Anyone still think that Obama is playing "Chess"?

[KansasVoter]

That is one overused post I have not seen in a while!

[phantom power]

1. If he is, it must be for our opponents.

[tridim]

2. The banking regulations he announced today are definitely a political chess move.

So yes, he's playing chess, as he always does.

[arcadian]

5. Link?

It's related to this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7532460

[tridim]

7. Pretty much being ignored on DU for some odd reason.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x142415

Obama Ramps Up Fincl Reform Battle, Seeks To Curb Lrg Banks
http://imarketnews.com/node/7517

[Cha]

27. That wouldn't fit into their

fucking snark, now would it?

I don't really give a shit what the losers around here think about anything..much less as something as important as our country.

[ShortnFiery]

18. "Talking" is different than "Doing" ... My HOPE MACHINE is broken. eom

[tridim]

20. It's still political chess, regardless.

Which is what this thread is about.

[Jennicut]

21. I agree with you on some things but when was your hope machine ever on?

[bigjohn16]

3. Yes. He's playing and losing. nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. Yes....

on a Monopoly board.

[FrenchieCat]

6. I think he's done well, but didn't anticipate to be surrounded by Democrats who love to lose.....

on these boards and elsewhere.

It's chess alright, but the chess pieces decided to play their same own losing game.

The nitpicking should continue,
because we haven't lost everything just yet....
we need to lose it all,
to teach ourselves a lesson we won't ever forget until the next time.

Obama came into office with a slightly better-than-average electoral mandate, but he was immediately faced with difficulties of a size and type that his post-mid-century Democratic predecessors were not: a gigantic economic emergency whose full effects weren’t felt until halfway into his first year; two botched wars in chaotic Muslim countries; an essentially nihilistic opposition party dominated by a pro-torture, anti-intellectual, anti-public-spirited, xenophobic “conservative” movement; and a rightist propaganda apparatus owned by nominally respectable media corporations and financed by nominally respectable advertisers. Excuses? Maybe. Good ones, though. Sometimes excuses actually excuse.

Meanwhile, President Obama forestalled a second Great Depression, turned the attention of the executive branch toward real problems, restored lawfulness and decency to foreign and domestic policy, damped down the flames of global anti-Americanism, and staffed the agencies and departments with competent, public-spirited officials who believe in the duty of government to advance the general welfare. In this generation, Obama is as good as it is likely to get. I’m not sure whether that’s good news or bad, and I’m not saying that liberals shouldn’t keep the pressure on him to do better. I am saying that their—our—anger and exasperation should be directed elsewhere, at systemic grotesqueries like the filibuster and at the nihilists those grotesqueries enable.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/2010/01/one-year-beware-of-sudden-downdrafts.html

[frylock]

24. poor little fella

[Cronus Protagonist]

8. Turns out it wasn't "Master Chess", it was "Changiness Checkers"

n/t

[busymom]

9. Nope...and

to say that I feel like we as democrats have been cheated out of real reform, hope and change would be an understatement right now.

[Teaser]

10. Obama is not playing anything right now

that I can see. It's chaos.

[SunsetDreams]

11. Absolutely, sit back and watch.

[Cali_Democrat]

12. Not only chess, but multidimensional chess

It's just too complicated for mere mortals to comprehend.

[CreekDog]

36. Rahm has 5 chess games going on simultaneously

but he's still reading the instructions.

[uponit7771]

13. I still think you hate him a lot....that answer your question? TIA

[cherokeeprogressive]

14. PretzelChess. GumbyChess. ShipWithoutARudderChess. InOverHisHeadChess.

Take your pick.

[burning rain]

15. More like 52 pick-up.

.

[Clear Blue Sky]

16. Of course he is. And he is losing badly...

[kiranon]

22. Agree. Obama and his administration are too inexperienced and trusting.

[Orsino]

17. Yes. Just like every other president did.

Including Bush II.

[ShortnFiery]

19. We needed FDR and got Clinton II. eom

[Cali_Democrat]

23. Well....look on the bright side....

At least Clinton II is better than Bush II :shrug:

[frylock]

25. marginally better

[tridim]

26. OMFG. Not even close.

The only thing I can draw from your comment is that you weren't paying attention for the last 8 years.

[frylock]

29. and the only thing i can draw from your comment..

is that you haven't been paying attention since dems took control in 2006. what is obama's DOJ doing to ensure that people like bush NEVER get away with the shit they did, EVER again? they're pulling the same shit that clinton did; looking forward. i'm looking forward to the next time cheneyco gets their hands on the wheel.

[tridim]

31. I have been paying hyper-attention to all politics since 1990.

2000-2008 were the worst years by a mile.

If you can't see that, get your head checked.

[frylock]

32. so the bar has been set so low because of bush..

that you'll allow any little ray of sunshine skew your perspective? i still contend that things aren't a whole hell of a lot better than they were on 1/19/2009.

[GOTV]

28. Yes but he's lost his public option knights, his medicare expansion rooks and he ....

... took his single payer queen off the table himself at the very beginning.

Surprisingly we're still losing!

[KansasVoter]

30. Good one!!

[senseandsensibility]

33. Never did.

And I can't believe anyone else did either.

[Raine]

34. If he is ... he's not very good at it. nt

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[TexasObserver]

35. If he's playing chess, he's doing it with a bowling ball.