Cheney: ‘I Don’t Have Any Idea’ Why People Don’t Like Me
Cheney: ‘I Don’t Have Any Idea’ Why People Don’t Like Me
Only 29 percent of Americans approve of the job Dick Cheney is doing as Vice President. In an interview with his hometown Wyoming newspaper, The Caspar Star-Tribune, Cheney expressed his bewilderment over his low approval numbers:
QUESTION: How do you explain your low approval rating?
CHENEY: I don’t have any idea. I don’t follow the polls.
My experience has been over the years that if you govern based upon poll numbers, upon trying to improve your overall poll ratings, people I’ve encountered who do that are people who won’t make tough decisions. And the job the president has and those who advise him is to make those basic fundamental decisions for the nation that nobody else is authorized or able to make.
In addition to his well-documented abuse of power and disregard for the rule of law, Cheney’s public disapproval ratings might be explained in part by his own personal disregard for the public. When told that two-thirds of Americans disapproved of the Iraq war, Cheney responded “so?,” adding that he didn’t care what the American people thought.
While he says he doesn’t follow the polls, Cheney was all too proud to state shortly after the 2004 elections: “President George W. Bush won the greatest number of popular votes of any presidential candidate in history.” (That’s no longer true.)
Cheney is still holding out hope, however, that the polls will turn his way. He said recently, “I’m personally persuaded that this president and this administration will look very good 20 or 30 years down the road in light of what we’ve been able to accomplish.”
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– - Geeze TP, it’s really disingenuous when you paraphrase quotes by people. And it happens far too often.
December 28th, 2008 at 6:27 pmSeems a little silly to “have no idea.” What arrogance.
December 28th, 2008 at 6:29 pmBecause you’re evil???
December 28th, 2008 at 6:32 pmCheney = moron.
December 28th, 2008 at 6:34 pmCheney’s not saying he “has no idea” why people don’t like him — he’s saying he doesn’t care.
December 28th, 2008 at 6:36 pmCheney’s approval rating is lower than Baskins-Robbins 31 ice cram flavor stores. Gee, ya think? Not a surprised. He could care less about the American people. Dick only loves Dick. A man with no heart.
December 28th, 2008 at 6:45 pmPeople are also scared that he’ll shoot them.
December 28th, 2008 at 6:50 pmWhat is wrong with 29 percent of America? RepubliCon stooges, I guess.
December 28th, 2008 at 6:58 pmWow! Dick granted an interview to the Caspar Star-Trubine? I read that one right after the Chicago Tribune.
Was the Corpus Christi Caller-Times too busy? After all, they got to break the Harry Whittington story.
December 28th, 2008 at 7:00 pmHey Dick, could the fact that you are a Traitor and a prikc have anything to do with your lack of popularity? Not that you give a good crap what us peons, the citizens of the USA thin.
December 28th, 2008 at 7:04 pmthin=think….oops.
December 28th, 2008 at 7:05 pmCHENEY: I don’t have any idea.
December 28th, 2008 at 7:09 pmTranslation: I don’t give a flying f_ck.
Somebody please knock that hat off with a thrown shoe. He’s even giving white cowboy hats a bad name. Too bad you won’t be around in 20 or 30 years to see what people think of you. My guess….Greedy, ruthless, traitor who helped run the USA into the ground. Pretty close to right for eternity.
December 28th, 2008 at 7:10 pmCheney’s approval rating is about 29 percent in this poll (it was 18 percent not long ago). Chimpy’s approval rating hovers around 30 percent. Curiously 30 percent of the American public watches Fixed Noise Channel for their primary news source. Think there’s a relationship?
December 28th, 2008 at 7:11 pmToo bad Harry Whittington doesn’t drink as much or just a more careful person.
December 28th, 2008 at 7:12 pmDickie, sweetheart, you need a black cowboy hat to round out the bad-ass look.
White is just so ‘girly’.
And, ps, go Cheney yourself.
December 28th, 2008 at 7:15 pmFive deferment chicken hawk chicken $hit money overseas tax evading scammer bad shot drunk war profiteer pig traitor.
December 28th, 2008 at 7:15 pmBald, fat souless.
December 28th, 2008 at 7:16 pmLIAR
December 28th, 2008 at 7:18 pmHe took the lowest most underhanded, dare I say Evil choice, when he made those “tough” decisions. Out a CIA agent to punish a political foe who was merely telling the truth. Lie about threats to the USA. Torture to get the answers that are expedient. Profit over fairness. Secrecy to avoid being responsible.
December 28th, 2008 at 7:40 pmNothing I have to add will affect the political, historical, or philosophical discussion on this topic…
Dick Cheney is the absolute worst example of a human being this planet could ever hope to create. He is the most opportunistic, greedy, self-absorbed, power hungry, power mad individual a republic could ever hope to produce…
…until the next one.
Seriously, he is the most suckiest suck of the most sucky administration to ever suck suckititude.
Suck it, Dick.
December 28th, 2008 at 7:44 pmFortunately for him, he likely won’t be around in 20-30 years to find out.
December 28th, 2008 at 7:44 pmHe still has 21 days to screw things up more.
He knows the reason for the hatred, but in reality, Dick doesn’t give a sh*t. His net worth has gone from approx. $29 mil in 2000 to what in 2008? $100-$200 million? Just don’t call it war profiteering.
December 28th, 2008 at 7:47 pmMaybe that’s why they kicked him out of Yale… twice!
“Say goodnight, Dick.”
“Goodnight, Dick.”
[Emphasis on the Dick...]
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December 28th, 2008 at 7:57 pmMaybe they don’t like crooks?
December 28th, 2008 at 8:01 pmI find quite amusing the right-wing strawman about people “who govern according to polls”.
It’s a cynical attempt to paint unpopularity as heroic, and popular politicians who serve the public’s interest (read: Democrats) as pandering pantywaists afraid of making “tough decisions”.
Cheney doesn’t realize that overall approval ratings are based not on individual decisions, but rather on long-established public perception, largely influenced by the disastrous turns on which this administration has taken this country.
Basically, he’s full of shit.
And the crap about having no idea why he’s unpopular? Just more Republican lionization of Ignorance.
December 28th, 2008 at 8:08 pmHe said recently, “I’m personally persuaded that this president and this administration will look very good 20 or 30 years down the road…”
Can’t argue with that–with any luck at all they’ll both be dead by then; a very good look, indeed.
December 28th, 2008 at 8:09 pmCheney and Rumsfeld are (hopefully) the last of the Nixon Curse.
Farewell Putsch/Chicanery.
(I guess they’re both a lot richer now than they were before they stole the 2000 Election, left the country wide open to attack on 9/11 and waged aggression against a sovereign nation–a war crime–to gain excessive ill-gotten war profits for themselves and their cronies and wet their beaks in the Iraqi oil patch.)
The American People are such sentimental rubes hayseeds and suckers. Bush/Cheney probably will look a lot better 30 years from now. Bad guys like them always do. Depending on who writes the histories of course.
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December 28th, 2008 at 8:10 pm“I’m personally persuaded that this president and this administration will look very good 20 or 30 years down the road in light of what we’ve been able to accomplish.”
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
20-30 years???
BEHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!
PAH-FUKKIN-THETIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 28th, 2008 at 8:11 pm“I’m personally persuaded that this president and this administration will look very good 20 or 30 years down the road…”
That’s putting an awful lot of faith in nostalgia, ain’t it?
I mean, after all, it’s been thirty years since disco, and THAT doesn’t look very good in retrospect.
December 28th, 2008 at 8:15 pmYou don’t know why no one likes you? Well let’s see if we can figure it out. Your a war monger. A war profiteer. Your a liar, you are corrupt and the real thing when it comes to evil. Evil is a concept that is not thought of often these days. But sometimes it does fit. Sometimes it is the only word you can use to describe someone or something as an end product of evil.
You have shown no empathy, no compassion for your fellow human beings. You have committed treason, you have tried to destroy the Constitution in the process. You have been arrogant, greedy and uncaring in your dealings with others. You also have a foul mouth and your personal crudeness of mind and speech is there for all to see and hear.
You are a sick piece of work. And you and Bush came together in some dark symbiotic relationship that allowed both of you to do the unthinkable. Separately you might not have had the power to do what has been done. But sometimes fate throws a curve ball, and two entities meet and match that should never have met. Like recognizing like. And worst of all, you don’t see it. Like most Republican neocons, you see nothing past your own interests and those of your friends.
You are the height of selfishness and cruelty. You help to cause pain and devastation for others, while you stand outside without being touched by what you do.
This is why no one likes you.
December 28th, 2008 at 8:25 pm“I’m personally persuaded that this president and this administration will look very good 20 or 30 years down the road…”
Easy for him to say. He won’t be the guy cleaning up behind this circus elephant of an administration.
If he’s right and these are indeed looked back at as the “good old days”, boy are we in trouble.
Goodnight Dick
December 28th, 2008 at 8:33 pmI’m going to have to give dickie credit for this one.
The further back in history this decade goes the better it will look to everyone…….this is definatly something we just want to put behind us and forget.
December 28th, 2008 at 8:51 pmSame old repug line. If you don’t like my cake now wait 20-30 yrs it will taste better.
repugs you can wait a million yrs and it will only get worse.
how silly is this 20-30 yrs bs? Idiots! Just that saying will be around to taunt the repugs.
Let me know when nixon, raygun and pappy chimpy get the positive recognition they think they should have. We are waiting for nixon to come up roses.
December 28th, 2008 at 8:57 pmthis president and this administration will look very good 20 or 30 years down the road in light of what we’ve been able to accomplish.”
yeah, it will take that long for the country to recover from the damage you’ve done!!!
December 28th, 2008 at 9:02 pmSatan will explain to Dick how proud he is of him and he did a hellava job welcome. Then Nixon, Hitler, Stalin even Saddam can greet him in hell and show him around. Not long Dick will be joined by others in the Bush Administration. It’s be a good time for the GOP to have fun and have those who think like them in one place. Satan doesn’t discriminate either so Connie will be right at home. No need for a coat or sweater as it’s hot as hell in hell.
December 28th, 2008 at 9:07 pmIf Cheney owned up to the fact that he is very disliked and why, he would be telling the truth for once…. never happen.
December 28th, 2008 at 9:08 pmDuring WTC disasters cheney ran under the bed like a scared little punk while the repug prez stared like he was looking at boobs for the first time.
How will that be improved in 50 yrs?
December 28th, 2008 at 9:11 pmCheney’s the kind of politician the constitution was supposed to protect us against. We haven’t seen the like since Aaron Burr got out of town ahead of a noose. He makes Cromwell look like a moderate and Rodrigro Borgia look like a patriot.
Arrogance, cyncism, and too close-minded to even begin to understand the harm he has done to his country.
December 28th, 2008 at 9:13 pmIn times of need, especially after looking at Cheney I go here and the shock, horrors and nausea vanishes.
December 28th, 2008 at 9:19 pmWell i am sure Dick thinks he will be vindicated when the US becomes a totally fascist militarized state (his perfect dream) and builds shrines to its corporate overlords (the Energy and Water companies) and memorials to Dick and friends who opened the portals for this wave of tyrants and neo-feudal lords of capital.
December 28th, 2008 at 9:45 pmBecause you belong in jail, idiot. Constitution? What constitution? Never read it have you, jerk?
December 28th, 2008 at 9:49 pmMy mother told me that I should never do anything that I would regret later on. That’s been a guiding light since I was a child.
December 28th, 2008 at 9:55 pmDon;t you see the upside to this? Cheney both knows and admits that people don’t like him. This is tremendous progress.
Bubbles:
December 28th, 2008 at 10:11 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Ocbt6l5NE
If you have no idea why everybody dislikes you why don’t you just ask…I would be glad to tell you; you are the most arrogant, disrespectful person ever to hold public office and you think everyone is stupid EXCEPT YOU!
December 28th, 2008 at 10:21 pmYou know what, Dick? 20 or 30 years from now people are going to hate you even more. You can’t keep all the bodies buried forever.
December 28th, 2008 at 10:27 pmMy fervent wish is that he does live 20 to thirty years to know that what he thinks about his reputation will not change. By then he will be 88 to 98. I doubt if his heart will last that long.
December 28th, 2008 at 10:29 pmthe reaction of people
who meet dick for the
first time has always been
the same.
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hate dick,
love the hat.
^
December 28th, 2008 at 10:42 pmAll I can say is, his name fits him so well!
December 28th, 2008 at 10:54 pmThus proving what most of us already suspected: Cheney is self-centered, amoral, ego maniac, who has no idea (nor care) about what he does, how it affects others, or how others react to what he does.
The proper term for this condition is psychopath or sociopath: A person with an antisocial personality disorder, manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior without empathy or remorse.
Mr. Cheney could be the poster child for this. And he should be institutionalized, preferably in a prison somewhere far away for a very long time.
December 28th, 2008 at 11:01 pmThis guy will go down in history as a very evil scumbag whose heartbeats are sustained by greed and evil power.
December 28th, 2008 at 11:43 pmWhy does Cheney … & Rice & Bush etc. have no idea how much people hate them?? They only listen to Fox “News, the only so-called news station that tells them they are loved & adored, while in reality, they are loathed & ridiculed.
December 29th, 2008 at 1:04 amChaney quote from above: “I’m personally persuaded that this president and this administration will look very good 20 or 30 years down the road in light of what we’ve been able to accomplish.”
I agree with Chaney here. He along with the rest of the Bush administration will serve for decades as a fine example of what we can never afford to elect into office again, lest we destroy our country by doing so.
People don’t keep history in mind long enough to avoid repeating it, unfortunately, but people will remember this evil, evil cadre for a long time to come. Hopefully, it will be a very long time before we have to experience anything like a Bush administration again. But it’s terrible that the price of this future reminder is so high.
December 29th, 2008 at 1:08 amThieves care little about who they are stealing from.
War Criminals, even less.
December 29th, 2008 at 2:02 amAnd to think, all this goodiness got started with a stolen election.
R_B
December 29th, 2008 at 5:42 amAssclowns of the Week #74: Dropping the Crystal Ball Edition is up.
Roastin’ with the chestnuts: George W. Bush, SEC Chairman Chris Cox, Chip Saltsman, Ann Coulter, Dick Cheney and much, much more. Happy New Years.
December 29th, 2008 at 7:29 amSince it is always the victorious who write history, it is entirely possible–probable; indeed, inevitable–that in 20 or 30 years the Busheviks WILL be highly regarded and warmly remembered, for either/both of two reasons: 1) Things will have deteriorated to such an extent in the interim that their regime will seem to have been ‘happpy times,’ and/or 2) Their ‘agenda’ will have proven the durable model of the future performance of the subsequent regimes the Bosses insall: that is, they will have ‘won,’ and Bushe will be admired for having begun the contest…
But, yes, in 30 years, if the Nation survives, there is a very good chance that the Boosh regime will be warmly remembered, despite our current feelings and understandings…
December 29th, 2008 at 8:29 amAnd the job the president has and those who advise him is to make those basic fundamental decisions for the nation that nobody is authorized or able to make.
There, fixed it for ya, Dickster.
December 29th, 2008 at 10:45 amIf he doesn’t “follow polls,” then he’s got no basis whatsoever for claiming they’ll eventually improve. Sorry Dick, you don’t follow polls, so you’re not even an informed layman on the subject. Maybe if you had some slight idea what the polls said, you could pontificate on what they’ll say later on.
December 29th, 2008 at 10:47 amWe the People to Cheney:
SO?
December 29th, 2008 at 12:29 pmWhat A Maroon! The Worst Vice President and the Worst President Ever! Come on 1/20/09!
December 29th, 2008 at 12:32 pmSome more comedy from Dick:
“There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.”
“It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.”
“The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world’s oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.”
(Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid might have paid more attention to these nuggets.)
“We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.”
(an oldie but a goodie)
“The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations’ wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over.”(if you take his constant disdane for average citizens as “anti-Western hatred” we can assume that he is being introspective here)
“There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.”
Ah Dick, the question most patriotic Americans ask is not how you and your pet will be perceived in 50-100 years it is whether you and Chimpy will die in prison or in exile.
December 29th, 2008 at 12:49 pm“I’m personally persuaded that this president and this administration will look very good 20 or 30 years down the road in light of what we’ve been able to accomplish.”
I think the issue is not how good he will look, it’s a question of if anyone will even remember him.
Seriously… off the top of your head, could you name the VPOTUS under Gerald Ford?? A little easy…
Let’s go back farther, how about under Herbert Hoover? William McKinley? Anyone want to take a stab at Benjamin Harrisons’ VP, anyone??
I think we all can take slight consolation in knowing that Cheney will become all but wasted ink in our history books as he fades into obscurity.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:57 pmHave you considered that it might be that stupid hat? Imus has one of those too and he is a total asswipe…
December 29th, 2008 at 4:59 pmI don’t like you because you sir are satan, & I am a Christian. Your soul will be judged someday & I am glad that your soul is not mine.
December 29th, 2008 at 7:09 pmYou just don’t know Dick !
Cheney isn’t even curious enough to ask any of us why he is liked about as much as a second coming of Hitler.
December 29th, 2008 at 7:37 pmSpeaking for the intelligent minority…I’m damn glad that we have leaders with balls like DC. 71% of the people think that the bad guys (aka al queda) will just go away if we wish for peace). The rest of us know that, although we can’t win the war on terrorism, the only way we can lose it is to run away.
Here’s hoping for an uneventful next four years until DC is the next president of the US of A!
December 29th, 2008 at 8:09 pmIn an alternate universe, Dickles was refused his fifth deferment, went to Vietnam and emerged a better man, valuing honor and integrity. Now, how do I get over to that alternate universe?
December 29th, 2008 at 9:12 pm“I Don’t Have Any Idea Why People Don’t Like Me”
How ’bout you and your company making so much bloody blood money on this bloody war for a start!
How ’bout that, Dick?
December 29th, 2008 at 9:41 pmYou DONT know why people dont like you? Let me help you out. Because you are evil. Because you are a liar who helped trash the constitution. Because you have a subhuman lack of decency. Take your pick any of those reasons will do nicely
December 30th, 2008 at 2:50 amI can see where Cheney has a problem making “tough decisions”.. It’s real hard to follow the Constitution while serving your masters. Tough call….DICK
December 30th, 2008 at 12:10 pmWith his bad ticker, he’s already got a foot in the grave. If he lasts 10 more years, he’ll probably lose his mind before his family rushes to bury his coffin and start splitting the money he stole from us!
December 30th, 2008 at 8:37 pmHe knows why people don’t like him, he just doesn’t give a rat’s a$$. The biggest mystery is how on earth does he have a 28% approval rating?!?! To quote Jerry Seinfeld, “Who are these people?!”
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