Cheney: Obama Bow 'Very Upsetting' And 'Fundamentally Harmful'

How come no one asks him how the global financial meltdown, and the late 3 am meeting in which it was determined that in less than 24 hours the United States would be insolvent was not his fault?

How come no one asks him these questions?

How come we've collectively forgotten Bush's bow to the Taliban when he gave them 10 million dollars at the outset of his presidency?

That was a follow-up to his hosting them at the governor's mansion in Texas.

Oh, let's not forget Bush setting up China as the backer for his folly in Iraq.

So, Obama's polite bow to a Chinese leader is nothing. Zero. Nada.

Why is this war criminal not in jail?

SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!

Dick Cheney should be treated like the troll he is--ignore him and he goes away.

Cheney concludes: "What I see in President Obama is somebody who bows before foreign leaders and spends his trips aboard primarily apologizing for U.S. behavior. I find that very upsetting."

Well, Dick... not *U.S. behavior*, just you and W, spending eight years fucking up the U.S. image abroad to the degree that's it's amazing he doesn't have to get down on the ground and kiss their feet too.

Ignore Dick Cheney's advice at your peril! Here is a man who knows how to act to get respect on the world stage:

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Cheney is a chump.

Obama bowed to the Japanese emperor. He did the same when he met QE II. It's called protocol. But Cheney is calling it subservience. Still remember when Michelle Obama, in a moment of exuberance, actually touched QE II, the right was using it as evidence of her knowledge of protocol, not to mention a decided lack of proper "breeding"/

these people, with Cheney at the top of list, are F*CKHEADS, but I think they could yet wind up back in power. Especially if Obama doesn't start looking like he cares about Main Street as much as he has Wall Street

This criminal is shameless but, now that he's been neutered, he can make me laugh, darkly, but laugh none the less...
Who can forget the shame of this boob's parka, eskimo hat and clodhoppers at the Auschwitz memorial in 2005???

But War against the wrong country, outing a CIA agent, torturing innocent people and serial lying is not upsetting. May his species become extinct.

"......and spends his trips aboard primarily apologizing for U.S. behavior. I find that very upsetting."

This is understandable, because what Dick is really saying is, "....and spends his trips aboard primarily apologizing for my behaviour and the behaviour of my administration. I find that very upsetting."

What Dick (and sadly, quite a lot of Americans) can't seem to understand is that fear and respect are two very different things. The world started off respecting America, and enemies feared the consequences of engaging our military. In just eight short years, Cheney and Bush managed erode most of that respect, and the "potency" of our military to neutralize the ragtag group responsible for 9/11 speaks for itself.

Rebuilding respect for America is one of Obama's first responsibilities, and one of the ways you do that is by showing respect for cultures you'd like to have cooperate with you. Done right, it makes you stronger, not weaker, and Obama "gets it." Cheney and his ilk never did, and never will.

Do we have any record of how Dick greeted Saudi royalty during his many many many visits with them over the years?

Did he, for example, smack them on the ass? No one would perceive that as a sign of weakness, I'm sure.

Of course, Dick didn't find it upsetting to throw the entire Constitution out based on a extremist interpretation of the role of the President in time or war - to the point where he wanted the Army arresting people in the US without warrants. So we know he's an idiot.

God Damn Cheney is demented - he just keeps getting more loony.

It would be great were he to be struck down dead.

But since he is still alive I think he should keep yakking.

What a sick bastard.

I can understand Penis Cheney's problem. He prefers the homoerotic hand-holding and kissing that Shrub performed on the Sheiks.

Yeah, Cheney ain't going to bow to no powerless figurehead, no sir, because when you bow to figureheads, they get all your mojo. You got to keep your mojo, hoard your mojo for when you have to use it on your own people.

God, what a total asshole!

"Very upsetting" and "fundamentally harmful" is how I would describe Darth Cheney.

"In the interview, Cheney says that when the President bows to a foreign leader, "our friends and allies don't expect it and our adversaries perceive it as a sign of weakness."

What "friends and allies?" Thanks to Bush/Cheney there aren't any.

I understand Dick Cheney and his kind disapprove of everything the Obama administration and the Democratic majority do, and I also know that there are plenty of conservative commentators only too happy to give him a forum for his thoughts, but what I don't get is why I have to be subjected to it day after day. He's out of power. His party's candidate lost the presidency and Republicans fell further behind in Congress. Perhaps we should stop reporting their every whine and complaint, and stop giving value to their words by hanging on every utterance. Ignore them. I have enough things in my life to upset me without hearing, each and every day, about one more Republican disapproval of how I believe the country should be run. We won the election, now I want them just to go away.

I think that what Cheney meant to say is "What I see in President Obama is somebody who bows before foreign leaders and spends his trips aboard primarily apologizing for my behavior. I find that very upsetting."

That's why he didn't criticize those other bowers.

Dick Cheney should go fuck himself tonight, go fuck himself tomorrow, and go fuck himself every goddamned day for the rest of his weaselly, cowardly, parasitic life.

Cheney, you ignorant slut!

You and your bff GW raped and pillaged the country, basically picked our pockets to fill your own and those of your friends thus increasing our debt as a nation beyond belief while you both acted like little boys playing Risk and deliberately made a play for weakening our democracy in every way possible while amassing as much wealth as possible among your friends and increasing the poverty and need among a majority of the American people.

You sir, should be down on your knees prostrate begging for our forgiveness every day for the rest of your life for what you have done. So STFU!

When will the big media ignore this failed politicians polices and programs, including political murders that were dreamed of failed. This is the only successful Bush policy to stop this mad mans policies. Stop repeating this failed politicians crap and move on - ignore his self perpetuating false policies that have already been proven false and discredited. When will the big media hold this man accountable for his falsehoods and lies?
It's bad enough that the big media repeat his false assertions that he and his daughter, without any evidence to support their assertions. How can he and his daughter continue be projected as spokespersons of any relevant commenter after he has left office and relegated to where obscure state he and his family
deserve.
WE all should observe that as all this stuff evolves that G.W. Bush has not defended his Vice President.

I don't agree with the whole "America should never admit a mistake or show any sign of weakness" psychosis that that Cheney seems so obsessed with. However, a United States president SHOULD NOT be going around the world genuflecting before various foreign dictators and potentates. Not because it's a sign of weakness, but because America is a democracy where "all men are created equal."

I am sick and tired of seeing my president - who also happens to be my employee - continually bowing a scraping before foreign royalty. It seems to me that whether it's bending over for the big shots on Wall Street or prostrating before Emperors and Kings, Obama has a obsequious streak when it comes to entrenched power. It's also extraordinarily politically obtuse and helps to explain his tanking poll numbers.