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Cheney Has Blood Clot in Calf

By Jeralyn, Section Other Politics
Posted on Mon Mar 05, 2007 at 03:09:49 PM EST
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Vice President Dick Cheney has been diagnosed with a blood clot in his calf. He will be on blood-thinners for several months. He returned to work immediately after the diagnosis.

I know most of us here don't approve of Cheney, but calling for his demise or ill-health is unacceptable. Any such comments will be deleted.

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    Cheney Has Blood Clot in Calf | 18 comments (18 topical)

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    If the clot.... (none / 0) (#1)
    by kdog on Mon Mar 05, 2007 at 03:30:33 PM EST
    was in his brain it would explain a lot.

    The bigger one is.... (none / 0) (#19)
    by Edger on Tue Mar 06, 2007 at 11:50:50 AM EST


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    I hope that (none / 0) (#2)
    by Edger on Mon Mar 05, 2007 at 03:33:39 PM EST
    Cheney lives to be well past 100 years old. I'd like him to have plenty of time to reflect on and realize what he has become and done.

    There is a character named Ivan in Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich". He died asking: "What if my whole life has been wrong?"

    Cheney does not deserve an easy way out.

    Snarl (none / 0) (#3)
    by squeaky on Mon Mar 05, 2007 at 03:38:21 PM EST
    Do you really think he doesn't sleep well at night because of all the horror he has wreaked in the world? I don't.

    Even though he looks like he is in constant pain, I think that it is just a hardworn meaness that has scored his face into a permanent snarl.

    He loves what he has done. His only regret will be if he isn't able to spread war over the whole world.

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    I agree (none / 0) (#4)
    by Edger on Mon Mar 05, 2007 at 03:56:28 PM EST
    But I've noticed that as people get older and closer to death they sometimes see things a little more clearly. I don't think even (maybe especially) Cheney will be able to escape or avoid it. I think the "last judgment" is one that we make ourselves, and of ourselves.

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    I suspect (none / 0) (#5)
    by Edger on Mon Mar 05, 2007 at 04:00:08 PM EST
    that he will only suffer for what he's done, by living a long time.

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    Naaaaah. (5.00 / 1) (#9)
    by scribe on Mon Mar 05, 2007 at 04:38:24 PM EST
    The point is, the likes of him never get what they deserve.  That's the raison d'etre they use to justify to themselves what they do and how.

    So stop trying to find a way to wish him ill while not transgressing TL's rule above, and make the best of it.  Like I wrote in my other, longer comment:  Now I can fish in peace.

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    Hopefully in a cell. (none / 0) (#7)
    by Edger on Mon Mar 05, 2007 at 04:04:23 PM EST


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    Ivan Ilyich is a metaphor for rethugs (none / 0) (#8)
    by Edger on Mon Mar 05, 2007 at 04:22:51 PM EST
    ...finds himself living in a world of false appearances.  His whole life has been spent doing what's right in the eyes of society.  His house, his wife and his family only care about this front of propriety.  Only a few moments before his death does Ilyich finally realize that he is empty inside, that his whole life has been spent achieving the wrong aims.  Every notion of rightness ultimately proves to be wrong for him.  Only through the laborious suffering of his illness does Tolstoy's protagonist finally discover truth.


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    Well, if his illness is as advertised (none / 0) (#6)
    by scribe on Mon Mar 05, 2007 at 04:01:57 PM EST
    at least I can go fishing this spring without having to worry about running into him on the stream.  With a leg like that, he won't be wading, and those bloodthinners make hooking yourself an iffy proposition.

    Now, I thought one only got those Deep Vein Thromboses from flying too often/far packed sardine-like in coach.  Flitting to Oz, Pak, Afghanistan and back in your custom Airstream nestled inside the C-17 named "Spirit of Strom Thurmond" was the antidote to that problem.  Y'know - DVT's a disease of the coach traveler, not of the first-class plus.

    On a deeper level, though, there's something very disturbing about flying around inside the "Spirit of Strom Thurmond".  I'd feel an lot more comfortable and much rather fly around in something like the float planes friends and I rode on a fishing trip last summer - with mostly-naked pinups painted on their tails....

    But, that's just me.

    That's nothing compared to... (none / 0) (#10)
    by Dadler on Mon Mar 05, 2007 at 05:45:37 PM EST
    ...the massive clot in his soul.

    too many plane rides, not enough toe-touchers.  remember when dan quayle got them from his plane trips way back when?

    anyway, dick, we wish you a recovery.  just a long, slow, complex one that requires you resign.

    that's not wishing ill on him, is it?  it's more wishing favor on the people.

    And tho your recovery won't be speedy... (none / 0) (#11)
    by Dadler on Mon Mar 05, 2007 at 05:48:11 PM EST
    ...let's hope your trial is.  

    alright, alright, in poor taste.  but very filling..

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    Of course it is in poor taste. (none / 0) (#16)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Mar 06, 2007 at 07:54:22 AM EST
    Very poor taste.

    Can I assume that you now find Coulter's comment okay??

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    Poor taste... (none / 0) (#18)
    by Dadler on Tue Mar 06, 2007 at 11:13:26 AM EST
    ...is reserved for people who deserve respect.  Cheney deserves none.  May he recover slowly, painfully, and in a manner that renders him incapable of doing the wretched, American-destroying job he's been doing.

    If you think there's a similarity between calling vacantly someone a f*ggot (a perjoritive used to hate, discriminate, attack, make less than human), and hoping for ill that forces of the resignation a man with a factual track record of being directly responsible for thousands of deaths of innocents, for getting American into the worst foreign policy fiasco of the last centurey, and on and on and on, well, I can't help you.

    Is there a difference between jaywalking and murder?  Between aspirin and heroin?

    Wake up and turn on your rational mind.  Your reactionary mind is far too in control.

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    I was just wondering (none / 0) (#12)
    by Jen M on Mon Mar 05, 2007 at 08:02:19 PM EST
    why he didnt go to walter reed for treatment
    They should not soil (none / 0) (#13)
    by Che's Lounge on Mon Mar 05, 2007 at 09:05:16 PM EST
    a military hopital with his presence.

    its a point of pride (none / 0) (#14)
    by Jen M on Tue Mar 06, 2007 at 01:06:39 AM EST
    for the two hospitals.

    Not just the Prez but the VP, members of congress can get treated at Bethesda or Walter Reed.

    VPs been kinda dissing them both.

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    Jen (none / 0) (#15)
    by Che's Lounge on Tue Mar 06, 2007 at 01:48:36 AM EST
    I don't believe he's ever used them. I think he goes to GW, where his regular docs practice. But don't quote me. I just wouldn't waste time finding out.

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