How many people on this site still think Obama is a naive chump who is in way over his head. Or think he's truly a corporate sell out. Or some other such nonsense.
Or how many apparently think that a politician who is strategizing and jockeying for position and dynamics, in other words, a politician BEING POLITICAL, is engaging in some sort of extra-dimensional chess game. And not any politician, but the President of the most powerful country on earth, arguably the most powerful individual on the planet. So, yeah, we're talking high level politics. The highest in fact.
It's amazing to me that politics is like some alien game on this site. I guess if there is 11th dimensional chess it WOULD be politics. And yet, we see Obama engaged in politics, because, that's what politicians do, and we lose our collective shit.
Guess what? Obama IS ten steps ahead of most people. How the fuck do you think the guy became President? You think he just stepped in it?
If you find him to be inscrutable, as many of you seem to, then perhaps you are not analysing his behavior in the proper frame. Perhaps your not getting his end game. Perhaps he doesn't work on your schedule of instant gratification. Maybe there's longer games and different goals than your considering. Maybe there's another angle.
Or maybe not. I don't really know, but it's possible. Yeah, it's also possible he's a liar and a sellout and real piece of shit. Or maybe he is naive and deluded and obsessed with his White Whale of a Grand Bargain. I dunno, it's possible too. But that just doesn't feel right to me. This guy became the first black President. In this country. I think it doesn't feel right to a lot of you either and that's why what he's doing seems so inscrutable. You don't get it. You don't understand. It seems crazy. Well, maybe you're not looking at it from right direction.
Nahhh, he must be a naive, evil chump who wants to starve grandma. Yeah. That's it. Makes perfect sense.