Wonkette
So Dick Cheney told Obama to stop “dithering”! Haha, oh, right! Yes, he’ll get right on that… ceasing to dither. This is a hilarious and formidable old man insult used to express one’s displeasure with the lack of bombs and troops and guns and bombs and shit currently being sent to Afghanistan. “Having announced his Afghanistan strategy last March, President Obama now seems afraid to make a decision, and unable to provide his commander on the ground with the troops he needs to complete his mission,” said Cheney. It’s like: is Obama scared? Scared of WAR? Ha! Dick Cheney didn’t realize the President was a GIRL who needs to write in her diary 10 times a day before deploying more American soldiers to Afghanistan. [Los Angeles Times]
Can’t Obama get some college deferments to delay sending troops to Afghanistan? That is the good, proper, and courageous way to avoid fighting wars.
It’s too bad that no one tried that with Dick in 1965 during the 1st of 5 draft deferments.
The world would be a happier place if more of us ran away screaming like a little girl than otherwise.
Cheney might as well scream WAS IT OVER WHEN THE GERMANS BOMBED PEARL HARBOR for all of the fruits his “foreign” “policy” produced.
The carnival of fear still continues with old ogre. We outspend the world by billions on defense, we station troops in 150 countries and still he and his ilk aren’t satisfied (with their profits). More defensing spending isn’t going to help you understand the memo titled “Al Qaeda determined to strike in the US” any better .
I’ve got a great idea! Let’s deploy Dick Cheney! We’ll make him Karzai’s vice president and in five years Afghanistan will have ceased to exist.
damn shame the Cheney administration didn’t “dither” at all when it came do deciding Iraq had WMD and that we should make up shit to prove it so as to convince congress to go along. Not a second of dithering there that’s for sure.
maybe the shooter is going to play Mr. Dithers in the upcoming Blondie remake.
Maybe if Dick had taken a little more time to ponder whether or not Afganistan was secure enough to go off on another military adventure we might not be still fighting there 8 years later.
Cheney posed for a picture with a “secret” file on the top of his papers? Is that Valerie Plame’s file?
Too bad we don’t have a president with the military record of Dick Cheney. I mean he was there at Iwo Jima, Inchon and during the Tet Offensive. Wait a minute. Oh sorry, I meant John Wayne.
Tough words for a guy who spent five years in complete denial over the increasingly horrific situation in his pet oilfield, Iraq. So right — come on, President Obama — the war’s not going to ignore itself.
According to Cheney “our friends throughout the world are watching and wondering whether America will abandon them as well”. Friends? Name two.
Obama needs to show some gumption. He wouldn’t be dithering so much if he wasn’t listening to all that Negro jazz on his phonograph machine! It’s all the fault of those flapper girls and their speak-easy bathtub gin!
Did Dick dither before shooting that other old codger right in the face? No he did not! A real Dick does not dither.
slithytoves: He classifies his laundry list. You never know what information the enemy will find useful.
…and no dilly-dallying, either!
So, this dumb ass and Bush couldn’t get the job done in 7 years, so now they heap on Obama.
I prefer dilly-dally.
Stop dawdling, Barry!
Flabbergasting baloney, this is, we says, dadgummitt to all.
and stop lollygagging too. Those under-equipped, under-armored soldiers aren’t going to kill themselves for no fucking reason, now, are they?
Dang sassy-pants whippersnapper, make a God-dang decision about that sand-filled God-foresaken country already!
“Dithering,” like “going rogue,” is actually British slang for unprotected anal sex.
He is due for a fatal heart attack, if his organs would stop dithering and explode.
Not hypocrisy at all, right, because Cheney did not “dither” for EIGHT years on sending enough troops to Afghanistan to deal the people who have been trying to kill us all Michael Bay-style every day of that period. Rather, all the troops were in Iraq—which had as much to do with 9/11 as a ham sandwich. Or Saudi Arabia.
magic titty: Juli, being a girl, doesn’t know that “dithering” isn’t a word the olds use to mean going slowly it’s a word techs use to mean intentionally injecting good nonsense into a system because cool nonsense is better bad random crap.
Wonkette is dither. Cheney was really telling Obama to stop spending so much time at teh Wonkett.
“Dither” at Wikipedia
Dubya Never Dithered. You can put that on a bumper sticker. D-N-D
Who did you say this fellow was? Oh, Dick “deficits don’t matter” Cheney. I remember him he’s the brain-dead fellow who goaded the last administration into a trillion dollar deficit followed by a financial meltdown. I am sooo interested in what he has to say now.
Today, we are all ditherers.
C’mon, Dick, is that the best you’ve got? Needs more fear and loathing and paranoia. Your powers are weak, old man.
The hell with aplomb, and bring on the bombs
Says Barnacle Dick, the Asshole
Irrelevant spittle from an impotent angry old failure.
The GOP has impeccable genius when it comes to choosing spokesmongers, don’t they.
READY, FIRE, AIM! That’s how we fight wars. That’s how we go hunting with our friends.
Dithering Dick has such a nice ring to it. I think I’ll use it in place of my usual “jumping-geehoseafat”.
He’s also taking credit for preventing another terrorist attack. Never mind that they let the first one happen. They also only allowed one hurricane disaster and one financial crisis to happen.
Dick, quit shilly-shallying around and die already, will ya?
If Mr Dickhead and his Gang of Morans actually dithered before they attacked Iraq we could saved a whole lot of money and lives. But nooooooooo. Cheney don’t dither.
Dither on Hopey. Dither on.
Dick should sue his heart surgeons. They must have noticed all the deferments and thought it would be a good idea to turn him into a manly man while they were in there. We miss the Dick who cried into his pillow at the thought of Vietnam.
I can’t think of a more worthy candidate for the Death Panels.
gjdodger:
Nice John Valby reference.
Gerund?
Dick, you should know how lackadaisical those colored fellows are.
“Cheney maintains new 9/11’s possibly killing thousands more Americans were prevented by tough, aggressive policies that have kept terrorists on the defensive.”
Very, true. There has never a terrorist act on US soil by the Martian Liberation Army.
All of you, get off my lawn!
Schmegeg: A-fucking-men.
This just in, Liz Cheney warned Obama not to tarry.
There once was a man who dithered
who was considered lilly-livered.
Holding back his troops
made Dick stop his poops
so back to his dungeon he slithered.
Listen up here Dick, you are no longer in the Whitehouse, furthermore, opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and they all stink.
S.Luggo: And look at India and Pakistan — they torture the fuck out of people, and they never suffer terrorist attacks.
slithytoves: That is a bogus folder that was photoshopped in there to hide the onion on his belt.
LA Times not posting comments. I guess they didn’t want to hear about Dithering Dicks.
Meantime, how are my shares of Confederated Slave Holdings doing?
They’re uh…great!
Dick is becoming more and more like the sad guy who was laid off, but still shows up at work just to “see what’s going on,” offer advice, and make everyone uncomfortable.
My HS football coach was in a rough position: he had had several losing seasons in a row. He wasn’t a great coach; every 4th down, no matter what, we’d kick. Even in the awkward “too short for punt, too long for field goal” range. After I graduated he was fired. I was home for Thanksgiving in college a couple years later and reading the local (ie, community not city) newspaper. This old coach had written a letter to the editor complaining about the new coach and his success rate. It was soooooo bitter and angry and because it was a lazy community paper, they didn’t bother identifying him as the former coach. This is Dick Cheney on a much larger scale. He’s the guy that blamed his loses on his players (despite the fact they changed year-to-year) and never looked inward. The difference is I feel pity for my old coach.
I didn’t even read that post as I was too distracted by that Darth Cheney image. Dear god, is that his ‘bedroom eyes’ look. Ugh. I think I’m sterile now.
Oldskool: The whole country should sue Dick’s heart surgeons.
BlueStateLibtard: Sort of like Milton in “Office Space.”
Is “man-verbs” a euphemism? How old are they?
Dear EX-VP Vader;
STFU!
Sincerely,
The People of the United States
Favorite old man(nerism): “catawampus.”
Cheney kept us safe for 8 years! That’s right, zero terrorist attacks. As long as you don’t count attacks on our troops, embassies, and overseas interests. Of course, everyone knows 9/11 doesn’t count. Cheney already called mulligan on that one.
Downtheroadapiece: Deficits don’t matter because I love you
http://blingee.com/blingee/view/101021606-cheney-bedroom-eyes
Once the dick is inserted,
the mission must be completed.
Hey, Dick. I hear your daughter’s a lesbo.
queeraselvis v 2.0: Please don’t insult Milton.
user-of-owls: irrelevant spittle from an impotent, angry old failure.
Not a wasted word.
Also, you know who else was impotent?
Democrats Dither while Republicans Rutabaga. BTW while we are on the subject of dithering, what’s with Win7 download jeez.
Obama is not dithering, Dick. He is shirking, due to the temptation of juicy watermelon nearby.
Big difference, which I’m suprised Dick didn’t pick up on.
Sho ’nuff Mr. Dick, sar. Soon as cash my welfare check. Un-huh
whats with the “come hither” look ??
makes me so hot!
the criminal old fool. From Sullivan:
“…Cheney is fighting against a narrative that will, in due course, cast him in history as one of the most criminal and incompetent officials in American history. It is logical for him to fight in this way, to lie about his record and to attack a sitting president in the vilest way possible while that president and the country remains at war. It is not logical for anyone else to take him the faintest bit seriously. …”
Accordion-o-rama: Why is it that when I see that I interpret the hearts as droplets of blood?
Accordion-o-rama: Agreed: that picture is begging for blingee.
http://blingee.com/blingee/view/101029393-creepy-love-cheney
notwavingbutdrowning: For some reason it didn’t include the piles of money where his heart is and the banana penis (next to the flashing “broken” sign at the bottom). Perhaps blingee places a limit on bling. Or perhaps the blingee machine felt that it wasn’t in good taste.
It all makes sense now. Cheney has all of McCain’s testosterone.
Another election, queered.
I don’t seem to have enough vodou dolls that work well enough on Dick.
Wheeee — Gibbs responds:
“What Vice President Cheney calls dithering, President Obama calls his solemn responsibility to the men and women in uniform,” Gibbs said Thursday. “I think we’ve all seen what happens when somebody doesn’t take that responsibility seriously.”
I love fireworks!
SayItWithWookies: Your article mentions Cheney receiving the “Keeper of the Flame” award. That certainly brings some interesting pictures to mind.
I had on a pair of x-ray glasses, so I peeked into Dick’s secret file: the top page was hand-scrawled “no more fiddle-faddle!”…. all the rest of the pages were typed repetitions of this curious phrase: “All work and no play makes Dick a dull boy”… not sure I understood this last part, must be in code…. seriously, who does he expect to convince that anyone gives him any secret information anymore?…
qwerty42: From Yglesias:
“…I think very few people believed in the winter of 2001-2002 that we’d be sitting here in the fall of 2009 talking about what strategy shifts were necessary to prevent defeat in Afghanistan.
…
I find it mind-boggling that the architects of this disaster are so eager to offer backseat commentary on Obama’s handling of it. …”
Give Cheney a sex change and drop him nude into Afghan poppy country.
Hey after dicking-around for 8 years, let the Prez teach you something about it’s CPT.
“Hilarious old man verbs…” OMG you write the funniest headlines! I wanna have your babies.
Sérieusement, this is just more of Granny Weatherall Cheney on his political death bed. Images of that dastardly (another old man verb) jiltor, the 2001 “Bin Laden is going to blow us up later this summer” memo, haunting his decomposing brain. His dying question — ‘didn’t we do OK by Afghanistan?’ — is being ignored by the invisible cloud being that is us. He’d like to believe FOX’s stupid audience passes for “us,” but death has this self-delusional-BS-removing feature about it.
So, until his literal death, he’s never gonna shut up.