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Considering that she demanded the resignations of the police chief and the librarian among others when she became mayor of a little town of 9,000 as a test of loyalty to her and she wanted to censor which books would be in the town library, the claim that she's no Darth Cheney is questionable. The other thing is that Cheney's unique vice presidency is due in large part to Shrub. Most presidents don't want competing power centers in their government and keep the VP on a short leash. So Cheney's ascendancy tells you at least as much about Shrub as it does about Cheney since I couldn't see, for example, Dan Quayle pulling some of Cheney's stunts had he been left to run amok as Cheney has.
I'm actually waiting for the Democrats to jump on that community organizer with responsibilities crack. The observation is, in many respects, accurate but the question is how well did she discharge those responsibilities? Given that she started with a town that was in the black and was $22 million in the hole when she left, I would say that she discharged them very poorly.
