[mikester]

I suppose to Dick Cheney "for the people, of the people and by the people" is a phrase that has little meaning and while it defines our republic he'll have none of it.

Just because a man asks your opinion does not mean in the slightest that he doesn't have his own. It is a wiser man that wants to know what someone else might have to say. Your own guy instinct may not be the right thing to do in all cases. A measure of wisdom...

A politician who asks my opinion is someone I am more likely to vote for in the hopes that they are not simply paying me lip sevices. If their actions in office do not support their words then of course I will not vote for them again.