Why would Vice-President Cheney endorse McCain?

Another great question Robert. I adore your articles. For some reason their pertinance just appeals to me. I personally cannot tolerate anything that comes out of his mouth. My disrespect for the legal crimminal is above anything that can be measured. To me his part of the reason America has lost it's appeal worldwide. Because he is a criminal, I really feel this another one of his actions that proves he has no idea of what we, as a Nation, out here think of him. After Haliburton, (I will not ever eat lunch again without thinking of a soldier sitting in the current War zones) with no level of justice implemented at anytime, I lost interest in him, except to be angry at him and his pompous countenance that screams "you cannot touch me, but I can do whatever in the hell I want!" The two of them together scratching each other's back, just goes to show you what a lot of money causes you to think you can get away with. How can John McCain know anything really, about how anyone lives in this country today. His wife is worth millions. I do not feel he can relate, with a bevy of lawyers and a staff that cleans up after him daily, much as his endorser has, know what it is like to be "working poor" out here? I heard a good one that has been around awhile last nite, "Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed frequently, and for the same reason." Too bad the word "some" is not in front of "Politicians". These two together clinches the deal for me. "Birds of a feather", really applies here, and if I were John McCain, I would be distraught that he said this publicly at this time. Wait a minute, I made a mistake, I would not ever want to be John McCain.

I have learned from commenting on another one of your articles, that I must be careful about stating my opinions. So I hope this one is clear. Thanks for a great post. Ellen B

"Scuse the typos, just got up and am medicated. :)))) Coffee and meds, it will get me going..Ellen B

Thanks for posting this. If I were Mr. McCain, I would distance myself from Mr. Cheney quickly. I can't believe Mr. Cheney would have given ANY political endorsement at this point.

Jeff, if I were Obama, I would distance myself from Biden.

Remember there has been a Demoratic congress for the last two years. Why have they not put checks on George Bush? They have funded his war and indorsed his economic policies. Any changes Obama now suggests, he could have suggested in Congress (If he ever bothered to show up.)

Congress has a nine percent approval rating compared to Bush 30 percent.

McCain and Obama have both been part of his congress. Ellen, you accuse Bush of being criminal. I accuse the entire congress.

Mary Ann, you're right. The Democrats in congress have not reined in Bush. They said impeachment is off the table (Pelosi) when there clearly have been offenses compatible with offenses that led to other impeachment (Nixon) panels. They continued to fund a war which the UN Secretary General as well as the International Committee of Jurists has called illegal. They didn't pursue the clear violation of FISA law in spite of Bush's admission and many of them have gone along with the trashing of the Constitution. And what ever happened to the subpoenas of Harriet Miers and Karl Rove?

Although the Republicans have saddled the American people with massive problems, including the break down of the co-equal powers of government specified in the Constitution, Republican-Lite (the Democrats) are nearly as bad. A lot of them have gone along with it. They are clearly spineless and many of them are complicit in the continuation of illegal, or otherwise damaging policy. I don't like the way Obama voted for the Patriot Act re-authorization and the bail out.

But ... There are only two candidates in this race and choosing McCain would be close to choosing another four years of Bush neocon catastrophe. And if McCain doesn't live out the average life expectancy, we have a President Palin, who 59% of the public doesn't think is ready for the job. Obama may not be the political messiah, but the other guy is the extension of certain disaster we can't absorb at this point.

Ellen, thanks for your comments. I appreciate the way you express your personal view of these events. Your comment including Haliburton reminds me of something you mentioned yesterday, regarding the soldiers not being properly equipped. How many people know that while our soldiers families had to send them everything from flak jackets to boots, Haliburton execs were riding around the green zone in a fleet of Cadillac Escalades with chrome wheels?

Criminal is a technical legal term, but Cheney and many others in the administration have violated ethical and moral standards most of us would establish. Also, Cheney was the guy who said the Iraq war would last a couple of weeks to a month. He said, "we know with certainty that Saddam has reconstituted his nuclear weapons program", and in 2005 he said the insurgency "is in its last throes." Either his judgment is very bad, or his skills at deception are very good. Either way an endorsement for McCain isn't very stellar.

I have this gut feel that Mr. Cheney was running his own show after 9/11 involving invasion of Iraq to setting up Guantanamo Bay (torture) to spying on domestic communications system. I also have this gut feel that Mr. Bush did not have much involvement in what the VP was doing, but to let him carry out his own agenda. I could be wrong...

Jeff, if you look at the whole Iraq thing, and the "war on terror," which I believe is largely another device to exploit the public for support for things they wouldn't otherwise support it all goes back to Cheney. Well before the neocon PNAC was organized, during the administration of George H.W. Bush, Cheney directed Wolfowitz to come up with what later became the framework for PNAC objectives of global domination based on militarism, and of course Cheney, Wolfowitz and about twenty others dominated the Bush administration and sent us on this path to hell.