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I think most presidents are usually puppets of their advisors and staff. How else could it be? A president can't possibly be an expert in all the domains the
by MichaelCollins 4y ago
I think most presidents are usually puppets of their advisors and staff. How else could it be? A president can't possibly be an expert in all the domains they have to work in, so they generally rely on advisors to tell them what they should do. Maybe the advisors present a set of choices and let the president pick the one he likes the most, but even then the advisors have a lot of power when they decide which options to present and how to present them.
- ShivShankaran 4y ago
- johnchristopher 4y agoI think it's not that black and white. Biden has been a senator and a vice-president. Of course he's not an expert in everything but he knows his party's lines and positions well enough to know the general direction he wants to stir the ship without knowing how to weld that pesky loose rivet on third deck.
- kzrdude 4y agoI don't know when the term puppet was ever more appropriate than for Bush under Dick Cheney. (And then, only in certain policy areas).