Cheney Nods Off During Meeting On Calif. Wildfires

[sabra]

Source: CBS News

(CBS13) WASHINGTON Vice President Dick Cheney was caught on tape and caught off guard during a meeting with President Bush.

A news crew was taping a cabinet meeting at the White House as the president was giving a briefing on the California wildfires.

The news crew caught Cheney as he appeared to be nodding off.



Read more: http://cbs13.com/local/local_story_298084123.html

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[Trouser Trout]

1. Only a Nod-Off? Damn, I Thought He'd Croaked n/t

[eagleswing963]

13. We should be so lucky!!!

Sadly Satan is immortal!

[emilyg]

30. Yep.

[allisonthegreat]

33. to evil to die n/t

[earth mom]

41. That would be funny if it wasn't so true. nt

[villager]

2. There wasn't enough immediate death involved to keep his interest...

n/t

[Virginia Dare]

4. I would think the potential contracts for Halliburton would..

I guess money even bores him now.

[eagleswing963]

15. Now if California pumped oil

He would give a rats ass!

[kineneb]

28. we still do...

there are still oil wells to be seen pumping away in the southland



found at:
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/07/116724.shtml

"The largest oilfield in the lower 48 states in not in Texas, but in California. And it's not off-shore. If fact, it straddles the California Aqueduct that supplies much of Los Angeles' drinking water. Guess what? The oil companies don't want you to know about it."

[Virginia Dare]

3. Just needs a little jumpstart, or maybe a new battery...

no big deal. I'm waiting for the day he does one of those and never wakes up.:boring:

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. He's dead! Quick, bury him.

[Canuckistanian]

40. And quick, before he starts to smell

And there are public health concerns to be considered as well.

[Oreo]

6. I despise Cheney as much as anybody...

but they showed two seconds of him looking down. Bit of a stretch to me

[Webster Green]

11. Not really..

He falls asleep at meetings all the time. This isn't the first pic of him snoozing at a meeting.

[olddad56]

17. maybe he stayed up late the night before worrying....

about when he'd get to start WW3.

[Benhurst]

7. To be fair to Electric Dick,

he may have just been having a mini-stroke.

[Dhalgren]

8. Crushing the world and destroying the hope of mankind is hard work!

Gramps needs his nap. He really, really needs it...

[Donnachaidh]

9. Now if it was an oil meeting

He'd not only be bolt upright, he'd be so excited the table in front of him would lift off the floor a few inches. :evilgrin:

[here_is_to_hope]

25. *snicker!* n/t

[Lisa]

38. schwing! (n/t)

[silverojo]

45. SHUDDER! n/t

[TechBear_Seattle]

10. Why shouldn't he nap? The California oil fields are all safe

Everything else is just so boring.

[Ian David]

12. He wasn't sleeping. He was downloading a software update.

[Bigmack]

27. And, as usual, it'll be LOADED with errors

[Arkansas Granny]

14. They showed a clip of this on our local news this morning. It sure

looked like he was nodding off. His head would start lowering and then he would straighten up and blink his eyes.

[truthisfreedom]

16. Apparently, not enough people have died in the fires to keep his interest.

When we're talking millions of dead and wounded, it keeps dick up.

[goforit]

18. A possible syncopal episode?

[Hand]

19. One can always hope. nt

[Roland99]

20. If Frat Boy was talking about bombing the fires into submission, DICK would be wide-eyed!!

[Rambis]

21. "More he sleeps the safer we are"

Arlo Guthrie about Ray-Gun I think the same applies here-

[pattmarty]

22. I was gonna post, but I can't top yours!!!!

[lpbk2713]

23. *Don't disturb me unless it's Halliburton calling.*

*Meanwhile, you all can go ahead and take care of the *little peoples' business* without me.*

[Kolesar]

24. The physicians just stood back with their arms folded when Joe Stalin went unconcious and died

He had a treatable condition, but none of the doctors revived him.

[GliderGuider]

26. Unfit For Duty!

Whether from physical sickness or mental sickness, Cheney is not up to the job.

[librechik]

29. Wake him up! Talk about torture for awhile

that ought to do it.

Man, these boring day-to day duties can get to ya!

[eppur_se_muova]

31. Evidence of a desperate need for new blood ...

preferably from young children.

[LadyAziz]

32. Asshole!

:grr: Sleeping while Cali burns.

[LeftyMom]

34. halliburton must not have a residential construction subsidiary nt

[xxqqqzme]

35. I happens fairly often when your ticker is defective.

My ex would sometimes nod off while involved in a conversation. Not enough oxygen getting to the brain to stay engaged.

[silverojo]

46. Really?

Hell, my aunt was literally *dying*, with an ejection fraction of below 10%, and she never nodded off. She'd annouce that she was tired, lie, down, and THEN go to sleep.

What does this say about Cheney's condition, if he can't even anticipate his naps?

[deutsey]

36. The epitome of "compassionate conservatism" n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

37. K&R

[Mnemosyne]

39. Didn't he just do this somewhere else? What is he? Narcoleptic? n/t

[Kaleko]

42. Let sleeping Dicks lie

and R.I.P.

Please...

[Mnemosyne]

47. Well, he is a dick, he lies and

he's always sleeping.

:evilgrin:

Welcome to DU, Kaleko! :hi:

[Olney Blue]

43. He's about as interested in what the chimp has to say as I am.

[Historic NY]

44. Somebody must have tripped over his plug..............

[RFKJrNews]

48. Snoozing While Rome Burns

From our blog:

http://rfkin2008.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/snoozing-while-rome-burns/

[Gen. Jack D. Ripper]

49. He's tired because

He wasn't able to sleep in his own bed. You know, the one made of rotting cadavers and kitten blood.