(CNN) - He may have exited the national stage nearly one year ago, but former Vice President Dick Cheney has been named "Conservative of the Year" by the conservative Human Events magazine for his ardent and continuous criticisms of the Obama administration's national security policies.
"What Cheney is saying, primarily on foreign policy, defense and anti-terrorism, makes sense to more and more American citizens growing increasingly worried by the Obama Administration's insouciance when U.S. national interests are threatened, both at home and abroad," former U.N. ambassador John Bolton writes for the magazine.
"Since the only real, long-term way to deal with persuasive positions on substantive policy matters is to refute them with sounder policy arguments, it is not hard to understand why the Obama White House is near panic," Bolton also writes. "Where are they going to go to find a better policy inside his administration?"
In a series of interviews and speeches over the last year, Cheney declared President Obama had put the country's security at an elevated level of risk as a result of a string of national security decisions that largely went at odds with Bush administration practices.
Cheney's comments have met criticism from many Democrats and some members of the media who say he would be better off following the example set by former President George Bush, who has remained largely silent on the actions of his successor.
But in the Human Events article, Bolton said its necessary former leaders continue to defend their policies.
"Most people have scratched their heads at this criticism, which is what passes for devastating analysis by the media, because it is entirely natural for a senior public official to explain and defend his policies once he leaves office," Bolton writes. "In fact, it is critical that men and women who have served in high positions, as Cheney has, to do just that, to give our citizens a better understanding of what actually goes on in high-level decision making."
"Cheney's quiet, inner-directed motivation is simply impervious to the attacks orchestrated against him by the Chicago machine-style politicians at the White House, a fact also plainly visible to his fellow citizens," Bolton adds. "And it is yet another important reason to have confidence that Cheney's solid policy analysis will yet prevail in the national political arena. Of course he is the conservative of the year!"
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This 'recognition' reminds me that I think it is time that the media should substitute 'Right Wing' for 'Conservative' because the 'conservatives' of 2009 have twisted that once honorable word into something that true conservatives of past decades would be horrified to see. As John Dean has suggested, Barry Goldwater, who because he truly believed in individual freedom was pro-choice and pro-gay rights, would be in wide disagreement with these modern 'conservatives.' What we have today is an ugly mix of religious right extremists determined to legislate their religious beliefs for all of us to follow, neocons who want to use Amercan blood to reshape the world in the form they believe it should be, and economic royalists whose practical goal seems to be to make the rich richer on the backs of everyone else. All of this isn't conservative ... it is Right Wing. And Cheney is definitely a poster boy for the Right Wing.
He should be names A-whole of the year
Cheney and Bush should both be wearing orange jump suits and making gravel from very large rocks
So John Bolton loves Dick Cheney.................big surprise.
In other news, the sun will rise in the east & set in the west......
Film at 11.
cheney's "inner directed motivation" is known outside of neocon circles as "greed". amazing coincidences where halliburton and cheney are concerned. well, move along, nothing to see here, right? this draft dodging coward is just a selfish blowhard with no credibility after his lies about WMD and all the rest. and as for john bolton, dont get me started!
Thank God the only terrorist attack we have had so far is from the crazy fringe of the extreme fringe of the republican party.
He should be named jerk of the year.
If "conservative" means putting, at any and all costs, right-wing partisan interests ahead of those of the nation as a whole, and if it means relentless, meanspirited and fundamentally dishonest condemnation of even the most mundane actions of the opposing party's officials, then, yes, Cheney is "conservative of the year."
Honorable mention, of course, to Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, and pretty much every Republican in Congress....
Haha you have to be kidding me?? Just furthers everything I have ever thought about Republicans...
Conservative of the year...War Monger, Haliburton, Darth Vador... This guy is a crook and the conservatives love him?? Maybe next election it will be the Cheney Palin ticket, than it will be time for me to move to Canada, where I can get health care and a government that isnt crooked.
Well for all you Americans with short sited memory who could forget this war profiteering classic along with his whole family? Like who did'nt see this thing coming. Once a crook they are all crooks. And now Americans are flocking back to the conservatives what a bunch of duped dopes!
Who Cares?
Cheney, Bolton, Bush, Rumsfeld. Waterboarding for christmas is the best present for each.
The statement in this selection may not be what was intended - when a war criminal is chosen as "Conservative of the Year," what does this say about the state of conservatism in this country? If conservatives wish to be taken seriously again in this country, they need to distance themselves from Cheney and his ilk, including Fox News, Sarah Palin, and the like.
Darthy Vadar needs to crawl back under his rock and stay there.
And Obama receives "socialist of the year" award!!
Wake Up Liberals!! If Cheney's the Conservative of the Year then ALL conservatives must be watched. Bolton must be a nazi. How about listening to Powell or others?
We care because...?
Very sad that so many honor this criminal.
Anytime a war criminal wins an award it is something for the Republicans to be proud of and very fitting for the party. Pretty creepy !!
"...former Vice President Dick Cheney has been named "Conservative of the Year" by the conservative Human Events magazine for his ardent and continuous criticisms of the Obama administration's national security policies."
So this is all it takes to be conservative of the year, huh? No action required, just whine and moan the most about the opposition. Why am I not surprised?
As far as national security is concerned, Obama has gone nearly a year after taking office without a major terrorist incident on U.S. soil. Bush/Cheney couldn't even make it 9 months after taking power before thousands of U.S. citizens were killed. Who's better on national security???
Being called a "conservative" is NOT a compliment.
Good way to insult someone, isn't it?
Every time that Dick Cheney opens his mouth, he puts the American people in more danger. Most Americans understand his motivations and remember his actions while he was in office and would be very happy to see this pariah slink off to some gated community and count his money.
Nice going, Dick.
I heard they're going to rename Bedford Falls in your honor too.
that's funny.. this is the same dick cheney who was vice president of the united states during the terror attacks of 9/11.. the idea that his policies on terrorism keep us safe has already been proven to be false.. this is why those far-right, borderline nazi conservatives are constantly becoming a smaller minority in the US.. the absurdity of their positions is so obvious to the average, contemplative american, that it scares us to think of these people back in power..
One more time.... Cheney.. you misled the Founding Fathers... You are not a role model for the future.
Ironic that Cheney thinks Obama put this country at risk. I would say that Bush got us into the war, but he's not smart enough to do that. Cheney is to blame for the war. Obama will have to clean up the mess that he inherited.
Conservative of the year? What a great honor to be the top in a minority.
Amazing. Cheney should be facing a firing squad for raping the country of resources, and sending Americans to die in a war that he helped fabricate. Yet the American hating conservatives vote for him as their poster boy. Where is the justice? The man should be dead for crimes against humanityn not worshipped by the idiot, incompetent right wingers. Death to them all! Fight back America, the right wing is EXACTLY the same as the Taliban, except they are already here on our soil.
He also tops the list of war criminals and war profiteers – why isn't this man in jail????
They gave Cheney the award because Kim Jon Il refused it.
Don't remember conservatives, but who was president and vice president on 9-11?
I rest my case. There opinion means squat! Just like McCain... a soldier who spent a majority of his service time as a prisoner. Yeah – he knows how to win a war!!!!!!
WIshing he and Bush were still in charge. Obama, Pelosi and Reid are taking this country down a reckless path. Guess that's why Obama has the lowest approval rating of any presdent.
In the Bush White House under DIck Chency, comments such as Cheney's would be labeled 'unpatriotic' and 'seditious'. Come on Dick, "if you're not with us, you're against us", remember?
Cheney's and Bolton's criticism is not of the current administration, but of the American People who soundly registered their position against their policies as implemented by the Bush administration. Is this this is a criticism of Democracy itself?
I can't wait to put a copy of the Human Events magazine under my pillow tonite. I will sleep much better now that I can read an article by John Bolton that selects Cheney as their hero even as the world would like to see him behind bars.
If thats a conservative well count me out. He is a liar, bully, and has done more to bring this country down than even Bush. He ran Bush and god knows the Irs needs to perform a complete audit on all of his holdings for the last ten years. God know how much he made by pushing us into the iraq war. Wow, This is truly disgusting. I admire true conservatives, fiscal responsibility etc but if this is the best you got,Keep it!
I would ask anyone who read this to PLEASE take 10 minutes and surf through HUMAN EVENTS. Then you can see what Cheney was all about. Really, just take 10 minutes!!!
What's the prize? A gold plated skull?
I'm back, and I'm flabbergasted.
. "Where are they going to go to find a better policy inside his administration?"
Let me answer that: shoudl the need arise for the WH to change course in it's foreign policy they'll be able to do so seamless from within the administration. This administration is NOT composed of YES MEN, it is composed of folks from across our political spectrum. Moreover, this administration DOES NOT turn a deaf ear to input. The current foreign policy is based on something compleletely foreign to Darth Vader: integrity. We will adhere to the same rules that we expect others in the international arena to follow. And we've always stated that we will do whatever is necessary to defend our country. We just won't be underhanded and illegal in our eforts to do so.
I guess this shows just how far out of the mainstream the conservative movement has gotten when a madman like Cheney is their chosen leader.
So Dick Cheney says " Obama is no George Bush when it comes to forign policy ". Then I say " Thank goodness " .
Policy decisions made by previous administrations should stand or fall on their own merits, to be judged by history. If they need defending past the decision maker's time in office ... maybe there was something wrong with them to start with.
Don't these people ever go away??? These idiot millionaires running our country are so out of touch with reality that it makes me want to vomit. Let's find some more countries to have wars with and kill lots more people. What a great religious, faith- based country we are.
Keep all our people SCARED. That is the way of the GOP! Thanks Cheney – for NOTHING over those past 8 years.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! Must be a bad time to be conservative!
Bolton & Cheney birds of the same feather. Thier stance remind me of a prosecutor confronted with evidence of miscarriage of justice would rather see an innocent person rot in jail than admit an error.
Mr. Cheney is a rarity in this day and age. A man who understands the world situation in regards to the dangers confronting America and who understands that the present administration is clueless to the threat. The Obama approach is to apologize to every terrorist nation out there and believe that they've made friends of people that only want to kill us. Since freedom of speech hasn't been outlawed, at least yet, Mr. Cheney should continue to voice his opinion.
If "conservative" is synonymous "villainous", then I agree...he's been the biggest villain of the decade, let alone the year.
Cheney should crawl back into his hole. He isn't relevant.
Cheney is an off-balance,power mad, war hungry xenophobe who has NO concern for anyone or anything except his own interests. Even the GOP knows it which is why the only people who support this lunatic are people as crazy as he is
Cheney and Bolton....has a truthful soundbite even been spoken between the two of them?
Good to know that conservatism is intellectually bankrupt. Call me when they get their act together.
Only John Bolton, a co-founder of the Neo-Nazi "Project for the New American Century" organization could that Dick Cheney makes sense to "more and more Americans".
Dick and John should have been born 80 years earlier, perhaps near Austria, Germany. They might have met up with some equally demented people in the early 1930's that believed war, torture and any means to justify the ends was an acceptable policy.
Of course, we tried the survivors of that era as war criminals at Nuremberg. Perhaps Cheney and Bolton are next???
Absurb! If Cheney is the Conservative of the Year, why won't other GOPer's say so? Everyone I know, except your Limbaugh's and Beck's, appear to be distancing themselves from him. I guess this is in response to Obama's Nobel Peace award...this must be for something Cheney has yet to do!
I did not like Bush or Cheney when they were in power, but now look at what Obama has done to this country, I start to miss Bush.
out of the horses mouth-
world bully = conservate
glad i am not a conservative
there are other ways to get the job done without making yourself a bigger target and more hated.
Dick Cheney should be recognized for his contribution to the destruction of the planet, the demise of our economy, the total devestation of our liberties, for being a war monger, and
a universally-recognized evil entity. It figures that these "attributes" would make the Republicans want to idolize him.. BTW, the reddest state in the Union, Utah, has the most polluted air in the Union (today we can't even go outside), but by george, we are going to bring that depleted unranium here AND now we are firing up a huge coal burning plant. THe only good thing is that between the three pollutants the population here should plummet soon. This is what the Republicans want to do to the entire country. God, you Republicans are stupid!
It really says allot about how far the GOP has fallen when there "man of the year" is choosen not for accomplishments, not for abilities, not for leadership, not for his actions, but simply because he critisized the most. No matter how you feel poltically, you have to recognize this obstruction first, party first mentallity is what is really hurting this country.
God Bless Dick Cheney. Is it any wonder he brings out the craziest of liberals spewing endless hate. I am thankful he has groomed Liz well and to carry on after he is gone.
Let's look at this as Fair and Balanced Fox News would...
"Here is the famous photo of Dick Cheney with Sadam Hussein. We all know Sadam Hussein was a ruthless dictator who brutalized his own people. And I'm not sayin' Cheney is a ruthless dictator..."
Somebody from the right...please tell me if I am doing the guilt by association thing you guys are known for correctly?
Conservatism has an image problem if Dick Cheney is their standarad bearer.
He's a good choice. Of course with competition like Sarah, Glenn and Rush – collectively funnier than the Three stooges, at least Cheney stcks by his beliefs with the credibility of knowing the facts , dispite his take on them.
Well, that should not surprise anyone! If he had his way, we would be at war with Iran today. That, so he could recommend Halliburton for another sole source contract. It is not a question of what Mr. Cheney has done FOR this country, it is a question of what he has DONE TO this country! His credibility is at ground zero!
Aww. I only clicked on this story because I thought he won "Scrooge" or "Grinch" of the year. Well, I guess he kind of did.
If Dick Cheney is considdered to be the conservative of the year, then May God help what is left of the Republican party. This is the guy that still defends the weapons of mass destruction.
He was in power 8 years and he can't let go of it, go away Cheney. Eight years we barely heard a peep from you, why start now?
How do we get rid of this idiot?
"Bolton said its necessary former leaders (like Cheney) continue to defend their policies"
Lets see - what policies and ideals are those? Arrogance, lying to the American public, hypocrisy, protecting the wealthiest 1% of the taxpayers at the expense of the rest of us. Yeah - good ole Cheney is some sort of at guy?
A new low for the GOP. This is a sick joke. Cheney helped to almost destroy this country. It takes both hands to count the number of times he broke the law and ripped apart the Constitution.
Despite what the socialist, anti-American media tries to say, Dick Cheney is a great American patriot and, unlike the amateur, third-world raised, community organizer that we are stuck with as president, Cheney knows exactly how to run foreign affairs and would not get steamrolled the way Obama does every time he goes overseas.
yes and this is exactly why the country is in decline. idiots who don't understand foriegn policy, who couldn't name a single coutry in asia or east africa think a war criminal is a role model.
Please now that we have health care can we focus on fixing our education system so guys like this are can't find an ignorant following.
Under the heading of "I Just Don't Get IT", Dick et all haven't considered the fact that America as a target is less appealing when the rest of the world no longer considers you as The Great Satan anymore. World opinion isn't well served when terrost organizations target an administration that is well liked and respected. Of course, after eight years of "I Don't Get It', I suppose the world, and especially Americans, shouldn't expect anything more from Dick.
But in the Human Events article, Bolton said its necessary former leaders continue to defend their policies.
Nothing like defending war crimes!!! Torture torture torture!!!!
He should be named war criminal of the year with a special award for best at lining your own pockets while putting thousands of american soldiers lives at risk for a completely uselss war.
If being conservative of the year means outing CIA agents whose husbands don't support your bogus evidence of weapons of mass destruction, if being conservative of the year means violating the very principles that you stand for as well as national and international law (torture), if being conservative of the year means giving under the table business contracts to your friends and benefactors, then conservatives are in real trouble.
How did we fall so far from conservatives with common decency (Reagan, Bush I) to embracing treason, dishonesty and torture as core values?
Maybe Mr. Cheney should consider running for president in 2012, provided his health is not a factor. I am sure he would get the GOP nomination.
he has done so much to hurt the U.S.
Cheney is an elitest douchbag who used fear to create fake enemies so he and his boys could steal tax payers money without resistance! He needs to go lay down somewhere, like on the big pile of cash he and haliburton stole from the tax payers! He's a dispicable evil person!
This just shows how brain dead these conservatives have become. Cheney/Palin 2012!
Cheney should be tried as a traitor or named Traitor of the Year. He was responsible for a failed foreign policy that invaded a sovereign country that was not involved with 9/11 and caused the death of over 4000 American servicemen and women. This invasion was based on a lie and it has caused his own country to fall. We have spent over a trillion dollars and counting, and what do we have to show for it??? Bush administration policies are responsible for many more deaths than the 9/11 terrorists. When are conservatives going to get this?? When you promote a lie that causes your own country to fall that is the definition of being a traitor. The world that Cheney fantasizes about doesn't exist. Nor will it ever. His policy
Cheney is not a conservative – I repeat, "Cheney IS NOT a conservative! He is a reactionary railing against his perceived notions of what is wrong and lining his pockets all the while with public monies unabashedly.
Cheney credibility = 0
This Dick has had his day. Go lay down and rest your neck. His analysis was wrong while he were in office and he is still off. The more This Dick talks the more I search for ways to ensure democrats stay in office. Everytime he opens his mouth, it reminds me that no matter what the democrats do, they still didn't send 4,000+ troops to their death, and lie to (and hide from) the American public the truth about it. This Dick cannot be trusted to tell the truth.
cheney + bolten? please tell me you're joking....
Yes, Cheny makes a cartoonish figure for the liberal media to hound, wronly convincing many Americans that he is an idiot. Actually, he is well-informed, well-spoken, patriotic, and unafraid. I notiuce not one liuberal ever offers to debate him on what waterboarding only three people provided in life-saving intelligence, how Guantanomo served as an excellent location for dangerous war criminals, why the Constitution was written so as to provide military tribunals for enemy combatants instead of American jury trials, and why Americans (in spite of faults that all people have) need not apologize for our past militarily or mroally to a world that longs to live here on our shores!
Cheney may be the conservative of the year but this country isn't conservative anymore.......what few people of this country, what few republicans, what few media think Cheney has better policies than the Obama administration is just as nuts as he is........
Oh sorry- when I first heard it, I thought it said he had been named the Con Dirt Bag of the year.
CNN stop putting this miserable excuse for a human being in the spot light. All this is doing is making people, who don't support the ideals of this individual, fume and go to different news outlets for there news. You are only hurting yourselves.
And on the opposite end of the scale, obama wins hands down as the first socialist/communist/half Muslim in the White House.
Cheney had eight years to do something positive, and he chose not to, so just let him go away.
This about matches the TIME win for Bernanke! Crooks ALL from Politics and Wall Street still in charge. It is terribly sad when Mass Murderers (Bush/Cheney et al) can "win" awards in a country gone NUTS with it's own Ego and Power – A country where it's citizens can't get Universal Healthcare, but they can be forced to pay for Universal genocide! Last I heard "conservatives" CONSERVE! What is this guy Conserving? he better conserve his tongue. It could get his evilness in some trouble, we HOPE! Then death is next for this spokesperson for Halliburton and the Reich! Not too soon!
It's accuate and good. He knows more about national security than anyone now in there. But is it really important? this will just get let all the left wing radicals attack and distract America from the things this administratopn is doing right now. Noteworthy article, but low importance right now...
Bush/Cheney was one of the biggest threats to national security to ever exist. Come to think of it, Dicko was a pretty big threat to his golfing buddy as well. Even Barry Goldwater is rolling in his grave over this recently bestowed "award."
So, in order to make this list one has to lie to the American people, condone the practice of torture and steal from the taxpayer in the form of Halliburton no bid government contracts. And let's not forget the fact that 9/11 happened on the Bush/Cheney watch as a result of the administration's ignoring gathered intelligence that an attack was imminent.
Cheney is Conservative of the Year? HA! This guy trampled on our constitution, ballooned or deficit, and left Afghanistan to fester for YEARS, and the economy collapsed all under his administration's watch.
And now he's called Conservative of the year for what? Nay saying President Obama for trying to get Afghanistan back on the right track, is ridiculous an is an utter insult to real conservatives like Ron Paul, and Bob Barr.
Oh I forgot to mention I am a Republican and hate him more than any other political person in America!
One question to Mr. Cheney - if he also feels deserving of this award might he not stop exercising executive privilege over the release of nearly all of his conversations and notes about what he had done for national security? Further, might he comment on how the overspending of a war in Iraq, one that was done with flimsy and fabricated evidence, put the country at huge risk financially by costing it over 1 trillion dollars in debt?
Jerk of the year
I would like to see this man stand for office. He has gained and held sway with his party and the conservative movement for many years. He shaped the Neo Con augments about Iraq as well as the intelligence that lead to this war. I would like to see his point of view tested with the electorate.
His pontification from the side line seems to want to counter a different direction for the country. I am not sure it has much merit.
Instead of sniping from the side lines he should stand up and be counted.
I would like to see him run on his track record of the past decade.
How is this news? Some far right rag names this lieing moron as anything other than the most dangerous person on earth ( A TRUE WAR LORD ). Cheney should be put out of our thoughts and out of his misery.
There is no end to the stupidity and ignorence of the republican right wing. It's time to quit being curtious to this dangerous and lying group of powerhungry idiots.
Really Mr. Bolton? and it wasn't critical for Cheney to make clear to the citizens what he and his henchmen were doing the eight yrs he was in office? Sounds a lot like double standard to me.
Outside of the conservative nut base, he is war criminal of the decade!!
To be named Conservative of the Year, all you have to do is be a No-man obstructionist with no ideas? Cheney and Bush essentially flushed the US down the toilet for 8 years, but now Cheney has all the answers. It doesn't surprise me. He ducked Viet Nam with every deferment in the book, and then he criticizes John Kerry's military record. Everywhere he goes, nobody challenges his self-serving statements or contrasts them against his actions when he was effectively the President.
Can someone tell me why anybody listens to this guy? If I had my way he'd be in The Hague on war crimes charges. At the very least, he should be imprisoned for treason for his part in the Libbygate national security scandal.
"Cheney's quiet, inner-directed motivation is simply impervious to the attacks..." Really! Sounds like narcissism, selfishness, self-centereredness, has virtue in the Conservative moment. My goodness, what's happening to the good name of Conservatives.
Bolton adds. "And it is yet another important reason to have confidence that Cheney's solid policy analysis will yet prevail in the national political arena. Of course he is the conservative of the year!" >>>> Bolton epitomizes what is wrong with American foreign policy. In one word – belligerence!
John Bolton saying that Cheney should be "conservative of the year" is like G. Gordon Liddy saying that Nixon should be "crook of the decade". Mr. Bolton entreaty to "have confidence that Cheney's "solid policy analysis" will prevail in the national political arena" assumes that his audience has: a) been asleep for 10 years; b) suffered from collective amnesia; or c) the intelligence and independent thought process of Mortimer Snerd.
He's a crook,thief,and he got a lot of soldiers killed behind his lies
Is there a list for arrogant fear-mongers?
He'd top that one, too.
This creep is their best? He and the bush administration took a surplus and turned it into a 2 trillion dollar deficit, ruined the justice department, violated the law in outing a CIA operative, violated the law again by pushing us into an illegal war with Iran on falseified information, allow our education system to tank, allow our infrastructure to fall apart, illegal alins to pour over the border, made our ports and borders less secure, gave billions of tax payers dollars dollars to Haliburten and their subsidaries with NO Bid Contract, tried to bury the whitehouse emails, Allowed Us to be Attacked on 9-11 by ignoring the reports from the Clinton Administration, the list goes on and on and this is the BEST they have to offer?
The GOP is doomed.
Dick Cheney's ideology is based on power and money. If that's Conservatism, then great! The greediest 5% of Americans have their man.
Nice mouth piece for this war criminal Cheney though.
This is kinda like a member of the mob declaring how great one of his fellow criminals was......now that he's gone, all the other criminals miss him.
Justice will prevail.....cheney will go to trial in this lifetime for Crime against the people of the Unised States, War Profiteering, misleading Congress and the Senate, Possibley misleading his own President and Treason.
the whirlwind, the whirlwind, Justice will prevail, its where American Exceptionalism is cradled.
Conservative of the Year? LOL The right wing has really gone off the deep end, naming the head war criminal as some sort of hero. What warped and twisted logic they have.
Yawn. No one cares..go back to being irrelevant Cheney.
what an idiot. he should be in jail disgusting
Why isn't Cheney on trial for war crimes against humanity?
"ardent and continuous critic" means your are Conservative of the Year? Doesnt that just make him a grouchy old man?
Quoting John Bolton in support of Dick Cheney's policies is like asking Michael Jackson's doctor about prescription drug abuse. Pluueez, make it stop. Bolton was the WORST US ambassador to the United Nations EVER.
If John Bolton objects to the President, then you know President Obama is doing a good job. Bolton and Cheney's ham-fisted approach to foreign policy did catastrophic damage to our reputation and our values, and whatever shrieks of support he has for Cheney should be taken for what they are: the rantings of a representative of an undisciplined, unfocused and amoral clique.
After their multiple bitter failures, both at home and abroad, these two deep down must be deeply embarrassed. No one else will come out and support them or their failed policies so they will continue to cry about it. Sorry –no one is listening.
As far as I am concerned, he is the most angry unhappy man of the year. He thinks America belongs to only him and he is the only one who knows what is good for America and nobody else. We watched him turned our country upside down and we lost all our respect because of his bulleying attitude. I don't call that true conservative. I call it Mr. Arrogant.
OMG!!! Cheney and his pack of merry men spent 8 years destroying the economy, invading other countries under false pretences and just plain screwing up. Now he gets acknowledgement and praise for his criticism of his replacements because he feels they should follow his doctrine? GIVE ME A BREAK!
If you start with the premises that God announted the US to lead the world, and that same God annointed you to redress all greivances, than Dick Knee-Jerk is perfect. Just ask him; everything he did-telling the world he was right and they didn't count-worked so well: we were so unpopular, had more wars than when he started, and he held back Al Queda from his secret location, all by himself. Oh, he lied to Congress, too. Self-congratulation is easy; the truth hurts. Cheney-Bush-Rice nearly ruined us, sent us into recession, and nearly destroyed our credibility in the world. Great credentials! Conservatives should be proud of such a complete failure.
He's evil, corrupt, and bitter.
Conservatism? Yeah right. We wouldn't be in this mess if Cheney and his pals on Wall-street didn't have total freedom to do whatever they wished during their 8 years of dis-service. All he cared about was making his friends richer.
As a conservative, I can attest that what Dick Cheney stands for is not conservatism.
In case you've forgotten who the article writer John Bolton is, look up "fanatic" in the dictionary. He was the one Bush sent to the U.N., even though Bolton expressly called for the U.S. to withdraw from the U.N. and said that the U.N. should be disbanded.
He's just the kind of crazy who would admire that 5-time-draft-deferred lying chicken hawk war criminal and profiteer Dick Cheney. Normal people want Dick to be "Federal Inmate of the Year" for the rest of his life.
Congratulations VP Cheney! You have fought hard to keep America safe from terrorists killers that would kill us all at the drop of a dime. Too bad Obama and all his apologizing, excuse making lackeys just don't understand the message their weakness sends to our enemies.
he is the perfect face for the conservative movment. he is the embodiment of what conservatism is all about. mean, evil, corrupt, criminal, a liar and athief.
If he's the top conservative then I'm the King of Prussia. This man is nothing but a war criminal chickenhawk. He doesn't want to conserve anything but raw American empire. He is nothing to admire. He should be put in prison until his ticker quits.
"Of course he is the conservative of the year" -> sounds like a very rigorous process to find the winner.
I'll take this with the same excitement I take watching grass grow...yawn. If this little man could not criticize, he would have nothing else to do. The shoe's being on the other foot, this hypocrite would be the first to call someone "un American".
It disgusts me to read an opinion from John Bolton (of all the peole)about Cheney. These are 2 individuals who pushed our men and women to a war that was completely fabricated on lies and their guru, Rush Limbaugh, even suggests that we need to go after Iran.
Why don't we pack these 3 monsters to Afghanistan, Somalia, or any other country where they can serve our country and show some patriotism. Stop them from living on other people's blood.
"more and more American citizens"?
More and more of the 20% lunatic fringe, that is. They're beyond hope though, unfortunately.
...and so continues Mr. Cheney's quest for validation.
So John Bolton, the co-architect of Bush/Cheney's failed approach to the world now speaks. We are tired of these despicable jerks. I am afraid we have to live with these freaks forever.
coming from one that got a back door ambassadorship from the shrub. If your tell a lie long enough and loud enough eventually it wll become truth. So where are the WMD? How many more people have to die for this one?
He would better be described as"The most dangerous Conservative of the Century".
So the infamous John Bolton gives the award to Cheney? This makes this even more of a laughfest! Bolton was a disaster in the U.N. from the moment Bush appointed him.
So this is basically Bush giving Cheney an award....'Conservative of the Year'?? Maybe he is! is this important and does this give Cheney any credibility?? ABSOLUTELY NOT!
I guess it shows the brain damage of the Conservative mind or perhaps it is closer to stockholm syndrome.
They nominated a man who was a part of the group that did the most permanent damage to their cause than any one else.
It is truly sad to see that some people in this country can be soo easily fooled.
I'm thinking Bolton could not get his U.N. nomination, he was opposed by Some conservitatives with votes. I am wondering why he is using the terms "most people", and "more and more" are thinking positve of he or Cheney? I guess if your in a tiny room with only your kind, that is most.
What a Joke! If i was a conservative, I would be utterly embarrassed to have this man be the "conservative of the year". If Cheney represents the values of the conservative party, then it makes perfect sense that his policies over the last 8 years destroyed America's credit abroad, brought upon the worst financial crisis since the depression, the worst environmental policies, no wall street regulations and 2 endless wars.
How is Cheney's Iraq war, which has cost us 10 billion dollars a month, representative of conservative values? Arent conservatives supposed to be fiscally responsible? Funny because im pretty sure the huge surplus the Clinton administration left us was turned into record deficit... Keep criticizing obama you hypocrites...it was you and your "conservative" policies that put us in this mess.
-Adam
CNN is reporting on this?
What one former Bushie is saying in support of another former Bushie, both of them ardent neocons who have not yet met a brown person they would not like to beat the truth out of or drop a bomb on.
Seriously CNN should find some real news to discuss, Bolton writing in support of Cheney and critisizing Obama is not news.
Some people never learn. Cheney has been wrong about foreign policy for more than nine years. No WMDs, no al Qaeda, no flowers welcoming our troops in Iraq, lies about outing CIA agents working on nuclear proliferation, etc. What a record of failed foresight Cheney has. Now this award. When fools talk, fools listen, it seems.
well it's a sad year to call yourself a conservative!
Bolten and Cheney are both wrong. the bush stolen presidency was a national disgrace. it will take the democrats years to correct their mess up.
John Bolton was proven wrong time and time again during the Bush Administration, just like his clay-footed idols, Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz, and Donald Rumsfeld. Why would anyone think he is correct in praising Cheney? Compared to the work ethic and accomplishments of the prior administration, the Obama people are like a high-output well-oiled machine. Hardly near panic, John, and Cheney's hollow reprises are as wrong as ever, not devastating to anything but the Republican Party.
are you sure that he was not named :
criminal of the year?
greatest draft dodger of the century?
It should be more like scumbag of the year.
he tops my list of people i would like to see behind bars where he belongs
insouciance (had to look that one up), stands to reason they would use that term,the conservatives are fear mongers, that is what they do best.....try to scare people into voting for them....
CONSERVATIVE is one name for Cheney but there are many many more that could be applied. I don't know who let the dog out of his secure location at the end of the Bush Term but I wish they had just forgotten about him or lost the key. This warmonger, Cheney, is a one man lightening rod for the destruction of the USA and for the starting of wars. He and his "Mouth Peice" daughter need to be put in a secure location until the day after the end of time.
'Dick Cheney has been named "Conservative of the Year" by the conservative Human Events magazine for his ardent and continuous criticisms of the Obama administration's national security policies.'
Which is a nice way of saying he didn't do anything. Everyone posts criticisms all over this website. Give the award to someone who has made a positive impact on the country not someone who just points out (or creates) problems.
By his own definition this man is a traitor. Everything he is now saying and doing is what he deemed anti American when his administration had the ball. Just shows what kind of man he truly is. I say "start the trial".
I'll bet Human Rights magazine will name him War Criminal of the Year.
Well isn't this just fitting. While in office Cheney committed treason when he outed Valerie Plame. And now he's conservative of the year. This shines a very bright light on the true values of the Republican party, doesn't it?
There is nothing conservative about Cheney. I am insulted by this. He is not a conservative, he has dictator mentality written all over him.
I guess being a war criminal,and a traitor makes you a conservative hero!
Talk about a dubious distinction...
Lets see, so the out going administration looses the WH to their opposition party. and they give the looser a reward for it? . talk about mediocrity, it seems the GOP can't even face themselves in the mirror without lying to themselves. Yes Dick you help loose the WH for the GOP, but here's your reward.
Bolton supporting Cheney. How novel. A thug supporting a 5-deferment coward and bully.
He sent thousands of young soldiers to die in a war on a pack of lies, spawned generations of new terrorists steeled in a blast furnace of hatred towards the USA fueled by the conservatives' blunt-force arrogance. This subject should be court-martialed not honored.
"Bolton said its necessary former leaders continue to defend their policies."
AND prosecuted if they have committed crimes in office.
Cheney gives 'conservatism' a bad name. Drop him ASAP
I might have called him "Fearmonger of the Year" or "Idiot of the Year" or "Warmonger of the Year" or "Liar of the Year", although Palin could have challenged him on all of thoses titles and a few more that are not fit to print in polite company,
Mr. Cheney has been the biggest impediment to the spread of democracy since the rise of fascism over 50 years ago.
Hey these guys John Bolton just recently give Cheney and Scooter Libby some other type of Award, they just keep give each other awards
I guess if you kept patting yourself on the back long enough, you start
believing your own words to hold true.
Wow! He beat out Ebenezer Scrooge and the Grinch. All this time and Dick was the one holding the Weapons of Mass Deception.
this creep belongs in jail. he and Bush came close to destroying this country*
if they used the word description in its abreviated form it would really apply to Cheney. the shortcut would be CON man.
Us liberal democrats just love this. This is great news. I just look up to the stars and hope for a Palin/Chaney ticket. Or Cahney/Huckabee. Chaney can lock up terrorist and Huckabee can pardon them. When Chaney can say he faught in the fox hols of war then he can talk about putting our kids in harms way.
Bolton....are you serious? Why aren't these guys in jail yet?
Cheney and Bolton and the other reckless neocons are finally out of power. We should return our foreign policy to sanity as soon as possible. Undo whatever they did before we create more enemies and get in more unnecessary wars. Lets finally put OUR house in order before we try to fix the rest of the world! Obama has the right attitude and perspective about the world today, give him a chance!
Elevated risk huh? Yet no such attack has happened (thank goodness) and one would think some attempt would have succeeded. A couple thwarted (hmmmmmmm you mean the Homeland Security team is still working??) but none have succeeded. But wait – there was that incident on 9/11 under Bush/Cheney!!!! You know the one where they ignored warnings from the CIA because .....well no one knows why (maybe because the warnings were from "Clinton" people?)....and no one knows why they are seen as saviors instead of incompetent bumblers who missed the warnings completely.
Dick Cheney deserves this honor and should be appreciated for all his hard work to help keep this nation safe with George W. Bush. To be honest I am quite surprised CNN posted this story since they are all about pushing forward the Liberal Agenda. It's too bad this great public servant has to put up with second rate dirt bag Congressmen like Alan Grayson. Now please comment away Liberals, tear this post apart......but in reality all of you are clueless just like that blockhead Nancy Pelosi. Stay hot Liberals, you guys are doing great.
Cheney = bad aim. Loose jowls.
Conservative of the year ? More appropriately War Criminal of the Century.
That's too funny!!! He should be convict of the year and should be in prison!!!
Sadly, he only got 'runner-up' for Biggest Douche in the Universe. That distinct honor was captured by Glenn Beck. Better luck next year, Dick!
This Grade-A arsewipe has certainly made the top of a list, but not the one you think
Great! Might as well crown him "Fear-Mongerer" of the Year while you're at it. Cheney, Bolton, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, and the likes are responsible for the neocon policies that got us into the quagmires of Iraq and Afghanistan. All of them and their policies will hopefully go the way of the Dodo bird.
I defnitely would vote for Cheney as Conservative of the Year. There's no bigger anti-government obstructionist than "Dick"!
Every day I think the GOP cannot veer any further off a rational course I'm almost always proven wrong.
He should actually be name ' terrorist of the year '
Those of you who hate conservatives...I can tell you you can just substitute the woed conservative with Liberal and it will still be in context. All of you on the opposite ends of the spectrum are to extreme for most Americans.
When I saw the headline that Cheney was on top of a list I thought he had tied with Rush for "Windbag of the Year!"
Cheney has always been an outstanding American leader.May od bless him with a long life.
Wow, Cheney is “conservative of the year”? That’s too bad for the Republicans since Cheney, who resembles the Emperor from the Star Wars movies (including the crooked smile), represents everything despicable about the Republican party; selfish values that place money above people, hatred/intolerance towards minority groups, obstructionistic behavior, a complete lack of culpability for the problems created by the Bush/Cheney administration, etc. Every day I wake up I’m so thankful that we finally have an intelligent, forward thinking, president who doesn’t rely on magic and superstition to make important decisions.
He can't 'give it up'. I think he was the worst President we ever had...and that is not a typo...Cheney was the controler behind the Bush administration. Controlers never give up their control, and tend to have overblown opinions of themselves.
What an Honor? NOT NOT NOT
Human Events magazine. Eagle Publishing Company. Regnery Publishing. Follow the source, it's not surprising.
In November 2007, five authors whose works have been published by Regnery filed a lawsuit against the company. It claimed that Regnery "orchestrates and participates in a fraudulent, deceptively concealed and self-dealing scheme to divert book sales away from retail outlets and to wholly owned subsidiary organizations" of Eagle Publishing, Regnery's parent corporation.
Dick's their man!
I wonder how former Vice-President George W Bush feels about former President Cheney being conservative of yhe year? Heck, Cheney was President for eight years maybe he can be conservative of the year for 7 more.
Cheney's at the top of a list alright...the list of Greatest Rectal Perforations to Ever Walk the Earth...
...and Bolton's the number two guy!
I swear these people have a mental disorder.
As an Independent, I applaud former VP Dick Cheney for providing a sane, sensible and wise voice in the midst of Democrat demagoguery!
Only if one equates "conservative" with "extremist" can this recognition be understood.
fearmonger, liar, idjit, war criminal, thief, torturer of the year . No point in any of those individually since "conservative of the year" gets all of that and more in one simple phrase.
This honor for Cheney obviously suggest that being 'Conservative' means conducting ones life without morals or integrity. I would be ashamed of this honor, but then again, I think high morals and integrity is good thing. I guess I'm hopeless liberal...
Great example we (the US) are towards the rest of the world and especially terrorists. The US government is in such a turmoil that the Islamic nations are using this to their advantage. “Who wants an American democracy”, in the state it is in now. We are losing face.
Insouciance? Boy, he's one to talk, these guys got caught napping on 9/11. This joker's never right about anything, why should he be now?
The fewer crooks like Cheney/Bush elected the better.
Why wouldn't Cheney be nominated the Conservative Person of the Year? He exemplifies everything that IS conservatism, right down to the snarly smile.
Do we know when his coronation will be?
I think that he gives "Conservative" a bad name. This is a real "Evil Doer". Maybe the title "Water Boarder of the Year" would really be more appropriate. I just wish he would disappear.
Let's just call this what it is. He is the MOST SINISTER SNEERING DEVIL of the year. Let's not mince words here.
And just when you thought the conservative movement couldn't find a way to appear even less appealing to and more out of touch with the American public... Wow. I thought only the Dems were this capable of finding creative ways to screw up and give the middle finger to the people who support them... I'd laugh if this wasn't all so depressing.
Hey Lola,
If calling VP Cheney the president wasn't a typo, then what is it? Do you know something the rest of us don't. It's your duty as an American to warn your countrymen (remember Paul Revere). Here, I'll go first:
You won't believe it, but VP Joe Biden is truly in control of this administration, and even worse, he is nothing more than a lackey of the ultra secret Pentaverate. The Pentaverate is made up of the Queen of England, the Gettys, the Rothchilds, the Vatican, and Colonel Sanders (before he went toes up). They meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado known as "The Meadows". I've said more than I should. The rest is up to you Lola. Godspeed.
My apologies to Mike Myers.
Dick Cheney has done so much to hurt this Country. Americans gave him 8 years to boosty the economy, and find "weapons of mass destruction." He never did either. All he did was line his pockets by being part of Haliburton. Just like all of the other Corporate criminals in this country. Pay someone $7/hour and complain that higher taxes means they will not hire people. I got an idea, don't pay the Executives $4 mil a year. Cheney's name shouold be thought of when people think of the corruption in politics. All our country did while he was in office for 8 years was put america in debt, go from Afghanistan to Iraq, and be a part of the worst economic downturn in the history of the United States.
The only man I know who thinks it's ok to take away constitutional rights, but not ok to help get the economy rolling again. Way to go! You'd do better to be ideal cell block C inmate of the year.
Conservative of the year? That's a dubious honor. Kind of like being crowned most attractive crack ho or best reality show or tastiest brussels sprouts recipe. Have a nice day!
The only "honor" should be a military court martial.
This is the best news that and Dem could have wished for. His off the cuff remarks, which reflect the views of the exterme Right, will only serve to benifit D's in the next election cycle.
Wish that Dick was out there a bit more sharing his views in multle forums. Just like when he was VP, Dick remains mainly Stealth.
Was this article written by a tea bagger?. Well, I have a message for you! Dick Cheney was a total failure! as a vice president and as a father!!. Bolton you can say whatever you want but the fact is, only Halliburton and Black water can miss Cheney!!
Say what you will about VP Cheney he never gave the murdering terrorists an inch and was determined they wouldn't hit the U.S. like they did on 9/11 every again. A far cry from what Obama is doing where the heroes that kept us safe after 9/11 are persecuted by his justice dept, Navy seals are subject to court martial because a murdering terrorist said they punched him, hundreds of millions of dollars are spent to give the planners of 9/11 Circus trials and a world stage in NYC, and billions are spent to bring the rest of them into the heartland of the U.S. to give them the Contitutional Rights and multi-million dollar defense attorney's. It hasn't taken Obama long to give us change, although not exactly what he promised. God Bless Dick Cheney!!!!
I am not surprised; of course Cheney is leading and is being named “the conservative of the year” list who in the empire would dare cross Dick ‘Darth Vader’ Cheney by not putting him at the top of that list lol after all we still see that his lieutenants (Bolton) are still in lock step
Christmas is supposed to celebrate the birth of Jesus. This is the first time in my life that I do not feel in the mood for Christmas. Why? So much hatred, so much negativity, so much anger, and so on. Everybody wake up. Also the terrorists are having ball with the US being in a big turmoil.
Hey Libber Dudes, You've got some crooks that are doing things that I would be proud of either. Somewhere along the line people are going to fed up the the Dems crap too. I can remember someone's Momma saying nothing good happens after midnight. The Democrates just sold us down the river. Don't worry about old Dick and get your own ducks in a row!
...and what does this say about 'conservatives'....
I'm happier everyday that I've moved on from my conservative, Republican upbringing.
As Mike pointed out in the beginning, these modern-day conservatives are a sham. The label is just more double-speak from an empty political party that relies on double-speak, mis-direction, fear-mongering, and out-right lying. The base of the [R] party is a bunch of deluded, reactionary drama-queens. And they've picked the biggest queen of all in Cheney........in what upside-down universe would this toad be condsidered 'conservative'?
Yes he is the right wing everyman. He spouts the same stuff over and over. He has no middle ground he has no compassion and no idea what it is like to be middle class and American today. I hope he lives long enough to see that this admin. is making things better and doing it without the help of one single memeber of his party. How will they smooth this over in years to come. How will they explain away not wanting good health care for all Americans. How will they smooth over climate change and its adverse effect on mankind? I believe the GOP will rue the day this man took control of thier party.
While I definitely believe Cheney wins "Neo-Conservative of the Decade" hands-down, I think he's not even eligible for consideration to be "Conservative of the Year" by any entity. Though he is master emeritus on fear-mongering and wedge-issue politics, I don't think he even comes close to meeting the criteria for "conservative" as the word is being used today. For example, Cheney is not anti-gay and certainly not anti-gay "enough" for today's "conservatives."
The very definition of "conservative" today is at question, and all factions of the "Tea Party" partisans seem to define themselves in this way, despite their amusingly bitter in-fighting. To them, "conservative" means deifying Sarah Palin, supporting birthers, protesting ad nauseum holding handwritten signs & speaking with stunningly bad grammar & spelling, parroting "entertainers" who equate communism wih Naziism with socialism with fascism with Marxism with terrorism with all who disagree with them on one or many topics, and condoning hate against gays & lesbians, immigrants (legal & illegal), non-whites/racial minorities, reproductive freedom, and all who are not evangelical/protestant Christians.
That's the sound of a party imploding!!!
I really really wish the conservatives could find someone who is smart, reasonable, and wants to work with the progressives to make our country better. Someone like David Brooks. Cheney is all about bluster and power and "my way or the highway." Enough of him!!!
These are strong words from John Bolton for Dick Cheney whose only real combat experience was to shoot his hunting partner where the sun doesn't shine! Dick Cheney is what we real combat veterans call a "chicken hawk" who avoided the real war where American men and women put themselves in harm's way and many returned in wooden caskets. (Yes the same caskets that Bush did not want the public to see.)
Republicans and conservatives do not own combat service in defense of our country. On a flight across our great country, I sat next to Senator Daniel K Inouye from a flight from Washington DC to Los Angeles. I recognized him immediately, he had one arm missing which he lost in combat for which which he received a belated Medal of Honor. We had a great conversation which at the end I told him that I was proud of him and also that I was proud to be a disabled veteran who like him was a Democrat.
Has anybody forgot that the terror attack happened when Dick Cheney and George Bush were running the country
Make that TRAITOR of the year/decade.
They should name him convict of the year. Bu then if Obama can receive the Nobel Peace Prize making it no better than the corn cob from one of the houses on a farm then I guess Cheney can receive something also.
Cheney, Bolton, get a room, leave the rest of us alone.
I find it odd how anyone like Dick Cheney can have any credibility with anyone at all, given the fact that he has never been to war, had 5 deferments at the time of the Vietman War, and managed a company that has gained much of its revenue due to America's involvement in war. Dick Cheney is a coward, pure and simple. He is no patriot. His words ring hollow. He needs to shut up.
Bolton is dead wrong! What Cheney is saying DOES NOT "make sense to more and more American citizens growing increasingly worried...". I am part of a large number of americans do not believe that Cheney and Bush KNEW what national security meant in the first place. They clained they did, but if that was true, tell me – and many more americans – why our borders here at home are not secure, why the Taliban has a much larger area of control now after 8 years of Bush/Cheney policies, why Iran and North Korea have continued to do whatever they wanted to do... Cheney has been the biggest liar of all times and nothing he says can change the truth. The only "believers" in him are some republicans (not all).
Wow Dr. Evil is the Conservative of the year? These people progressivly get worse over time. How many deferments did he get in the Vietnam War? So he won't ever fight or serve our country during war times, but he sure loves to send other people's children off to fight. All he does is publically snivel about the liberal policies he can't stand, but what else is he good for? Conservative of the year isnt saying much for the Conservative movement, if old Grandpa Evil is what is leading you.
PATHETIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He nearly ruined our country, dodged the draft 5 times, helped start two wars on bogus "intellegence" while Halliburton made millions upon millions off of the wars he helped start. What an "honor" to be "Conservative of the Year"! And conservatives wonder why they have an image problem?
Ohhhh won't that look impressive on his resume!
Just as impressive as Obamas Nobel Peace Prize for... The "hopes" he does "furture" good works.
Someone give me an award, I'm feeling left out.
Biggest middle class tax payer of the year?
Tea party anyone?
We are at war ourselves (government and the people). How do we expect to bring democracy to other nations? Not this way. If we want other nations to become a democracy than we need to start with ourselves. The terrorists are using this turmoil to their advantage.
Be careful about the praising of this person Dick Cheney, it may come back to haunt us. I woudn't take this person John Bolton as gospel. My opinion
"...insouciance". I had to look that one up, Mr Bolton. People who insist on using long, obscure words are usually making up for some personal shortcoming. Kind of like leaders who promote unjust wars to make up for their lack of service in the military.
For the right wings, narrow minded up there: this Dick and his pal Bush were warned 3 times, before 9/11, that Bin Laden was about to strike the US, but their ARROGANCE kept them from protect America and we're attacked AND THEN they decide to pretend that they're protecting us invading Iraq, creating a story about WMD. WHAT A SHAME !!!
He tops the list alright. He deserves to be on the reality show "The Biggets Loser". He helped drive this country right into the ground.
This is what's going to kill the modern day GOP. They don't know the difference between a modern day NEOCON who believes in war, war, war, that deficits don't matter, corporate welfare is good, government should dictate that Jesus is an uber-capitalist, that civil liberties are an old fashion notion and an actual CONSERVATIVE who practices smaller government, balanced budgets, keeping the government out of religion/private lives of adults and stays out of the affairs of sovereign nations.
It's magic! Watch as Wizard Cheney morphs his
"continuous criticisms of the Obama administration's national security policies"
into a disastrous war with Iran over oil! (While pretending it's not, of course).
At first, I seriously thought this was a satire.
Give me a break, dick! The "sound fiscal policies " of the bush/cheney administration are at the heart of our present financial dilema! But dick & george know that the lock-step right will fall into line, whenever a flag is waved or a bible is thumped....Democrats watch out, dick is eye-balling the Presidency in 2012. And HIS medical coverage is so good, should he have another heart problem, that he can receive a REAL donor heart to replace the Black Hole in his chest.
better concentrate on correcting our mistake with Obama ....he is not coutting it.
Five time draft dodger Cheney. Just think of it when you see a
photo of Arlington and the dead that didn't dodge the draft. One
more time. Dick Chenet dodged the drafy FIVE TIMES.
Jack Marshall
The worlds biggest has beens – Cheney and Bolton !!
You rock Mr. Vice President! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
An ignominious recognition if there ever was one. You deserve it,... Dick!
Human Events what???
Never heard of it... Must be the only mag the Repubs could buy, er talk into giving the Dick an award for something.
Bolton....Bolton....hmmm...wasn't he the guy that Bush forced through by posting him to the UN while Congress was on recess, since even members of his own party found his comments to be ignorant and offensive? Yeah, I think that was him. Unless he was the guy that other members of the UN said essentially ground workings at that body to a halt and endangered relations with member countries. Hmmm.....well now that I think about it he was that guy too!!! Good that the conservatives have a solid voice to listen to in the realm of foreign relations!
Waw I belive that cheney is fiting for that position !
You liberals can write what ever in the hole wide world you want !
He is an american hero
He is a deep thinking smart man ! You can be upset and you should be upset that we high lavel americans with the name of conservatives have such a great smart man with the name of robert chenney !
Cheney should run for President.
He's the strongest political leader we have had in any office for the past 2 decades....
To Jon Crawford: Who is this "od" you speak of.? Here in Amurka our government only recognizes "God." So take your od and all your heathen bestiality practices and get out of my country .... Pagan
Cheney is a perfect choice for Conservative of the Year. He embodies the arrogance, incompetence and immorality of the contemporary conservative movement, a movement which would be vigorously denounced by Barry Goldwater because of its advocacy of government intrusion into and control of our lives.
Funny how CNN allows comments on the Dick Cheney article, however they don't on articles that may be difficult for thier liberal position (i.e. Arnold giving the big O an A).
I think Dick Cheney did a fine job and if the left leaning nut jobs would listen to him rather than ranting they might be surprised.
I laugh at some of the comments that are dropped by the conservatives because, they truly believe what they are saying....That Cheney and Bush were some kind of dream team. They were more like Dumb and Dumber.....These two profitted from their positions during their 8 years in the White House from the blood of soldiers to secure OIL.
Cheney actually made more money than Bush did during their 8 year blunder of an administration. During this 8 year debacle the following occured: our education was and still is in disarray, NOTHING was done about health care, 911 happened on their watch, we sent troops to war into the wrong country (any WMD's found yet?), Katrina hit and they watched it like a TV program barely lifting a hand for 1 week. They never did catch Bin Laden, And our financial system collapsed. Heck, I'd say they did a real great job don't you???
Talk about SPIN!
"U.S. national interests are threatened, both at home and abroad" BECAUSE OF THE 8 YEARS OF BUSH ADMINISTRATION POLICIES, NOT OBAMA'S!
We live in a Police State now thanks to these war-mongering TRAITORS! This S.O.B. and his accomplices, right on up to Bush himself, ought to be locked up! Not HONORED!
When is America going to own up and prosecute these criminals??
Cheney and Bolton both give Conservatism a new meaning; one with zero credibility. Neither of the guys accomplished anything of a positive nature during their tenure in office.
Criminal of the Century, more aptly
Right up there with beck, limbaugh and hannity! WOW! What a group.
What a great day!!! and Sarah Palin's lie about the "death panels" won 'LIE OF THE YEAR". And their blind followers continue to praise them as if they were majestic beings. They should all be in jail for all their lies that led us into this tragic war. Do all conservatives really believe our troops are dying honorably for fighting a war in Iraq that should have never been waged? And don't try to pen me as a "LIBERAL" just for thinking this way. I voted for GHW Bush and Reagan but I just had enough of the lies these crooks threw out. I guess you can say I OPENED MY EYES. Maybe you die hard "conservatives" should do the same.
Good people are taken from this world each day – and this guys just is like the pink rabbit – he just keeps on doing bad things - and on and on and on...............
He should get the title "Traitor of the Year" instead. Anyone that listens to this nut has got to be kidding.
Bolton needs to stop trying to "tickle" Cheney with that moustache...lol
WOW... It must be fun, living on planet Bolton. Where you don't have to work for a living, you can screw up everything you touch, and STILL get paid for telling everybody that UP is DOWN and NIGHT is DAY. Crooks, liars and ego-maniacs UNITE!
If this is what conservatism is all about, then our country will be better off when these teabagging clowns crawl back under their rocks. Cheney defiled our nation's honor as he declared war on decency and the Constitution. Cheney's lying, paranoia, cruelty, and indifference to gross violations of human rights make him one of the most odious figures in our country's history.
Cheney is the very embodiment of the lesser angels of our nature.
Okay, one criminal giving an award to another. And, the award is for cirtizing! Now that's a heck of an award ! I critized Bush/Cheney for almost 8 long years – how come my prressive friends didn't give me the "Progressive of the Year" award? I'm hurt!
Dick Cheney is no true conservative. He is fine with illegal immigration, he never apologized for the foul language he used in public and in his role as Vice President, he (in line with all other recent Administration players) thinks he is above the law. I think he is a terrible person.
Can't we just study the brain of a rethuglican. They obviously don't live in reality and I would like to see how big of a hole they have in their brains.
Reasons why Cheney is "conservative of the year:" Torture is okay if you name it differintly, its okay to borrow and spend money, its okay to spend money in foreign countries, its okay to give government contracts like candy, its okay to police the world, its okay to let terrorist attack our country, its okay to be a racist, its okay to have a dumb person to lead our country (sarah palin & Bush), its okay to take money from the poor and give it to the rich, its okay to have USA be a facist country.
Rethuglicans are not conservatives they are control by the banking industry to bring down the dollar so they can make the amero (america's euro currency).
This is right up there with Tenet and Franks getting the medal of horror. Cheney was not born, his mother has diarrhea for 9 months.
Nazi of the year. What an honor.
If "what Cheney is saying makes sense for more and more Americans" I feel truly sorry for more and more Americans. This narrow-minded and, frankly, ignorant interpretation of our "national interests" resulted in 8 invasions on Nicaragua last century. THis is but an example but it is very telling: If you do something once and it doesn't work you can either repeat it or think of something new, if you repeat is again and again and again it it consistently DOESN'T work yet you keep repeating it then, I am sorry you are simply very dumb.
Then again, I am afraid, conservatism and common sense in this country parted their merry ways quite some time ago...
Cheney is a draft dodging punk.
Funny – I don't think even Dick would consider himself a conservative. Let's look at the man's record and try to find some "conservative" values...
hold on – I'm still looking...
oh, here's one, wait. nope...
ah! He conserved his own hide in the Haliburton scandal. That counts.
Someone told me that Conservative of the Year is now an official psychiatric diagnosis and psychotherapy charges (and drugs) will be reimbursed under the new Health Care Reform bill.
Dick Cheney did more harm to this country then the terrorists ever could. He helped to make torture mainstream and convinced the people that it's ok for the government to spy on you without court supervision. He lied so he could start a war in Iraq and sold out US operatives to do it. Obama's gains in foreign policy have dis-proven the chicken hawks claim that might makes right and is the only way to deal with "evil doers".
Cheney presided over some of the biggest follies in American foreign policy history (war in Iraq and letting the worlds unity with American after 9-11 change to disdain).
you know
you guys that do this kind of stuff are just poor Right Wingers
i thougth when you lose an election you would have the backbone to just let the winner do his thing
what ever happen to that
winner take all
live with it
Cheney and Bush should have been tried for treason with their lies re the flase military need for the Iraq war. Cheney is a thug.
From the admin that re-defined the phrases, "no bid contract", "war on the cheap", and "regime change."
200 billion dollars per year for two failed wars taking longer than WWI and WWII combined. Meanwhile, 150,000 Iraqi deaths, 3.5 million refugees. All While the country is bankrupt back home.
Health care costs? Doubled since 2001.
Energy costs? Doubled since 2001.
Tuition costs?Doubled since 2001.
Wages increased 19%, while inflation was at 17% – a Net income increase of 2% since 2001.
Meanwhile Bush/Cheney sat on the afghan troop increase for 14 months, despite their generals pleaing that they needed 20k extra troops.
"insouciance"?...99 out of 100 Republicans have no idea the meaning of the word due to the GOP continually slashing education budgets because of fears of socialism..
In other news, conservatives name Sarah Palin genious of the year.
You actually have to "save" America some money and "spend" it at home to be a conservative.
Federal Bureau of Prisons prisoner #89532684 (aka Dick Chaney) should only be receiving an award for best pressed orange jumpsuit.
I have a good number of friends that are strong conservatives, we respect each other, and I have never felt a need to be critical of anyone's conservative values. I simply can not hold back any longer, Cheney, Conservative of the Year, are you kidding me! I truly feel sorry for my good friends who wear that title proudly.
Obama could learn from Cheney. You can't negotiate from a position of weakness. Stop apologizing for and blaming all problems on the US. Work toward real solutions and stop dwelling in the past.. Stop wasting money we don't have on the expansion of failing, unsustainable entitlements. Our kids are headed toward a grim future of the nanny state throwing them a crumb every once and a while.. if they even make it that far with rising powers developing the "bomb" as we write them letters asking them not to..
.. and The fear-monger comments are hilarious considering what Al Gore and all the liberals are jabbering about when it comes to the environment. No.. that's not fear-mongering at all.. HA!
He should also be named idiot of the decade.
...and he's still working on PNAC....lets face it, the man is an arrogant liar and needs to just shut up.
That's a pretty good summation of the conservative plan of (in)action: Cheney is rewarded, not because of any real accomplishments, not because of any insight or actual leadership, but because he is good at taking potshots from the sidelines.
Now that's true conservative values in action.
Cheney is Public Enemy #1 and everybody knows it.
Just goes to show that some people just don't get that the policies of this windbag caused so many of the problems we are dealing with now. If you don't like the clean up that's going on now then maybe you shouldn't let losers like Cheney make such a mess of this country.
A true conservative is now defined as someone who criticizes President Obama the most? How far the Republicans have fallen!
".....but former Vice President Dick Cheney has been named "Conservative of the Year" by the conservative Human Events magazine for his ardent and continuous criticisms of the Obama administration's national security policies."
That is what being a conservative is today... to criticize anything and everything Obama does or says. It certainly doesn't include offering any solutions to the mess he and jr. put the country in. I mean, the conservatives criticize healthcare reform, but announced they aren't even going to offer any alternative plane..
Sad..
When I saw the title of this article, I was sure that the Evil Cheney had made the No. 1 spot on Santa's naughty list....
Mr. Cheney: He should be named something of the year, however, I will not use profanity. What a GIANT CREEP and how embarassing for the Republican party and conservatives world wide.
Here's another list he'll top, too, but will nevber admit to: Highest Corporate Bonus Ever Paid.
Because if you think for one minute he didn't get a huge dividend check from Halliburton, you're delusional!!!!!!
Also, he was nominated "Former CEO of the Year" from Haliburton for getting them their mulit-billion war contracts for the Iraq War. At a boy luther! Great job for also becoming the "Highest Deficient Spending VP in U.S. History" also. I love those conservative values...
To Jeff W.,
I never have thought of Cheney resembling "the Emperor from the Star Wars movies". I have always thought of him as more like mean old banker Potter from the "Its a Wonderful Life". He looks like him, and when he came out for Obama's inaugural speech in that wheelchair, well, he simply became the very definition of the part.
He belongs in prison.
Before I went to the article I thought it would be something like:
"Top Creapiest People of the Year".
The conservatives scare me with their tunnel vision on every subject & hypocritical rose colored glasses.
Cheney has damaged this country and does'nt even know it. Simply because of his twisted ideology and thinking. The man over the years has become more and more lunatic and amazingly his right wing supporters are like zombies who see nothing wrong with his thinking which is completely against our constitution.
The right wing in Nazi Germany had the same thinking and they all became like zombies in agreeing and believing twisted ideology.
I once believed in Republican party as being moderate but they have lost the party to extreme fanatical right wing.
We need a third party as a moderate party which is neither right or left, instead in the middle. That's were most of the Americans are about 50%.
There are alot of awards that could fit in the following sentence.
Dick Cheney named ______________ of the year!
Oh Goodie- the Conservative of the Year supports Gay Marraige!
Cheney, Palin, Limbaugh....conservatives have become laughable characatures of themselves: narrow minded, rednecked, tough talkers with no solutions. Now this, an affirmation that the Bush years may have been the worst in our history.
In a glaring example of the poverty of intellect on the right, Darth Cheney is named "Conservative of the Year". This shotgun wielding, draft dodging, serial prevaricating, Traitorous war criminal is the best they've got? The guy who committed treason by exposing a CIA operative and then let his aide swing for it? The cowardly lion Cheney? WOW
He can pick up his award at The Hague, Queen Beatrix wants to present it personally.
Chenney and his tail Bolton are the remenants of Hyenia after leaving his hole for some type of scavenger. They are the bad of people to be arounfd the America forum of good politics.
Wingnut of the year.
I hope that is a huge embarrassment since conservatives are the most hateful, valueless, immoral, fear-mongering racist liars in this country. To top it off Cheney is a war criminal who should be serving the rest of his arrogant life in a Federal prison.
What a sorry excuse for a human being!
I am a liberal but i feel compelled to defend the fine word "Conservative" from the likes of Dick Cheney.Real Conservatives want the government out of our wllets and our bedrooms. They love this country and want to protect it and the precious rights that we have in this wonderful country.
There is nothing conservative about wanting to torture captives, there is nothing conservative about mounting up a deficit by spending 12 million dollars an hour to occuy a country that never attacked us.
Dick Cheney should get the award for representing the worst of the party of Lincoln, but conservative? Don't flatter yourself you big fat coward.
Quite clearly being named "Conservative of the Year" is like getting the high score in golf.
What a laugh! If he is the best that they can get, then it is no wonder that the GOP will fail in 2010. Instead of vote for me, it will be don't vote for the other person. Cheney tried to rewrite history so many times, I do not know if he knows the truth. He just is a terrible person and the worst ever VP. He should have been impeached and sent out to pasture.
Why should Cheney remain silent and not criticize 0bama? What's more, where does the media get off saying he should go away? I don't recall Clinton or Carter getting any finger-wagging from the media when they criticized Bush from 2000 through 2008.
Can't stand the heat? Get out of the kitchen.
You know the smart thing for these idiots would be to just go away, in a year or two they can come back and the media and our short sighted selves will forget all about the horrors they created. Then they can make themselves out to be heroes, because they mess they left us with will be around eons. And we should let them. Because 5 years from now we will all be stupid enough to re-elect them yet again like we did for W's second term.