No Kim, you didn't say anything about whip-cracking; I did. You said "Clint - pulling together is up to the people, not the President."

I was pointing out that the President has to pull too; he is supposed to be on the team. That quote -- which is from Woodward's first book about Bush -- where he says he doesn't have to explain to any one, but people have to explain to him, is the voice of an autocrat. Like Nixon saying "If the president does it, that makes it legal."

And so I used the whip-cracking analogy.

The president is not supposed to get everything his own way. That's why the well-known checks and balances were built into the constitution.

Get rid of the "not" and make it "pulling together is up to the people, AND the President." and you've got what I said.

We are citizens, not subjects. And the President is a Public Servant, not a Lord.

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