Cheney: Obama and Clinton are ‘wannabes.’
By on Mar 25th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Cheney: Obama and Clinton are ‘wannabes.’
In an interview with ABC News yesterday, Vice President Dick Cheney asserted that President Bush “carries the biggest burden” of the Iraq war and even compared staying the course in Iraq to the pardoning of President Nixon. But Cheney also took time out to insult Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) for “announc[ing] that the solution in Iraq is to withdraw,” calling them “wannabes.” Watch it:
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Dick Cheney is a mad man and a murderer.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:19 pmWell, in the strictest sense of the term, yes, they are “wannabes” because they both “wanna be” president.
However, I think the Dick was using the term in the pejorative sense, which illustrates either his desperation or his diminishing mental capacity reflected in a limited vocabulary.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:19 pmHe nailed the trifecta in dumbass out of touch blatherings.
Way to go (you) Dick.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:20 pm…but that Cheerleader Prince, now, he’s the real deal!
sure thing, Dick
March 25th, 2008 at 12:22 pm2 US soldiers killed in Afghanistan and 36 oiltankers blown up
March 25th, 2008 at 12:22 pmWhen logic and facts fail, be a bully. It’s the republican way.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:22 pmYes Dick, “wannabe” as in, “I don’t wannabe in Vietnam!!”
March 25th, 2008 at 12:22 pmWhen he mentions pulling out of Afghanistan, he must be referring to his decision and boy Bush’s decision to place 90% our military operations in Iraq and leave 10% with Afghanistan. After all, the Taliban is regaining control in Afghanistan and where the heck is Osama bin Laden?
March 25th, 2008 at 12:22 pmI guess he can afford to be so nasty and arrogant because he knows nothing will ever be done - there will be no accountability.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:24 pmToo bad for you Dick. One of those “wannabes” is a “gunnabe”.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:24 pmBetter hope you shredded everything….
Suspected militants in Pakistan have attacked oil tankers supplying fuel to foreign forces in Afghanistan, destroying 36 tankers and wounding up to 70 people
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1655062
March 25th, 2008 at 12:25 pmI thought he was gonna keel over mid-sentence.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:27 pmU forgot me Dick….I wannabe a watchin’ when they do that Saddam Hussein Gallows thingy on’ya.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:27 pmObama and Clinton are ‘wannabes’
Be that as it may, Cheney is a Dickhead!
March 25th, 2008 at 12:27 pmThank you Mr. Mondale:
March 25th, 2008 at 12:29 pm“Better hope you shredded everything…”
Well said, Wayne. Sadly, though, I fear nobody in the Bush Crime Family will EVER be held accountable, beyond the slap on the wrist received by Scooter.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:29 pmMore from the most evil person in the world….Can we have a break from this piece of shit, please…Stop putting up every damn word the lord of death speak’s…Like rat’s, if they are not fed they die off….Blessings
March 25th, 2008 at 12:30 pmWTF is he talking about — “that’s exactly what happened in Afghanistan”? Is he conceding that we never should have pulled forces out of Afghanistan in order to invade Iraq? Somehow, I don’t think so.
I can’t imagine who thinks Cheney is doing the GOP any good with these comments; the only people who will be nodding their heads and muttering, “yup, yup” are the mouthbreathers who still think Bush is doing a heck of a job. If I was strategizing for the Republicans, I’d tell him to shut it and keep a low profile until November.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:30 pmIf I were you, Dick, on January 21st, 2009, I’d seek to avoid accountablity by hoping that the fourth heart attack will be the charm.
Goodbye, you clogged rump.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:31 pmgummitch Says:
March 25th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
I can’t imagine who thinks Cheney is doing the GOP any good with these comments; the only people who will be nodding their heads and muttering, “yup, yup” are the mouthbreathers who still think Bush is doing a heck of a job. If I was strategizing for the Republicans, I’d tell him to shut it and keep a low profile until November.
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Hmmm…maybe Cheney has been hypnotized by the Democrats to spew this twaddle until the election. If he doesn’t shut his piehole, most Americans will be reminded this is exactly the mindset they are trying to get away from.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:35 pmThis time around, the October surprise is going to be an attack on Iran (prompted by a false-flag op)
Sheeple will be nervous and easy to manipulate, and they will use that to whisk McMaverick into office.
Righties are going to bring about global apocalypse, one way or the other. They know for a fact the sheeple are too meek to do a goddamned thing about it.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:36 pmI agree Witch1 - Cheney makes me sick. Just looking at his picture negatively affects my immune system.
“He’ll make a decision based on what he thinks it takes to succeed” he said in that interview talking about Bush.
I’m pretty sure he MEANT to say, “He’ll do what I tell him to do.”
There were so many lies in that interview!
March 25th, 2008 at 12:36 pmSays the chickenhawk with five deferments.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:37 pmToo bad this man has access to better healthcare than the rest of us.
Well said gummitch. I’m hoping the more Cheney speaks the more people see just how out of touch and dangerous he has been. I do hope people see that all who side with him (and the republican party) are the problem and not working towards the solution.
Bush, Cheney and this administration has damaged the GOP for years to come. Now we need to get the democrats to focus on what’s good for this country and get past their in house bickering and have a united front.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:38 pmOf course, Cheney was using the term in the pejorative sense — suggesting in a sneering way that Clinton and Obama are woefully unqualified and their chances of getting elected are laughable, without saying so in so many words.
All presidential candidates are “wannabes” — when was the last time a party had to draft a candidate and then drag him kicking and screaming to the White House?
And let’s not forget that Cheney himself was a “wannabe” — so bad that when tasked with searching for the most appropriate veep candidate for Bush, he came up with…himself!
March 25th, 2008 at 12:40 pmSatan is a wannabe Dick Cheney.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:41 pmThe NYT asks:
One thing’s for sure, NYT - we know a Conservative can’t and won’t.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:41 pmSo?
http://bodyofwar.com/
March 25th, 2008 at 12:43 pmDick’s superiority complex is really laughable. According to him he’s always right and always the smartest guy in the room. What a dickhead.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:46 pmWatch it: … Watch it: !! ??
Hey! I’d like to keep my breakfast down.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:48 pmMaybe they don’t wannabe a 5 deferment, draft dodging, War Criminal like yourself, DICK. They just wannabe a better President than we have now, and by the way Bush set the bar so low on that, that flying freaking monkeys could do better.
Bush/Cheney
March 25th, 2008 at 12:48 pmHague Trials ‘09
Didn’t Cheney insult John Edwards in the 2006 debates in just the same manner?
What an arrogant prick! He’s fubared the entire 8 years and has the gall to call ANYONE else a wannabe?
He’s not even a wannabe human.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:49 pmHow did Martha Raddatz keep her jaw off the floor during this interview?
March 25th, 2008 at 12:51 pmI wannabe free of the stench of bush/cheney.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:52 pmOnly 301 days left.
No Dick you are a wanna be soldier. You were too coward to fight during Viet Nam, so you fight with other people children. Only a coward like you would make such a statment. You are the most unpopular Vice President in US history and you have the nerve to question someone else?
March 25th, 2008 at 12:54 pm‘wannabes’
Someone not classified as a neonut is unelectable, according to the clogged rump. Having a president who isn’t a hothead is radical, according to the clogged rump.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:54 pmThe only thing Dick is qualified for is pencil sharpener fu(ker.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:55 pmDear DICK,
Name calling is no substitute for rational argumentation based on reasons. Some, even many people may fall for it, but it means exactly nothing.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:55 pmSo…?
March 25th, 2008 at 12:55 pmWar Criminal Profiteer Dick ‘Strap-on-Dildo’ Cheney I want you JAILED AND EXECUTED!
March 25th, 2008 at 12:57 pmOn January 20th, 2009, Dickhead Cheney, you will walk out of the frying pan and into the fire. You’ll be reminded as to who you were supposed to be working for.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:59 pmOne thing that Tweety has been dead on when it comes to liberals and Democrats. We need to know how to wage a battle of ridicule. We need to publicly laugh at Cheney and Bush.
Call Cheney a coward when it comes to his own patriotism. Yes, five deferment Cheney would not risk his life, however, you are suckers for letting him risk your sons and daughters to make him feel like a man to make up for his cowardice.
Call Bush the wannabe. Talk about wannabe’s - Bush wanted to be the great Commander-In-Chief and look at how he screwed up Iraq. Even the Republicans in Congress admit that he was incompetent. Look at the great free market, global deal maker. Yeah, old wanabe Bush will be the only president to have two recessions in on presidency. Look at the great domestic leader. Old wanabe Bush did so well in saving the country from Katrina.
Then we need to take on McCain. However, this kind of response to the absolute pigs that occupy the White House should be instantaneous, consistent and constant. We need to set the narrative.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:00 pmFlag the extremist troll before it takes a series of craps on yet another thread.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:01 pmAccording to the constitution, Bush is still a wannabe president.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:03 pmYeah, they wanna be WAR CRIMINALS like Bush and Cheney, but NO ONE is more EVIL than THEM.
I’m going to enjoy SMASHING THEIR FACES IN for ETERNITY!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
March 25th, 2008 at 1:05 pmMy reply to Cheney’s assertion Bush owns the “biggest burden”
“Cheney Is Wrong, As Usual” http://swimmingfreestyle.typepad.com/ swimming_freestyle/ 2008/ 03/ the-day-shouldn.html
March 25th, 2008 at 1:08 pmWell said JMOHR. I have already done this when confronting the ones that still cling to the neocon dream and are willing to stand up for their beliefs.
The incompetence from this administration is undeniable. The single minded power grab is exposed once you point out the failure after failure of this administration.
My question to every republican is how can they square themselves behind a candidate that they thought was worse than Bush back in 2000?
March 25th, 2008 at 1:10 pmFor all of the idiots who defend this idiot, ask yourself one question. Where was he during Viet Nam? Why did he ask for a receive deferment after deferment? Why did President Bush join the Texas Air National Guard instead of going to Viet Nam? If they believe in war so much, then why didn’t they fight when they were young healthy men? There was a draft back then, but both Cheney and Bush avoided it. Why? They expect young men now to volunteer to fight their war, but they wouldn’t fight their (Viet Nam) war. I can question them because I served right after Viet Nam in 1975 until the 1980s and I wanted to go to Viet Nam as a young man, but wasn’t old enough. Not only that three of my brothers also served in the Military including my oldest brother who was drafted as fought in Viet Nam. My uncle also fought in Viet Nam. I visited the Viet Nam wall to honor a family friend who died during Viet Nam. His name was “McIllvery Mays”, look for his name on the wall if you go. He was only 18 years old when he died in 1966, so believe me I know what I’m talking about. Many of the young men I knew served in Viet Nam, and many of the soldiers I served with in the Army during the 1970s were Viet Nam veterans including both of my Drill Sergeant in basic training. I saw the scars they suffered both physically and mentally. I always looked up to and honored them. I sam a Army Sergeant Major with drinking problem because of Viet Nam over 12 years afer the war. He drank everyday because he fought for over 6 years in Viet Nam. This man was my hero, but that war clearly had a negative effect on his life. When he was forced to go into rehab or be forceably discharged, I almost cried.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:12 pmcaredmanI Says:
March 25th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Clinton is a big fat Phony!! She only Misspoke 4 time’s. That happens to the best of us!!
And misvoted once, in 2002.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:12 pmDoes anyone actually care what this idiot has to say? He hasn’t opened his mouth once in seven years that the actuall truth or facts have ever gotten in the way of his comments. He’s been wrong about everything from day one. I’m sorry i wasted a minute of my life to even read his laterst bullshit.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:13 pmYou are right. He has absolutely no desire to be human. That is plainly obvious.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:14 pmDo I hear heart attack #6?
March 25th, 2008 at 1:14 pmA little OT but, a good short read.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:15 pmhttp://www.michaelmoore.com/ words/ message/ index.php?id=224
pure evil.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:15 pmDick-
Now that your career of selling out this country for Big Profits with your favorite charity, Halliburton/KBR, is coming to a close, have you gotten your retirement palace picked out in Omar yet? Or will you be moving with the Bush clan to Paraguay?
I so look forward to seeing this coward begging for his miserable life when he’s being sentenced for his crimes against humanity.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:16 pmjmcdonough120 Says:
March 25th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
There is no greater burden than carrying the decision of the ultimate sacrifice by a loved one.
Cheney has no right to diminish the suffering and the “burden” that the families of all soldiers are dealing with now and for the rest of their lives.
At the end of their term (god willing) this administration will be given the proper exit they deserve. No matter what the law and god decide for them it will not equal the pain these true patriots experience.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:16 pmBoy, when this piece of shit finally leaves the Crime House, they will have to do some mighty exterminating.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:19 pmDick “5 Vietnam Draft deferments” Cheney has no credibility, none whatsoever, on the Iraq issue — or any war issue for that matter. Aside from being wrong on every aspect of his and Bush’s disastrous decision to invade Iraq, this is the cowardly ass-hat who, while braver and less fortunate kids were dying in the rice paddies of southeast Asia “had other priorities” like racking up a couple of DWI’s and knocking up his high-school sweetheart. Cheney ought to shut his sickly pie-hole and just stick to duties he’s good at - you know - like getting sh%t-faced and unloading a round of buckshot in his friend’s faces.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:20 pmCan you imagine the World Party when this piece of shit dies?
March 25th, 2008 at 1:23 pm“terribly damaging on it’s face.”
March 25th, 2008 at 1:24 pmKind of like a shotgun blast of birdshot from your drunk hunting buddy?
Shadow; well said. But I do question your desire to want to go to Vietnam. General Sherman said “war is hell”, and he never left America. Trust me on this, you NEVER want to go to war, you said yourself that you’ve seen what it does to people.
I’ve seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness- Alan Ginsberg
March 25th, 2008 at 1:25 pmDick resents anyone who might actually win the Presidency - something that always eluded him despite his bloody lust for power.
Dick is a “nevergonnabe”, and that hurts him.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:27 pmWould someone please stuff this fat pompous ass into his man size safe. And burn the combination card. Quick.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:33 pmHope Cheney continues to step out of the shadows, throwing insults left and right, reminding people what an insensitive heartless bastard he is.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:41 pmI disagree RU, Cheney should not be allowed to be “safe” now or after this administration leaves. I want him accountable and to be that he has to be accessible.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:43 pm… calling them “wannabes.” Watch it:
THAT was in the first 3 seconds…
what was all the rest for??? TP, your motives are showing…
i think THIS would be an excellent story:
Clinton Lie Kills Her Credibility on Trade Policy
boy, if only ohio had known about this earlier…
HEY, PENNSYLVANIA - PAY ATTENTION!
March 25th, 2008 at 1:48 pm“wannabe”?
March 25th, 2008 at 1:49 pmlooks to me like Dick’s been watching his Spice Girls video in his undisclosed location.
Why do people give this evil man a forum? Everything he says is insulting to the citizens of this country.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:55 pmIn another unfortunate case of premature Iraq elation, the Wall Street Journal last week celebrated the decline and fall of Iraqi Shiite leader Moqtada Al-Sadr. Echoing the “bring ‘em on” taunt of their former boss, ex-Bush advisers Dan Senor and Roman Martinez triumphantly asked “Whatever Happened to Moqtada?” But as the renewed turmoil in Baghdad and violent chaos in Basra suggest, the answer may be, “he’s back.”
For the details, see:
March 25th, 2008 at 1:59 pm“Moqtada Al-Sadr Answers the Wall Street Journal.”
Cheney will soon be a hasbeen
March 25th, 2008 at 2:01 pmHmmm….considering that this man (and I use that term really loosely) has been absolutely wrong on every aspect pertaining to this war, why would his opinion have any credence? It doesn’t. Go away and count your money you heartless bitter sub-human.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:03 pmMy guess is he gets off on being the most hated person on the planet.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:07 pmPBS’s Frontline did a 2 1/2 hour show last night called ‘Bush’s War’. The second part runs tonight, I believe.
Cheney is everywhere in it. From the point he recommends himself for VP, to where he stiffs Colon Powell & has Libby write the UN speech, ad nauseum.
Big Dick comes across as, well, a big dick.
Watch it if you have time or interest. Even though it’s a little like re-living a nightmare, they’ve done a good job producing it.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:08 pmIf ABC insists on giving The Dick a microphone it could at least ask VP Cheney to evaluate the performance of Sec Def Cheney in 1991 when he insisted that the war to free Kuwait’s oil did not justify overthrowing Saddam’s regime. Did he simply “misspeak” in 1991? For that matter it could ask why Sec Def Cheney failed to notice the increasing instability in Afghanistan that followed the Soviet withdrawal and eventual collapse of the puppet communist government — all of which happened on his watch.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:10 pmI think they have the wrong voltage hooked up to this guy’s pacemaker. Something is very wrong. One psychologist mentioned that heart medication can screw up the process of thinking straight. Looks like this is his case study.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:12 pm#76 zimzone
“Watch it if you have time or interest. Even though it’s a little like re-living a nightmare, they’ve done a good job producing it.”
I agree - even though I am not learning anything I didn’t know, this is a good review and well-done production. Unfortunately, people who would do well to watch this and learn a little something about this adminsitration are off watching the stars dance, or re-runs of their favorite sitcom.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:20 pmCheney is a wannabe member of the human race. Unfortunately he has failed miserably at that too.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:23 pmTo borrow a phrase - “Obama and Clinton are ‘wannabes’.” said the alledged human.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:26 pmLet me get this straight…Dick Cheney a “neo-Reaganite”, in claiming that “that is exactly what happened in Afghanistan”, actually criticized a policy of Ronald Reagan?!!! Wow, this is news!!! Cheney is now off the reservation.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:31 pmtruly a very sick man…wait…is that a chimpanzee
March 25th, 2008 at 2:42 pmsitting next to him?
The War Criminal Dick Chenney has no credibility left. He is the animal who said Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of WMD, the ‘inssurgency’ was on its last throes(I call them freedom fighters because they are trying to liberate their country from an occupation), He is the TRAITOR who worked together with the scumbag ROVE outing one of their own, He lied about everything from the begining, and continue to LIE about IRAN! He is one of the pundits from PNAC, and knew about the ‘new Pearl Habour’… he never testified under oath! He should be given a black hood and an orange suit, taken to Syria for an America style interrogation (aproved by themselves) before taken to HAGUE! Not to mention his incriminating actions on 9/11! WAR CRIMINAL! That guy who told this animal to F….off in New Orleans when dick was posin for a photo op is a heroe!
March 25th, 2008 at 2:54 pmWhen will these dinosaurs become extinct?
March 25th, 2008 at 2:55 pmMarch 25th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
# 61
March 25th, 2008 at 2:59 pmI agree!!!! I’ll celebrate when this guy get cancer! If he day I’ll have a real big party!!!!!
…sorry my spelling… ‘I agree! I’ll celebrate when this animal gets cancer! If he dies, I’ll have a real big party!
March 25th, 2008 at 3:04 pmNoticed htey never speak in public?!!! They said many times :’The American people this… The American people that… but I dare him or Bush to come out in public and feel the FORCE!
March 25th, 2008 at 3:08 pmIt is early in the morning here in Sydney… My spelling is dreadful: Noticed they never speak in public?!!!
March 25th, 2008 at 3:11 pmDo us and the rest of the World a favor Dicky… SHOOT YOURSELF!
March 25th, 2008 at 3:24 pmI’m still so stunned by the statement that Bush carries the biggest burden of the war that I can’t respond with a logical statement.
March 25th, 2008 at 4:05 pmTom Baker:
Dick is a “nevergonnabe”, and that hurts him.
You just know that when Dick self-selected himself as VP, it was because he’d figured the Kid would mess up so badly they’d impeach, and there would sit Dick, smiling and waving as he walked into the White House as President Dick. But like everything else he’s involved in, the plan took a drunken-shotgun blast to the face.
March 25th, 2008 at 7:10 pmThat is one Dick that needs the Loraina Bobitt treatment…Really!
March 25th, 2008 at 7:42 pm69 Katy says.
As she campaigns now, Clinton says, “I have been a critic of NAFTA from the very beginning.”
But the White House records confirm that this is not true.
Her statement is, to be precise, a lie.
When it comes to the essential test of the trade debate, Clinton has been identified as a liar — a put-in-boldface-type “L-I-A-R” liar.
And a corporate whore.
March 25th, 2008 at 7:49 pmDead man talking and a walkin. Lie down Dick, lie down you are dead to us Freddo.
March 25th, 2008 at 7:51 pmDennis Kucinch and others wanted to impeach him, but the rest of the DUMB-ocrats, like Billery, et. al. didn’t want to. When the rest of us are asked to do above our normal work duties, we call it multi-tasking or the like. If your a Congress person, it’s called politics as usual. It must be nice to be in a job where you’re not held accountable for your actions…or lack there of.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:27 pmHey, how many of you would pay to see Veep Cheney being waterboarded? It’s not torture.
As I told my Senator, I don’t mind if Dicky stays until the end of his term, provided he’s tried for treason. That’s a capital offense, afterall.