Posted on 08/13/2009 5:11:32 AM PDT by Cecily
WASHINGTON -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney believes his old boss, President George W. Bush, gradually turned away from his advice during their second term in the White House, showing a surprising independence as he started taking more flexible positions on a range of issues, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
Cheney, often described as the most influential vice president in U.S. history, has been discussing his years in office in informal talks with authors, diplomats, policy experts and past colleagues, the Post said, as he works on a memoir due out in 2011 from Simon & Schuster's Threshold Editions.
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0’s polls numbers must be going to hell.
In retrospect, Mr. Cheney, I don’t think he had far to go.
In ways too numerous to count, I wish Cheney had been president.
Oh, wait...
The fact remains that while Cheney may have played the president on TV, he was not the president.
Regretfully, but nonetheless, it was not his call on any matter.
Now that’s he’s turned on Bush, will the DBM love him?
FWIW, Cheney is absolutely right, esp. in regards to domestic issues like shamnesty, the education bill with Kennedy, TARP and runaway spending.
Bush was always solid on the WOT, IMO.
Blackmail can do that to a president.
Oh I love your tagline.
Totally agree with Cheney.
Bush SHOULD have listened to Cheney....the SMARTEST man in DC.
Blackmail? In what way was President Bush blackmailed?
An honest man cannot be blackmailed.
And as much as I ended up very dissatisfied with Mr. Bush’s perfomance as president, I have not yet found cause to take issue with his fundamental honesty.
When Bush was taking Cheney’s advise all the libs hated him but he was doing the right things for America. When he started to go “soft” that is when he lost all support on the right and that is when he became the biggest lame duck ever.
You should have stuck to principles President Bush and you would have been seen as a Reagan and we might not be in the mess we are in now.
Just for laughs, Cheney should have worn a Darth Vader helmet to the Zero’s inauguration.
He’s right. I always thought it should have been Cheney/Bush.
My apologies. I’m just searching for a reason to explain why bush went left as president on so many issues.
Pres. Bush was far from being a conservative, but he did take measures and made decisions that kept this country safe.
If you disagree with his politics/policies, fine, but you can’t really believe he was giving into blackmail!
On the former, not surprised... on the latter, as I expected.
I now leave you to continue your bashing... (Not you, Heart of Georgia. You were just the last post on the thread.)
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