What happened to Dick Cheney?

[ColbertWatcher]

Compare these control photos from 2007...

March, 2007


May, 2007

...with these two recent pictures:

Cheney as he leaves George Washington University Hospital after being treated with an electric shock to address an abnormal heartbeat, Washington, D.C., 15 October, 2008.

Cheney after attending a closed-door intelligence briefing at the National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Maryland, 24 October, 2008.

Doesn't he look different?

What happened?

[Skink]

1. Nixon's work is done.

[JackBeck]

2. I hear being President ages an individual.

It's clear that he has serious health issues.

I hope he's in a lot of pain.

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Do you really want to know?

If the lying bastard has vanished, let it be.

[ColbertWatcher]

4. Yeah I want to know. Was it a heart attack? Stroke? He looks like he's lost a lot of weight! n/t

[Sebastian Doyle]

5. When was the last time we actually HEARD from Biggus Dickus??

If all they need is someone to stand in for the occasional appearance on camera (without speaking) they could have a Cheney stand in.

I still find it hard to believe that a creature who had at least 4 heart attacks before the 2000 election (and another right in the middle of the Florida theftapalooza)actually made it through 8 years. It obviously aged Chimpy, and he wasn't even actually in charge of anything.

[JDPriestly]

6. The lower pictures -- purportedly recent ones

look a little like Eisenhower. Maybe he had plastic surgery to look more like Eisenhower -- or maybe the pictures have been photo-opped.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.lamberspublications.com/testban_treaty.html&h=350&w=491&sz=88&hl=en&start=11&usg=__o_n6rLT9D9i6SfxXUYA2IdwKOg4=&tbnid=bBx87xXkuVO9RM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3DEisenhower%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

[ColbertWatcher]

9. "Purportedly?" Excuse me, I'll have you know I document the pictures I ridicule meticulously.

Here are the information pages about the last two images, complete with original sources and disclaimers:

http://www.wikiality.com/Image:DCheney10-15-2008.jpg?=0

http://www.wikiality.com/Image:DCheneyNSA10-24-2008.jpg?=0

[JDPriestly]

31. Wikiality? Truthiness?

[funflower]

7. He's lost some weight and aged a lot. It's hard being so hated around the world.

Seems he's been repudiated even by the Boy Chimp. All of his friends in the administration have been fired or otherwise humiliated. He's the ultimate lame duck.

[Submariner]

8. What happened?

My guess would be that when one is as corrupt, cowardly, and obnoxious a specimen of a human being as he is, he probably can't sleep soundly or restfully. Being the evil and cowardly piece of shit that he is, his immune system probably suffers from his inner depressions and some sort of self-loathing for being a traitor. Thus, his chest pump troubles and rotten demeanor.

I wish him and his puppet W many restless and sleepless nights, agonizing drunken spirals, and generally, a most miserable existence for the rest of their days.

To sum it up....he sucks.

[snot]

10. What I'D like to know is WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS

portfolio? What's he invested in NOW -- 'cause that's prolly what WE should invest in, if it's not too late.

As of 2 years ago, here's what was reported:

Cheney Betting on Economic Collapse?

July 6, 2006
Mike Whitney / Information Clearing House

“While Dick Cheney has proclaimed that “deficits don’t matter,” his investment strategy shows he’s not banking on the US economy. The US is $8.3 trillion in debt and has to borrow $2.5 billion a day to keep paying bills. Cheney knows that interest rates are going up and the dollar is headed for the dumpster. Cheney, along with many other US-based millionaires, has moved millions of dollars into European bond funds.

* * * * *

Take another look at Cheney’s investment strategy; it tells the whole ugly story. Interest rates are going up, the middle class is going down, and the poor dollar is headed for the dumpster. The country is not simply teetering on the brink of financial collapse; it is being thrust headfirst by the blackguards in office and their satrapies at Federal Reserve.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13851.htm

WASHINGTON (July 4, 2006) — Wouldn’t you like to know where Dick Cheney puts his money? Then you’d know whether his “deficits don’t matter” claim is just baloney or not.

Well, as it turns out, Kiplinger Magazine ran an article based on Cheney’s financial disclosure statement and, sure enough, found out that the VP is lying to the American people for the umpteenth time. Deficits do matter and Cheney has invested his money accordingly.

The article is called “Cheney’s Betting on Bad News” and provides an account of where Cheney has socked away more than $25 million. While the figures may be estimates, the investments are not. According to Tom Blackburn of the Palm Beach Post, Cheney has invested heavily in “a fund that specializes in short-term municipal bonds, a tax-exempt money market fund and an inflation protected securities fund. The first two hold up if interest rates rise with inflation. The third is protected against inflation.”

http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/know/read.php?itemid=4340

[ColbertWatcher]

12. That's a good question. Maybe the two are related?

Maybe he didn't invest as well as he thought he did and those pictures show how he's been handling the market these past few weeks!

[snot]

18. you're more optimistic than me.

[lonestarnot]

27. And that is prollee what happened to the Dick! ROFLMAO

It doesn't do any good to run and hide it when it will be worthless after all! :rofl:

[Poseidan]

11. the Chene's was fine until 15y's ago

When he lost a gasket. Neo-cons know the failure of liberalism, but not the failure of conservatism.

[ColbertWatcher]

13. "Neo-cons know the failure of liberalism"

What exactly do they "know?"

[JohnnyRingo]

14. Maybe it's his recent surgery

Few know, because fewer care, but when he had heart surgery earlier this month, they stopped his heart, operated on it, then restarted it. That's pretty serious, even with his excellent health care, and likely he's still recovering.

Remember how everyone in the media was wishing well for Nancy Reagan, but shined over news of Vlad The Impaler?
Of course I'm sure the media only knows what his press secretary tells them.

[ColbertWatcher]

15. The 3rd pic in the OP shows him walking out of the hospital after that operation.

The 4th pic is him 9 days later.

[machI]

16. Dick's busy right now

He is shredding documents, erasing computer files, deleting emails, funneling money into Swiss bank accounts. You know, the typical stuff Republicans do when they leave office.

[ColbertWatcher]

17. I mean, based on the pictures. n/t

[shadowknows69]

19. His vile spirit has inhabited Palin already

[ColbertWatcher]

21. Leaving his body an empty vessel? n/t

[shadowknows69]

22. Ever read "Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D"?

LMDs
<http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Life+Model+Decoy>

[ColbertWatcher]

23. It's been a long, long time! n/t

[DemoTex]

20. The Picture of Dorian Gray

Cheney's sins are catching up with him.

[tomg]

24. It's just jet lag. Those quarterly

trips to to Hell to present his report take a lot out of him.

[MiniMe]

25. Well, he looks bad coming out of the hospital, no makeup and no lighting

But he is coming out of the hospital after being sedated and having his heart shocked. I think anybody would look bad.

I was going to go snarky and answer that the warrenty on his crash cart runs out on 1/20/09, but I'll just leave it in the body of the message.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

26. Look at the pic here- posted here a few weeks ago

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=4080774
looks rather emaciated

[ColbertWatcher]

29. True, his jacket looks like it's just falling off him.

But, the reason I posted those particular pictures is because he doesn't have his signature snear on his face; it's gaunt.

[salguine]

28. Hell, that's nothing. You should see the portrait of him in his attic.

[ColbertWatcher]

30. LOL! n/t

[lutefisk]

32. If, God forbid, Vice-President Cheney were to expire, here's the music for his funeral

An excerpt from Bob Dylan's song:

You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins

How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG443N7lo4Q&feature=related

http://www.bobdylan.com/#/songs/masters-war

[Neshanic]

33. I don't see a difference. Same old "Fuck you" look.

[blogslut]

34. Dude's lost weight

I imagine that the last heart procedure took a toll. I wouldn't call him emaciated but his color's not a good as it once was. The lack of fat in the face could explain the reduction of his nasal-labial folds and his less squinty-looking eyes.

[ColbertWatcher]

35. Yes.

He's getting older and losing lots of weight.

Although, I wonder if it's only his heart that's causing him problems, or maybe he's suffering from something else?

[TWiley]

36. Maybe that is his security double

If he actually died, would Pelosi get bumped into his spot? That would be an untenable position for bush.

[mmonk]

37. He was sent back to the factory for spare parts and adjustments.

He has been recalibrated for post administration years.