"Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better. "

Liar, Coward, Torturer, Puppet Master!

Dick Cheney was elected Vice President of the United States in 2000 and again in 2004. Prior to becoming V.P., he was the president of the Halliburton Company.

Cheney was raised in Casper, Wyoming with his brother, Bob, and sister, Susan. His father worked as a soil conservation agent for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and was a registered Democrat.

Cheney's political career began in the late 1970's when he was elected to represent Wyoming in the U.S. House of Representatives. Elected five times, he served in this position until 1989. In 1987 he was elected Chairman of the House Republican Conference. He served as Secretary of Defense from 1989 until 1993 under President George H. W. Bush. He directed Operation Just Cause in Panama and Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait.

In 1995 his focus was on his business career after he became CEO of worldwide energy services corporation Halliburton Company.

In the spring of 2000, George W. Bush asked Cheney to join the Republican ticket as the candidate for vice president. Cheney then resigned as CEO of Halliburton and put his shares into a blind trust. Cheney's net worth is estimated at between $30 million and $100 million.

Cheney directed the National Energy Policy Development Group, known also as the Energy Task Force. The group was made up of people in the energy industry, and included Enron executives. In July 2003, the Supreme Court ruled that the Department of Commerce make the group's documents public; the documents included information on companies who made agreements with Saddam Hussein for Iraqi oil. The documents included maps of oil deposits in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and the United Arab Emirates.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced an examination of Cheney's office in the Plame affair in October, 2005: an investigation of a former Marine security officer, who is now an FBI analyst, accused of passing information to members of opposition in the Philippines. Cheney's office, mainly his computer, was central to the investigation: Lewis Libby, his former chief of staff, was one of the main people under investigation, and was indicted on five felony charges.

On February 11, 2006, Cheney was involved in a hunting incident where he accidentally shot his hunting partner, Harry Whittington. The 78-year-old Texas attorney was shot in the upper torso, face and neck with pellets from a shotgun.

Many describe Cheney as being one of the most powerful vice presidents in American history. Supporters see him as a very intelligent and shrewd businessman who understands the functions of the U.S. government. Opponents accuse him of enriching the oil industry and improperly influencing the decision to use military force in Iraq.

A master of provocative and inflammatory political speech, in early September 2006 Cheney said that the United States would have invaded Iraq regardless of the evidence to support military action. In an appearance on the Larry King show on CNN on September 13, 2006, former President Jimmy Carter said that Cheney "has had a policy of deliberately misleading the American people by making false statements."

Cheney has not shown interest in a Republican presidential nomination, and plans to retire after his term as Vice President expires. He has a long history of cardiovascular disease, and needs urgent health care often. He began having heart attacks at the age of 37. More heart attacks followed in 1984, 1988, and 2001. He now lives with moderate contractile dysfunction of his left ventricle.

Cheney married his high school sweetheart Lynne Vincent, whom he met at the age of fourteen. The two were married in 1964. The couple has two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary, and four grandchildren. Elizabeth in an international law attorney and Mary was her father's top campaign aide. Mary, a lesbian, gained a lot of public attention for her sexual orientation during the 2004 presidential election campaign and in light of the recent same-sex marriage debate.

Dick Cheney Poll Results

This poll ran from July 16 to 22, 2007.

Mondo Stars Poll Results

"Vice President Dick Cheney should be impeached." True 1206/58% False 877/42%

Votes: 2083

Bruce Fein, the deputy attorney general of the United States under President Ronald Reagan, from his post "Impeach Cheney," posted at Slate.com on June 27, 2007.

Fein wrote: "President George W. Bush outsourced the lion's share of his presidency to Vice President Cheney, and Mr. Cheney has made the most of it. Since 9/11, he has proclaimed that all checks and balances and individual liberties are subservient to the president's commander in chief powers in confronting international terrorism."

Fein concluded that "In the end, President Bush regularly is unable to explain or defend the policies of his own administration, and that is because the heavy intellectual labor has been performed in the office of the vice president. Cheney is impeachable for his overweening power and his sneering contempt of the Constitution and the rule of law."

This poll ran from December 17 to 26, 2007.

Mondo Stars Poll Results

"Dick Cheney is a war criminal." True 1440/49% False 1507/51%

Votes: 2947

On Monday December 2, 2007, radio personality Don Imus returned to the radio airwaves. In April of 2007, CBS Radio fired Imus from his radio program following a week of uproar over his derogatory comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team. "There has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way in this society," CBS Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said in announcing the decision.

Imus' new show on WABC in New York includes two black comedians, Tony Powell and Karith Foster, and he promised to open up a dialogue on race relations on the program. He began his initial broadcast on the Citadel Broadcasting station by confronting the issue that got him booted from CBS Radio last spring, when he referred to the NCAA runner-up squad as “nappy-headed hos.” He apologized again and said, “no one else will say anything else on my program that will make anyone think that I didn't deserve a second chance.”

Imus also said, “the program is not going to change. Dick Cheney is still a war criminal, Hillary Clinton is still Satan and I'm back on the radio.”