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DU to Dick Cheney: Drop Dead

posted at 3:28 pm on July 18, 2010 by

Despite Barack Obama’s promise to usher in a new era of bipartisanship, the bitter divisions in our country are fiercer than ever. The president bears at least some responsibility for the current climate of distrust and hatred inasmuch as he has been in attack mode against Republicans and anyone else who opposes his agenda since taking office.

Sad evidence of how extreme the divide has become can be found at the message boards of the liberal website Democratic Underground, where commenters recently saw fit to send “get ill” messages to former Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney, who is recovering from heart surgery, has long been the target of liberal antipathy, but some of the comments posted are over the top even for liberals. Some are too obscene to repeat. Here are a few of the more “restrained” reactions:

  • I hope Dick is in pain and drowning in his own fluids.
  • don’t worry, he’ll shoot someone in the face and then steal their heart while they are writhing in pain from the buck shot.
  • I hope he dies a slow death. The amount of pain due that man would be no where close to what he deserves.
  • I’m not going to feel anything but intense gratitude that this miserable bastard has stepped off this earthly coil! Really! And I’m sure on a much lesser scale when I die, there will probably be some of you right-wing flip tops who will feel the same way—I frankly don’t give a damn!
  • Cheney is a murderer. He’s a killer. He’s a torturer. He is evil personified! He is a walking mass of horror and when he’s gone, this planet will be cleaner!

Introducing a note of irony into this spew of rampant hatred directed at another human being, David Allen, an administrator at the website, recently posted a lengthy set of rules proscribing “Inappropriate attacks against Democrats” and especially the president. A specific example of off-limit language was “Calling Barack Obama ‘Barry’ or some other name.”

Just to make sure I’m following, it is impermissible to call the president by a name by which he referred to himself throughout much of his early life, but it is not off-limits to wish a former Vice President dead.

Stay classy, my liberal friends.

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This isn’t new. Nixon, Reagan, Charleton Heston, you name ‘em, they celebrated, in the most vile ways.

Part of the problem is they can’t tell the difference between a competitor and a deadly enemy. They “feel” the same about someone with different ideas that they do someone who actually tried to kill them.

The facts don’t matter, no a whit.

The “rules” are just that they play for keeps and don’t care about the rules, otherwise.

Merovign on July 18, 2010 at 3:46 PM

If you really want to see DU at its rancid best worst: http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/board,10.0.html

Mr Snuggle Bunny on July 18, 2010 at 3:51 PM

It’s all the fault of hate speech by conservative radio talk show hosts.

Daggett on July 18, 2010 at 4:06 PM

Frankly, I do not give a flit, I love VP Cheney and those like him. God be with you Mr. VP. Du, you did your 1st, I will do mine, DROP DEAD!
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letget on July 18, 2010 at 7:01 PM

These liberals are brainwashed morons…Cheney is a hero for standing up to Islam. Cheney would’ve stopped Iran’s nuke program (a deadly serious issue we still have solved-imagine 9/11 with nukes instead of planes), if it wasn’t for Bush caving to liberals.

Part of the left (if not all of them) are in league with muslims and to me that makes them traitors not just to the US but secular-democracy. We’re in WW3 against Islam, this century’s Nazism and the West better wake up soon because things are about to get very nasty, especially in Europe.

thinkagain on July 18, 2010 at 7:03 PM

And if Malaise Carter, Noam Chomsky, or any malign Leftist finally shuffles off the mortal coil anytime soon, Heaven forbid conservatives snicker up their sleeves. :eyeroll:

Sekhmet on July 18, 2010 at 7:05 PM

I don’t accept the characterization of a “divide.” This is business-as-usual Leftist hate. The only difference is that the Left, congenitally vicious but hitherto relegated to minority status, now has unprecedented power to spread their lies and hate (thanks in great to eight years of viciousness gone unanswered by the pathetic turn-the-other-cheek George Bush).

The problem in calling it a “divide” is that it leads to all this hand-wringing and cries for “civility” when what is needed is aggressive, straight-up smackdowns by conservatives to every Leftist lie and slander that comes off their assembly line. We need MORE “divide”, not less. We need people to see exactly what a divide is, and give them a choice on which side of it divide to stand. Because there is no peace with the Left. Ever. Until we attack the Left where it hurts, and dishearten and demoralize and marginalize them as the American-hating liars and scum that they are, nothing will change.

rrpjr on July 18, 2010 at 7:54 PM

you have liberal friends? i wouldn’t trust them very much.

poppieseeds on July 18, 2010 at 9:53 PM

DUmmies continue to win friends, influence people.

ZK on July 18, 2010 at 10:08 PM

To be hated by people such as this is a badge of honor.

Cylor on July 18, 2010 at 11:07 PM

I was worried by the headline. I thought Ducks Unlimited came out against Cheney. THAT would be a story.

jjverdi on July 19, 2010 at 2:31 PM

rrpjr is right.

And forget it, leftard H8ters! My positive thoughts for Dick Cheney’s health and well being are more powerful than a million lefty creeps.

Love ya’, Vice President Cheney!

Blake on July 19, 2010 at 6:33 PM

Ah come on fellas, in Cheney’s world DU means only one thing, “Ducks Unlimited!” the international save the ducks for hunting foundation.

Don L on July 19, 2010 at 7:35 PM

Hey, since when did those Democratic Underground guys stop approving of draft-dodgers, torturers, liars and scambugs.

Just because Cheney was in our government means it’s no good for him to be like that?

They’re not nice!

audiculous on July 20, 2010 at 6:28 PM