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Robert Gibbs, being more Nixonian than the square of Richard Nixon: “What Vice President Cheney calls ‘dithering,’ President Obama calls his solemn responsibility to the men and women in uniform and the American public. I think we’ve all seen what happens when somebody doesn’t take that responsibility seriously.” SIR that is a former crypto-President of the United States of whom you speak! Is this really appropriate, to play hardball with a belligerent psychotic ogre — literally, the worst person you could imagine — just to preserve your precious “agenda”? Is this what the presidency means to Barack Obama? [YouTube]
How uncouth! Lanny Davis is surely going to bunch his panties over this.
Gibbs must not have read the Secret File…
I dunno, chicago-style politics is good and all, but I prefer NY-style politics, with its thin crust.
ohhhh SNAP.
alright, now I officially like\love this Gibbs media flak tool.
There ya go Gibbs. Rub ‘em out, Chicago style.
From 27 miles below the surface of the earth in a fortified bunker, a.k.a the Cheney living room, Cheney responded “Those peasants are mere grist for my inexorable war machine. Obama humanizing them only emboldens the terrorists. ACORN did 9/11. Seacrest out.” Then the motherfucker straight did a wheelie in his wheelchair. Gangsta!
I believe Gibbs is somewhat twisting the knife. Nicely done, too. Unfortunately, Cheney wasn’t speaking to the President or even the American people. His audience is largely the kooks who love this stuff and his only goal was to defend his incompetence. and talk tuff.
Yeah!! Nobama should rush to take the advise on how to win the war in Afghanistan from the douche nozzles who started the whole cluster f*ck and couldn’t.
NOW!!!
Suds McKenzie: Ginger Snap!
I like how Gibbsey resisted going down the “former-VP-should-eat-a-bag-of-heavily-salted-whatever” road.
Or did he?
Nobody puts Cheney in the corner, for the god of war will not go quietly into the night without a fight.
Gibbs, watch out for that trident thingy he wields.
Why is the press asking Gibbs about Dick Cheney showing his tits on Twitter anyway?
You can get further with a kind word and the harsh fucking truth than you can with just a kind word.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE send Cheney to the morgue!! That’s the Chicago way!
How grossly unfair of Gibbs to politicize the war. Remember when Cheney was running the place and how everything was completely fair and nonpartisan? And how Cheney (and that little motivational speaker, whatsisname) were always going on about how we needed to focus on Afghanistan, but we made them — ever so reluctantly — invade Iraq? I wish those lousy fucks were still around so we could tell them how sorry we are.
Gibbs just squeezed my lemon ’til the juice ran down my leg.
Someday Dick will be dead and gone and then…. well, why ruin a happy ending.
Nobody puts Cheney in the corner! Through a team of morticians may well soon be engaged in stuffing him into an oak coffin wrapped in a goodly length of steel chains.
How do Ed Henry, Chip Reid and Jake Tapper feel about this? I think that’s what everyone is wanting to know.
Nothing funnier than watching Dick Cheney stand on the sidelines groveling while Chicago-style politics, San Francisco values, and East Coast liberal elitism begins the slow steady process of undoing every fucked up thing he did this nation.
Now can we get Geraldo to open Cheney’s White House Vault?
I can’t wait until Dick Cheney is bound to a wheelchair and spends his days muttering about this and that through teeth clenching a cigarette, all the while trying to keep his hand out of a Nazi salute.
“I think we’ve seen what happens when somebody doesn’t take that responsibility seriously.”
So nice I had to write it twice. Theatrically-embellished, old-timey southern, fan-waving offense taken by Vader & flunkies will now saturate the airwaves.
hobospacejunkie: Do you know who else used to ….
sounds messy.
Who asked that question, “Chip,” “Skippy,” “Preston,” “Blake,” “Mudhead” Reid? STFU!
Suds McKenzie: Do you know who else used to…
Oh no you di’int!
Hitler?
Cheney’s just pissed cuz he spilled robot juice all over his exoskeleton at breakfast this morning.
Aflac Shrugged hobospacejunkie: Gibbs pitched that one just perfectly.
Patrick Duffy
It’s a thin veneer of reasonable words over a thick slab of fuck you. I love it.
STFU Cheney. Nobody wants to go back to the Jar Jar/Vader administration.
I just wish Gibbs had mentioned Cheney’s 7 deferments, and then when a 3rd master’s degree wouldn’t keep you out of Vietnam, he knocked up the missus.
maybe this is a repeat, but here goes:
“The record is clear: Dick Cheney and the Bush administration were incompetent war fighters. They ignored Afghanistan for 7 years with a crude approach to counter-insurgency warfare best illustrated by: 1. Deny it. 2. Ignore it. 3. Bomb it. While our intelligence agencies called the region the greatest threat to America, the Bush White House under-resourced our military efforts, shifted attention to Iraq, and failed to bring to justice the masterminds of September 11. The only time Cheney and his cabal of foreign policy ‘experts’ have anything to say is when they feel compelled to protect this failed legacy. While President Obama is tasked with cleaning up the considerable mess they left behind, they continue to defend torture or rewrite a legacy of indifference on Afghanistan.” — Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, US Army (Ret.), Oct. 22, 2009
Chicago style politics: Using reason, logic and deliberative process to come to a a thoughtful decision over a problem that has been left to fester for nearly eight years.
Cheney style politics: Come on, their are brown people to kill!
Look be fair. Cheney has a right to know why Obama wasn’t able to capture or kill Bin Laden when he’s had 9 months to do so. Cheney needs to be more vocal in this. Much more vocal. Cheney should be asking this question on all the major news networks.
Politically speaking, Cheney is spinning out of control in his TIE-fighter while Obama launches photon torpedoes.
Decker: The way that Gibbs has just been cold toe taggin’ chumps lately, the White House press briefing room is the morgue.
slappypaddy: That about covers it. Moving on: why isn’t Cheney in the Hague yet, bunking down with Henry “Killa” Kissinger?
Suds McKenzie: he probably get sprayed with buckshot when he opened it.
Gibbs forgot his Irish accent
“How do you get Cheney? I’ll tell you how to get Cheney.
He pulls a knife, you pull a gun.
He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one his to the morgue!
That’s the Chicago way, and that’s how you are going to get Cheney.”
slappypaddy: “Fun fact! Dick Cheney made his remarks at some sort of “Bush administration reunion” at Union Station last night. There, he received the super-prestigious “Keeper of the Flame” award and watched as beloved Bush administration felon Lewis “Scooter” Libby was honored with the “Service Before Self” award. Then, everyone had to board the Acela back to reality.”
How come Darth Vader didnt win the Aghanistan war in over 7 years? Must of been dithering.
by the way…why hasnt McCain told how to get osama bin laden wasnt that a point during his campaign lol.
Gibbs is good. Real good.
Hey Dick, maybe Obama has “other priorities…” than just carrying on your piss-stained legacy.
The back of my hand also hurts when i use it hit someone upside their head. also.
slappypaddy: That sort of statement is why gay homosexuals should not be allowed into the military.
— Senator Miss McConnell
I won’t be satisfied until Gibbs throws in a gratuitous remark about what a shrill, ugly harpie Cheney’s daughter, Lizard, is.
— “I think it is a curious comment,” Gibbs also said, “I think it is pretty safe to say that the vice president was for seven years not focused on Afghanistan. Even more curious given the fact that an increase in troops [from Gen. Davis McKiernan] sat on desks in this White House including the vice president’s for more than eight months - a resource request filled by President Obama in March.”
“I find it interesting that he’s blaming us for something that he didn’t see fit to do over, best I can tell, seven years of a war in Afghanistan,” he added. —
I love understatement.
PlanetWingnuta: And this is a negative, because… ?
Nobammy may be afraid of some things, but Shotgun Dick Cheney ain’t one of them.
Suds McKenzie: I read that as “Service to Self” award. Hm.
PlanetWingnuta: Good question! Is McCain still holding out on the American people? Id Bin Laden hiding out in Sedona?
and ; you go Gibbs.
I think Dick has solemn responsibility to the men and women in uniform and the American public to shove a rabid woodchuck up his butthole, but I don’t begrudge Gibbs for toning it down for the children’s sake.
It’s important to say bad things about Cheney now. After he dies we’ll only be allowed to day nice things, like when Mussolini died.
When they say “Chicago-style” politics, do they mean deep dish? ‘Cause that would be delicious.
Every time Obama disses Cheney, a Nobel Peace Prize gets its wings.
Doris Ziffel: Gibbs didn’t mention it, but Ed Schultz stated the record strongly on his program this afternoon.
“Is this really appropriate, to play hardball with a belligerent psychotic ogre — literally, the worst person you could imagine.” I’d throw away my last can of hobo beans just to keep reading beauties like this, thanks Jim.
I love the slight smile Gibbs shows before ruthlessly launching his calm southern accent attack.
aka Richard the Cowardly-Lionheart. And isn’t dither lesbian for tea-bagging?
Suds McKenzie:
Dick’s “Keeper of the Flame” award –
Low hanging fruit.
http://photos.upi.com/view/fe4f9be64b55ebd8a0ff6fea1aec0086/Oil-well-fires-still-burn-in-southern-Iraq.jpg
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Lewis “Scooter” Libby was honored with the “Service Before Self” award. Grim.
http://fortwayneright.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/goebels.jpg
If there is a “Walk of Fame” in Hell, Dick Cheneys’ star will be made of the coagulated blood
of the thousands of helpless animals he murdered in frustration over not being able to lick
his own nutsack like the hyena he aspires to be.
Doris Ziffel: and she was a lesbian too?
Cheney ChickenShitHawk.
And who could forget this coward actually (with all the other neocunts) turned it around on Kerry.
Kerry actually went to Nam, enough said….but not for these propagandists
desertwind: his calm southern accent attack.
“Chicago-style politics”, indeed. Isn’t Gibbs from Alabama?
A good day for Mr. Gibbs. Facts tend to stick out when you hear them. Unfortunately, the crowd that needs to hear them is deaf or is nurtured by fantasy. Example 1: teh teevee.
I’ve always thought Chicago deep dish is tastiest when served ice cold.
Pitch perfect, Mr. Gibbs.
Cheney et al, what is it with these guys? Denial isn’t just the way dyslexics spell Denali.
Now we have to add short-term memory loss to the long list of Right Wing mental disorders. Lost in the desert, it isn’t a mystery they can’t remember what way they came in. Cheney-Taitz 2012!
desertwind: Ah, yes. The Southern Accent. Wielded without skill, it makes one sound like an ignorant hick. But when used by a master, there just isn’t any dialect more fun to use to completely annihilate someone via rhetoric.
Zadig: Exactly.
I use to not like Gibbs passive-aggressive speech style, but it’s growing on me. This was just perfect.
desertwind: That’s a pretty consistent tell from Gibbs. “I’m so glad you gave me this snarky question! Now I can snark back, with interest”.
When you see that smile, sit back and enjoy the verbal sodomy soon to follow.
Good start, Mr. Gibbs.
Now can we haz a Special Prosecutor to look into Halliburton, pleez?
LittlePig: sarcascm czar and snark czar, too!
Crank Tango: DAMN YOU
That Gibbs is my kind of spokesweasel.
Suds McKenzie: Who got the plexiglass bellybutton award, allowing him to see where he was going, even when his head is up his ass?
Dean Booth: He won’t go out as colorfully as Mussolini, either.