From an Op-Ed in the NY Times entitled, Two Presidents Are Worse Than One: “One problem with the George W. Bush administration is that it has brought a kind of plural presidency in through the back door. Vice President Dick Cheney has run his own executive department, with its own intelligence and military operations, not open to scrutiny, as he hides behind the putative president….We have seen in this campaign how former President Clinton rushes to the defense of presidential candidate Clinton. Will that pattern of protection be continued into the new presidency, with not only his defending her but also her defending whatever he might do in his energetic way while she’s in office? It seems likely. And at a time when we should be trying to return to the single-executive system the Constitution prescribes, it does not seem to be a good idea to put another co-president in the White House.”
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Is it just me or is this turning into a clinton bashing site? If you think that the first lady/man would have no opinion on public policy you are mistaken. The question is would the president be strong enough to make sure that the message coming out of the white house was one that the president wants. I have no problem with a president taking advice from smart people and using it to help with any problems that they have.
I wouldn’t say it’s a Clinton-bashing site, though I would say that after last week’s fracas between Obama and Clinton, there was a little bit more animosity toward the Clintons than usual on FI.
I have no problems with a President taking advice from smart people either. But I thought this particular Op-Ed writer had a good point when he compared the possibility of having the two Clintons in the White House with the dual-executive reality of the Bush/Cheney administration.
And I thought it might be an interesting point to others. Hence, it made my link of the day list.
The first lady/man has a lot on their plate no matter who it is. Is having bill and his experience there a bad thing?
So no backlash for Obama took out a piece in the times when he said that Clinton could not be trusted because of her war vote? That seemed to be what started this whole thing.