You do that, Five Deferment I don't recall Dick. It might be the only way to get it through the apparently infinitely thick skulls of Kristol et al that the American public really dislikes Cheney.

The strongest spirits never need to thump their chests declaring how strong they are. That's why the mighty flames of a ranging fire are put off by water, an element that travels at the lowest levels but is the strongest elements.

Aloha spirit in the Pacific president is not comprehensible to neophytes and schoolyard bullies like the Cheneys.

Maybe if Dems are really lucky it will be Cheney/Palin 2012! The simple fact that Liz thinks her father has any chance of becoming President is a clear indication of how delusional she is! A Cheney candidacy would automatically turn Obama into a shoe in!

She didn't say which Cheney she meant.

Won't he be in jail by then?

Pondering fact this coward is still alive is the only time in my life that I have questioned whether the pursuit of science is a worthy goal.

You can now argue that some very bad side effects for the advancement of humanity as a whole has transpired.

I know she must be on psychotic/psychedelic medication but I just can't tell if they need to be increased or decreased. It's also unclear if she has been programmed or deprogrammed but she seems to be stepfordized to the program and softselling the republican wet dream.

Celdumceen - Actually, if Liz was talking about her dad (maybe she wants to run for Prez...), and he wanted to be part of the Palin ticket, it'd be Palin/Cheney. Cheney can get away with more as a veep. Power veiled by semi-charming incompetence, together again, 2012!

A bow? BFD. What would Wallace and Cheney say if a world leader didn't reciprocate a presidential handshake?

Humor? Irony? Satire?

... or maybe she really means it.

In which case, it would qualify as extreme sadism.

Is anyone else afraid he'd actually get a decent following? I mean, he made Bush, and the Rethugs worship Bush....

What's the rationale for bowing/not bowing?

Cheney running in 2012 would be a serious problem for Democrats, and anyone who doesn't realize that is naïve.

We already run the risk of Sarah Palin peaking too soon, and washing out early in the 2012 primaries as rank-and-file Republicans (if there are any left) realize with horror what they're dealing with in her. And let's not forget that Palin herself comes at the expense of a credible Huckabee campaign, with all its attendant Huckmentum. Even if Huck runs, it looks like he's going to be fighting with Palin and Lou Dobbs and God knows who else. Michele Bachmann? Liz Cheney?

For Democrats, it'd be like drinking a case of really great champagne all at once. A hell of a good time, but expensive, and we'd wake up in 2016 with a hangover. Our mission now should be to nurse the crazy. Make it last!

Ooh, yes. Cheney/Cheney!

Perhaps they could co-opt the Aretha Franklin/Don Covay tune for the campaign theme song? (Without compensation to the copyright holders, natch.)

I can hear it now:

Chain, chain, chain. Cheney fools.

A bow is like a handshake in some cultures. What maroons.

I can't take any more of these huge pictures of Cheney on my screen. Please, make him go away.............

Slight bow? Slight bow? Yeah, and Chris Farley was slightly fat.

And the President of the United States does not bow to monarchs, or anyone else for that matter. No other head of state bowed, and no president has ever bowed like this. The NY Times back in 1994 hammered Clinton because it looked like he almost bowed to this same guy.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/19/weekinreview/the-world-the-president-s-inclination-no-it-wasn-t-a-bow-bow.html
To quote that piece:
"If not to stand eye-to-eye with royalty, what else were 1776 and all that about?"

And it is frickin hilarious to read comments by people who unsuccessfully try to act as if this is not another embarrassing moment from a guy who does nothing but embarrass himself when he goes oversees. An iPod to the queen (evidently he didn't learn his lesson from the whole Gordon Brown DVD episode), bowing to a Saudi Prince, laughing it up with Hugo Chavez, standing silent while Daniel Ortega insults the former president of the United States, the list goes on. The guy is an absolute joke and the people here are sycophants who defend him no matter what.

Um, did anyone notice that she did not say DICK Cheney 2012?

Please do, Dick (or Liz). We're ready and waiting for one of you to try to infect American politics again.

Am I imagining it, or does Bill Krystol look like The Joker in this clip?

That snakeey smile just oozes ego and arrogance. No doubt, he would not have the class to bow (it is the same as a handshake in Japan, but more respectful and much healthier). It is no wonder the likes of Kristol can't fathom that cultural subtlety.

Obama can express humility, it is a worthy quality in him, and this just proves that improving US international relations matter much more to Obama than the delusion of US world military dominance. If the past administration had just a fraction of Obama's real class, they might have avoided the whole mess they created.

But, then, humility has never been a Republican strong point, nor a Kristol trait.

Have any of you idiots ever been to Japan? Everyone bows there. The taxi driver bows when you get out of his cab, for cripes sake. Japanese come here and they shake hands with us, because that's our custom. I go to Japan and I bow - to the waitress at the restaurant, the hotel desk clerks, the woman I buy shoes from - because that's WHAT YOU DO!

just more ugly and uninformed Americans who have some weird idea that how we do things is the ONLY way to do things. Foreign travel should be a requirement for every high school kid in the country.

Cheney running for president?

Apocalypse 2012.

Dick Cheney makes John Boner and Mitch McConnell look popular. Hahaha.

This chip off the old Dick is completely delusional. The American electorate is capable of some very stupid decisions, like electing her daddy and Bush twice. But a third time? No way - cause now we know he's both a war monger and a war criminal.

Let's think about bowing for a second. Could it be that bowing means something different in Japanese than it does in English? Not unlike the way that Japanese words sound different and mean different things than English words? Doh. Bowing in Japan doesn't signal subservience (which seems to be the "Western" take on it - 'the leader of the free world doesn't bow before royalty' etc. - Bowing in Japan signals respect. There is nothing wrong with respect. Moreover, nothing diplomatic gets done in Japan without showing respect. Showing respect by bowing is - in Japan - the equivalent of bothering to learn enough Spanish to say "Buenos Dias" to the Prime Minister of Spain (Zapatero - McCain, take note). There is a world out there and it is good to recognize that fact.

A Marriage Made In Heaven: "Cheney and Palin In 2012"
I am reminded of the young, pretty gold digger who only sought out the oldest, most infirm rich guys so she could clean up when they died. First, McCain, who headlines on several of those "dead pool" lists. Now Cheney, who quite possibly has already died and didn't get the memo. Leapfrogging into office by default, instead of merit, experience or competence. How Sarah.

Hey, in order for your VP to be a "heart beat away from the Presidency", don't you have to have a heart beat?