Given the that fact our candidate for President, Sen. Barack Obama, is currently vetting vice-presidential running mates, a question came to mind as I read the following excerpt from today's WaPo by the reality-based Dan Froomkin:
"In his oil-patch zeal, Cheney sounded more chairman of Halliburton than vice president of the United States. The country has moved on to a debate about how to reduce carbon emissions to slow global warming. Domestic oil drilling would do little if anything to ease gas prices in the short term and, even in the long term, wouldn't reverse the growing supply/demand imbalance as emerging economies devour dwindling reserves.
"But Cheney needn't worry about sounding tone-deaf. It merely provides Bush more job security."
I got to wondering, "who is OUR Dick Cheney?" You know, the guy who will take the heat for President Obama, and give him the positioning so that he is always seen as moderate. In my view, that's the guy who should be Vice-President.