Dick Cheney came out this last Saturday to publicly endorse Senator John McCain’s quest to reach the oval office as Commander in Chief of the United States. But is this really what the McCain campaign needed? An endorsement from the man who has sat with George W. Bush for the last eight years, a man who has gone quail hunting and shot his own friend my mistake.

Much like the comedic endorsement from George W. Bush on Saturday Night Live a couple weeks ago (portrayed by Will Ferrell), producers tried to make it clear that a “vote for John McCain is a vote for George W.” Ferrell used the punch-line “When you go to the polls, remember this face, I repeat, remember this face, when you vote for John McCain.”

Editor’s Note: I have posted a video from NBC with the SNL Skit described above. The video is embedded on my other site as they won’t embed properly on WordPress. [Linked]

Going back to the Dick Cheney endorsement, the Obama campaign was quick to utilize this golden opportunity to point out what this endorsement really means. The following is a response by Joe Biden:

If you ever had any doubt that John McCain would continue George Bush’s policies — you can put those to rest. Just today, Vice President Cheney came out and endorsed John McCain. Do we need any more proof? I’m not surprised. Dick Cheney has been wrong on everything else the last eight years. He’s on a roll.

Many are seeing this as the nail in the coffin for John McCain. For a man who has voted 90% of the time with Cheney and Bush, this endorsement reiterates “more of the same” for a country that is clearly tired of the same policies and actions of the Bush administration. Senator Barack Obama responds:

I’d like to congratulate Senator McCain on this endorsement because he really earned it. That endorsement didn’t come easy. Senator McCain had to vote 90 percent of the time with George Bush and Dick Cheney to get it. He served as Washington’s biggest cheerleader for going to war in Iraq, and supports economic policies that are no different from the last eight years. So Senator McCain worked hard to get Dick Cheney’s support.

And below, the endorsement video clip. Dick Cheney’s endorsement of John McCain appears to have the same effect as the satiric endorsement of George W. Bush on Saturday Night LIve – turning undecided and even McCain voters towards Barack Obama. You watch, you decide.

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