PHOTO: Rude Jerk Cheney Sleeps Through Hu Jintao Meeting

[elehhhhna]

VEEP ASLEEP: Vice President Dick Cheney gets caught napping yesterday as Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other White House aides leave a press briefing by President Bush and Chinese leader Hu Jintao.

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/62704.htm

[Terran1212]

1. He FELL ASLEEP?

I can't decide whether these people are a huge group of plutocrats and elite working cleverly to screw the American people or simply a pack of idiots who through the randomness of life managed to get their way to the top.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Or perhaps some weird genetic combination of the two?

[Terran1212]

11. Most likely.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

7. I vote for pack of idiots.

Evil, soulless idiots, mind you.

Unbelievable that ole Dickweed would fall asleep at a high-level meeting, though. Unfreakinbelivable.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. NO! NO! He was just checking out the inside of his eyelids.

[Inland]

4. If anyone understands, it's the Chinese.

They had an entire generation hanging on too long. Hu was probably waxing nostaligic for Deng Xiaoping when he saw Cheney nodding off.

[Greeby]

5. Actually, he wasn't sleeping, someone tripped over the cord

to his power supply :evilgrin:

[Ian David]

6. "Shh... look how his feet are moving... he's dreaming about hunting quail"

[CrazyOrangeCat]

8. HA!!!

:spray:

[tanyev]

10. LOL! My cat is really cute when he does that.

Cheney...not so much.

[AzDar]

12. *snort* .... n/t

[Inland]

26. "szzzz...lookout stupid bastard...szzzzz"

[Ecumenist]

9. Maybe he needs to be "forcefully retired"

if he has a problem that prevents him from even staying awake, then he isn't able to perform the position, not that he's been overly impressive to this point.

[Downtown Hound]

13. Is it me or does he bear a striking resemblance

to Mr. Potter from "It's a Wonderful Life?"

[elehhhhna]

14. ANOTHER PHOTO:

[elehhhhna]

15. I SEE DROOL

[Ian David]

16. Condi and Cheney caught sleeping together...

[MADem]

22. A starchy lunch will do that to ya!!!

A heavy, starchy meal, a glass or two of booze, and an overheated office, and BLAM! ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz....lights out!

[Catherine Vincent]

17. testing...

[onehandle]

18. Karl Rove is President. nt

[saltpoint]

19. Must have made quite an impression on our international guest.

Do these Bush administration people have a knack for welcome, or what?

[MADem]

23. And this visit was a YEAR in the making!!

Who thought it could get any worse, with the screaming Falun Gong lady, and the introduction of the National Athem as being from Taiwan...

But hey, these guys could fuck up sharpening a pencil!

[saltpoint]

30. LOL! They'd try sharpening the eraser end first.

When that didn't work, they'd blame the liberal media.

[Old and In the Way]

20. War mongering for war profits keeps Dick up all night.

It's hard work being a world-class war criminal.

[spanone]

21. He's not asleep, he's fucking dead.

[yorgatron]

24. more like "undead"

:scared:

[Inland]

27. Yeah, but he's been dead a long time and this has never happened.

Somebody forget to perform some black arts this morning.

[flordehinojos]

25. did he,

and/or contraalteza lice snore during their nap at the HU/bush conference?

maybe ironically at a time when hispanics are being persecuted for their illegal status, they had too many RED BEAND AND RICE (a staple of hispanic cooking) before the conference...or too much tequila, or too many margaritas.

[oasis]

28. Plan of the day: "diss the commie".

[npincus]

29. his pacemaker timed out

[dogday]

31. This part is funny:

The veep's people later insisted he was reading his notes, but if you ask us, it sure looks as if he's dreaming of quail hunting - and maybe bagging some birds this time.

[Maddy McCall]

32. LOL!

[DFW]

33. Cheney reads with his eyes closed?

Wow, no wonder he's Vice President.

I wish I could learn how to do that!
I've heard of moving your lips, but
reading with your eyes closed, now THAT
is one cool trick!

(Too bad he shoots shotguns that way, too....)

[neoteric lefty]

34. umm... where does it say that in the story?

I'm sorry but I cannot find anything about that in the link you provided. Just letting you know.

[elehhhhna]

35. below the photo!

edit uh oh they may have scrubbed it. here's a diff photo, diff caption, from AFP


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