Dick Cheney Getting Sick and Tired of Bush “Looking into His Heart”
From http://www.mikeszine.com

“The President really likes to connect with everyone around him, and I can appreciate that,” stated Vice President Dick Cheney. “I like George Bush. I mean, I have been a lifelong Republican, and I genuinely like President Bush.”

“It was OK in the beginning,” said Cheney. “The first time I met George Bush he stared at me, turned to Donald Rumsfeld and said, “I’ve looked into Cheney’s heart and he is a good and decent man who shares the same values that I do.” Cheney left the oval office with a warm feeling about the President.  “I even went home and told my wife how much the President liked me.”

At a small Department of Defense briefing a few weeks later, Bush looked into Cheney’s heart again. “I still kind of liked the things that the President was saying. Everyone thinks they are probably a good person, but when the president of the United States tells you what a great person you are, it really makes a difference.”

Cheney remembers at least a dozen incidents during his first term when George Bush would stop a cabinet meeting or National Security Briefing to look into someone’s heart. “The looking into hearts thing got a little distracting but we though that George was just a little odd about it. He is from a Southern church so maybe it was something he needed to do.

“It was during the second term that the President really got out of control. We tried to kind of prepare world leaders by helping them understand that it had nothing to do with US policy.  After a two-hour closed-door meeting, I overheard Hazni Mubarak, the Egyptian President, tell an aid in Arabic that George Bush kind of freaked him out. “He just kept staring at me,” said the unnerved Egyptian leader, “while I wanted to discuss a peace accord.   

“It was especially bad when he was appointing someone to a senior position. This friend of the President’s, Mike Brown, was completely incompetent. He was an old drinking buddy who could do this great drinking trick with five martini olives and a little Vaseline. Mike’s a good guy that likes to ride horses, but he didn’t know a thing about federal emergency management.

“I tired to point out that Mike might not be the best person for the job but all Bush did was stop me. ‘He is the perfect person’ said Bush, ‘I spent a good fifteen minutes looking into his heart.’