There's no other word for it: obsessing over Obama. Over at the Daily Beast they have the Newsweek magazine article from Andrew Sullivan who waxes lyrical about Obama's 'Long Game' and how POTUS will outsmart all his critics. Sullivan describes himself as a conservative-minded independent and honest enough to admit being an unabashed supporter of Obama for the last 5 years; re Obama: "The right calls him a socialist, the left says he sucks up to Wall Street, and independents think he's a wimp". It's actually a very well written and well presented article and Sullivan goes through the critiques one at a time explaining how he thinks 'the president may just end up outsmarting them all' and how 'he practices a show-don’t-tell, long-game form of domestic politics. What matters to him is what he can get done, not what he can immediately take credit for.' This last bit is incredible - and I suspect Sullivan wishes this were true - especially as the article is laying the credit on thick for things where Obama was almost just a bystander. I truly believe the exact opposite is true: I think the appearance of indecisive dithering isn't a ploy as he plays the long game, but is in fact dithering indecisiveness.
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I think Obama is the same as every politician in every major country over the past hundred years, he keeps throwing the dice in the hope that one throw will produce double six.
Sadly, in 99.9% cases, I think you're right.
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