Hillary Clinton Calls Cheney ‘Darth Vader’

"You can always tell when the Republicans are getting restless, because the Vice President’s motorcade pulls into the Capitol, and Darth Vader emerges," Hillary Clinton said.

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September 20, 2007 at 10:58 am - CNN
Dateline: New York, NY
chris stroud   September 20th, 2007 - 11:49 am

I think she’s on botox, her eyes are about swollen shut.

T_Hawk   September 20th, 2007 - 12:15 pm

I think she’s right about Cheney being Darth Vadar, but I can’t help but think that the perfect analogy for her would be Jabba the Hut. Darth Vadar would be a Republican, and Jabba would be a Democrat.

CLEARTHINKER   September 20th, 2007 - 12:51 pm

if the VP could be Darth Vader, she SURELY IS, the EMPEROR! (her goal, in reality)

Schratboy   September 20th, 2007 - 1:12 pm

That’s pretty funny coming from the Emperoress of evil. May the Dark Side of force be with you, Hillary.

La Raza   September 20th, 2007 - 2:34 pm

Anyone notice how she does the ‘Nazi salute’ when she says “Darth Vader emerges,”?

Alex   September 20th, 2007 - 2:43 pm

That means Bush is Luke!

Gus   September 20th, 2007 - 2:50 pm

How original. Did she come up with that one herself?

Adam   September 20th, 2007 - 3:15 pm

And you can ALWAYS tell when Hilary is lying….
Her lips are moving….

Don   September 20th, 2007 - 3:21 pm

A pretty accurate statement, Dick is Darth. That would make Bush the Emperor, clearthinker (you are obviously not) because Darth did the bidding of the Emperor not his opposite. One of Darth’s ‘daughters’ would be Luke. You pick which one. Jabba? More likely Pat Robertson. Jabba and Darth were indirectly ON the same side. If you all are going to make these kind of comparisons and comments — you should watch the Star War movies again. Because it is obvious by your own words, you don’t know what you are talking about. Must be wasting all your time looking for all those WMD and Saddam/Al Quida ties you keep pretending exist.

Scott   September 20th, 2007 - 3:24 pm

Holy crap, Don… Star Wars isn’t real.

Gus   September 20th, 2007 - 3:29 pm

Speaking of fiction. I like to think of Hillary as Pinocchio.

rightwingnutjob   September 20th, 2007 - 3:57 pm

Karl Marx with a sense of humor…

James   September 20th, 2007 - 5:33 pm

You can always tell when a Democrat has lost an argument; they start with the name calling.

Don   September 20th, 2007 - 5:35 pm

Hey Scott, you are right on! Star Wars isn’t real! Guess what? WMD in Iraq and the ties between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda… they were not real either! Hey Gus, Hillary as Pinocchio? You been drinking too much Republican Kool Aid. Bush is the proven LIAR, Lots of books are out there that prove what a liar Bush is — with his own words! Video with his own words! You must be a FAUX NEWS yum yum. Either you support the president or else… Morons for a fascist state? Sorry, I happen to agree with the likes of such great Americans like Tom Paine, Jefferson, Washington and Franklin — Dissent is Patriotic! Don’t re write history. Learn from it. http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A19770

The Professor   September 20th, 2007 - 5:56 pm

Vader doesn’t quite capture the totality of Cheney…more like a cross between Darth, the Penguin, and an ice cube.
http://www.newsprism.com

VernonC   September 20th, 2007 - 6:26 pm

Hillary Clinton likening Dick Cheney to Darth Vader is no doubt her first attempt at comedy, sadly it fell flat. Wouldn’t we all like to know what she thought of Al Gore, her and Bill’s VP, has anyone ever heard her mention Gore in any context? Chances are she thinks more highly of Cheney, Gore was a great fund raiser for them, you just know she knew where every dollar came from and how it was accounted for. Money is her sole obsession, she wants to be president because it gives her even more sources. Her medical care plans are for saps, if leaving government control out of it would get her more votes, she would be all for that.

John G.   September 20th, 2007 - 6:38 pm

The next time Hilary Clinton says “If I knew then what I know now,I would not have voted the way I did back then,” someone ought to grant her that what she knows now is not what she knew then, and then ask her what exactly it was that she knew BACK THEN.

Gus   September 20th, 2007 - 7:18 pm

Don, according to your logic anyone that is in dissent of Hillary Clinton’s point of view is just another “GOP, ‘Faux-news’ watching moron on Kool Aid.” You may be aware that there are a great deal of people on the far left of the political spectrum that are diametrically opposed to her record in the Senate and as First Lady. In fact you will find that there are people in the political center that are opposed to a second “Clinton White House.”

I doubt that you will find many supporters within the confines of Counterpunch and the likes of Alexander Cockburn and similar thinkers. Having been through my own self-indoctrination and peer driven readings of The Nation, Helen Caldicott, Noam Chomsky, et al, I think I can confidently say that any criticism of Hillary Clinton does not indicate an endorsement of the opposite end of the political spectrum (in this case President Bush and Vice President Cheney) – my current endorsement(s) notwithstanding and are both, a) irrelevant in this response, and b) irrelevant in the national political scheme.

With regards to your statement, “Morons for a Fascist State” I suggest you catch up on your 20th century history – more specifically The 3rd Reich and its workings to see how a defacto fascist state operates. I suggest “Anatomy of the SS State” by Helmut Krausnick, Hans Buchheim, Martin Broszat, Hans-Adolf Jacobsen. In it you will find the inner workings of a fascist state as prosecuted by the SS. While I can sympathize that an impulsive or reactionary behavioral state may cause someone to conclude that the Bush White House is comparable to a so called “fascist state” reality and history indicates otherwise.

Scott   September 20th, 2007 - 8:14 pm

Speaking of proven liars, remind me again who illegally solicited a $1.6 million campaign contribution resulting in the criminal prosecution of her finance director and the FEC settlement with her campaign treasurer that forced an admission of filing false reports that hid more than $721,000…

Shark   September 21st, 2007 - 1:52 am

That’s actually one of the “nicest” things I have heard Cheney called.

Jude   September 23rd, 2007 - 7:05 pm

Too Funny! Oh how I love that woman. Let’s see, wasn’t Cheney the guy who shot his friend after he had been drinking? That about sums up our present white house leadership.

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