The great Dick Cheney empathy test, By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Former Vice President Dick Cheney disclosed Wednesday that he has undergone surgery to install a small pump to help his heart work, as the 69-year-old enters a new phase of what he called "increasing congestive heart failure." -- Associated Press

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Here's how it works. You read the story above. You note how Dick Cheney, former vice president, Bush babydaddy, sneermaster supreme, befouler of nations, lover of war, hater of, well, almost everything else -- has undergone yet another major heart operation, this time to place a little valve-assisting pump (called an LVAD) in his withered and long dysfunctional ticker. ...



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[Bobbieo]

1. May he live a long life!!!!

[madokie]

2. I want him to suffer as long as the doctors can keep his sorry butt alive

No easy exits for the dick

[underpants]

7. It is sort of like the death penalty argument turned on its ear

Do you wish someone dead or do you want them to sit and think about it .... or at least let us watch the caged animal with increasing satisfaction?
Dick Cheney was the borax to his own ant hive.


Perhaps a reversal is in order. Perhaps it's better to wish someone like Dick a longer life, so that he may bear witness to the well-deserved implosion of all his nefarious plans, his cronyist empire. The man is, by most accounts, responsible for countless thousands of innocent deaths, the acerbic tainting of our national identity, a flagrant mutilation of everything we once held dear. You sort of want the guy to feel it. Repeatedly.

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[madokie]

16. I want to see the dick having plenty of time to think about what he's done

and from what I can see it was all for money and power, hardly commendable. It'd be too easy for him to slip on out now. I doubt that he would every have a change of heart but you know that he has to think about the things he did and why he did them. I am against the death penalty because its too easy for someone to find Jesus and then be looking forward to an afterlife and that is not punishment or to me it doesn't seem that it would be anyway.

[zbdent]

10. I thought that immortality was a byproduct of being one of the undead ...

[samplegirl]

3. Amazing how good that socialized medicine works for

him.........when I'm having trouble just getting insurance to pay for Rheumatoid Dr. visit.

[lunatica]

4. I suspect Dick is feeling victimized by life

Who wants to live with such a constant reminder of time running out? His karmic adjustment is in progress. It may not be what we feel is just, but his life is no bed of roses now.

[Dogmudgeon]

5. This is, of course, a total fantasy ...

"... akin to imagining Rush Limbaugh getting busted for snorting meth from a gay teenage hooker's thighs just after fellating Mel Gibson in Newt Gingrich's fetish dungeon."

:rofl:

--d!

[malaise]

6. Well written

I just want the Dick to be conscious to the end.

[madokie]

17. Yes, and that end to be a long time coming

[PuraVidaDreamin]

8. I can't help but hope

that the LVAD makes a continuous loud hissing noise that resonates 24/7 deep in his brain

[Solly Mack]

9. k/r

[rock]

11. I give myself EPIC FAIL

I just don't have any sympathy for him. (I don't wish him dead, but I would like to see him behind bars).

[BrklynLiberal]

12. Love Morford's writing!

[mkultra]

13. queue "no limit" playing the violin for poor Cheney.

[jfkraus]

14. I will pray for him...

I pray he lives a long, long time. I pray he gets lots of medical treatment and the doctors open him up many times to keep him alive. I pray he gets all the pain meds he needs to end his suffering. I hope he lives a long time, confined to a hospital bed, with nothing to do but contemplate the misery he has wrought.

[Frustratedlady]

15. I once had a gal tell me her father would not go to sleep...

...for fear of dying. I asked her why and she said he knew the devil was going to get ahold of him for being so mean to her mother.

She said he would sit at the dining room table and stare straight ahead, day after day. He finally did die, but she said he fought it to the end.

I picture the Dick staring straight ahead in fear....That's my fantasy.

[NightWatcher]

18. Fail Horribly. I keep hitting refresh on GoogleNews "Cheney dead"

My only regret, that I won't be home for a week to chill bubbly