Cheney: "The Right Leader For This Moment In History Is Senator John McCain"
It isn't every day that the Obama campaign alerts reporters to a glowing endorsement of McCain, but Dick Cheney -- he of the approval rating in the teens -- is another matter.
So the Obama camp was quick to blast out to the press this vid of Cheney saying today that "the right leader for this moment in history is Senator John McCain":
Cheney's claim that McCain is the "right leader" for this particular moment is particularly interesting in light of the Arizona Senator's recent claim that he was "terribly disappointed" with the Bush administration on the economy and in light of his call for a "clean break" with the admin on energy. It'll be interesting to see if the McCain press operation highlights this particular endorsement.
Late Update: To be a bit clearer, either Cheney doesn't believe McCain's claims that he represents a change from Bush-Cheney policies, or Cheney thinks that a clean break from his own policies is what's called for right now. The latter doesn't seem terribly likely.
I'm John McCain and i approve this message.
November 1, 2008 1:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
THIS
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IS
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INCREDIBLE
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INEDIBLE
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INDELIBLE
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NEWS
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FOR
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THE DARK SIDE!!!
November 1, 2008 5:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
NODES!!
November 1, 2008 2:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
NEWS
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NEWS
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NEWS
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NEWS
November 1, 2008 2:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
"TPM is overloaded, please come back later" is what it said. I only pushed the button once, really!
November 1, 2008 2:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hah! Nice snark.
I'm glad they jumped on this. I was hoping they would, when I saw the headline at The Page.
November 1, 2008 1:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought they would, and they did! Yay :)
November 1, 2008 1:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cheney makes his home in Wilson WY (outside Jackson Hole) so it makes some sense that they would try an appearance somewhat off the National Radar there.
Bush is literally hiding-out between the White House and Camp David - So the National "leaders" of the GOP are either trying to stay away from their own Campaigners and/or they're bailing like mad trying to save the ship or they've already jumped out (trying to save their own reputations).
Seems to me that the conservative "intellectuals" are largely abandoned by their own rank-and-file,
while those "base" republicans want to make the Palin's & Plumbers the new voice of their movement; I fully expect a full throated backlash from these reactionary forces once Obama has won the election (as we should all expect that he will...) However, I don't think the "elites" of the GOP will be all that interested in attaching themselves to a movement led by racists and jingoists.
We have the Opportunity here to build a New Majority of our Own and Leave these Relics of a Dead Ideology somewhere in the last Century.
ps - where in CT are you from? I am from Westport.
November 1, 2008 4:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
O thank you, Darth!
Damn that was nice of you. You want to expand that into a nice 3 minute spot that the McLame Camp. can run in say, Penn and Az for the next 2 days?
November 1, 2008 1:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I see a nice little ad coming from the Obama camp featuring Dickhead :)
November 1, 2008 1:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
I stopped at the grocery store on my way home from work last night and standing just inside the door was a sales clerk dressed up as a witch and another one dressed up as Darth Vader. I walked up to Darth and I said, "Cheney, is that you?". All of the people around me started laughing their asses off.
The county I live in is about as red as it can be. It's nice to know that there are people who are paying attention.
November 1, 2008 2:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I stopped at the grocery store on my way home from work last night and standing just inside the door was a sales clerk dressed up as a witch and another one dressed up as Darth Vader. I walked up to Darth and I said, "Cheney, is that you?". All of the people around me started laughing their asses off.
The county I live in is about as red as it can be. It's nice to know that there are people who are paying attention.
November 1, 2008 2:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's like if bin Ladin came out for Obama. This means Cheney really want's Obama to win.
November 1, 2008 1:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bat - I agree with you. I think he does too.
ROFLMAO! Cheney isn't clueless like Cmmdr Coocoo has been - Cheney knows he's hated. I think he enjoys it.
I think he's doing this on purpose. LOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!1
November 1, 2008 1:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
He said McCain has "looked into the face of evil and not flinched."
Wow. Cheney still expects that he can make people flinch.
November 1, 2008 1:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cheney can and does make me flinch and he always will.
November 1, 2008 1:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Watsamatta U? Allergic to shotgun pellets?
November 1, 2008 2:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, but the Undead do.
November 1, 2008 2:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Flinch? No.
Wretch? Definitely.
November 1, 2008 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
But when did he do this? Look into the face of evil and not flinch?
When he was a POW and was broken? Is that "not flinching"?
And normally I wouldn't mention what McCain did to survive as a POW, but Cheney just put it right out there. As McCain has, as well. Not that anyone could ever use it, but I wonder if the American public knows that John McCain was broken as a prisoner?
November 1, 2008 2:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Totally agree.
You can talk about that, darlin. It's not a sacred cow, no matter how much some want it to be.
I know you read the Rolling Stone article - his career in the military, including his time in Hanoi, was a long goddamn way from honorable.
November 1, 2008 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't like referring to his POW experience because I really don't feel it's my place to judge his behavior.
You do what you need to do. Period. Whether that's refusing to cooperate, or cooperating. People never in that situation shouldn't be judging him.
It's the constant hypocrisy surrounding his experience that bothers me, particularly when his campaign tries to paint Obama as some sort of appeaser. But what else is new?
November 1, 2008 2:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I completely agree, CT. I don't judge him for what he did. I judge him for trying to paint it otherwise than it was.
That's where he went wrong -
November 1, 2008 2:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
The dark side is speaking to McGump . . . "it's not too late to make me your VP! Do it! Do it now!"
November 1, 2008 2:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is this not unlike Osama Bin Laden endorsing McCain?
November 1, 2008 2:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes.
November 1, 2008 2:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
FREAKING INCREDIBLE
November 1, 2008 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dickwad Cheney's tell...
November 1, 2008 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's obvious. By endorsing McCain, Cheney's 150% in the tank for his cousin, Barrack Obama. At least that's how Rick Davis will spin it ;)
November 1, 2008 2:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
the kiss of death.....
phew
now i can relax a little.
November 1, 2008 2:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
John McCain-"Country First"
Dick Cheney-"Family First" (Go cousin Barry!)
November 1, 2008 2:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cheney isn't looking too healthy. Hard to believe he is only 5 years older than W. He looks about the same age as the elder Bush.
I promise a raucous wake at my place the day his ticker is no longer able to take licking.
November 1, 2008 2:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is this not unlike Osama Bin Laden endorsing McCain?
November 1, 2008 2:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry about the double post there, system told me it was overwhelmed or something like that, and foolishly resubmitted...
November 1, 2008 2:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
At least it doesn't complain anymore about your nodes being unsuitable!
November 1, 2008 2:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've never gotten the nodes announcement.
I don't have any nodes, apparently, at all.
November 1, 2008 2:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree that was the kiss of death.
November 1, 2008 2:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
can anybody remember the last time an incumbent president and vice president remained so hidden while a member of their own party was trying to succeed them?
Perhaps Clinton when Gore ran in 2000, Gore made the fatal mistake of not running on Clinton's successful track record. But I don't think Clinton disappeared, did he?
It's really remarkable how little you see and hear of Bush/Cheney while McCain is running!
November 1, 2008 2:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cheney must really hate McCain.
November 1, 2008 2:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
First let me say thanks to you guys for working this weekend. {No}Dick Cheny,helps as much Sarah Palin, where is Lynn Cheny? Can you say jail cell for Bush and Cheny?
November 1, 2008 3:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Having Dick Cheney stump for your campaign is like trying to get a date with a pretty girl by showing her your stool sample.
November 1, 2008 3:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
That is a damn good poop joke, well played.
November 1, 2008 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
So the Obama campaign got Cheney out of his spider hole. Is there no limit to David Axelrod's powers? This is the man to find Osama bin Laden.
November 1, 2008 4:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was trying think of what Cheney meant by McCain looking "evil in the face without flinching" and the first that came to mind was that the two of them must have, at some point, made eye contact on the Senate floor.
November 1, 2008 5:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Haha, that's a good one.
November 1, 2008 6:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain needs to apologize to Walt Monegan for defamation of character. Alaska thinks so too.
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November 2, 2008 12:12 AM | Reply | Permalink