Perfect Title: The Chess Master

[Aviation Pro]

The Chess Master

By BOB HERBERT

It was just a week ago that the bad-mouthing of Barack Obama seemed to be reaching a fever pitch.

The president was taking heat for the tax problems of Tom Daschle, Timothy Geithner and other appointees and nominees. Liberal supporters of the president were upset that he was making such a high-profile effort to get Republicans to climb aboard his stimulus package bandwagon.

Self-styled middle-of-the-roaders were snarling that Mr. Obama was not doing enough bipartisan outreach, even as Republicans on Capitol Hill were attacking his economic package with the kind of venom usually reserved for the handiwork of Satan.

Mr. Obama was called a hypocrite, dismissed as both craven and politically naïve and taken to task for being too much in the public eye.

The president was even accused — oh, my goodness — of working in the Oval Office without his suit jacket on. And what was Mr. Obama doing as this chaos and tension and criticism swirled about him? Not surprisingly, keeping a level head.

[opihimoimoi]

1. The pubs were played for what they are...selfish assholes

High School Level...the Pubs think America is on High School Level....

what a suprise they got this past year and now....its President OBAMA in their Faces

Plus...they be jealous as shit that Pres Obama speaks in complete sentences and is articulate as they come....Bush was a dolt compared to him...no comparasion at all...night and day....

Bush is a fine example of High School Mentality Level

[Aviation Pro]

2. Jock High School Mentality Level....

...and I know the difference between jocks and student-athletes.

[opihimoimoi]

3. Bush was a wimpy jock .....no fooball for him....only pom poms

He must be hitting them bottles by now...shamed and embarrassed by Obama and his Gang doing good.

[Old and In the Way]

4. As compared to the Tic-Tac-Toe master that we suffered through 8 years previous...

[Aviation Pro]

5. I was thinking Pick Up Sticks is more his speed....

...no doubt Two Shoes would choose a box other than a corner or the middle as his first attempt at stragerty.

Fucking moron.

Gratuitous shout out to Shitstain Shoots-Guy-In-Face, hey fuckhead, we're keeping your cell warm.

[Greyhound]

7. Too much fine muscle control and extrapolation of consequence. I think he might get "point". n/t

[Larkspur]

6. Politics is more of a poker game than a chess game

Bluffing and betting are both in poker and politics but not in chess. The stimulus package is more woefully underfunded than it was before the "centrists" compromised it and therefore will handicap an economic recovery. Obama should have asked for over a trillion dollars and bargained down from there.