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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowrider" data-source="post: 2025921" data-attributes="member: 3099"><p>JB I too have, as of yesterday's press conference, changed my mind about Obama.</p><p></p><p>I didn't even see his statement, I only caught the Q&A session with the press afterwards. Before yesterday I was of the opinion that he wasn't as smart as he's made out to be by the press, that he's been "in over his head" due to lacking having ever had a job of any substance, and just generally way over-rated. I was of the opinion that he didn't have the capacity to pull off thinking strategically, or in a systemic or philosophical way. IOW I didn't think he had the capacity to think "presidentially". Now I know that he really is "operating" on a much higher level than the media. He has a plan and all this time I just thought he had an "end game" in mind without a clue as to how to get there. </p><p></p><p>Yesterday hearing his answers on the CT shooting, gun control and the fiscal cliff it finally hit home. Not only does he have a plan he's got multiple avenues of achieving it. The fiscal cliff is a perfect example and I fear that he is going to use the same exact tactic with a new AWB. That deal with Reid today was a necessity to keep the panic down. If he came across as going to stuff it down our throats (like health care) in a month or less he'd have to fight off the NRA, the Tea Party, the repubs and some of his own dems. He knows he can't win that. </p><p></p><p>But I now know that he is an exquisitely gifted politician, and knows how to achieve what he's going for and can formulate a plan for getting there. He's a master at "playing people". Hell he's even played the Clintons like a friggin fiddle. The most frustrating part of all this is that the repubs having absolutely no spine allows ALL of this to happen and I don't see it changing soon. I'm truly scared for our country now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shadowrider, post: 2025921, member: 3099"] JB I too have, as of yesterday's press conference, changed my mind about Obama. I didn't even see his statement, I only caught the Q&A session with the press afterwards. Before yesterday I was of the opinion that he wasn't as smart as he's made out to be by the press, that he's been "in over his head" due to lacking having ever had a job of any substance, and just generally way over-rated. I was of the opinion that he didn't have the capacity to pull off thinking strategically, or in a systemic or philosophical way. IOW I didn't think he had the capacity to think "presidentially". Now I know that he really is "operating" on a much higher level than the media. He has a plan and all this time I just thought he had an "end game" in mind without a clue as to how to get there. Yesterday hearing his answers on the CT shooting, gun control and the fiscal cliff it finally hit home. Not only does he have a plan he's got multiple avenues of achieving it. The fiscal cliff is a perfect example and I fear that he is going to use the same exact tactic with a new AWB. That deal with Reid today was a necessity to keep the panic down. If he came across as going to stuff it down our throats (like health care) in a month or less he'd have to fight off the NRA, the Tea Party, the repubs and some of his own dems. He knows he can't win that. But I now know that he is an exquisitely gifted politician, and knows how to achieve what he's going for and can formulate a plan for getting there. He's a master at "playing people". Hell he's even played the Clintons like a friggin fiddle. The most frustrating part of all this is that the repubs having absolutely no spine allows ALL of this to happen and I don't see it changing soon. I'm truly scared for our country now. [/QUOTE]
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