AP Vice President Gets Good News From Doctors

[kskiska]

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney got good news Friday during his annual heart checkup, with a pacemaker detecting no irregular heartbeat, his office said.

Cheney has had four heart attacks, and a pacemaker was placed in his chest in June 2001. The checkup determined that the pacemaker, called an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, was working fine and never had to be activated. The device is designed to activate automatically if needed to regulate the patient's heartbeat.

Cheney underwent the routine exam at George Washington University Medical Center. It included a physical exam, an electrocardiogram, an echocardiogram and a stress test. They are noninvasive procedures and the vice president went back to work.

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In the afternoon, the vice president went to the British ambassador's residence, located next to Cheney's home on the Naval Observatory compound, and signed a condolence book for the victims of the deadly rush-hour bus and subway bombings in London.

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[jsamuel]

1. I am happy he is ok

just wish he is convicted of any crimes he committed

[Straight Shooter]

3. I'm not happy he is okay.

Not happy at all. He doesn't deserve it.

[TahitiNut]

4. Yep. I'd like his life imprisonment to be as long as possible.

:grr:

[KittyWampus]

14. do you believe this report and take it at face value?

just wanting opinions.

hard to believe the pacemaker never fired ONCE in 4 years.

[ismnotwasm]

18. I don't believe it

They don't PUT those things in unless there is a serious heart arrhythmia. I think this report is bullshit. So he's the VP, dealing extremely stressful situations, and had 4 heart attacks, no doubt has coronary artery disease, not to mention conduction problems, and they say it hasn't fired once in four years? Take it out then, he obviously doesn't need it.

[daleo]

2. It is good news for him

But most of the rest of us have feelings that are mixed, at best.

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[daleo]

13. Part of me wants him to live to see the inside of a prison cell.

However unlikely that is. It would be nice if he and Bush were at least impeached, even if they were pardoned and had to live out their life in ignominy, like the war criminal Nixon.

[Inland]

5. cheney told he is in "last throes", he plans 90th birthday party.

eom

[ClintonTyree]

6. Four heart attacks.....

maybe his heart is trying to tell him something? Like, to DIE before he has a chance to do anymore damage to himself but most importantly, to others? :shrug:

Depending and believing in modern science didn't seem to bother or worry him at that time. Why didn't the lord heal him? All that scientific stuff goes against god's will, doesn't it?

[louis-t]

7. "Good news, Dr. Evil..

...the soul transplant from Jeffrey Dahmer was successful."

[tnlefty]

9. Doesn't he need a second opinion from FrankenFrist??

I think that he should get one.

[Tace]

10. I Don't Put Any Credence In Any Statements By Cheney's Office

or anyone else in the Bush administration... especially regarding the health of * and Cheney.

Using the tried-and-true "reverse translator," so effective in understanding Bushco comments, Cheney is very ill.

* got a clean bill of health from doctors recently as well.

[IChing]

17. If you looked at yesterday thread' on this news release is the same...

except in past tense. I found it a little too routine for it is almost word for word.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1913009

[David Zephyr]

11. Cheney's Socialized Medical Program Isn't Good Enough" for All Americans

Just him and his family.

Question: Is Mary Cheney's lesbian partner receiving coverage as part of a domestic partnership?

[Endangered Specie]

12. Well they say the good die young...

he'll probably never croak.

[Pithy Cherub]

15. Satan's disappointed.

All those pre-prepared hearts and flowers are going to wilt beneath the mushroom clouds from the hidden WMD fireworks show they had all prepared. Tom Rustle on Hack the Press had an exclusive. The Department of Devil Doers best intelligence said so with the finest of torture techniques being applied. Judith Mole wrote about it in the world renowned Hell's Bells Time publication. His friend Chowbi is just broken hearted over the statue stunt though.

They acknowledged the intelligence was fixed in light of the most recent doctor's report...

[DRoseDARs]

16. Did they find enough nubile, young virgins to satisfy...

...his insatiable thirst for Human blood?

[grasswire]

19. no mention of his hospitalization in CO last week

Isn't that odd?

Last week he was admitted into the Vale CO cardiac care unit under an assumed name. Dr. Hoffman was the name used. That's the name of his Washington physician.

Isn't it odd that there's no mention of that recent hospitalization in this story about his cardiac status?

[SoCalDem]

20. the cloned, aborted embryonic demon stem cell heart is still functioning?

BFD:)

[Enraged_Ape]

21. I take this report as proof positive that he's a goner

Isn't it sad, to live in a nation with a Soviet-style media? Where you know the truth is the OPPOSITE of what's being printed? Yet that's the way it is.

Sigh.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

22. Cheney 2008!

:woohoo:

[leesa]

23. Good. Now presecute him for treason and war crimes.

[WhiteTara]

24. I was hoping that his defillabrator

would kick the shit out of him from time to time. Just to remind him that there is a world out here.

[Patty Diana]

25. Does anyone really give a fuck!!

The pure evilness of the administration, has given evil and vileness a whole new meaning

[classysassy]

26. The American vice prez

when is mental checkup due?.