How does Lawrence O'Donnell's characterization of Obama's position make you feel

[ProSense]

Lawrence O'Donnell: What you are seeing is the most masterful rope-a-dope ever seen by a president

[Mz Pip]

1. Other

I would like to be cautiously optimistic but at this point I am just skeptical. Politics is a dirty dirty game and I wonder if Obama is really willing to roll around in the mud.

[LaurenG]

2. It makes me want to believe but the "game playing" tactic and "genius" card

constantly being used as an excuse makes the hair on the back of my neck rise.

I want to like Obama again, and I definitely don't want to ever hear a republican complain about him since he gives them so much but I don't think he cares about those he is hurting enough to finally say enough. The republicans are game masters and they cheat so I am worried about who the rope a dope will really impact in the end.

Eventually someone will have to say enough not just play political games.

[seabeckind]

8. I agree

I didn't watch all of the program. He made it sound like it was all this glorious game and that at the end we'll all go off and discuss which side won and lost.

The whole problem with it was that it's not a game. It's people's lives.

I don't care about scores.

[tridim]

3. A little worried that O'Donnell explained it too well

Now Cantor, Boner and the rest of the GOP children know what's up.

I bet Boner starts claiming he never agreed to raising the debt limit.

[seabeckind]

9. I was more worried that he might hurt himself.

He has to make sure he stretches properly before trying to bend that way.

[Enrique]

4. unconvinced

he gave it a nice try though.

[dgibby]

5. I voted other.

I hope Lawrence O'D. is right; however, what happens if, at the eleventh hour, the republicans accept the deal? Then whose's playing the greatest game of rope-a-dope? We have too much to lose if this happens.

[xxqqqzme]

6. Other

Don't watch his program.

[tallahasseedem]

7. Ecstatic...

I trust him...

[Hawkowl]

10. Betrayed

No matter how many times he betrays the Democratic Party principles, I never get used to it. I think I can not get any angrier, and yet he always manages to ratchet it up.

[Armstead]

11. More inclined to watch Countdown with Keith Olbermann

[Bluenorthwest]

12. Feeling has nothing to do with it

The proof of the pudding is in the pudding, not in the chatter about the pudding from the pudding critic class.

[Safetykitten]

13. Other...pevishly cynical.