Want to have lunch with Dick Cheney?

The Alabama Republican Party -- a red state within a red state -- is hosting Vice President Dick Cheney at an Aug. 1 fundraising luncheon at the Shoal Creek Country Club in Birmingham. Tomorrow is the last day  to reserve your seats.

Tuscaloosa News Associate Editor and Online Editor Tommy Stevenson has details.

Admission to the noon luncheon will cost you either $2,000 or $500 depending on how much access you want to Cheney. For $2,000 you are entitled to a "Photo Op Package" which will include "2 Reservations to Photo Op (one photo)" and two reservations to the luncheon. For 500 bucks you simply get to break bread with the Vice President.

Stevenson says Alabama "should be no contest for GOP candidate John McCain over Democrat Barack Obama." He also notes that a few weeks ago Michelle Obama raised $250,000 for her husband's campaign at a private fundraiser in Birmingham. He predicts that Cheney will raise more.

-- Johanna Neuman

Photo: Lawrence Jackson/Associated Press

Comments

[shotgun to the face]

I wonder if he'd dress up in hunting garb for the photo op?

[Arye Michael Bender]

Please send me a print of the one he took with Satan.

[A. Arnold]

I wouldn't take a picture with Cheney for free but if others still think that warmonger is worth it then their money should be sent to those maimed in the Bush wars or the families of those that died fighting in those wars. Money should also be sent to Iraq to help rebuild. Cheney, Bush, Rove, Scooter and the rest of the gang belong in the jails they built for "the enemy". A little waterboarding might help them confess to their many crimes. I just hope Obama isn't the soft hearted liberal McCain paints him to be because then he might pardon them. Now that would be a major injustice.

[dixieluke]

This is just ONE reason why I left Alabama (Talibama), and I spit on the Republican regime when I left. Having Dick Cheney there is an indication of how low the Republican party of Alabama will stoop. They jailed the Democratic Governor, who actually WON the election; they appoint corrupt federal judges that support Bush; Karl Rove has his fingers in the election of Bob Riley, who claims to be a Christian and a good Baptist, but who has sold his soul to the devil named Bush/Cheney/
Rove. When I worked for federal agency in Huntsville, we were forced to watch Faux News in the labs, the cafeterias, or any building with a television. If we complained, we were written up for some obscure violation. We were told we couldn't have any campaign literature on our desks because of the Hatch Act, yet the Administrator openly campaigned for Bush in 2004 with conservative talk show host Lars Larson. We had a secret society of non-Republicans, and we literally had secret codes to identify each other because we knew we would be fired if discovered. The head of our contracting company that received millions of dollars in government contracts was a four-star general, who wrote an email to a friend that later was leaked; it called Iraqis "sand monkeys". In my opinion, the whole atmosphere of the state is a cloud of corruption . There is no recession or economic slowdown there, because the Republican senators, the Governor, even Blue Dog Democratic Congressmen, support Bush. The Army is building multi-million dollar buildings. The whole place is booming while the rest of the country suffers. I may be from Alabama, but I am not OF Alabama. I hate the place and the people who have corrupted the state even more than it was during the Dixiecrat days. As far as I'm concerned, Cheney can rot there amongst the filth he has perpetrated and with his other fellow scumbags. Ask me how I really feel!

[Fox7777]

John McCain is swiftboating Barack Obama including his attacks on Obama's opinion of the surge and his visiting wounded troops in the European hospitals. This extremely dishonest and sleazy attack by John McCain is shameful. Corrupt Republicans in the background are also responsible since McCain is confused, showing early signs of dementia and not in complete control.

The strongest defense of Obama was from Chuck Hagel, a Republican. Where are the Democrats? Where are the Clintons? Where is the swift response? If Democrats don't quickly respond and quickly set the record straight, we will lose just like in 2000 and 2004. The United States will be destroyed if we have a third term of Bush which is what we would get if Obama loses to McCain.

See http://www.Democracy-Now.us

[dave]

Thank you Dick Cheney for the great
service you have provided for this country.
I only wish you had run for President.
You will be remembered as the best Vice President ever!
Thank you again for 8 of the most wonderful years
I have ever seen. We will miss you greatly.