Obama and Biden both called Cheney after heart attack

[Enrique]

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/obama-gives-cheney-a-call/

President Obama called former Vice President Dick Cheney at home to wish him a speedy recovery from his latest heart attack, a rare truce in the fiery, arms-length debate the two have been having about national security over the last year.

A White House official said Thursday that the president called Mr. Cheney on Wednesday after the former vice president was released from George Washington University Hospital. Mr. Cheney was treated for what his office called a “mild heart attack,” his fifth over the last three decades.

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had previously called his predecessor while Mr. Cheney was still at the hospital. The White House did not announce Mr. Obama’s call on Wednesday but the official confirmed it in response to an inquiry. Mr. Cheney’s spokesman could not be reached for comment.

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[lordcommander]

1. .....

:puke: But Obama and Biden classy as always.

[Name removed]

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[asdjrocky]

3. They are part of a very small club.

And they are all far better friends then they want us to believe.

[Cha]

5. That's bullhockey and you're better than that.

This was the Prez and the VP showing class as usual. Nothing more.

[asdjrocky]

7. Sure.

That's why no one from the Bush administration is made to answer for anything, it's all that class.

And please, bullhockey? Are you some weird school administrator form a John Hughes movie?

[OhioBlue]

15. bullhockey..

weird school admin from John Hughes movie....
:rofl:
okay... I gotta give you credit... that totally made me lol - even tho I was agreeing with Cha

[asdjrocky]

24. When you don't want to be mean or rude,

try to be funny.

[emilyg]

22. LOL - I needed that.

[MadBadger]

6. Have to agree with Cha on all fronts

[asdjrocky]

8. Huge surprise.

[MadBadger]

9. Ok, so are you not better than this?

[asdjrocky]

12. Better than what?

That doesn't make sense to me.

I'm probably not better than most things, worse than some, and a mile ahead of others. How's that?

[Cha]

13. Thank you, I'm not going to respond to

the insults.

[Jennicut]

14. HW Bush and Clinton certainly are.

But I doubt Obama likes Cheney much with all the criticism thrown his way by Cheney. Not friends but yes, they are all part of a club.

[Drunken Irishman]

30. SMOKE & MIRRORS, JENNICUT!

SMOKE AND MOTHER FUCKING MIRRORS!

Cheney adores Obama! THEY LOVE EACH OTHER! ALL AN ACT! CHENEY IS DOING IT BECAUSE HE'S SO UNPOPULAR AND KNOWS THAT IF HE ATTACKS OBAMA IT MAKES PEOPLE SIDE WITH OBAMA MORE! HE HAS TO PUT UP THE FRONT TO PULL THE WOOL OVER THE EYES OF THIS MASS-COUNTRY!

I READ IT ON THE NET!

:sarcasm:

[Cali_Democrat]

16. Obama and Biden's call to Cheney was a classy move

But instead of calling it what it is, you'd rather beat Obama over the head with it.

Cheney is a former Vice President and there's nothing wrong with a sitting President and Vice President wishing him well.

You are a very small person indeed.

[ShortnFiery]

29. Cheney and Bush are War Criminals - Obama and Biden helped negate and deny their crimes.

I find nothing "classy" in most anything they do that IGNORES war crimes.

[JI7]

21. this is why it's hard to take criticisms of Obama from some people seriously

do you really have a problem with the PResident and VP calling a previous VP who had a heart attack ?

do you think things would be different if anyone else was in those positions ?

really , this is just stupid.

[DevonRex]

49. Very true.

At least they identify themselves very clearly in threads like this. Saves us lots of time.

[ShortnFiery]

28. You got that right!

But the late George Carlin put it best!

"You and I are not in the Big Club"

http://www.faulkingtruth.com/Articles/Investing101/1070.html

It’s a big club and you ain’t in it! You and I are not in the Big Club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you in the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to believe, what to think and what to buy.

The table is tilted folks, the game is rigged.

Nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard working people, white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard working people continue, these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about…give a fuck about you! They don’t care about you at all, at all, at all.

[asdjrocky]

31. Thanks.

I'm really not trying to be an asshole here, of course, who has to try? But what I've seen in my life tells me there are two levels and you, me and almost everyone else will never be on the top. Call me jaded.

These guys are not heroes to me.

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[Vicar In A Tutu]

38. Only prosecuting them would be a partisan step and effectively doom Democrats for generations.

If you want to go into shady shit US Presidents have done, you can't only make an example of the worst offenders. There are grounds for just about every living former President to be marched into a courtroom and tried by a jury. The idea that Bush and Cheney were ever going to seized and put on trial existed only in delusion.

[ShortnFiery]

39. And that's what matters most: Party over Justice?

I weep for my Country. :cry:

[spiritual_gunfighter]

40. You said it better than I

If people don't think that the President and VP aren't closer to the Bush cabal than they appear to be in public they are foolish.

[Peacetrain]

47. Let me get the hip waders on... BULL HOCKEY

[Happyhippychick]

4. He is a better man than I would be. I have to respect it.

[proteus_lives]

10. They have class and manners.

Good for them.

[Kaleva]

41. +1

[Historic NY]

11. I'd have sent him a slab of fatback bacon.

[Fire1]

17. LOL!!! n/t

[Bobbie Jo]

26. DU'zy

:rofl:

[jillan]

18. I have a feeling that phone call was not good for Cheney's heart - or what's left of a heart.

[dmr]

19. They have manners. It's called decorum. n/t

[FrenchieCat]

20. Cheney probably hated that.....

Made him mad I bet!

I can see him now.... :grr:

[Cha]

48. You know you got that

right!:fistbump:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

23. Surely they're familiar with the expression "Killing them with kindness." .......

I kid I kid the un-dead. :evilgrin:

[FrenchieCat]

25. Cheney probably hated that.....

Made him mad I bet!

I can see him now.... :grr:

[Incitatus]

27. maybe that was the idea

:evilgrin:

[ShortnFiery]

32. No, it's what the ruling elites do for each other. They love each other more than

us inconsequential peasant classes. :thumbsdown:

[Incitatus]

34. well that sucks. nt

[Sebastian Doyle]

35. Well, in Obama's defense, they are family

distant cousins or something, wasn't it?

On the other hand, Biden should have wished him a nice trip back home...... to Hell :evilgrin:

[eppur_se_muova]

36. Hopefully, they just called to remind him that justice will still be waiting.

[Imagevision]

37. Yes I called Dick too a few minutes ago and had a few laughs...

[Vinca]

42. I, on the other hand, stuck pins in my Dick Cheney voodoo doll.

:rofl:

[Phx_Dem]

43. Nice to know someone in Washington still has class.

God knows Cheney doesn't deserve a kind word from anyone.

[Hekate]

44. Our Guys have more class in their little fingers than Cheney does in his nonexistent heart

Our Guys did the right thing

Hekate

[BeyondGeography]

45. Obama is the last political grown-up standing in this country

It's not an act.

You can disagree with the proposal that he can wear down the Republicans and lift up the country with civility and intelligence, but you can't fault him for actually following through.

[polichick]

46. If it made his blood pressure go up, good - but there comes a point...

...when it's just plain silly to bother with sociopaths.

[maxrandb]

50. Biden to Cheney:

"Boo!"

[Beacool]

51. That was very classy.

:thumbsup:

[Kaleva]

52. Obama and Biden continue to be class acts.

[DailyGrind51]

53. What did they call him?

[graywarrior]

54. Called him what, heartless?