...Maya Angelou would be a bad example here...I mean, I smell what you're cookin', but she's not a politician... just some old lib who tells bad poetry........ Cheney seems like a good man..I never understood how Cheney = Darth Vader 

...I read this as an advantage to the Republican camps.

The media (AP) is unwittingly throwing B. Hussein O. under the bus. Think about it.

The "crux" of this story, as WTH so astutely noted, was not Cheney at all. It was BHO's own energy "hand out" policy. The AP could have used this as a "silver bullet moment" by endlessly parroting the $1000 per family rebate. Whoops.

It seems the media keeps forgetting that the current administration is not running for re-election and all the media's attempts to tie McCain to the Bush administration's whipping post has so far failed, miserably. This article could have been used for that very purpose. Another whoops.

And finally; The polls have indicated that the "all Obamessiah, all the time" media coverage of his European rock tour was a dismal failure with regards to increasing his popularity at home. And the much anticipated, no, expected bounce in the polls, has proven to be non-existent.

Somehow I sense VP Cheney could care less.  But your main point is correct.  Liberals cannot compete by debating the merits of ideas, particularly the ones that they keep proposing that have already failed time and again.  So to combat anyone that stands in their way they have to villify their opponents.  They hate Cheney because he doesn't care and continues to outsmart them at every turn.  This comment was just red meat for the fringe left who don't seem to understand that a tax on the oil companies will just be added to the price of gas.  Obama is an idiot, therefore he must not be forced to debate ideas.

The failed policies (all these socialist policies fail) of the Dims are either spun, forgotten or buried or blamed on yours truly the conservatives. Leaving behind the wreckage of broken families, spawning poverty and crime. They undeservedly take the moral high ground spouting it's "for the children or planet or peace" or whatever all the while crowing about their committment, compassion and tolerance of which they have none. Liberalism is a mental disorder. A product of laziness, magical thinking and fantasy. 

This attack on Cheney is all part of the left-wing's on-going smear campaign against anyone with whom they disagree. Read the communist playbook. Say something long enough and loud enough and ignorant people will begin to believe it is true. Pure propaganda. They have been sucessful with President Richard Nixon, President Bush, and V.P. Cheney. Orwell's 1984 points out the obvious about socialist/communist "liberals". Ignorance is bliss and apathy, rather than constant vigilance, leads to the acceptance by the masess of outright lies. Today NBC,CBS, and ABC, combined with the NYT and most of the print media, are in cohoots against the truth. It's anti-American to say the least. But surprise, they are losing business. That's a good sign.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"