I don't like him either but I hope he has a good recovery. We can fight with him later.

Doctor to Cheney: I think it went well the operation Mr Cheney, I'll be back in a minute.

Doctor to nurse in hall: nurse did you happen to see where I placed my cell phone?

Ring-tone coming from inside Cheney: I'm in the money, I'm in the money.

...wow, beth...you really ARE nasty...

I'm sure it was the best heart transplant that taxpayers could pay for.

I didn't think that Dick Cheney had more than a dozen supporters left in the country but, that must not be true because they couldn't all be here posting. Maybe some of them are just genuinely kind people who never wish ill for anyone. That is a quality to aspire toward but, I can't help it that Dick makes my blood run cold.

To "I am one man" - is that guy smoking "stupid" or what - I mean is he really that stupid !!! or did he posssssssssibly & completely mistake "Obama" for Bush ???

Great, now he'll live a little while. Time for one last tax-payer funded trip. To the war crimes tribunal. I hope his heart keeps him alive in prison a good long while.

To I am one man, WHAT let me repeat that WHAT the H are you talking about it's like you took what is really happening in this world and twisted it all around to try and make it Obama's fault. It's just amazing to me that you think that just him being half African American that he's to blame for all the racism and hatred that people on the far right have him just because he was elected president by the people of The United States of America. Well get over it he is the legally elected president no matter what you and sheriff whats him name thinks. And the brainwashed one is you ! You really need to try some of that free independent thinking that you prove is so missing in the far right. Sorry but you fail with your comment so badly it is just pathetic complaining about liberals calling people names while calling liberals names in the same sentence and you probably want everybody on here to believe you are a good christian shame on you.

Darth Cheney gets a new heart.

I have to laugh at the Tea Baggers crying about libs saying bad things about Cheney. These are the same people who did the EXACT same thing when Ted Kennedy died. Hypocrites one and all.

If that heart had a soul it would jump right out of that empty Satan worshiping carcass that Richard Cheney has proven himself to be. Some people are wishing him the best, they are spitting in the face of all the people he swindeled, tortured and killed, shame. May he live a long life in the jail cell he deserves.

"I am one man" is one very confused man. Those who agree with him are equally confused.

Shosyn IS right. We should be ashamed. I am definitely not a fan of the man but really? These comments are horrible! Trust me, liberal until the day I die but I would NEVER say the things I have read here to even my worst enemy. The man has a family and people who love him and if we, as Dems, make such snide remarks, we have just stooped to the same level we accuse others of residing in.

Wow! I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many collapsed, hate-filled comments with so many adjacent “thumbs up” star symbols. I’m going to bookmark this thread as an excellent example of the true liberal mind-set, which they themselves gleefully exposed. Even the liberal-leaning managers of this website agree that a multitude of these comments have crossed the threshold of inappropriate hate-speech.

The American public is constantly bombarded by the news media’s portrayal of liberals as advocates of civil discourse, tolerance, non-judgmental behavior, and sympathy for those in dire need of health-care. Yet just the opposite attributes are documented on this thread by hatemongering and bigoted liberals, who have escalated their mindless hatred to new levels. For example, more than a few authors wrote that they may refrain from being an organ donor if someone like Dick Cheney could be an eligible recipient. Another author wrote that he will specify on his organ donation card that Dick Cheney (and those like him) are forbidden from receiving any donated organs.

Gee, if I specified that none of my blood donations to the Red Cross (I’m a 10-gallon donor) or none of my organs (I’m also an organ donor) or none of my charitable financial donations should be given to liberals or specifically-named individuals, liberals would scream about intolerance and bigotry – and they would be correct. The true meaning of any charitable donation is that it is given to those in dire need, regardless of race, class, gender, political leaning, religious belief/non-belief, sexual orientation, etc.

Like I said earlier, this thread is a textbook example of the double-standard and hypocrisy spewed by liberals. They want us to do as they say, not as they do. Liberals need to remember these words, “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” (Buddha)

I'm surprised he didn't use his resources and find a donor match and invite them hunting.

Just goes to show you money talks and bull$hit walks. He got the heart someone else has been waiting for. Shame.

I am one man::: You better stay that way. Your savior George W Bush started 2 (TWO) wars. He personally is responsible for 4,000 deaths in Iraq-- and for what. To prove to the country what an @$$ he is.

Have you ever been to Arlington National-- or a state veterans cemetery for that matter? In ours, there are tablets with the names of those from this area (or served in this area) who were killed, a tablet for each separate year. I have to see the tablets when I can go alone-- it hurts me and I don't want anyone see me cry.

You must have been born to civilians and have been a civilian all your life. So you don't know anything about any war-- even Iraq and Afghanistan. So shut it up and put the blame where it belongs-- ON YOUR SAVIOR, GWB.

This bothers me because as someone who has gone through the transplant process. I know he was to old to qualify and if he was the average joe he would not of gotten a transplant. That just goes to show you that if your in the 1% in this country you can buy anything including a heart.

He is a pussy and scared to die. My mother-in law was put on the heart list at age 70. At age 72 a heart became available but turned it down. She passed away approx 1 month latter. He should have given that heart to someone who needed it.

Nice comments....and to think the left accuses the right side of the aisle for being crass. Can you imagine if it was Gore who got the translplant, how much the left would be screaming for ANY comments made like this?

Stay classy

nastybeth

Learn to spel you LBGS

How can they justify giving a heart to a person that old? He has lived his life for 71 years, how about the others on the list who are 1/2 to 1/3 his age? The medical community say transplants go to those in greatest need........ this is proof if you have enough cash you jump to the head of the list!

Shouldn't the headline have said 'Implant' not transplant?

Remember it took a while to kill Darth Vader too.

He wasn't on any donor waiting list. He bought his heart with his Iraq-made Halliburton money. He should have been getting his transplant from jail where he should be serving time for war crimes. Too bad he can't buy a soul.

(Empire Strikes Back Theme)

It looks like Darth Cheney gets a new lease on life.

It's amazing that Republicans continue to support this kind of inequality (rich getting better medicine) via repeal of the health care law with nothing to replace it with.

You'll be dead. Why should you care what happens after you are worm food?

All it takes is a little money to extend the recommended limits as usual. The age of 55 years has traditionally been the accepted upper limit beyond which heart transplantation should not be considered

All the while the 24 year old barista at the local Starbucks waits for hers to completey fail before getting considered for a transplant

It's interesting that at 71 he's getting a transplant. My late husband was on a transplant list at 52 and he was at the oldest limit.

Sorry for your loss, Lady Cat. The fact that Cheney has been given special treatment when others have not only goes to prove the old saying that the good die young.

Yes isn't it. I thought the same thing when I saw he had a heart transplant at 71.

I'm just wondering if there was some other deserving person for this heart that got passed up because of this dishonorable former V.P., he and his boss were both war evaders but yet saw to it that thousands of other men and women got sent to Iraq (Illegally), and Afghanistan (if we'd kept major emphasis there we would probably be out of there by now.)

I also thought it was odd, getting such a transplant at his age.

Wonder if the donor gave up the heart voluntarily ? Do you think they waited until he was declared dead or was it just some poor guy that was in for a hangnail and he got "harvested" ?

Wonder if the donor gave up the heart voluntarily ? Do you think they waited until he was declared dead or was it just some poor guy that was in for a hangnail and he got "harvested" ?

Hahahah! I needed this laugh to start my day. Thanks.

Oreda, fortunately he "is" still on our dime and thats what you want isn't it free health care for all right? Get a grip on what you stand for before you post it, or better yet vote it.

Both of you got ahead of me. But will it really be an actual change of heart?

That's the first thing I said, too! Looked at hubby and said, "[Gasp!] Just like the Tin Man (in the Wizard of Oz)... He finally got a heart ('cause he sure the hell didn't have one before that!)"

Yeah, my sister was on the waiting list 2 years and died waiting. smh

Being an RN, I get upset when I see somone, (I don't care who they are) at the age of 71, get a transplant of any kind. They have had a life. Give it to someone else who is much younger and hasn't had a life. I have taken care of patients (excuse me, I meant clients and customers, because that is what they are called now by hospitals) who should not have qualified because of age or life style. I took care of a patient who was 63 years old and had been a smoker for 45 years. He received a lung transplant. By the way, he was one of my favorite pt. Took care of another pt who was 67 and a smoker and a drinker. He had a heart and lung transplant. I just athink organs need to go ppl who are younger and live a better lifestyle. I can say this because I am 64 years old and a smoker. There is not way I should qualify for a transplant of any kind.

socialized medicine at its finest, I was also suprised to see he got a new heart at 71.

You wouldn't be saying 71 is too old if it were your Dad needing a heart transplant, would you?

Premium insurance cut-off for this type of thing is usually 67. I hope public servant Dick gets a chance to thank the taxpayers for his heath care since it's free for life for him. I wonder what young person is still on the list, desperately waiting?

james-Do you think someone who has been an alcoholic for years deserves a liver transplant before a person who is much younger and has not abused their bodies?

James, yes patients with poor lifestyle choices while in poor health... those who drink, smoke, obese, etc are ALREADY disqualified. If you are on a transplant list, you shouldn't be using ANY recreational drug, and yes, that includes alcohol.

For everyone who says age shold have kept him from a translat.

Patients who have the following conditions might not be candidates for heart transplant surgery, because the procedure is less likely to be successful.

• Advanced age. Although there is no widely accepted upper age limit for a heart transplant, most transplant surgery isn't performed on patients older than 70 years.
• Poor blood circulation throughout the body, including the brain.
• Diseases of the kidney, lungs, or liver that can't be reversed.
• History of cancer or malignant tumors.
• Inability or unwillingness to follow lifelong medical instructions after a transplant.
• Pulmonary arterial hypertension (high blood pressure in the lungs) that can't be reversed.
• Active infection throughout the body.

http://www.cardiosmart.org/HeartDisease/CTT.aspx?id=980

james,----Reps (think Ryan) health plan IS going to decide WHO lives or Dies...its easy..if your Rich...U live

If your NOT rich U die..simple. oh and lets Not forget the suffering not so rich can endure. You and your kind (think Cheney) make ME sick.

jamrn....u are not much better.

Comrade Chaos-it wasn't "all those years" with Ted Kennedy. He was diagnosed in May 2008 and died in August 2009.

Bush & Cheney did a good job of what? Bankrupting the country to pursue personal agendas of greed?

What a complete waste of the taxpayers money, he is worthless. Bet he didn't go on a waiting list.

Frankly, I feel bad for someone else on the waiting list that lost out on the too few available hearts for transplant.

That's what government sponsored medical insurance will buy you -- a new heart.

Transplant? Shouldn't that read implant?

Cheney had no empathy for the lives of young American men and women - yet he is given a heart transplant at age 71.....Why?????

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Wow! And you libs accuse republicans of hate speech! What a bunch of hypocrites!

Sebastian,

When the same lack of compassion comes their way, then Conservatives call it "hate speech."

Golden Jewell 9.5--First your buddies, Geo and Dick did such a wonderful job while in the white house, they put us in the red for years to come. President Obama Inherited this great job from them; Taxpayer bailout of Wall Street and Big Banks, Insurance Companies, ($750 Billion) no questions asked where the money went? Taxpayer bailout of Drug Companies, Two (2) wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, ($2-3 trillion in the hole). Biggest Mortgage Crisis in History of USA, ( $13 Trillion) in lost funds, No proper paperwork for ownership. 25 million people out of work, 6-7 million jobs shipped oversea by your buddies buddies. 50 million people without Health Care, No Medical Insurance, working Jobs that pay below Minimum wage? Republicans trying to take away a women right for her own Health Care and Birth Control. Men still get Viagra??? 9 year in Iraq, 11 yrs in Afghanistan, almost 7,000 dead, with 35,000 injuries, most very serious medical condition. 2-3 million homes a year foreclosed on and counting. Nice Job if you get one. I see Dick Cheney got a new heart, the man was lucky he actually had one, can you believe that??? Sorry for the Donor, someone better could have used it better. He is a war crime criminal and his buddy Geo. W.

Steve-3169902

Golden Jewell 9.5--First your buddies, Geo and Dick did such a wonderful job while in the white house, they put us in the red for years to come. President Obama Inherited this great job from them; Taxpayer bailout of Wall Street and Big Banks, Insurance Companies, ($750 Billion) no questions asked where the money went? Taxpayer bailout of Drug Companies, Two (2) wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, ($2-3 trillion in the hole). Biggest Mortgage Crisis in History of USA, ( $13 Trillion) in lost funds, No proper paperwork for ownership. 25 million people out of work, 6-7 million jobs shipped oversea by your buddies buddies. 50 million people without Health Care, No Medical Insurance, working Jobs that pay below Minimum wage? Republicans trying to take away a women right for her own Health Care and Birth Control. Men still get Viagra??? 9 year in Iraq, 11 yrs in Afghanistan, almost 7,000 dead, with 35,000 injuries, most very serious medical condition. 2-3 million homes a year foreclosed on and counting. Nice Job if you get one. I see Dick Cheney got a new heart, the man was lucky he actually had one, can you believe that??? Sorry for the Donor, someone better could have used it better. He is a war crime criminal and his buddy Geo. W.

#9.17

Bravo. Bravisimo Steve!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm with you 100%

Last time he went to get a heart, the cowardly lion wanted courage, and the scare crow wanted a brain. The problem arose when he realized his metal body could be used to make an oil derrick or weapon. He also opposed the wizard giving him a heart, socialized medicine, big government intervention, and Halliburton wanted a no bid contract. He refused to let FEMA handle the disaster aid for Kansas. He wanted the Wicked Witch of the West for a potential bride, or at least a political advisor to Rumsfeld. He did like the idea of the cloaked speaking booth for the wizard. He used that for Bush during the debates . He had contempt for the Munchkins (the little people) . He was glad in Oz to be a one percenter of normal heigth. He felt the flying monkees could be reprogramed to fight the war on terror, and Dorothy should be waterboarded for pro Alquaeda sympathies 1

Steve-3169902

Wow let me in on your medical insurance trick, I have to pay full price for Viagra if I want to raise the boat.

News flash, who do you think was "playing God" when Cheney lied about WMD? You remember where that lie got this country? Do you even know how many lives have been lost, how many have been maimed & that includes mentally ( & I'm also including Sgt. Bales & his family)???

You're right not to wish death on someone. Sadly, Cheney did just that by trumping up false reasons to go to war in Iraq, causing the deaths of thousands of Iraqis and Americans. He should be reviled.

It's fine to not wish death on a human. Fortunately for you Dick Cheney is not human. He is in fact a monster of epic proportions.

Better yet, a person of color or gay...

It had to be a liberal, republicans only take, remember

"Better yet, a person of color or gay..."

Or both... to get the heart of a gay black man would be justice for this Dick.

I'll bet there are lots of media people out there who are trying like crazy to find out who the donor is. The most ironic finding would be that the heart came from a Muslim, or a liberal, or the loved one of a soldier killed in Iraq as a result of Cheney and his crew lying about WMDs. I feel no empathy or compassion for this man in light of his arrogant decisions to take the country to an unnecessary war, and his subversion of democracy through secret dealings with corporations. He should not gain our sympathy. I'm sure Cheney's security apparatus has nailed down any chance of the donor's name being discovered. He remains dangerous to democracy today because his influence is still great. Cheney and people with similar beliefs are behind the most extreme efforts of the Right even today.

@ danstanik 'Gay' doesnot matter. His daughter is gay.

Mayhemisfunny: His daughter is not gay (at least she won't admit it anymore). Article last week said she liked dicky..And she loved men. Like father, like daughter...pieces of @!$%#. Can't tell the truth no matter what.

While it is true that Cheney has recently publicly disclosed that he supports marriage equality, it would have been nice if he's espoused such views while in a position of power. I am not a fan of his yet I wish him well & hope that the family of the donor know that they made a good thing out of their tragic loss. RIP, unnamed donor.

He is much too cheap to pay the price for a liberal heart. Most likely conned a homeless person(still waiting to get rich from that "trickle-down" economy) into selling his heart for $20 bucks. An afterthought, perhaps he shot his friend in the face in hopes of getting a new heart for the price of a hunting license and a single bullet. I wouldn't put it past the scoundrel.

All joking aside, I hope everything goes well with this latest procedure. Spending his waning years on a planet, where he remains one of the most despised men on that planet, seems more just than going quietly in the night. Keep on tickin', Dick. Your hell on Earth for crimes against humanity ain't over yet.

What happens if that heart was from a Democrat? Would then have a conscious ? Nah, I don't think so either. Oh well as a human being, I wish him the best as a Democrat..................collapsed by the author.....

It is not that so many people believe like you. It is that all the hate people love to down someone.

No, Linda, most of us DO believe he is a war criminal and what a shame if his heart came from a fallen soldier he helped send over there.

Amen, Laurie! Couldn't have said it better myself ... 8-)

That's the way it is in America the better able you are to pay for medical care the more likely that you have health insurance paid by someone else. But i bet his maid doesn't have health insurance.

No ami, we are paying for it. not him.

Anyone notice that everyone's post above is being steadily collapsed? Guess they didn't like what was there.

I hate to say it, but somewhere a deserving human being is STILL waiting for a transplant while someone who doesn't know what a heart is gets one.

Your tax dollars at work giving the best health care available to those whose millions in ill-gotten gains can afford it anyway.

They just had to give Darth Vader a new heart?.........................

Go quick, Dick

I don't wish him, or anyone, ill, but I have to wonder. . . Transplant lists are supposed to be unbiased. Some people have been on the transplant list for years, and he's only been on for 20 months. Understand that blood/tissue typing had to have been done but if you add poor candidacy due to his age to the fact that some people have been waiting longer, I can't believe that he was at the top of the list. And that's just not right.

BTW, Bruce - this guy was no patriot. Maybe God will forgive me, maybe He won't, but I know *exactly* what I'm doing when I say Cheney is not a good person! Maybe you should ask God to forgive Cheney instead.

Oh wise up Lizzie. If you have the money, rules (and laws) can be bent or changed at will.

We were discussing music lyrics earlier. These come to mind now:

When she gets there she knows If the stores are all closed, With a word she can get what she came for.

Lizzie, it all depends upon your state. If you can cover the cost of your transplant 100%, some states move you up on the list. So, if a heart comes in that matches you and another person who will have to be a charity transplant (all things being medically equal between the two of you), you get the heart. It's why Steve Jobs moved to Tennessee, so that his odds of getting a transplant increased. It worked. He got an extra 3 years of life. Money does buy you better medical care in the USA.

"Although the former Vice President and his family do not know the identity of the donor, they will be forever grateful for this lifesaving gift..."

Probably somebody who died after a blast to the face with a shotgun.

Wish this heart could have gone to a younger person. Someone who hasn't had an incredible life yet. Well, Mr Cheney I hope you are doing well and live to be 121! This heart could have gone to a 21 year old and they could have lived as long as you have now!

Tara,

A 21 year old that was actually human and a nice person.

Wrond Tara...Heart transplants normally only extend your life 5-10 years..only 10-20% will live past then

People over 65 are expected to buy 4-5 more years with a transplant. Dick's scared of Hell.

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Hey do not be a dumb s@$t. Look at the present administration and the first lady- an embarrassment.

Ed,

At least President Obama and the First Lady, Michelle have hearts!

He is much too cheap to pay the price for a liberal heart. Most likely conned a homeless person(still waiting to get rich from that "trickle-down" economy) into selling his heart for $20 bucks. An afterthought, perhaps he shot his friend in the face in hopes of getting a new heart for the price of a hunting license and a single bullet. I wouldn't put it past the scoundrel.

All joking aside, I hope everything goes well with this latest procedure. Spending his waning years on a planet, where he remains one of the most despised men on that planet, seems more just than going quietly in the night. Keep on tickin', Dick. Your hell on Earth for crimes against humanity ain't over yet.

Pedestrian-in-SF

Dick's scared of Hell.

Pedestrian,

Where else would he go?

@differnet -- thanks for the info, didn't know that 100% self-pay moves you up on the list. Doesn't improve my opinion of Cheney. If it were me, I hope I'd make the decision that my living to age 75 or 76 instead of 71 wasn't worth depriving someone younger of their chance to have a full life, and let the available organ go to someone younger. BTW, thanks too for just giving me the information instead of rudely telling me to "wise up" since I was unaware that different states have different transplant rules. I know money can buy a lot of things but was idealistic enough to think that transplant lists were different -- another illusion down the tubes.

I will refrain from saying something snarky and unkind...and just wish old Dick luck with his new heart.

The man is a patriot who loves our country dearly. May God bless him and allow for his speedy recovery. And may God also forgive those who have written evil things about Vice President Cheney, for they know not what they do.

Why don't you extend that prayer to the many who post evil things about Obama.........Or is it alright to do that?

-_-

Best wishes to you Mr. Cheney. You were a great VP. Too bad you aren't president now instead of the community organizer we have. Even during your operation, I'm sure you would do a better job creating jobs than the economy crusher Obama.

Oh yes, Richard, we all know no jobs were lost when Cheney was in office. Perhaps you may want to take a gander at this graph:

http://politicalcorrection.org/static/images/privsec709thru111.jpg

If you need me to explain the graph, let me know.

Why even have a comments section if it's automated to let any and all retards shut a post down regardless of content?

he might now have a heart, but he still has not a brain. or courage.

to bad we didn't have one of those massive power outages on the east coast like in the old days. it was all i wanted, if i couldn't win the mega millions. was that so much to ask for?

Ed::: The previous president and his woman were an embarrassment to the world let alone to this country. And when he was the governor he was an embarrassment to Texas. And the governor we have now is no better-- just younger.

ALL human life is precious. Even the life of someone you politically disagree with. For those here wishing ill of or death to this man because of his different political beliefs you should be ashamed of yourselves. I may not agree with his policies but I still wish him and his family the best.

>Eugene .. I agree, it should be at the least if the negative votes are double the positive. Now there are those groups who go through and use it to block any political views that they disagree with. Censorship by a minority.

Not to worry, Dick has full medical insurance. You and I are paying for it. As an ex VP he gets Full Coverage Government Run Health Care. Dick has both MediCare and Full Coverage Ins. Hay Dick, that Government Run Health Care really works and they didn't reject you like all the tea-baggers and sister Sara said they would.

"Oil Can! Oil Can!!"

So now he has the opportunity to turn another heart cold and black. Good for him. We all need a hobby.

He is one tough bird. There is not one of you key board cowboys that would not be doing the same thing if you had his resources. I hope he lives to be a 100. Of course they have insurance for life, all the used car salesmen, I mean politicians do. Now go pay your taxes.

Even Lying War-mongering torture monsters like Coward Cheney deserve a heart

Hope that heart comes with Compassion and Courage

I'm pleased that former VP Cheney is making a good recovery. However, he is 71 years old and has led a full and productive life. There are patients across the country waiting for a heart that are young, middle aged and even children. Many of these heart patients will die without the opportunity to reach their full potential in life. Mr. Cheney, leaving this earth is only frightening for those unprepared spiritually. You would have earned stars in heaven giving that heart to a younger donor, who might never again have that opportunity....

Joe.. Such hatred only eats away at the person doing the hating.

Duphas

"When Cheney became eligible for the draft, during the Vietnam War, he applied for and received five draft deferments. In 1989, The Washington Post writer George C. Wilson interviewed Cheney as the next Secretary of Defense; when asked about his deferments, Cheney reportedly said, "I had other priorities in the '60s than military service."

For your information, did you pull all of that crap out of your derrière? I am furious that any of our many proud young troops would be called "Cheney's boys". They were brave and courageous young men and women that were the children of America. Not a single one of them sired by that chicken-hawk draft dodger that sent many of them to their deaths in his deceptive quest for oil riches.

I cherish my freedom to speak on this forum while trying to respect the rules of the forum. I often bite my tongue at the broad spread of mis-information and downright lies in respect of those rules. Calling our troops Cheney's boys, Bushes boys, Clinton's boys or Obama's boys in an affront and horrible insult to the spilled blood of generations of young Americans that gave their all to preserve our great nation. An affront and insult to the grieving parents, wives, husbands, sisters and brothers of those that never returned home alive from war.

I am calling you out. You Sir(or Madam) are a traitor to those that gave their very lives to assure your freedom and ours. You Sir(or Madam) are so crazed in partisan support that you willingly betray your own country with deliberate lies and deception. I willingly accept banishment from this cherished forum for this direct confrontation as I know that traitors like you are those that must and will be shunned by every proud and loyal American.

Can you explain how he had a heart transplant if he didn't have one at all? Just asking. Anyway, I saw part of the breaking news, and I told my husband it had to be dick getting a heart transplant because no one else needed one. However I wonder how he got to the front of the list instead of someone more deserving.

Well...see there's a lot of good wishes for the torture meister on this board:) The number of collapsed posts are astounding and actually describes the sentiment quite effectively. Feel free to collapse my comment, too.

Unfortunately there is no equitability for healthcare in this Country. The sad truth is that for whatever reason Dick Cheney has been on life support for many decades and has access to the type of care the common every day U.S. Citizen does not have access to and would have been counceled on palliative or Hospice care decades ago when he was diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure. While in the end stages of the disease process he was given a new heart state of the art heart valve. This sufficed until he could be given a heart transplant. The fact remains that he never took the preventive steps in his life (ie: eating healthy, exercising daily, losing weight) to keep his health care costs down. CHF is an acquired Cardiovascular Disease not hereditary. It is usually caused from a sedentary lifestyle, poor dietary habits leading to atherosclerotic (hardening of the arteries) conditions including hypercholesterolemia. Were he a common citizen, the medical community would have not given him these options at this age. Another reason the Healthcare disparity in this country makes me sick to my stomach. A 65 year old woman with end stage CHF on Medicare does not have the same option. What is the value of his life over the value of someone who has worked hard his/her entire life with productive family members making positive contributions to this society?

DUPHAS...I guess you are. Why are you so hateful toward Barak Obama? Where is your proof that he was a "crooked Senator from Illionois?" He may be a registered Democrat but his record is so Centrist he is more traditionally Republican than Democrat. Do you ever study FACT? My God what you divisive politicos opportune for hate on these posts make me equally sick. You buy into the surface tug of war that politicians estabilsh to draw you away from researching the core issues so that we end up with ignorant voters (if you vote at all) who vote with their emotions instead of both sides of their brain. If you did any background READING and RESEARCH on candidates and issues apart from their media distribution, this Country would not be dominated by so many lobbies on K Street. In fact, we would never have allowed K Street to have come into existence. You just believe what the media places out there for you to absorb like a sponge as fact. The media is no longer an investigative journalistic profession. It is manipulated by the highest bidder, corporate mogul to suit their interest and not the Government of the People By The People. We have a Facist State with very few First Amendment Rights available to us because the majority of the population has refused to educate itself in the face of treasonist acts by a select few for the interest of a select few. Now you tell me...is this a Democracy? By choosing to be divisive and not engaging in intelligent discourse you are acting as a Facist.

Darth Cheney gets a new heart...How many Jedis have to die to give him a new heart?

Commonsense101

Thank you Thank you Thank You. As a Nam war vet and a proud American Thank You.

This is one of those times I wishfully hope a Judgment Day truly does exist.

Well stated Whitefeather. Lon Cheney gets free health care for life and it all comes from guess where? The general fund. Members of congress receive free health care and they never put a dime into the non entitlements they receive. You and I pay for it with our sweat our blood and our backs and when our backs break. We get pitched to the ice flow. There are children who need hearts but this mass Murderer just got pushed to the front of the line. I never wish ill will on people and I am not going to start now but this is one of a few people on this planet that if ill will finds its way to his door... I would say the bastard deserved it.

joethelib, no. I Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. None of us would be free to have this debate without generations of brave hearts exactly like your own. None of us can ever thank you enough.

Knew the Collapsed by the Community would be huge re: this Article---Dick Cheney, previous Vice President in the George Bush Administration needing a Heart Transplant to Live..

I will never understand how many people have such hate for someone who may die, or is in a near death situation such as this one. It is a very immature reaction.

It is too bad many humans cannot separate bad health and an aging person, putting aside the past. Surely many have parents who are terminally ill, family or friends that are experiencing near death problems. Compassion, empathy, and hope.

I wish Dick Cheney good health, and a new life. What's wrong with that? It is a Miracle that a Human Heart can be transplanted when nothing else will let a person survive. The Miracle of recent Medical Breakthroughs.

He is a husband, Father, Grandfather, and human being.

Forgiveness for what ever you think he did, is to free yourselves from Hatred. It is very Liberating.

What a shame. That donated heart could have been used to save the life of a human being.

Hawaii2- I hear you and a big part of me agrees with you but part does not. When I think of all the people who die on waiting lists many are children and I see this guy leap frog to the front of the line... That is when my heart goes out the door. Yes he is a husband a father and a grandfather... Human being? Well that's debatable. Part of me knows he will go out and eat a big box of donuts and work on making this heart as black as his last and he will just jump right back to the front of the line, cause he's Dick Cheney and he is among the privileged and entitled. I mean the guy has had how many heart attacks? I won't make judgement on you. you seem like a decent person and like you would probably feel the same about Clinton or Obama. I will give you the benefit of the doubt so rare on these vines. This man is a mass murderer though and I wonder, do you feel the same sorrow for his victims as you do him? Again not an accusation, merely a question. Because if you don't your comment is disingenuous. If you do than you are as you seem, very nice and forgiving and good for you. Cheers...

Regarding all the collapsed comments... Ridiculous! Everyone should write to the vine moderators and tell them there is an ignore author button and that is sufficient for making comments go away. Just because it offends you it is not up to you to dictate to others what they can and cannot read. Oh wait right now it is. A lot of bridge trolls have figured out that if they collapse the lead comment that the entire bracket gets collapsed. I call them Kochroaches because I am a liberal but to be fair libs do it too and its wrong. I would like to make my own mind up and I can ignore the comment and if it really is bad I can ignore the author and report them in an email complaining to the moderators if it is horrible. All should have the right to make their comment. If you don't know how to contact the moderator just click on your user name and it will take you to your profile where you can report a bug etc... Cheers all!

Good news!

Cheney got a new heart.

And...

Cheney got his chest split open and a bunch of broken ribs. He is going to suffer for a while.

You can decide what the good news is.

Hmmm... I wonder what would happen if all of us were put into the same circumstances. Chances are, none, or very few of us, would have the medical plan or the $,$$$,$$$ to pay for such an operation. On the other hand, Mr. Cheney is very wealthy, and can afford almost anything.

I am a Republican, one who is not a fan of Dick Cheney. I have always believed that he is an evil person.

However, I do have some compassion, and want to wish Mr. Cheney better health and a speedy recovery.

This operation gives Mr. Cheney the proverbial "second chance." It will be interesting to see if he uses his remaining time wisely, and in a caring way toward helping other people who are less fortunate.

dang... so many comments collapsed...why...this thread ain't what it use to be...

A tremendously popular Geek, obviously?

Comments Collapsed By The Community reaches an all time high! Gee, I wonder why?

I wonder if he shot the donor in the head to collect the heart.

Cheney doesn't deserve to live after all the murders he and Bush have committed. He should next go directly to jail for war crimes after leaving the hospital.

Get Well Soon!

Not a huge fan of war and defnitely its proven gas and fracking intoxication will lead to strokes and other health concerns, something for the Cheney's to consider when assessing the root of Dick Cheney's heart issues.

For whatever reason they claim being emotionally fit can assist in making people "well".......some of us were truly grateful Dick Cheney and a few others respected the freedom of people in the U.S. as he endorsed gay marriages, obviously he cares about his daughter and can place some of his personal or idealogical differences away to benfit the growth of others, for that he deserves a THANK YOU.

Hope you get better Dick Cheney and try to enjoy fresh air, oxygen and nature, it makes a world of good for those needing to relax and gain respite. A pet and some caring animals can liven up his/your day, another proven fact is that animals bring recovery to the sick, when they are treated properly.

Not everything animal rights activists and enviromentalists do is the job of bunch of looney liberals out to destroy the fortune and lives of others, the purpose is competely the opposite. Take care!

I received this text message from a friend in San Diego:

"FrankenCheney gets a new heart? This is the same guy that promoted the use of torture? We can only hope he also has a figurative change of heart and reassesses his neoconservative beliefs at this point in his life, as I'm sure he now knows all too well that he's living on borrowed time. So what will he do now? Continue to advocate torture? Does he think that advocating this inhumane treatment to the world press will help him buy that expensive stairway to heaven? He may be wealthy and politically powerful, but I do recall a saying that death is the great equalizer. May he become more compassionate for the welfare of others in need, in the winter of his cold life ...or is this concept too bleeding-heart liberal for some of us?"

Tronner!

Pseud, I doubt you have a Cent to spare, even for to use a lavatory.

The sick, disgusting and mean spirited comments illustrate how totally phoney these bleeding heart liberals really are, when they claim to be the epitome of open minded, loving, forgiving, tolerant, blah blah blah ones. This "torture" so many of you cry over, led to finding Bin Laden, if not for that, he would still be plotting more attacks on America. Did Bush/Cheney promote anything near beheading, sending videos of loved ones to their families showing their father, son, etc. on his knees, bound, gagged, blindfolded? Dumping water on terrorists and let's get all bent out of shape, when that was applied and succeeded to get information that could save American lives. Hypocrites, the lot of you!

May he become more compassionate for the welfare of others in need, in the winter of his cold life ...or is this concept too bleeding-heart liberal for some of us?"

Keep dreaming. This man stole a heart that belonged to a more deserving candidate. He has no compassion. If he did, he would have expressed it before killing all these people in the war crimes he and Bush both have committed.

Maybe the heart will have the decency and reject DICK this time around. His other heart he was born with was telling him to die and be rid of this sorry bastard in his 30's.

Cheney has used his wealth and power to buy himself a longer life, thereby depriving someone else of a donor heart and a chance at life.

We are all going to die, and when Cheney goes, I hope he will get the tribute that a man like him deserves: that of a war criminal who through arrogance and greed took thousands of innocent lives.

Now he has taken one more.

The operation should have taken place in a prison hospital.

Shosyn is absolutely correct. Cheney is primarily a driven, career politician who has been serving his country for decades . . having your first heart attack at 37yrs. It is my impression that his wife and family have also been very articulate and loyal servants of our country. Some of you should look at his history of 4 decades in politics rather than simply painting him as the face of all wars of the last decade. While we don't have to agree with our politician's views and votes or actions, such attacks say more about the attackers than former VP Cheney.

What Shosyn says about "No one here knows him beyond what the corporate media "info-tainment" machine spews 24 hours daily." is correct.

And clearly no one here will ever take the time. I was surprised when I saw 2-3 years ago such a large group of people coalescing around some concept of Cheney as the cause of all war and death this past decade in the Middle East. Apparently he was tried in the press, or some liberal chat rooms or these types of threads??

Congress voted on those policies. How can ONE MAN be responsible for all America's mistakes? And how do you know that each of you might not have made some bad decisions also when in a leadership position?

And now you people just pile on more when a man is sick? I concur with Shoshyn, even having been born here in America, I am ashamed of your comments and what they say about Human Nature.

Also, his medical insurance is likely the same as all retiring Senate, and Executive branch (such as VP) employees have. If the American people don't like that then they should have made it part of Obama health care or some other bill that Congress and the Executive branch don't get lifetime medical benefits. Simple!

Simply have Obama and the Congress pass that law . . to end lawmakers and Executive branch lifetime medical benefits rather than making tasteless comments about this man's health here.

Poor too but not living on Govt Assistance " While we don't have to agree with our politician's views and votes or actions, such attacks say more about the attackers than former VP Cheney."

I agree. Isn't it interesting that the supposedly 'loving, compassionate Liberals' have such vitriol for Cheney, but not for the despicable terrorists that kill thousands of innocents?

I hope he has a quick recovery - just to irk the Liberals.

The sick, disgusting and mean spirited comments illustrate how totally phoney these bleeding heart liberals really are, when they claim to be the epitome of open minded, loving, forgiving, tolerant, blah blah blah ones.

Don't blame everyone else because you have mental delusions. Perhaps you may want to educate yourself as to what social liberalism is all about instead of repeating Fox News misinformation. It only makes you look like just as big an idiot as the Fox News anchors are.

So that is why Dicky wend to war.

He had to find a matching American heart donor. Only had to bumb off about 10.000 soldiers to find the right American heart match.

Go for it Dicky. scumbag

Yep I posted a hateful remark towards Cheney. I'll apologize for it, but its not a heart felt one. Maybe just because he's old is a reason for it, but thats about it. This guy did good for himself at the expense of our neighbors and family. This guy was a part of the lieing regime that ruined this country but not themselves, they only prospered. I'm sorry but I just can't wish this guy the best, I do actually hate him and what he stood for. The parents that are left without their child and the children left without their father or mother because of this guy and the lies that came out of the White House during that time just makes it so very hard for me to wish him well today. He's another person. If I'm going to wish for anything at all now, its that the government changes its ways and they work hard at making this a great country for our children, which they so easily can do, if they just got off their fat almighty uppidy behinds and worked together for all and not just the wealthy that feed their pockets.

I am glad and hope for a speedy recovery. I want him to face charges for the war crimes he was part of.

Why can't the commenter's have an independent thought of their own?

Everyone here is jumping on the backs of people who have a zest for others living, human life, and a chance for someone else to extend their life.

It isn't just Dick Cheney, because he has money to receive a Heart Transplant. Many Medical Center Universities and Cardiac Surgeons do this procedure because it helps medical science further their knowledge on curing others of severe Heart Disease---it is not just for the rich. If a poor person approached a Medical University, or Cardiac Surgeon for the same procedure, they would be accepted because this is a relatively new Science For a Cure--Many terminally ill people will give themselves up to be a "guinea" pig for a dangerous, rare surgery.

Dick Cheney waited 2 yrs---many poor people do not go to Doctors. They do not have the awareness of what is available for their situation.. I know several doctors who do surgical procedures on people who cannot afford to pay, because their Profession is one of saving lives, and compassion. They really do care about their Hippocratic Oath.

Commonsense::: You do know what his priorities were don't you. He had to stay home and f*** his wife-- she had itches that needed scratching. My husband wasn't lucky and he had to go to Nam. He passed away in 1988 from the present that Agent Orange gave him.

I wonder how many YOUNG FEMALE people with heart problems were on the list 24 months or more but got passed over because of this critter.

RHIP.

I question how many poor, disadvantaged, unknown deserving loved ones were tossed out of the life line, awaiting their chance at life because, in the end, we give homage to the thrones of the wealthiest and those whose images are slapped continuously throughout the media as if they were gods. A few pieces of silver spell democracy while all along it's all about brainwashing the masses so they will continue to believe in "democrcacies", "the greatest nation on Earth" and blah, blah this while it's all about the Gods of paper monies & a few pieces of silver.

Flash the silver and ya get at heart by the heartless.

The Dubya/Dick Cheney administration showed everyone what the government in the country is all about today and it just blew me away seeing this. I still find it so hard to believe that the country I believe in would do such a thing to its people. This isn't how this country is suppose to run. To find loopholes to the constitution to do as you please and do for the select few you have financial matters with. Thats not what the constitution states. This isn't what our fore fathers wanted and we celebrate. I just have a real hard time wishing Dick well right now, sorry. Maybe one day before its too late the people in Washington will see the constitution for what it is again and our children will have their country back that so many lost their lives for.

Smoke and mirrors.

Cheney is directly responsible for the deaths of 4000+ Americans and countless innocents.

If you support him, you support treason, period.

It isn't a liberal's fault if Cheney is a war criminal. It isn't a liberal's fault he is wanted in 8 countries for his crimes. It isn't a liberal's fault he doctored documents to send to the U.N.

And it sure isn't a liberal's fault if Americans hate him for his treason. That's called, "Natural Reaction".

Go ahead and wish him well, the rest of us know his true colors.

Well I think it is wasting a good heart but that aside I hope it is a Liberal Heart and drives the SOB crazy.

Dumping water on terrorists and let's get all bent out of shape

Aggie: Waterboarding ,or "Dumping water on terrorists" is considered torture and forbidden under Geneva Conventions. The US hanged Japanese for waterboarding US military - did you know that?

Dick Cheney related to President Obama and Harry S. Truman: Please read below.

This next paragraph is from Wikipedia.

"Cheney was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, the son of Marjorie Lorraine (née
Dickey) and Richard Herbert Cheney. He is of predominantly English, as well as Welsh and Irish, ancestry;
Cheney's 8th great-grandfather, William Cheney, immigrated from England to
Massachusetts in the 17th century.^[3][4][5]
Although not a direct descendant, he is collaterally related to Benjamin
Pierce Cheney (1815–1895), the early American expressman. Cheney is a
distant cousin of both Harry S. Truman and Barack Obama; the three share a common ancestor in
Mareen Duvall, a Huguenot who fled from France to
England in the 17th century and later settled in Maryland.^[6]
His father was a soil conservation agent for the U.S. Department of
Agriculture and his mother was a softball star in the 1930s;^[7] Cheney was one of
three children."

The sick, disgusting and mean spirited comments illustrate how totally phoney these bleeding heart liberals really are, when they claim to be the epitome of open minded, loving, forgiving, tolerant, blah blah blah ones.

@ Aggie- What is sick and disgusting is the spin that has become par for the course with people like you. Because I think Cheney (a mass murderer) is a sack of crap that makes me mean spirited. Oh I guess I have to kill 10,000 people to gain your respect? You must be a big Manson fan too, oh wait he's a hippy that had girls kill for him, nevermind. That's okay your respect is not necessary for us bleeding heart liberals to carry on. Frankly by defending this guy you have illustrated what a mean spirited and vile creature you are and I hope you can look in the mirror someday and say I love me without lying but after you lie so many times you just forget who you are anyway. Spare me your disingenuous lecture about conscience. You vote with your wallet. You can only have it both ways in your mind. Those of us who vote with our conscience laugh at your delusion until you get the heart that a child could have used.

Hawaii2- Benefit of doubt revoked.

Donkey...Why is it that liberal socialists think they have the right and the power to revoke??? The ego is growing...Now tell us how much more intelligent and educated you feel that you are...Yes refer to all non liberals as Manson admirers while so many of you are supporting letting this man die....great thinking...

Hey JA why is that a fascist conservative like you only have the tools fox gave you to come to a discussion with? You can pucker up and kiss Cheney's @$$ if you want, its a free country. I am of my own free will and I don't apologize that you don't get that. It's more of a pity thing. You should read the comment in its entirety before you make knee jerk remarks about it. You folks want me to feel sorry for poor Dick and you want to side step the reality of the situation, you know the he is a mass murderer part... Only the good die young, just ask all his victims.

"A Good one for a Bad one, hope it Works"

"I didn't know a dick had a Heart, as much as l hate this Man, l wish him Well"

Money! Always the great modifier of morality and law. Hope this works well for old Dick. Maybe He'll enjoy many years of good quality life. He's sure lived a piss poor one up to now.

DonkeyHoty:

Please don't assume everyone thinks like you do.

All people have their own mind and can choose to use their Freedom to Right of Speech--this is not a Communist Country, where 1 person Dictates to others what they should do and say. Robots.

Revoked?. Could care less, because since you have appointed yourself as a Spiritual Leader/or G-d, you have no credibility. You are not G-d nor a Judicial Judge..

Judging others as you do, is to have such hatred in your heart. It is pathetic, and my sympathies to you.

The whole health insurance debate not withstanding, Dick Cheney is 71 years old and has lived a relatively long, full life. How much time did this heart buy him? 5 years? Maybe 10 at the most? How much more will he contribute to society? Really. This heart should have gone to someone younger and more deserving. I don't care who he is, he took a heart that could have gone to a child or someone in their 20s, 30s, or 40s who would have been able to live a long healthy life. This heart was wasted on Dick Cheney. It was selfish of him to take a heart that could have gone to someone who could have lived longer and offered more contributions to society.

Vince #16.100

How much more will he contribute to society?

It was selfish of him to take a heart that could have gone to someone who could have lived longer and offered more contributions to society.

To contribute is to give something of benefit, this Dick is selfish and was detrimental to society.

Cheney received no special treatment, nor was he put to the front of the line. According to ABC News, he waited longer than most heart transplant receipients.

Pedestrian:

So does that make it against the law for Obama, acting on the information of Bin Laden's whereabouts, extracted through waterboarding, to give the order to assassinate Bin Laden?

Aggie-345886

Hating to disappoint but no. If it were true that some guy in a prison knew who the messenger would be in 7 years to follow around to get OBL, it wouldn't be illegal.

But, if it were true that this psychic that knew the time and place in the future to find an unknown messenger was tortured enough to give us accurate information, that would be a good trick.

Of course, you could just be baiting people into responding on such a ridiculous post and here I've gone and done just that.

Aggie, you'd think if waterboarding led to the killing of OBL, it wouldn't have taken so long. Truth be known, they got more information from KSM after giving him a box of cookies than they did from waterboarding him over and over and over again since his capture in 2005.

Well from most of the anti-Cheney posts on this blog, we can see that Obama's Death Panels are deeply rooted in the left and are alive and well.

The vast majority of the posts above illustrate the problem with our country... We, as a nation, cannot respect others regardless of political beliefs. I did not/do not like Dick Cheney's politics but do not wish him harm. Darth Cheney has as much right to his beliefs as you do even if, in Obi Wan's own words Cheney is "...more machine now than man. His mind is twisted and evil."

Zathrose

Naw, I'm pretty sure that the anti-Cheney posts on this blog is deeply rooted in the treasonous actions of Dick Cheney. All beliefs aside, of course.

Easy to picture: Cheney in a dress - on the Titanic - attempting to save his tired old carcass ahead of the other women and children while the real men go down with the ship!

Ah, what a hero!!!

It's a good thing for Cheney that Obama's 'Death Panels' (appointed by the President) didn't have a chance to decide whether the transplant was warrented.

Something tells me they would have said NO.

I look forward to a healthy, happy, smiling Cheney driving the Liberals crazy.

ROY WILSON-336103

We all know how well read you are. And yet, you still support this treasonous bastard.

Welp, he can't live forever.

And your sad day will come.

ROY WILSON-336103,Your belief that a liberal heart is a bleeding heart in all things is a fantasy promoted by extreme right-wing conservatives. Just as many mis-guided liberals may think that all conservatives have no heart at all as promoted by extreme left-wing liberals. If we were to throw the extreme partisanship aside, we would find that most liberals and conservatives have much more in common than the extremists in our perspective parties.

We can unite in our common fight against international terrorism just as we were united in our fight against the Nazis and empirical Japan during WW2. We can unite in our most urgent efforts to perfect and defend this mighty nation just as our forefathers united to create it. We can unite in proving to the world that our devotion to common causes, freedom and the American dream over-ride our idealogical differences.

Hawaii2- Please don't jump to conclusions that are not factually based. Go back and read all the comments I have made on this post. I started out by giving you the benefit of the doubt that you were just a nice person then as I realized that you were defending Dracula's actions I revoked that benefit. As you stated this a free speech nation and I speak only for myself. If I was being as horrible as you think I am I would have called you an FN idiot like a lot of your conservative friends do. Instead I offered a kind word which was met with vile disdain so to you I bid adu`...

Roy- You never stop with the BS patrole do you? I look forward to another four years of Obama driving you crazy. That is after all why we voted for him and will again.

I believe it's where you are listed….

I agree w/Nancy.. There has to be a limit…. I had one in the region I was in.. I am now just able to make memories with family….

There you have it, all summed up by Nancy. Here this heart could have gone to someone that has got 2-, 30, or maybe even 40 years left and he somehow got it. Just goes to show that the rules don't apply to the rich, athletes, or politicians.

We should have a panel to determine lives and who dies.

folks -- be careful for what you ask; Obamacare and the review panels will be doing exactly what you wish. your relative may have another 20 good years with a new organ if received but alas is deemed to old and therefore condemned to death by the government.

it will make a difference when it is someone for whom you care rather than someone you desprise but the rules will apply to each equally.

Apparently his only real issue was his heart. If so, why not? He's only 71 - people can live productively into their 80's these days.

The cutoff for regular average Joe is 70 years old...only 50% of heart transplant recipients live 5 years 80% don't make it 10 years. A heart has to match in size, so no child was deprived a heart. Hearts are very hard to match and can only have 4-6 hours ischemic time...the heart must be in it's new body by that time...so if someone was across the country needing the same heart it couldn't have made it there anyways....yall are just terrible people wishing death on someone over their politics...really showing your maturity and IQ...yall know nothing about medicine and ps we pay way more for illegals raiding the ER than one vice president for a new heart

They were going to do an @!$%# transplant, but couldn't find one that weighed 180 lbs.

wbehro8 #18.9

I don't wish for the Dick's death, it's just a shame they couldn't give his old heart to someone in need as it must have been like new, as it was never used.

You all can agree with Nancy all you want, but Nancy doesn't know jack. Age is a factor, but there is no upper limit since the factors regarding suitability matter more. So, just a week ago about 3,200 people were on the list waiting for a heart or heart/lung transplant. The donor must be compatible to some acceptable level before those on the list can be candidates for the transplant. Location matters, being very young matters greatly, but this heart wasn't denied to someone with a higher urgency status than Mr. Cheney within the context of suitability.

You people, who most seem to despise Cheney, have allowed your hate to color your understanding of the system. You dopes think that because you hate Cheney the fact he got a heart must mean something corrupt has taken place. Cheney was either Status 1A or 1B based upon the allocation policies, and the heart he got most likely came from within his geographic region, and no one else had more points than Cheney for that particular heart. Or maybe you dimwits think that every heart is equally suitable for every patient?

I doubt even one of you is capable of reading and comprehending the following link's information, but still I feel the need to cast pearls before swine...http://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/PoliciesandBylaws2/policies/pdfs/policy_9.pdf.

Geesus. What a collection of fools you are.

wbehr08 people are NOT wishing bad to him because politics, they are wishing him bad because in the eyes of his contrymen he has not been a good figure and he showed a lot of bad heart, lots of evilish behavior. As you can see are more the bad comments than the goods. I have read just 2-3 good. WOW, he should feel really sad if he reads all these. It is horrible to get to know that the people around you thinks this bad about you. I have never read this many ill woshes toward one person except the totalitarian murderers of africa and banana republics.

You're right Rich. We should be blaming the doctors who performed this surgery recklessly on an extremely elderly patient. The oldest person to ever receive a heart transplant was 72. That qualifies this as an experimental procedure, one that is generally not recommended for people over age 65 due to a significantly increased risk of infection, pulmonary disease, peripheral vascular disease, renal disease, benign prostatic hypertrophy, and a whole host of other co-morbidities.

for him to snatch the heart from a younger, more deserving person---------now come on folks-------did you really expect anything much better from him?

and the thing of it is, he will never ever have a second doubt about any of it. nothing in his life was ever wrong. or done wrong or done for the wrong reason. except, we should have sent more soldiers, spent more money, stayed longer, fought harder!!!! that is the dick we all know and love!!! and what a dick he is.

rich, your a dick too!

Im hoping that his new heart came from Bin Laden, or maybe one of his relatives. That would be about right.......Maybe even somebody at GITMO?

It's interesting, when my late husband was put on a list for a heart transplant, he was told that at 52 he was at the top of the cut off age list. Cheney is 71.

When will the festivities begin ?

The right wingers want to make this Dick a saint. Had President Obama not made an forged an agreement to not go after that Dick on charges of ordering war crimes, someone else would have received that heart. Stop spending my tax dollars to keep an International war criminal alive.

Waterboard that traitor, jerk that heart out and give it to a human being!

James - Guess you are another ignorant, ill informed media propaganda sponge. Do you read? Do you research? Are you aware that the President's Healthcare Reform Bill (watered down) has absolutely no provisions for "decision panels" of any kind? The Reform Bill sought to level the playing field so that every American Citizen would have the same care weather you were a member of Congress, the Senate, or unemployed by no fault of your own. It makes me so angry when people like you just regurgitate what you are told by your favorite opposing politician who knows absolutely nothing about Medicine, Healthcare, the costs of Healthcare and the gross disparities we have in healthcare today. Since our tax schedule no longer funds State programs did you know that Public Health is almost nonexistent which was available to every citizen regardless of ability to pay and was the most successful eradicator of preventable disease in this Country in the 1960's through the early 1980's? Property taxes no longer afford the local Public Health Nursing Run Clinics responsible for the enjoyed health status during that decade. What passes for knowledge now is curious. The media is no shortcut for researching the facts. That is what free and open Internet Access is about. Were it not for President Obama we would not have access to the National Archives via the Internet. The present day GOP is no longer about tradtional conservative issues as it is about limiting information, access to information and placing limits on personal freedoms including healthcare. They want to privatize and market everything. The true function of Government is to take care of what private business cannot. Private business has now taken over Government. You should be asking youself if that is how you want to live regardless of divisive politics, dig through the surface crap and look for the real answers that lie beneath.

White feather.. I don't know what rock you have been living under but you do realize the new health care has not been accepted by our wonderful politicians.. You didn't know that.. they all ignored our request they use the same as they gave to us.. Not to date have they agreed.. My dear you must learn to read too.

You can tell by all the comments here that it is libs who don't have a heart. Just hatred and anger.

His first heart attack was at 37. He's had many heart attacks since requiring the kind of medical intervention the average American cannot get. It's clear God doesn't want him to live.

John-4094697

Is age a factor in these decisions? And who decides? John

I don't know who make the decision, but age is a factor on who gets a transplant and who doesn't. Cheney got it because he was a VP.

A man I cared for was 66 and was too old for a transplant. He and I both were told that if he was 57 yo, he would have been put on the donor list, but because he was 66 he was no eligible for it and died two years later.

Cheney got it because he was a VP. If he was just and average citizen at his age, he would have been turned away, and sent home to die.

Not everyone who is disgusted by the fact that a 71 year old man, who's had a history of congestive heart failure, gets a heart transplant when so many Americans can't even afford to get minimal and critical healthcare, is a Liberal. Take me for instance.

Shosyn is absolutely correct. Cheney is primarily a driven, career politician who has been serving his country for decades . . having your first heart attack at 37yrs. It is my impression that his wife and family have also been very articulate and loyal servants of our country. Some of you should look at his history of 4 decades in politics rather than simply painting him as the face of all wars of the last decade. While we don't have to agree with our politician's views and votes or actions, such attacks say more about the attackers than former VP Cheney.

What Shosyn says about "No one here knows him beyond what the corporate media "info-tainment" machine spews 24 hours daily." is correct.

And clearly no one here will ever take the time. I was surprised when I saw 2-3 years ago such a large group of people coalescing around some concept of Cheney as the cause of all war and death this past decade in the Middle East. Apparently he was tried in the press, or some liberal chat rooms or these types of threads??

Congress voted on those policies. How can ONE MAN be responsible for all America's mistakes? And how do you know that each of you might not have made some bad decisions also when in a leadership position?

And now you people just pile on more when a man is sick? I concur with Shoshyn, even having been born here in America, I am ashamed of your comments and what they say about Human Nature.

Also, his medical insurance is likely the same as all retiring Senate, and Executive branch (such as VP) employees have. If the American people don't like that then they should have made it part of Obama health care or some other bill that Congress and the Executive branch don't get lifetime medical benefits. Simple!

Simply have Obama and the Congress pass that law . . to end lawmakers and Executive branch lifetime medical benefits rather than making tasteless comments about this man's health here.

Cheney is a war criminal. He killed 4000+ Americans. His past record means squat.

If you support a man of treason, does that make you treasonous, Poor too but not living on Govt Assistance?

Funny how people who are politically motivated about everything come on here trying to lecture me about being compassionate. I am compassionate for the victims this mass murderer has killed, the mass murderer not so much. How compassionate were you for Saddam Hussein when he was hanged on television? Little selective about your feelings there Kochroaches... People like you don't choose Jesus you use Jesus and you think you can lecture a liberal about compassion? Haa! We all know the real reason you came on here was to piss off liberals, you could care less about Cheney you just want to see people who care get upset. Pathetic vile creatures all of you. I think fox just announced its nap time sheeple, go potty first. Hey Cheney! Go F Yourself!!!

#1 - Did he actually have a heart?

#2 - Did he shoot somebody in the face to get his heart?

#3 - By any stretch of imagination - is heart transplant equivalent to change of heart?

#4 - Send the answers to Dubya.

Most of the comments on here are just wealth envy morons who wouldn't be saying this if it were their Dad who was 71 and needed a heart transplant. Get over it, he qualified for it just like anyone else. Good luck Dick.

Boo Hoo #19.2

Not wealth envy.

MY Father is not a greedy, lying, mean spirited, treasonous, torturing, thieving, hypocritical, draft dodging, narcissist whose health plan is the BEST IN THE WORLD THAT MONEY CAN BUY courtesy of the Tax Paying patriotic American Citizen.

Just sayin.

No offence to Chaney, what kills me is my Cousin that is 45 has had pancreas cancer and they have good insurance, the insurance wants a 6,000 co-pay just to start his chemo and then the doctor had to fight the ins company to get him a second pet scan to see if it is spreading! If politicians get healthcare payed for by the tax payers that is top notch then we should have health care for everyone, what makes them better then you or me, or the next guy?

Kim,

They're rich and powerful. That's what makes them better than you, me, or the next guy.

Hey BooHoo-1351197: Majority of these people aren't wealth-envy. Their comments are because of that wretched man's actions. With lies and deception he helped start an unneccesary war that killed innocent civilians and put our brave young people in harms way FOR NOTHING. That in itself is a gross violation of the Geneva Convention protocols. You must then be in that mind set that "'Merica can do anything. Look what we've done for everybody!" Other than the U.S. being one of the prime initiators of the Geneva Convention, it sure did it's good during WWII. Set standards for POW treatment, the legitimacy of any war, and set the stage for the Nuremburg trials. I'm not comparing The Old Dick to any of Adolph's henchmen, but you must admit he does have a certain fascist bend to his belief system. There for, that also meant he directly/indirectly lied to Congress, and I believe that you get something more than having to "Go sit in the corner". But people were/are scared of him because he can drag up a lot of dirt on anyone. (J. Edgar Hoover?)

For him to WANT that heart is selfish. I can't see myself doing that. If all I was to get is 5 years or so, I would be inspired to live life to the fullest. Finish my good work and go out with a BANG! Look what he said in his latest book. Couldn't retire peacefully. Pull-leeze would he go away quietly. A patriot? Horse-f**king -sh*t he was! And I bet he profitted from the war, eh Mr. Halliburtin? Did he have stock with arms manufacturers? If it wasn't congenital, he must have suffered all of those heart attacks because of his subconcious anger at the world that manifested itself in so many ways.

To quote Pink Floyd from the Animals album:

"and you have to be trusted

by the people that you lie to.

so that when they turn their backs you,

you'll get the chance to put the knife in!" (from the song "Dogs")

I wonder when it's Rush Limpdick's/Super Viagraman's turn? (Look!, Up in the sky!, It's a bird!, It's a... etc.,. Let's have fun with that one, huh kiddies!)

I AM NOT A LIBERAL. Just callin' it as I see it. Jus' sayin!

must be nice to have really great healthcare. I guess the hospital won't be putting a lien on any of his properties.

Kim Heitz.....uh this is what happens when you make crooks lawmakers..nice hunh?

He may be rich and powerful, but it doesn't make him superior to any one of us. Why? He's a mortal, just like the rest of us poor wretches. "Death is the great equalizer." So, I pity him.

To paraphrase a text message to me by a friends in San Diego, may he also have a figurative change of heart about his life and his neocon beliefs, and revoke his publicly-announced convictions about advocating the torture of detainees and prisoners of war. Not the way I would knowingly want to leave this plane of existence with that on my conscience, as the lasting historical legacy of my life.

The good news being that this human rights violator is already in line for his next heart as he doesn't have to wait in line for a compatible one as it's already determined that no existing human has a heart as black as this devils. He'll just suck up the tax dollars to pay for these hearts and surgeries and everything else involved while he supports the platform that all little people should pay out of their pockets or simply drop dead! I personally hope the heart rejects the monster before they can line up another unwilling donor for him!!!