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Originally Posted by dalakhani
to whom did it appear this way??????????????????????????????????????
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I don't know if you are kidding or not, but there are plenty of people in government in both parties who are very well respected on both sides of the aisle. For example, there are people in the Iraq Study Group such as Baker(R) and Warner(D) who are very well respected by both sides.
The new Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is well respected on both sides of the aisle. He was just confrimed by a vote of 95-2.
You would have to say the same thing for both Cheney and Rumsfeld at the beginning of the Administration. Both of these guys had great reputations of being extremely sharp and capable guys. Cheney was the Secretary of Defense under Bush senior back in the 1980s. He was consdiered to have done an excellent job. I believe Rumsfeld was the Sec of Defense under Ford. I don't remember what the vote was in confirming Rumsfeld but I would guess that it was quite one-sided.
So to answer your question of according to who, I would say according to their peers on both sides of the aisle.