If he [Biden] wants to diminish the office of Vice-President, that’s obviously his call”

He did that by running and getting elected. It will continue.

Yea it would be great if Biden went around the Senate telling right-wing Republicans to eat **** and die, that would be awesome! That’s the kind of Senate where the work of the American people is effectively conducted. Brilliant.

bayam on December 22, 2008 at 12:55 PM

Look, seriously, into why he said it and what that weasel said to his face, then to the media, then back to his face, again. If you had such a ‘friend’ you should treat him even worse than Mr. Cheney did.

I’d approve of your suggestion if it were executed for similar reasons.

The Biden thing especially is rather childish at this point. It was a gaffe in the debate …

LevStrauss on December 22, 2008 at 12:16 PM

Uh…no.

Good grief.

Another commenter mentioned that it will be 20 years before historians are able to take a clear view backwards at the Bush administration, and I think that’s right.

Too much bias and venom is now invested in hating Bush and Cheney for any of them to see what we all know – that the last seven years of aggressive military action against the jihadis are the first seven years that any President has invested in this long, long overdue fight. We may not have been attacked again here in the U.S., but our interests continued to be attacked throughout the world. By changing the playing field, I think Bush did much to keep the country safer, despite O’Biden’s ignorant claim.

The Biden thing especially is rather childish at this point. It was a gaffe in the debate, usually things that insignificant have an expiration date of election day.

The Biden incident is well beyond a “gaffe”. If Biden were a lay person, then you could call it a gaffe, but to have someone, who’s been on the judiciary committee for umpteen years and allegedly teaches Constitutional Law, make such a mistake is inexcusable. That would be like a mathematician claiming, in a debate, that the square root of 2 isn’t irrational. It is a totally inexplicable and inexcusable mistake. … No, when you teach Constitutional Law (we’re assuming the US Constitution) and sit on the judiciary committee, you are expected to at least know the broad brush strokes of the Constitution.

But if its all you have left and you are being interviewed by a guy that won’t ask you any meaningful followup you might as well run with it.

LevStrauss on December 22, 2008 at 12:16 PM

Cheney has never had any problems with any interviewers or any debates. You can dream about him getting tripped up by questions and follow-ups all you want, but they will have to remain dreams of yours, since Cheney has a clear, consistent view of the world that comes across every time he speaks.

Now, the Precedent-Elect, or his retarded sidekick, hardly ever have any idea what they’re talking about and they count on the press “forgetting” their nearly non-stop torrent of gaffes, mistakes, lies, and generally moronic ideas.

Telling Lehey to go F Himself has got to go down in history as one of the best lines ever delivered by a sitting Vice President of the United States

Yea it would be great if Biden went around the Senate telling right-wing Republicans to eat **** and die, that would be awesome! That’s the kind of Senate where the work of the American people is effectively conducted. Brilliant.

The Biden thing especially is rather childish at this point. It was a gaffe in the debate, usually things that insignificant have an expiration date of election day. But if its all you have left and you are being interviewed by a guy that won’t ask you any meaningful followup you might as well run with it.

if the metaphorical “S%%% hits the fan” the next few years, Cheney may actually be viable at that point.

Now, if we could only figure out a way to articulate what Cheney represents, through the MSM filter and remain politically viable we will have made ‘real change’

jp on December 22, 2008 at 12:55 AM

Palin/Cheney 2012. Lock’n'load, let’s roll.

Actually, I think (from the train interview with Katie Couric) that Biden is suffering from the beginnings of dementia and won’t be in office long.

Alana on December 22, 2008 at 1:32 AM

Apparently not many people outside of Delaware know this, but Biden has had 2 brain aneurysms. Seriously. It could explain some of his drunk-like behavior on the campaign trail.

There’s definitely a blown fuse, or something else that’s “not right” beneath those hair plugs. I kind of feel sorry for the guy, but never enough to vote for him or cut him any slack now that he’s holding the second highest office on the planet. If he’s not capable for whatever reason, he should be replaced.

The Greatest Vice President ever!

Zorro on December 21, 2008 at 9:42 PM

Mega Dittos. Gonna miss him & GW .

Miss them already. Dang ! ! !

Nice to see Cheney come out swinging. Unlike Bush, his testicles are not in a lock box. He should go on the lecture circuit and drive the Left insane.

We have not heard the last of Dick Cheney.

I real man is about to leave office. God speed Dick Cheney. His wife rocks as well.