Why does Cheney hate Pres. Obama so much?

[Drunken Irishman]

He has said the most vile, unnecessary things since leaving office. I dare someone find any positive quote about Pres. Obama uttered by Cheney in the last year. It would be hard and probably only said during the inauguration - when both parties tend to be on their best behavior.

So, why the hate, Dick?

Is he jealous? Pissed? Racist?

I am surprised that Republicans continue to allow him to speak so hatefully toward the president - his leader.

Though Al Gore and Jimmy Carter had some harsh words for the Bush administration and President Bush himself, I don't ever remember it being this negative and ugly.

But I guess that sums up Cheney. Ugly on both the outside and in.

[Peacetrain]

1. I think you have given as good a list as any..but let me add one thing

DELUSIONAL...

[Drunken Irishman]

2. Do you think it's just all of the above?

I mean, it has to be for that much hate to exist in one man.

Cheney is the type of person who would yell, "hell yeah" if President Obama were gunned down in the streets. It really is scary how much he hates this President.

[Peacetrain]

3. I think he would too.. the whole bunch of them.. would be running around

chest bumping each other..

Just when you think they cannot sink any lower, they prove me wrong each and every time.

And they are trying to get back into power.

If they do, this country will become a nightmare that will make the Bush years look like a cake walk

[firedupdem]

4. Because he's an evil jerk and he seems to feel as though

the current president isn't worthy of the office. My husband came to that conclusion when he had his mysterious back ache during the inauguration. Damn if he was going to stand up for 'that one' for any reason during that swearing in ceremony. Cheney is a poor excuse for a human being.

[tridim]

5. Could be some good old-fashioned paranoia mixed in too.

He knows what he did.

[Blasphemer]

6. He's evil and Obama is a symbol of the public's repudiation of him and his evil cabal nt

[TheBigotBasher]

7. I'm not sure he does

a thread that has died, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x111231

He hates his reputation and will do ANYTHING to restore it. No matter the cost.

[Skittles]

8. because Cheney is a rich, racist, ugly evil piece of SHIT

[HCE SuiGeneris]

9. He's afraid. He's a coward. He is guilty of treason.

He doesn't hate Obama. He hates the possibility of justice.

[rufus dog]

17. that would be my take

He is using the best defense is an offense approach. Always calling out Obama in case something comes out on Cheney. That way he and all the fucked up righties will simply say it is purely political payback if anyone attempts to prosecute.

[Autonomy]

10. I agree with everything in the OP, except

"his leader". Obama is not Cheney's leader. He's just the president.

[tinrobot]

11. He even faked an injury so he could sit through the inauguration.

[BrklynLiberal]

12. Cheney is a small minded, evil man whose entire body and soul has been so eaten away by

greed and arrogance that he is incapable of even thinking, much less saying anything positive about anyone.

[WT Fuheck]

13. the dick hates everyone and everything.

[ShortnFiery]

14. Ever ONCE consider the possibility that both men are simply "bit players" in the entire MICs' Grand

Operations Plan to maintain *ENDLESS WAR* for their greed, power, entertainment and MASSIVE financial gains for crony friends and family? :wow: :evilgrin:

[NoSheep]

15. I can't believe I'm still here. n/t.

[Brother Buzz]

16. He can't land the big no-bid contracts for his fat-cat cronies anymore

[ShortnFiery]

28. Not true. The war industry has never been more enriched as it is now.

Cheney, Rumsfeld, et. al. are all invested up to their eyeballs in corporations comprising the MIC. Now with Obama promoting endless WAR both them and their corrupt friends are *in the money.*

Everyone in the upper 1% are living better than at any time in history.

You know who's suffering? Right - the rest of us. :grr:

[Brother Buzz]

39. No-bid contracts?

[angee_is_mad]

18. Obama's mother fornicated

with a black man. All that race mixing ain't good for the country:sarcasm:

Plus he is married to a strong, beautiful, intelligent black woman and raise two bright little girls that you just know there will never be a bristol situation in that household. Plus he got a BLACK DOG.

The world has gone to hell in a handbasket:nuke:

[Fire1]

44. Girl! That's just too much black!!! lol!!!

[soyousay]

19. Its all part of the act...

They all hang out together in cloakrooms, fancy hotel rooms, redwood forest enclaves, pat each other on the backs send christmas cards and birthday cards to each others families.
They are in the club your not.
They read their little scripts and say there little speech yet nothing ever gets changed in a direction that
leads away from corporate rule. Some pretend to hate each other, and the fight is needed to keep up the pretense
to make it look "real". One party comes one goes but the same march to wards tyranny continues.
We ring our hands and pretend if we just get more progressives elected we will accomplish all our goals.
Some commit horrible crimes but notice no matter what party is in power the powerful are protected.
The media owned and bought off talk about utter trivial nonsense as if it matters and we watch as if it makes a difference.
We are in denial about the nightmare upon us because it goes against every thing we were told about our wonderful country and those good people who lead us.
But our leaders yes OUR leaders are nothing more than criminal whores who would fight against our true freedoms till there last breath.
Dick Cheney ugly???? hell yes he is.
But what about our democratic leaders who try to deceive you at every turn as to what they are really up to.
Is that not equally ugly? Just because they tell you pleasant lies you enjoy hearing while they enable the same crimes to be formented
you find them noble?
How sad.

[ShortnFiery]

25. Well put!

The late George Carlin also worded "The Big Club" (that you and I are not part of) quite aptly. :evilgrin:

http://dotsub.com/view/5782d237-ab0a-41bc-a35b-d8b34d886b7c

"Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice . . . you don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying . . . lobbying, to get what they want . . . Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want . . . they don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that . . . that doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin' years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers . . . Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your fuckin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it . . . they’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fuckin' place. 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 over 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 think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and 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 you. They don’t give a fuck about you . . . they don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t care about you at all . . . at all . . . at all, and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on.

[Fire1]

45. If I believed that for one second, I'd blow my fuckin brains out. n/t

[Hekate]

20. Cheney is evil. I also wonder to what extent he is insane, as well.

But evil, angry, jealous, afraid -- all that can lead to an unbalance that mimics insanity, too.

Hekate

[dkf]

21. Every body Hates him, nobody Likes him, he needs to eat some wooooooorrrms.

He's just jealous.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

22. don't forget that all of Cheney's underlings are still in head positions of departments....

the Repukes are holding up all of President Obama's appointments...the party of obstruction is keeping Cheney in power yet....all these "underwear bomber" and such are very suspicious imho

it is all the under sects that are important....not the heads of the departments....but even the TSA head is being held up by these Cheney loyalists.


tightening my foil

[rasputin1952]

23. "Is he jealous? Pissed? Racist?" Yes...

and w/nothing to do in WY, he has to try to stay "relevant".

Each time he opens his mouth, a percentage of R's leave the party...pretty soon, "the base" will be about 7%...:D

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

24. Four words: He's guilty and afraid!!! n/t

[ShortnFiery]

26. Cheney has NOTHING to be afraid of. President Obama is protecting him and his boss ...

against any future legal action. They are all part of "The Big Club" that you and I are NOT a part of.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

40. Good point. Very sad, though. So, if they're all on the same team, then why is

Cheney so hateful, other than the fact that he an evil, racist pig?

[Jamastiene]

27. Cheney shot one of his own friends in the face.

He's a hateful person, if you want to call him a person. He knows the Bush administration, including him, was a complete and total failure. He's trying to save face, his own face, that is, not his friend's face.

[LiberalEsto]

29. Because he's a vile, unnecessary lump of hate.

And he's pouting because his side lost.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

30. Obama is upsetting his neocon plans

[ShortnFiery]

32. No, he's working in concert with neo-con interests - it's called "Neo-Liberal" eom

[Jennicut]

31. Paranoid, racist, nutso, crazy....you name it and Dick is that and more.

I have no idea what drives a madman.

[impik]

33. Many on the Left hates Obama just as much, so i really can't blame Cheney

[Fire1]

46. Bingo!!! n/t

[niceypoo]

34. Cheney doesnt want to be prosecuted

...so he tries to make his failures look like victories.

[cadmium]

35. My theory. He has numerous plants in

government accumulated over the years and solidified when Bush/Cheney political appointees were given civil service jobs at the end of their last term. They are a shadow government and Cheney is their guy. Cheney can do or say anything he wants. Tbese operatives can disrupt the function of government agencies - making it very difficult for Obama appointees to get cooperation and get things done. It is like when a new unpopular supervisor (friend of the boss) takes over a division at a workplace and the staff works behind the scenes to sabotage them.

[themaguffin]

36. It's purely partisan (and book selling)

That's all Dick is. A fucking hack.

[DevonRex]

37. 1. Obama is a Democrat. 2. Dick has committed crimes and he's scared. nt

[treestar]

38. He's pissed that he and the rest of the neocon cabal have been

repudiated by the election, and that the wars are going to be over and he won't get to see his New American Century.

[StreetKnowledge]

41. Dick Cheney is evil. Period.

In a righteous world, Cheney's outing of Valerie Plame woulda seen him in jail in 2004 or so, but not only did he get away with that he got away with ripping up the Constitution and starting two wars, spying on Americans and personally advocating pre-emptive war, then outright hating those who think differently from him.

He thinks America should be an empire, a power which can and should tell the world how to live and enforce it by force. Except the world stopped working that way two generations ago. Cheney is evil, he'll end up explaining things to the devil.

[Soylent Brice]

42. the truth...

:shrug:

[timeforpeace]

43. He found out it really bothers us.