of the 911 hijackers were from)? Why not Saudi Arabia (where most of the 911 hijackers got their passports)? Why Iraq? What did the people of Iraq (now that Saddam is gone) ever do to deserve this?
January 30th, 2007 at 5:58 pmAs for Cheney he’s always seemed like such a cheery optimistic glass-half-full kind of guy.
January 30th, 2007 at 6:00 pm#s 6, 12 & 22:
January 31st, 2007 at 2:11 amAK47, it’s not a weapon, it’s the disposal of 186 tons of, I assume, Iraqi explosives, you know, the ones they left unguarded after the rush to Baghdad so they could be grabbed by the “insurgents” and used against our boys & girls. I googled “Paladin ASP,” turns out that’s some kind of base near Fallujah. See mohaa2ndcorps.com/gallery.
Cheney would make a top knotch dictator. He has been pulling President Bush’s strings since day one.
January 31st, 2007 at 9:36 amThe war has been a great success. The portfolios of this bunch have never looked better.
January 31st, 2007 at 1:06 pmHalf Glass Full??? LOL
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:34 pmWe have a moron running the country. Someone call this imbicle and tell him the term is “Glass Half Full”
What an ass!
Where is the other half of the glass? Oh, it is the empty one, y’know the one for gays and Latinos…
February 3rd, 2007 at 1:42 amI am non-resident of USA and I don’t know what does it means Half Glass Full mentality. Can any of you explain it in a simple way?
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one moron year.
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