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Dick Cheney

The Vice President will attend the inauguration in a wheel chair, completing his transformation into Mr. Potter from "It's a Wonderful Life."

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  • 1

    Karen,
    This news is surreal! The war monger and previously most powerful man in America reduced to publically appearing in a wheel chair. HA HA HA HA !

    If this were a comic book or comic book movie he would reappear shortly as some sort of evil villian.

  • 2

    Funny, I'd have said Dr. Strangelove.

  • 3

    Can we take away his healthcare? Now!

  • 4

    Dick Cheney reminds me of both Mr. Potter and C. Montgomery Burns. I heard an unsubstantiated rumor that Cheney is working on his autobiography, "Will There Ever Be a Rainbow?."

  • 5

    That is so funny and, of course, reminds me of the classic lost ending to It's A Wonderful Life.

  • 6

    Dick Cheney, because he d!cked us.

  • 7

    Anything to not stand for the new President.

  • 8

    Is this the most ironic event in world history? Gotta be close...

    http://www.political-buzz.com/

  • 9

    Hopefully, crazy old Uncle Hank won't misplace the rest of that TARP money for Potter/Cheney to find and hide away....

  • 10

    @Coffee: :-D Win!

  • 11

    Someone beat me to the Dr. Strangelove reference...

  • 12

    The guy hurt his back moving boxes and the liberal peanut gallery erupts in applause. This really shows hows pathetic and desperate you guys are. If Michelle Obama gets cervical cancer, you guys going to whoop and holler over that, too?

  • 13

    @onlystandstoreason1-- as usual you folks go straight to a black woman's private anatomical parts in a such a matter of fact way that you don't even realize how historically inappropriate it is. Bipartisanship aside, go jump off a f@#king cliff.

  • 14

    Dee, but it's okay for you and your ilk to make fun of white guys?
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    Historically inappropriate? Puke.
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    Stop playing, "How have I been victimized" and deal with the facts. You liberals seem to think it's okay to jump on people and when there's retaliation, you cry, "Unfair!"
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    Stop being a pussy or stop getting in people's faces with your hatred.

  • 15

    Of course the question is: why is Dick Cheney moving boxes? I mean: he has no aides or assistants to do that? Odd.

  • 16

    I don't think it's odd, manual labor is good for you. And depending on what he was moving, over exerting oneself happens a lot when moving.
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    I just don't understand why you'd make fun of someone's injury. That seems catty and immature.

  • 17

    The wheelchair is a nice touch and can be interpreted as a crippled presidency being wheeled out, but I'd rather see him strapped to a gurney with a mask on like Hannibal Lecter.

  • 18

    Nice, sacredh, what if I said I can't wait for Obama to be chained like a gorilla?
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  • 19

    @onlystandstoreason1 -- after having brought our country to its knees joking about Cheney's loss of power literally and metaphorically is probably fitting and not at all about making fun of white guys. Its about processing the damage done by one supremely pompous Dick Cheney. You on the other hand are being deliberately disrespectful in a manner that white men have been doing since they raped the first slave woman. Why you would chose to go where you went says a lot more about you personally than anything about your political persuasions. Own it your crap and don't try to justify your remark by saying well Liberals were making fun of Cheney.

  • 20

    @onlystandstoreason1 "Nice, sacredh, what if I said I can't wait for Obama to be chained like a gorilla?"
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    So no matter what anyone says racially tinged remarks is all you got?

  • 21

    onlystandstoreason1, I would say that you are exercizing your constitutional right of freedom of speech. I would also say that your wait will be a long one. May I suggest that you hold your breath until that happens? Leave a note explaining to your loved ones why you are blue and passed out on the floor. Scatter some cushions first. I wouldn't want you to get hurt.

  • 22

    So, when you make fun of people, it's "processing damage", but I when I do the same in return (only to make the point that it's wrong), it's an indictment of my character. You really are ignorant, sistah, I would never make fun of someone for getting cancer, just like I would never make fun of someone with a back injury. Certainly you should oppose anything reprehensible in Cheney's actions, but why make fun of him in a wheelchair?

  • 23

    >So no matter what anyone says racially tinged remarks is all you got?

    You liberals think you can throw bombs "Cheney should be strapped by Hannibal" but be immune from being called out on it. Your justifications for your own offensive remarks is to call someone else offensive. Your tactics are transparent.

  • 24

    @onlystandstoreason1 -- see here is where you blow y9our cover, You call me ignorant but it is you that uses the term sistah with such disdain exposes your racial animus. You talk about making fun of Cheney's injury but I don't believe anyone said ha ha Cheney hurt his back. They were acknowledging the irony of the imagery of the most powerful man or the crippled presidency appearing in a weakened state on the very last day. Now maybe in your world that is the same as making fun of someone for having cancer but I guess your world is rather intellectually challenged. Oh and by the way -- you are the only one who brought up cancer, cervical or otherwise. You brought up gorilla too so don't get angry because your statement lead other to call your character into question.

  • 25

    ok, so let me this right, sistah, Karen Tumulty wasn't making fun of Cheney, she was "acknowledging the irony of his imagery".
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    Your reaching pretty far on this one!

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