Poor Dick! The Average Person Can't Really Understand --->>>

[Stephanie]

The poor Dick is misunderstood! And it's still Whittington's fault. You average people just don't get it.

Heart attack quiets joking
VP's hunting victim in ICU after setback

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Cheney is understandably reported to be sick at heart over the accident. "He feels terrible about it," a source said.

Another GOP source told the Daily News that Cheney has been telling friends the average person probably can't comprehend the situation. "He knows most people don't understand how things like this can happen," the source said. "But people who are hunters understand it. This guy was in a place he shouldn't be."

Cheney, who has a tendency to keep out of sight, stayed away from reporters even as the news broke that Whittington was in worse shape than the White House had originally let on. Cheney rushed back to the White House from a Capitol Hill meeting after learning Whittington would undergo a cardiac catheterization, a procedure in which a miniature camera is threaded through an artery into the heart.

The elderly lawyer was moved back into the intensive care unit at a Corpus Christi hospital. Cheney spoke with Whittington about 1:30 p.m. and "wished Mr. Whittington well and asked if there was anything he needed," his office said in a statement. "The vice president said that he stood ready to assist."

It was the only comment Cheney's office has made about the shooting.

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The White House hopes the story will fade in a couple of days. If it doesn't, one Bush adviser said, "Cheney should think about having a press conference early next week."

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/391495p-332043c.html

[robbedvoter]

1. Damn you ruffians! When, of, when, will you understand the Dickiness of it

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

19. Could not resist

[0007]

24. You're so bad.......yet so good.

[robbedvoter]

28. Funny!

:rofl:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

31. thank you, but for some reason the color

died.

[robbedvoter]

32. Reminded me of "Peeves wuz 'ere" - writing in a mirror on JK Rowlings

website (peeves was a nasty poltergeist)

[tuvor]

2. cheney feels so baaaaad...

...he can't bring himself to make a public statement.

Poor guy.

[milky]

17. cheney feels so baaaaad

I was involved in an accident that injured someone. I thought I'd killed them at the time and I couldn't drive, work or go outside due to depression. I understand he's the VP but being in his shoes once I know that the pain does not go away in days. Thank God the person lived although she got 2 million from the company I worked for when she sued. It was failure to secure load in my company truck and an object penetrated her window and hit her in the head. I was issued a 4 point ticket. Should I have gotten more than that? I don't know. All I know is that I cried and my heart sank to my shoes that day and I was that way for many weeks. I really don't understand where the attacks are coming from since the cops were called immediately and treatment from the White House staff was given immediately. I hope you guys don't actually believe he was trying to kill his friend but to claim he's covering it up may be a far stretch. I don't believe he thought this incident would not come to light. He just didn't feel like making a public statement for one reason and that is depression and sorrow. If I had to make a public statement about my accident I would have broken down in tears and perhaps that is why Cheney has not come forth yet. Perhaps he is more concerned with his friends welfare than hurrying up and calling every reporter he knows so that they can start making fun like they have since the accident. All I have seen is jokes about this and I know I wouldn't have been in a hurry to be ridiculed for something I believed I had no control over. Hindsight, yes there's always that feeling that had I done this or that things would have been different. Did I think that way because I was afraid of prosecution or ridicule? No, I feel that way because anyone who hurts someone in an accident feels horrible and wants to do nothing but sleep off the depression that follows.

[Stephanie]

18. your reaction to your accident is the polar opposite to what cheney did

Cheney let his medical staff treat Whittington, then the ambulance came, then Cheney went back to the ranch house and had a big dinner with guests where they discussed international affairs. They didn't talk about the guy Cheney shot. The ranch owner's family went to the hospital with Whittington, not Cheney. The next day Cheney attended a big quail lunch on the ranch, with guests. Late that afternoon, just before flying home, he dropped by the hospital to visit Whittington. He wasn't too distraught to enjoy a big dinner party and a big luncheon party. He wasn't in a rush to go visit his so-called friend in the hospital. He didn't even delay his return to DC until he was sure his so-called friend was all right. Cheney's reaction doesn't sound anything like your reaction when you accidentally injured someone. Your reaction sounds human.

[Skittles]

22. you reacted like a normal human being

Cheney is not a normal human being

[JeffR]

3. "a press conference early next week"

Yeah, that'll be just the thing.

[txindy]

4. Uh, no, Darth, hunters do NOT "understand" the lie you're telling.

Not even in Texas. Your base is royally PO'd.

"Responsibility yours, Cheney; stand up and take it"
http://www.statesman.com/sports/content/sports/stories/other/02/14leggettcolumn.html

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. Still blaming the guy who he SHOT IN THE FACE and not only

that, but he is getting others to help him out with that! And we're suppose to believe that he feels terrible about it? Right! Sure! :eyes:

[havocmom]

14. What he feels bad about is that nobody is buying the crap he's sellin!

And he is getting a funny twitch that is sayin 'Dick, you might not weasel outta this one. There is come-uppance in your future, and knocking Lynn up isn't gonna get you outta facing this fight.'

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. LOL! With all the dishonorable crap he's pulled and this is what

sticks? I bet he's wishing he had stayed in the car. For that matter, I am betting that his victim feels the same.

[havocmom]

20. Keep AL Capone in mind

;)

[Stephanie]

26. What are they saying in Montana?

I bet they think Dick's a freaking idiot with a rifle.

[havocmom]

27. Haven't been out and about too much, but what I have heard

indicates nobody is buying "30 yards" They are all too familiar with the scatter of shot at various distances to think Whittington's compact hit zone was done much beyond a few feet.

Some doubt about 'no alcohol involved'. More & more landowners here are denying permission to hunters because of all the alcohol related problems in the recent past. They are fully aware of pretenders to being manly men out of sight of the usual inhibiting factors behaving badly more often than not.

Canned hunt? Caged birds? ::spit:: Oh, they are pretty colorful on THAT part of the issue. Real men don't do canned hunts.

Heard a couple women wondering about where Mrs. Cheney was ;)

People here all know if someone shows up for medical treatment due to a shooting, the law will be by SOON. This bit about turning the cops away until a more convenient time has my husband's contacts all doing :wtf:

Oh, and Steph, LAST week, before all this happened, a life long GOP type rancher initiated a conversation by walking into a room and announcing "Guess I am no longer a Republican". He then went through quite a laundry list of how he does not approve of what the junta and GOP Congress has been doing, how it violated everything the Republican Party he joined years ago stood for, and offended his personal standards. Now, YOU know these folks don't usually waltz into a room and start that sort of diatribe!

On Burns: talk of tar and feathers and refuting his 'the DEMS are making me look bad' ads with chatter about quid pro quo re the change of vote on worker protection in the Marianas after getting the $$ from an Abramoff client. They also don't like the shit of 'give the money back' by giving it to some other charity. They wanna know if the pol is also taking a tax deduction for that 'gift' and just who is in the chosen charities and what are the safeguards about making sure the money isn't just being laundered. (Oh, I have been a busy, busy girl, putting bugs in this ear and bees in that bonnet;) )

Oh, and just this morning, woman at post office opening her mail said 'The Republican Women are having a luncheon and want me to bring someone new to meet them...' Told her I was NOT the girl for the job. She replied that she didn't think she would ever go again herself.

The times, they are a changin...

[Stephanie]

29. You should post that part about the hunters' talk as a thread

It's pretty interesting. Especially as Cheney claims only a hunter would understand him.

Who's your candidate against Burns? My family hates Burns - he cost my mom her job when he beat Melcher.

[havocmom]

30. Morrison & Tester on DEM side.

Thinking the GOP would really like Burns to spend more time with his family so they could trot out a telegenic dark horse without much of a history ;)

Folks here abouts are saying 'To hell with seniority, we need some honest people to send to Washington.' That should give you an idea how bad off Burns is with the real people.
Drop into the MT forum for some clues :D

[RandomKoolzip]

6. Funny that conservatives love to blame the victim, since...

they get so much mileage from playing the victim, i.e. the supposed "persecution" of Christians, the supposed "marginalization" of Conservative professors and academics, etc.

[peekaloo]

7. Poor Dick. Hasn't been able to eat or sleep since that guy got in

his way.

:sarcasm:

[Stephanie]

10. Well, except for the big quail lunch with guests on the ranch on Sunday

And of course the big dinner on the ranch Saturday night, where discussion was about foreign affairs. They were too busy dining to meet with the Sheriff, or make an announcement to the press. But aside from that he can hardly choke down a thing.

[peekaloo]

11. but he was chewing through tears!

made his food all salty and everything.

:sarcasm:

[txindy]

15. "...made his food all salty and everything."

:rofl:

:rofl:

[sasha031]

8. the parasite continues to become more disputable each moment

if that's possible, blame the victom..

[janx]

9. I can't believe this:

"But people who are hunters understand it. This guy was in a place he shouldn't be."

Anybody who has ever been taught to use a firearm realizes just how reckless and irresponsible Dick Cheney really was!

[Karenina]

12. Does that refer to average people who are hunters

(who overwhelmingly are HORRIFIED)

:tinfoilhat: OR :tinfoilhat:

"But people who are hunters understand it. This guy was in a place he shouldn't be."

Hunters of fortune??? (and their well-heeled cronies)???

A place he shouldn't be??? (in a position of knowing where the previous "bodies" were buried)??? see: Funeralgate

Enquiring minds want to know! :evilgrin:

[Straight Shooter]

13. "The White House hopes the story will fade in a couple of days."

That kind of says it all, doesn't it? Just step around the huge pile of BS and, before too long, no one will even notice it's there. Just like that huge stinking pile of WMD BS still sitting in the Oval Office.

[aden_nak]

21. "Most Americans don't understand how much it's the other guy's fault!"

Maybe Dick also needs to go for a ride.

[Julius Civitatus]

23. The "little people" don't get it, and BTW, it was the other guy's fault

That's what Cheney is saying, that we peasants can't possibly understand these things, that we "regular people" don't' have the capacity to comprehend such things...

Yet he turns around and still BLAMES THE GUY THAT HE SHOT IN THE FACE!!!!

Cheney is the type of scumbag that would never, ever be responsible for anything he fucks up. There's always some sucker around to take the blame.

[oldcoot]

25. Average people would probably be in jail

As others have posted on other threads, if Cheney was an average citizen he would be in deep trouble by now.

[kskiska]

33. I saw no tears in Cheney's eyes

Remember how they made Bill Clinton apologize over and over and over? But none of them were good enough. There was always something wrong. He wasn't contrite enough, he was angry at his accusors and lashed out at them, He never actually said the words "I'm sorry," and on and on.

Cheney was cold as ice, even as he tried to appear remorseful.