I thought the same - 'Basically Cheney should be dead. After decades of heart issues, a transplant, and years of alcoholism, Dick Cheney should have shed this mortal coil years ago. He’s even outlasted his former rivals Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld. Cheney’s health has always been precarious and it’s likely that at 80 years of age, he doesn’t have the energy for an extended media campaign '