Journamalismatude

“Barack Obama needs to conduct diplomatic relations with his enemies, including Dick Cheney,” opines self-important shit-head.

“Oh really?” say disgusted posters at fark.com:

I agree, if by "conduct diplomatic relations" they mean "kick in the crotch repeatedly until pants are bloody."

I thought we didn't negotiate with terrorists?

I say invite him to the White House and then arrest him on suspicion of terrorist activity, and then waterboard the living hell out of him. I personally have seen Dick Cheney making pipe bombs and have heard him talking about blowing up the Sears Tower. That should be enough justification to warrant his arrest, right?

I don't think the President should be associating with war criminals.

No, Dick Cheney needs to STFU.. He had 8 years to prove he knew what he was doing, all Cheney proved is that he's too incompetent to lead.

Cheney had his time in office. It's time for him to retire. Second of all he is a private citizen now, not some exiled president-in-waiting. He no more or less rates this kind of treatment and special attention than I do or you do.

Obama should only talk to Cheney when the former VP is thoroughly medicated and strapped to a gurney. Or maybe wearing a half-face mask and strapped to a handtruck.

Why would Obama take any advice from that accomplished failure? I mean seriously, look at the wars, the economy, the constitution...all shit.

Why should Cheney affect White House policy when he is no longer in command? What kind fop political theory would support this bullshit? He is not even elected to a minor role in the senate. Is Newsweek just completely bonkers, with no editors rating the integrity of their ideas whatsoever?

Considering that Bush/Cheney are the only admin in history who had something so catastrophic happen on their watch, I think they have zero room to talk.

He could agree to conduct a diplomatic meeting with Cheney, in a bombproof bunker 100 meters below the Oval Office...and then once Cheney was down there, they could seal the doors, pour a metric ton of concrete down the tunnel, dynamite the entrance, kill everyone who knows the location of the vault, and never speak of it again.

Can you believe this frigging writer? After all Cheney did to the nation, especially with his continually screwing the pooch in foreign policy, this airheaded POS Jonathan Alter acts like he was some kind of genius.

Really. What the fuck? OK, he gets bonus points for calling the guy a lying traitor, but come on. After eight years of sending the country down the fucking toilet, why should anyone care what Cheney thinks?