Dick Cheney: RNC convention-bound

Mark, since you seem so interested whether VP Cheney will attend the GOP convention, perhaps you should write a two columns on whether John Edwards, Cheney's Democrat VP opponent in 2004, will be attending the Dem convention?

And why he might not be invited.

Is his invite and subsequent stay to be provided by Haliburton, or one of his Oil Corps benefactors. In any case, I'm sure he will not be wanting for anything, including what to say to his fellow Republicans. I hope it will not be more of their specialties: more stupid solutions to complex problems.
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

Seriously, the only people who ever cast doubt on Cheney's attendance in the first place were in the media. How about the story of what role Edwards will play at the DNC? You do know that part of his deal with Obama was he got a speaking role at the convention, right? I wonder why that might not happen...

No, Mark, there was no question about Cheney's appearance, just your typical left-wing bias itching to make something out of nothing. Is the DNC line-up complete? When is Bill Clinton addressing the convention? Hillary? And, as Bruce points out, John Edwards? In fact, where is the mainstream media on the whole John Edwards affair and love child story? I thougt all through the Dem primary season and in 2004, the Edwards were portrayed as a loving, devoted couple? More lies from the dishonest, corrupt mainstream media.

Isn't it kind of telling that the Republicans have to use Mssrs. 24% and 18% to shore up their base for McCain?

John D and Bruce, How is Vicki Iseman doing? Will she be at the Republican convention? Staying in McCain's suite, perhaps?

The Republican National Convention is going to be an absolute comedy this year. They will be giving a rousing send-off to Bush and Cheney while at the same time trying to distance their presidential candidate from those two criminals. Lieberman will give a prime-time whiny speech, and McCain will give a bunch of creepy thumbs-ups to his adoring sycophants. The late-night booze will flow through the streets of Minneapolis, almost guaranteeing more restroom incidents and illicit prostitution arrests. I can't wait.

Funny how the right wing nut jobs think having an affair is terrible when it's a Democrat, but then they support a candidate who had multiple affairs behind the back of his disabled wife, and then dumped her for a much younger, far richer woman that he started dating while still married.

I guess as long as you're getting rich out of the deal, cheating on your wife is OK with Republicans.

You're more than welcome to come Dickey! Go ahead, remind any reasonable minded person who may watch the RNC how corrupt you and this administration has been. Feel free to associate yourself with McCain anytime. It can only help the Democrat.

Carol, dear, we are just pointing out the absolute hypocrisy by the corrupt, inept media. They try to make a big deal out of McCain and some alleged affair with a lobbyist, making it front page news in fact, yet a true affair with pictures and even a baby gets ignored by the corrupt, inept media.

John D, tell us what the source of the alledged pictures is, if you don't mind.

Isn't it kind of telling that the Dems have to use Ms. 8% (Nancy Pelosi) to shore up their base for Hopey.

I hope it will not be more of their specialties: more stupid solutions to complex problems.

Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, Chicago | August 8, 2008 11:10 AM

D.F., D.F., D.F.
I am not looking to take you to task here, but when the subject of the article is about the great Obama, you invariably express your intense contempt for President Bush. All well and good, I suppose. The subject of this article is about Vice President Cheney's role at the GOP convention, but then you lapsed into a lucidly concise description of the great Obama, stunningly chilling in its accuracy.

The Obama characterization is dead-on so, so true, but in the event that a mistake was made, it just shows how we could never agree on whatever it is that we would never agree on.

As for Vice President Cheney, he absolutely should be a speaker. He does not need to skulk down to please the dipsticks on the left. I look forward to his apology-free speech. Have a nice day.

ONLY Republicans are capable of giving "hope" a bad connotation.

(But wasn't Dubya's message of being a "uniter" about hope?)

We understand that without gloom and doom on every horizon it is difficult for the Republicans to control the masses.

Let's see....should Americans vote for hope that we can change the mess we're in.....or should Americans vote for the party that thinks hope is ridiculous? Talk about self-evident!

Jeff,
I do believe that Obama has the Dem base sewed up. Yes they will complain about the centrist positions he will/has taken. But Obama has never been called a traitor by important segments of the Dem base. Hasn't McCain been labeled that and much worse by the Bushies and the Christianists?

The RNC is not going to snub Cheney, the symbol of what is wrong with the economy, not even with gas at $5/gallon. Election after election the RNC has proved that the average American is gullible. They just lie and say it is the Dem's fault and not just the expected results of Cheney's energy policy to disrupt oil supply through war.