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The Trouble With Liz Cheney

By The Daily Dish
Jan 14 2010, 12:27 PM ET

DiA's problem with nepotism:

The reason why you shouldn’t appoint your daughter as your surrogate inside the State Department isn’t necessarily that she lacks the relevant experience. It is that your daughter is very likely to give you an inflated sense of your own genius, and that relying for strategic advice on a familial clique is likely to drive you into a blind corner of actions that only look defensible to people who are related to you.



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