Did I mention Cheney's a liar?

Sadly, the Vice President of the United States feels justified in lying just to try and score points off of his opponent in the middle of an election. Makes one wonder what else he's capable of lying about.

Oddly enough, when you learn a "zinger" isn't true, it really lessens the impact of his overall message. I'm guess he's forgotten two of his previous meetings with Senator Edwards and never read Edward's hometown newspaper. I'm sure he will just blame it on Tenet and the CIA.

This on top of his lie about not connecting 9/11 and Saddam Hussein. Nice work, Dick. I wonder how all those people they fooled into believing in that connection reacted when they hear Cheney admit it was false?

*UPDATE* While I worked, more truth came out about the "hometown newspaper" remark:

Cheney did not cite the paper by name, and most probably assumed that it was The News & Observer, the major daily in Raleigh, N.C., where Edwards has lived for several decades. The News & Observer, however, quickly searched its archives and found no record of that putdown in its pages.

As it turns out, Cheney's quote source is a small paper published three times a week in North Carolina's Moore County, called The Pilot.

"I thought it was great," Steve Bouser, editor of the Pilot, told E&P with a laugh. "How many little three-times-a-week papers get mentioned in a national debate?"

Edwards, he said, grew up in a small town in North Carolina called Robbins, which is located in the northern part of Moore County. He moved to Raleigh as an adult. Edwards was actually born in Seneca, S.C. Which area counts as his "hometown" may be subject to, well, debate.

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The June 25, 2003, editorial also included the following: "Members of the senator's staff point out that Edwards' attendance record this year has been better than the other three Democratic senators who are campaigning for president -- Joe Lieberman, Richard Gephardt and Bob Graham. And the aides also say none of the votes Edwards missed was close, so his presence on the floor would not have changed the outcome."