IS OBAMA THE NEW CHENEY? “Rather, in terms of Cheney’s inability to fake emotional involvement. Bill Clinton was a master of insincerity; when he felt our pain, we almost believed it. Cheney, on the other hand, once sheepishly admitted that he ‘doesn’t do funerals.’ Emotional symbolism wasn’t his forte, and he knew it. Obama strikes me as, in that respect, a similar personality.”