Dick Cheney has been ranked as the number on US conservative by the UK’s Telegraph:
Obama is finding out that the Islamist threat was not something dreamed up by Cheney and Bush. The President has been repeatedly rattled by Cheney, as illustrated by his decision last May to time a speech so that it would coincide with the former vice-president’s address at the American Enterprise Institute. It was Cheney who framed Obama’s delay on deciding his Afghanistan surge strategy as “dithering” – and the characterisation stuck.
Cheney is also a good friend of Australia, having visited the place on a number of occassions. The same cannot be said of Obama and his VP.