Posted on 08/05/2007 11:31:37 AM PDT by qlangley
At the GOP debate two candidates were obliquely critical of Dick Cheney's role in the current administration.
John McCain said: "I would be very careful that everybody understood that there is only one president".
Sam Brownback apparently intimated that Bush had over-relied on Cheney's foreign policy experience early in his presidency.
Well, McCain is right. There is only one President. But the President, inevitably, relies on the advice and support of a whole range of people. Some of them will have formal roles in the administration and others will not . . .
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