Obama: Cheney "the Crazy Uncle in the Attic"

[Hissyspit]

Source: CNN

November 3, 2007
Obama: Cheney "The crazy uncle in the attic"

SPARTANBURG, South Carolina (CNN)–At a campaign event saturday, Sen. Barack Obama called his distant cousin, Vice President Dick Cheney, "that crazy uncle in the attic."

Obama was referencing the recent revelation by the Vice President's wife, Lynne Cheney, that he and the vice president are distantly related.

"For the first time in a long time, the name George Bush will not appear on the ballot," he told the crowd of about 500 at Converse College in Spartanburg. "The name Dick Cheney, my cousin, will not appear on the ballot. We tried to hide the cousin thing. Everybody has a black sheep in the family. The crazy uncle in the attic."

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/03/obama-cheney-the-crazy-uncle-in-the-attic

[Demeter]

1. I f Cheney Stayed In the Attic, I'd Sleep Better

As would a lot of other good people around the world.

[0007]

2. Perhaps cheney believes that they, Obama & Cheney, were conquistadors

in Peru also!

[JohnnyLib2]

3. That may be a line for the ages!?

Although I wouldn't want LynnC comin' after me.

Recommended with glee.

[whistle]

20. When I first read your response I saw it as LunatiC Lynn

....that's just how my mind works, then I self corrected it, but after i decided my first perception was better:rofl:

[JohnnyLib2]

21. Heh, heh. Lets keep that in mind

in case the godawful Lynn-for-v.p. stories continue.

[Kermitt Gribble]

4. ...

:rofl: That's classic!

[truthisfreedom]

5. Offensive to crazy uncles everywhere. I know, because I am one.

He's a criminal, not crazy.

[EFerrari]

17. I'm not an uncle but had the same thought.

Thanks for the stigma, Senator Obama! :wtf:

[LWolf]

22. Criminal, not crazy.

Will Obama support his impeachment?

[Earth_First]

6. Gooooood morning, the worm, your honour...

The crown will plainly show,
The prisoner who now stands before you,
Was caught red-handed showing feelings.
Showing feelings of an almost human nature.
This will not do.

Call the schoolmaster!

I always said hed come to no good,
In the end, your honour.
If theyd let me have my way,
I could have flayed him into shape.
But my hands were tied.
The bleeding hearts and artists,
Let him get away with murder.
Let me hammer him today.

Crazy.
Toys in the attic, I am crazy.
Truly gone fishing.
They must have taken my marbles away.
(crazy. toys in the attic, he is crazy.)

You little shit, youre in it now.
I hope they throw away the key.
You shouldve talked to me more often than you did.
But no! you had to go your own way.
Have you broken any homes up lately?
Just five minutes, worm, your honour,
Him and me alone.

Baaaaaabe!
Come to mother, baby.
Let me hold you in my arms.
Mlord, I never meant for him to get in any trouble.
Whyd he ever have to leave me?
Worm, your honour, let me take him home.

Crazy.
Over the rainbow, I am crazy.
Bars in the window.
There must have been a door there in the wall.
For when I came in. . .
(crazy. over the rainbow, he is crazy.)

The evidence before the court is incontravertible.
Theres no need for the jury to retire.
In all my years of judging I have never heard before,
Of someone more deserving of the full penalty of the law.
The way you made them suffer,
Your exquisite wife and mother,
Fills me with the urge to deficate! -- no, judge, the jury!
Since, my friend, you have revealed your deepest fear,
I sentence you to be exposed before your peers.
Tear down the wall!

-Pink Floyd

[rodeodance]

7. wonder if the Wingers will ask him to say sorry?

[Kagemusha]

8. Why bother? Obama's not a viable Democratic candidate anymore.

Why bother?

[mark414]

11. he's not?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/29/clinton-obama-in-iowa-de_n_70220.html

[Kagemusha]

12. Self-deleted

I'm excessively venting.

[mark414]

14. okay...

no. that is not true at all.

"most democrats?" obama's unfavorable ratings among democrats, in any poll that i've seen, has never gone above (and is generally below) hillary clinton's unfavorable ratings, and edwards' too.

are you just making things up?

[Kagemusha]

15. I'm sorry, I've had vicious hatred of Obama pounded into my head on DU lately.

Over that McClurkin incident. And how it speaks of Obama's abysmal character and rejection of core Democratic Party values and how he's not qualified to be elected dog catcher.

And I'm seething from it every day because he was the only hope I had that we'd ever escape the vicious cycle of gloom and doom politics that seeks only to win, never to be better.

[mark414]

16. he can still do that....

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. Interesting location for the crazy relative

Not making any Jane Eyre references anywhere near this post...

:wow:

[StClone]

28. A Recent Classic too

"Space Balls the Movie," Cheney is Darth Vader? More like Dark Helmet.

[mcg]

31. "Obama… I am your cousin…" "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"

"Crazy uncle"–hilarious!
"Obama… I am your cousin…"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"
Posted By Hi! Flint, MI : November 3, 2007 11:18 am
from the link above
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/03/obama-cheney-the-crazy-uncle-in-the-attic/

[Hekate]

34. Don't let him near the matches! ... oh crap, too late for that, isn't it?

Ah, the Bronte Sisters knew about crazy relatives all right.

Hekate

[Vinca]

10. Cheney as a distant cousin turns out to be a gift to Obama.

Some of the lines he's been coming out with are hilarious.

[Kagemusha]

13. Self-deleted

Sorry. I'm in a really bad mood about the Obama issue.

[_Wayne_]

18. great line!

[ckimmy57]

19. thanks for the laugh

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[humbled_opinion]

23. Watch the spin... here it comes... Hillary will start claiming that

Obama will pick Cheney as his running mate....

LOL...

[windoe]

24. Uncle Fester

[dysfunctional press]

25. what a stupid reporter...obama didn't refer to cheney as a crazy uncle in the attic-

cheney is his distant cousin.

obama said that everybody has a black sheep in the family- "the crazy uncle in the attic" would be one example of that...so would the aunt with 86 cats...or the brother-in-law doing time for a b&e...but he wasn't calling cheney 'crazy uncle in the attic'.

just one more example of why what passes for actual journalism in this country is a complete disgrace.

[Rosemary2205]

26. You know the sad part?

My education was so poor that I didn't catch it. -- and I was a stellar student.

[TheDebbieDee]

27. Hahahahahahahahaha!

That is the BEST cheeney dis yet!

[IntravenousDemilo]

29. Which side of the Obama family is Cheney related to? Mom's or dad's?

;)

[Hekate]

35. I'd say the Kansas side of the family. I'm glad Obama's choosing humor and ridicule. nt

[pinto]

30. LOL.

Obama - 1
Cheney - undisclosed location

[upi402]

32. Pinhead and Jason in the backseat of the VW

:wow:
on acid and armed

[Hekate]

33. Oh jeez. Barack Obama owes me a new screen! ROFL

:spray: :rofl:

Hekate

[PurityOfEssence]

36. More like down in the furnace room with gasoline. Nice to hear him say it, though.

Just a little more than a year...

[warrior1]

37. but doesn't Obama and Clinton

still give them all the power they need? Calling him crazy, at this stage doesn't make sense. It also undermines the true danger of that man.

[Eurobabe]

38. LMAO!!

I can just here Barack saying this... :rofl:

[midnight armadillo]

39. Obama is all hat and no cattle on this one

So why doesn't he come out in support Kucinich's Cheney impeachment resolution and urge the House to pass it?