August 8, 2002

11:55 AM

"Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday he'd like to serve a second term ‘‘if the president's willing and if my wife approves." " Never mind getting elected. I'd like to beleive that the reporter, not the Veep, just forgot to note that detail.
posted by ilsa (25 comments total)

They're obviously talking about whether Cheney will even run again in 2004. He's still an asshat, though.
posted by donkeyschlong at 11:59 AM on August 8, 2002

"I've got the doctor following me around every place I go. Literally when I get on the elevator there's a guy there with a black bag."

Um... I can't tell if this reassures me or makes me nervous.
posted by Tin Man at 12:02 PM on August 8, 2002

So a reporter wrote a story about whether or not Cheney is in good enough shape to serve out a second term, and you're upset because it wasn't really a story about the election? Aren't those two different, albeit related, stories?
posted by monju_bosatsu at 12:03 PM on August 8, 2002

Reminds me of the story about the guy who shook GWB's hand somewhere and told him: "I don't think you're doing a good job." What was Bush's answer?

"Who cares what you think."

[No kidding. I know a link wouldn't hurt here, but I read this in New Yorker a while back, one of their "First X Hundred Days in Office" quizzes on the back page.]
posted by muckster at 12:04 PM on August 8, 2002

<getting it out of the way>Not getting elected doesn't seem to have kept him from serving a first term.</getting it out of the way>
posted by aaronetc at 12:07 PM on August 8, 2002

"Who cares what you think."

That's my Bush!
posted by donkeyschlong at 12:07 PM on August 8, 2002

Find a news story that is somehow related to someone or something you dislike, add your vague political opinion and post it to Metafilter, hoping for a thread full of vitriol. Voila! Instant personal weblog with a huge reader base. I mean, we certainly haven't had this discussion 400 times in the last year or so or anything...
posted by evanizer at 12:10 PM on August 8, 2002

I don't understand why Cheney's health is even an issue. It's a total red herring.

We live in a democratic republic, the system can easily replace any official, he's quite expendable and has a long line of successors, the only loss would be symbolic.
posted by insomnyuk at 12:13 PM on August 8, 2002

What's he supposed to say..."I'd like to serve a second term, assuming we get reelected, because we really suck!"

Wouldn't anyone serving 1 of potentially 2 terms assume they're going to be around for the 2nd term? It's called positive thinking...being optimistic...what the French call that certain...oh, I don't know what.
posted by byort at 12:18 PM on August 8, 2002

"Who cares what you think," at snopes.com. Status: undetermined.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 12:18 PM on August 8, 2002

so this wasn't just something to post because it was (sorta) humorous (nevermind the merits of that)? this is another 'slam Bush-Cheney' attempt?
posted by tolkhan at 12:22 PM on August 8, 2002

the system can easily replace any official, he's quite expendable and has a long line of successors

Now I have glorious visions of William Shatner sending Cheney off on a mission where he is gruesomely killed by a salt-devouring beast.
posted by Skot at 12:28 PM on August 8, 2002

Evanizer stopped by to take a dump on his way to the pretentious-lit and ben franklin threads.
posted by donkeyschlong at 12:30 PM on August 8, 2002

he's quite expendable and has a long line of successors

I believe Ken Lay is free....
posted by rushmc at 12:33 PM on August 8, 2002

I have to wonder if Bush will remain silent about his VP prospects or if he will come out right away and keep Cheney on the team...
posted by mhaw at 12:40 PM on August 8, 2002

Does Cheney even have a chance? There's no way he can run for President at the end of his prognosticated 2nd term as VP--he'd be 237 years old. So won't the Republicans boot him out in favour of the dude that is destined to succeed Dubya? (OK, so I'm kidding about the link, but otherwise I don't think Cheney has a prayer.)
posted by Fabulon7 at 12:44 PM on August 8, 2002

You mean "faith-based request," right?
posted by Tin Man at 12:46 PM on August 8, 2002

Truly, citizen.
posted by Fabulon7 at 12:49 PM on August 8, 2002

maybe he should just worry about doing something decent this term first.
posted by tsarfan at 12:58 PM on August 8, 2002

Another Bush-bash thread without substance. Did you get your complimentary "Citizen Dog Wagging" letter of thanks from Dubya?
posted by owillis at 1:04 PM on August 8, 2002

why powell instead of condoleeza rice?
posted by lescour at 1:11 PM on August 8, 2002

Another Bush-bash thread without substance

Hey owillis, don't let muckster's threadjacking distract you, this was supposed to be a perfectly good Cheney-bash thread without substance.
posted by pitchblende at 1:27 PM on August 8, 2002

"That's my Bush!" God donkeyschlong, now your'e quoting Bill Clinton?
posted by Mack Twain at 1:28 PM on August 8, 2002

"Who cares what you think."

His daddy's version was "If you're so smart, why aren't you president?"
posted by Dirjy at 1:52 PM on August 8, 2002

Um. Another fine thread, sprung into action by gratuitous snideness in the post. Just when we were congratulating ourselves ...
posted by dhartung at 1:52 PM on August 8, 2002