That "the first time I ever met you" line was not the only lie told by Cheney. It's just funnier because of that picture of Edwards and Cheney sitting next to each other for 2 hours.
Most of the "good points" that Cheney made in last night's debate were simply untrue. Unfortunately, Edwards let many of them stand without a rebuttal, leading some people to actually think Cheney won the debate. If one of the rules to the debate had been "no distortions/lies", Cheney would have been DQ'd and Edwards would have won hands down.
But don't just take my word for it, take a look at the nonpartisan factcheck.org (
link), which Cheney himself urged us to do in order to refute points Edwards made about Cheney and Halliburton. Of course, he couldn't even get that right, calling it factcheck.com (which, thanks to the internet gods, now points to a George Soros site). To make matters worse, factcheck.org says that Cheney "wrongly implied that we had rebutted allegations Edwards was making about what Cheney had done as chief executive officer of Halliburton."
Looking further on that page you will see numerous instances in which Cheney committed clear lies/distortions, while Edwards only committed a couple partial/unclear distortions. And it looks like they just stopped listing Cheney's lies in order to make it look less one-sided.
The Bush/Cheney talking point has been substance over style, but if that substance is all lies, does it really even exist?