Word: cheneyism
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...with me isn't the bow, but the President alone on the Great Wall. That image - the noble loner - is clearly one the White House wants to project. But it raises the specter of isolation. Most Presidents have a significant other when it comes to policy. Bush Junior had Cheney; Clinton had Hillary; Bush the Elder had James Baker; Nixon had Kissinger. Obama's conservative critics poke fun at his overweening ego, but I suspect that the President's need to find an alter ego, an intellectual equal - in addition to the First Lady - who can challenge his decisions...
TIME's attempt to divert attention from Northwest's Captain Timothy Cheney and First Officer Richard Cole doesn't fly. Perhaps the entry-level pay grade for pilots could stand improvement, but the "system" was not in charge of the flight that went astray while the pilots lost track of where they were. Two officers, nominally in charge, abandoned their responsibilities and endangered the lives of more than 100 passengers and crew members...
...Craig, it turned out to be a Pyrrhic victory. Four days later, former Vice President Dick Cheney attacked Obama on Fox News Channel for dismantling the policies he and Bush had put in place to keep the country safe. More significant was the reaction within Obama's camp. Democratic pollsters charted a disturbing trend: a drop in Obama's support among independents, driven in part by national-security issues. Emanuel quietly delegated his aides to get more deeply involved in the process. Damaged by the episode, Craig was about to suffer his first big setback...
...these moves, Obama turned to a device he often uses to transcend political divisions: a major speech. Delivered at the National Archives on May 21, Obama's address struck a new equilibrium between security and civil liberties - a stark contrast to the security-at-any-cost approach advocated by Cheney, but also a departure from his direction at the start of 2009. The President pointed out that he had ended "enhanced interrogation" and closed the CIA's secret prisons. But he also pledged to "use all elements of our power to defeat" al-Qaeda...
...stage, Obama has tried to avoid blunt confrontation in favor of something more cooperative. He stopped short of offering an unabashed defense of human rights the way Hillary Clinton did on her 1995 visit to China or a hard-line demand for democracy the way former Vice President Dick Cheney did in Lithuania in 2006. Instead, he has sought at every meeting to focus on common ground, hoping for what he once described as a clearing away of "old preconceptions or ideological dogmas" so that nations will be more likely "to cooperate than not cooperate...