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...will the Bush team sail on its current tack? Hard to say, especially given the many signs of division between Powell's State Department, on the one hand, and Vice President Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon, on the other. But just as America shouldn't summon into existence the threats it wants to defend against, Europe shouldn't hasten a rift it doesn't want by talking up the danger to the Atlantic alliance. These are still early days. Bonds built over more than five decades shouldn't be called into question, even rhetorically, after 15 weeks...
Vice President Dick Cheney may be more powerful than his boss, but he still lacks the fire of some other seconds-in-command, most notably British Deputy PM JOHN PRESCOTT. After a protester nailed Prescott with an egg on the campaign trail, the British bulldog unloaded a left jab on the guy and wrestled him until police arrived. "I wish, of course, that the incident I was involved in hadn't happened," said Prescott. "But no one can now complain about a lack of interest in this election campaign." Actually, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, leader of Scotland's Conservative Party, complained...
...were there in New Haven, was not as embarrassing as the soundbites. I saw only the television clips, and they were painful - the towel-snapper's smirk, the jokes about how if you are a C student you may get to be president, and if you drop out (as Dick Cheney did) you get to be vice president, and about not being able to remember everything that happened to him at Yale. The effect was not endearing, but demeaning to the office that was held by Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt. I have tried for months...
...substance of the Bush agenda, especially on energy and the environment, has been advanced in a manner that has sometimes seemed willfully maladroit. There is a massive blind spot in the White House, and oddly, it seems, in Dick Cheney - an obliviousness to just how bad they are beginning to look in the eyes of the decisive middle third of the electorate...
...other words, Dick Cheney and George W. Bush haven't really done much of anything to solve America's energy woes, however bad they may actually be - they're just going to see to it that the people who make power in America right now can make as much of it as America demands...