Thread: Cheney Hospitalized ... again

Ex-VP Cheney hospitalized after having discomfort


WASHINGTON – Former Vice President Dick Cheney was admitted to the hospital Friday after experiencing discomfort, the latest health scare for the 69-year-old Republican leader who has a long history of heart disease.

Cheney was expected to remain at George Washington University Hospital over the weekend, said spokesman Peter Long.

It was not immediately clear whether Cheney's health concern was related to his previous heart troubles. He sustained his last heart attack, deemed a mild one, in February.

Cheney was not feeling well on Friday and went to see his doctors at George Washington University. On their advice, he was admitted to the hospital for further testing.

Cheney's heart attack earlier this year was his fifth since age 37. A heart attack occurs when blood flow to the heart muscle is blocked. In that episode in February, Cheney underwent a stress test and a heart catheterization.

Long said he had no other details about Cheney's condition.

A face of his party for decades, Cheney has remained a prominent voice of opposition to the Obama administration. His public career spanned decades, including service as a lawmaker, defense secretary and White House chief of staff.

Cheney had bypass surgery in 1988, as well as two later angioplasties to clear narrowed coronary arteries.

In 2001, he had a special pacemaker implanted in his chest. In addition, doctors in 2008 restored a normal rhythm to his heart with an electric shock. It was the second time in less than a year that Cheney had experienced and been treated for an atrial fibrillation, an abnormal rhythm involving the upper chambers of the heart.

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I know this is terrible but whenever I read about cheney and his ongoing heart issues I always hum this little song ...


When a man's an empty kettle
He should be on his mettle
And yet I'm torn apart
Just because I'm presumin'
That I could be a human
If I only had a heart

I'd be tender, I'd be gentle
And awful sentimental
Regarding love and art
I'd be friends with the sparrows
And the boy that shoots the arrows
If I only had a heart

Picture me a balcony
Above a voice sings low

Wherefore art thou, Romeo?


I hear a beat, how sweet!

Just to register emotion, jealousy, devotion
And really feel the part
I could stay young and chipper
And I'd lock it with a zipper
If I only had a heart

Originally Posted by Singularity

I despise Dick Cheney more than any other politician by far, but I will never celebrate someone's poor health or death. That's turf I will not cross into.

I'll cross it then.

KARMA baby!

Originally Posted by Singularity

I despise Dick Cheney more than any other politician by far, but I will never celebrate someone's poor health or death. That's turf I will not cross into.

I didn't say I celebrated it, I said I hum that little song in my head. Can't help my thoughts anymore than I can breath.

Originally Posted by Shooterman

By repeating them, you are celebrating the details.

Having a pacemaker and taking medication to control A-Fib, I can tell you it ain't necessarily fun.

Did you feel sad when Ted Kennedy died of brain cancer? Or were you indifferent?

It's notable that his hospitalization sees such a surge of emotions...poems even.

Telling, wouldn't you say?

Originally Posted by Oldschool

It's notable that his hospitalization sees such a surge of emotions...poems even.

Telling, wouldn't you say?

It's a songfrom the Wizard of Oz ~ If I Only Had a Heart. Scandalous!

Same question to you: Did you feel sad when Ted Kennedy died of brain cancer? Or were you indifferent?