Don't Worry About Barack, Cheney's Got Your Back

If President Barack Obama doesn't take a stand for marriage equality in 2010, who will? Dick Cheney, anyone? Yep, that's right, man of torture, Darth Vader to Obama's Luke Skywalker, Cheney will roll up his sleeves and do the right thing, says MSNBC's Carlos Watson in his latest video post.

By Kerry Eleveld

Here's Watson's logic: "First you gotta remember the background -- that Cheney's daughter Mary Cheney is gay; and that Cheney said in the 2004 vice presidential debates this is the one topic -- same-sex marriage -- that he disagreed with [President Bush] on and would say so openly. You've also gotta remember that Meghan McCain, John McCain's daughter, has come out openly about it and that Cheney's former chief of staff, Steve Schmidt -- bald guy, know him? -- who later ran McCain's campaign, he made a big pronouncement about it."

OK, let's suspend logic and go for broke for a second. Watson continues: "It's precisely because he's burnished his Darth Vader credentials over the last eight weeks, that when he finally weighs in on this issue, it will be better than Nixon going to China. It will grab everyone's attention."

If Watson is right, it would be just beautiful watching the Christian right go crazy, Cheney's GOP counterparts run for cover, and best yet, what the heck would Rush Limbaugh, titular head of the GOP, say about the man he recently called "one lone voice in the Republican Party" and said was solely "motivated by love for his country"?

OK, back to the real world. Still not convinced? Well, at least take this into consideration -- Watson interviewed Liz Cheney on MSNBC Thursday. Wonder what they talked about when the cameras weren't rolling?

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Name: Stephan
Date posted: 6/1/2009 4:34:00 PM
Hometown: Newport

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The only way that Dick Cheney would support gay marriage would be if he could convince each state to pass a law saying that only Halliburton could do all the catering.
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Name: V
Date posted: 6/1/2009 4:20:00 PM
Hometown: BKLYN

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He did it. Cheney just came out (!) for full marriage equality on a state by state basis.
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Name: JK
Date posted: 6/1/2009 4:15:00 PM
Hometown: Galveston

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When did a newsmagazine (Advocate) start posting hypotheticals as news? This piece is six-degrees-of-separation on crack ... but it AIN'T news!
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Name: Roger Burr
Date posted: 5/31/2009 12:50:00 PM
Hometown: Marble Hill, MO

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The bottom line is; Dick Cheney is a political whore. We can't even shut this guy up; much less get rid of him. At least Bush had the decency to fade away. Cheney has no such manners. I don't trust this man any further than I can physically throw him! BTW, if heterosexual Meghan McCain could speak publicly for same-sex marriage equality, why can't Dicks daughter, Mary, an acknowledged Lesbian, do the same? As an LGBT person, herself, she should put her fathers feet to the fire.
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Name: Mawm
Date posted: 5/30/2009 11:28:00 PM
Hometown: Chapel Hill

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Mark with a K, How about a fourth? It puts Obama in tighter box with his LGBT supporters.
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Name: Mawm
Date posted: 5/30/2009 11:25:00 PM
Hometown: Chapel Hill

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What would be beautiful is to see Obama answer why Darth Cheney can come out for gay marriage, and he can't say one word about our issues expect to make a joke about us at his recent Beverly Hills fundraiser. "Which promise are they talking about..."?
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Name: jake
Date posted: 5/30/2009 8:40:00 PM
Hometown: princeton

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just shows you how incredibly weak and bankrupt the american media is. you would think that this would be question #1 for this clown. how insightful an interview would that be? asking DICK cheney, who has a gay partnered daughter, his views on THE very hot button topic of the day (ie., proposition #8, ME, NH, IOWA, etc.). but no -- the media is too ascared to ask that question. you think ONE reporter would insist on an answer. what a bunch of cowards.
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Name: Mark with a K
Date posted: 5/30/2009 3:01:00 PM
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA

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Hmmm, I'm no political analyst, but I can see three reasons while the vilest VP in history would come out (so to speak) for us: 1. To do something/anything to make his memory in the American collective unconscious less vile 2. He has a gay daughter, who is partnered with child. The sky has not fallen on him and Lynne, nor the rest of us. Maybe with the vice presidency behind him, he is devoting more time to his own family, and seeing that love really has no bounds of gender. 3. Pure conjecture, but this one excites me most of all: He spent 8 years in and around The White House because of Tim Olson's fortitude and brilliance in Bush v. Gore. Who's to say there never had been a conversation in which Dick said to Tim, "Thanks for winning this case. I owe you big. Let me know if there is every anything I could do for you." And now it is payback time!!
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Name: michael
Date posted: 5/30/2009 2:45:00 PM
Hometown: boston

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OF COURSE I'd like it if he came out publicly in support of same-sex marriage. It still doesn't mean I'd like HIM.
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Name: paul
Date posted: 5/30/2009 1:06:00 PM
Hometown: kansas City

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Sorry, Mark M. Regardless of Cheney's position on marriage equality, I would not support him, for any reason. He advocated and pushed for torture and horrific behavior of the military and govt. I would not sell me soul to this man just for his support of marriage equality, and you shouldn't either. "I'll support a man who tortures and supports it, as long as I get what i want from him. I'm sorry, but I would sacrifice whatever gains I might get if it meant that we, as a country, turn our backs on what this man did to our country and to the world. Nothing is worth giving this man power and recognition.

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