Cheney to America: F*ck You

Okay, so he didn't say "F-You," but he might just as well have.

Say this about Dick Cheney - the man has balls. I'll also say this about him - he is quite possibly the darkest man in American politics, and the worst vice president in American history.

Yesterday, on ABC's Good Morning America, responding to a question by Martha Raddatz about the unpopularity of the War in Iraq, Cheney offers up this defiant, despicable answer...

Raddatz: Two-thirds of Americans say it's not worth fighting, and they're looking at the value gain versus the cost in American lives, certainly, and Iraqi lives.

Cheney: So? [Bush-like sneer]

Raddatz: So — you don't care what the American people think?

Cheney: No, I think you cannot be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.

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Think about what would have happened if Abraham Lincoln had paid attention to polls, if they had had polls during the Civil War. He never would have succeeded if he hadn't had a clear objective, a vision for where he wanted to go, and he was willing to withstand the slings and arrows of the political wars in order to get there. And this president has been very courageous, very consistent, very determined to continue down the course we were on and to achieve our objective.

I couldn't be more tired of the senior members of this administration (along with President Bush) constantly making references to Lincoln, Reagan and World War II, and our troops in Germany and North Korea, all as a justification for what we are doing in Iraq.

I also love how when opinion polls go against this administration, "you can't be blown off course by public opinion polls," yet when opinion polls support a position of this administration, the numbers are endlessly and breathlessly pimped all over TV by Bush's talking heads.

If these guys were any more clueless, we would be in World War III. I guess we can at least be thankful for that.

h/t Crooks & Liars for the video