Wouldn't it be funny if Obama doesn't even know how to play chess?

[undeterred]

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[leftstreet]

1. ...

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[HopeHoops]

2. That wouldn't put him at a disadvantage with the GOP morons in Congress.

[FarLeftFist]

3. Personally, I'd rather him play checkers. Knocks out opposition quicker.

[Broderick]

8. I get the feeling that someone is playing

chutes and ladders or heaven forbid, candyland.

[Fumesucker]

4. You are aware no doubt of the etymology of the "eleventy dimensional chess" meme..

It arose from strong Obama boosters saying many times that Obama was playing chess while everyone else in DC was playing checkers..

Rather in the manner it was a Hamsherite who coined the term "Firebagger" which has been so popular lately.

[undeterred]

6. Well, I remember the days before the Kerry Bush nightmare

when everyone kept saying that Kerry was playing chess. Except he wasn't.

We all kept attributing all this genius strategy to John Kerry and in the end all he was doing was fumbling around and being beaten by a dumbass loser who couldn't talk coherently to children and whose turdblossom friend stole the election from him in Ohio in the middle of the night.

He's a very intelligent, well spoken man but not a very smart campaigner or political strategist.

And frankly, Obama is also a very intelligent, well spoken man who was also a very smart campaigner but the things he used for campaigning the first time around are not going to work again. And the political strategies he uses are making enemies out of his own party. And it matters.

[RaleighNCDUer]

14. That was because we could see how he could turn things to his advantage

that looked on the surface like liabilities.

I gave him a LOT of leeway for the first year.

Having heard him speak many times on the campaign of ending DADT and overturning ALL of DOMA, I understood he anti-gay preacher to be a bone thrown to the right, to mollify them a bit.

Appointing the banksters to run the economy - well, who would know better how to fix something than the people who broke it?

Picking Rahm as Chief of Staff - the guy IS a bulldog, and he'd be following Obama's direction, not his own.

Picking Hillary - Ditto.

It wasn't until HCR that I came to the sad conclusion that he was not playing chess - he made those appalling choices because those were the choices he wanted.

I gave him a year.

Call me naive.

[Fumesucker]

17. He's still turning things to his advantage..

The big mistake was thinking that his advantage had anything to do with our own advantages.

[Autumn]

5. K/R

:spray: :spray: Going to clean coffee off the laptop now

[spin]

7. Well if he was a good chess player, he now resembles Bobby Fischer ...

in his later days. It's like he has simply stopped playing.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

9. No, it wouldn't.

[gkhouston]

10. Dunno, but he sucks at dodgeball.

Catch a few and toss 'em back!

[tblue]

11. He's not playing chess.

He's not playing anything. That's just a fantasy, wishful thinking. There's nothing up his sleeve. If there was, it would be a crime not to clue us in and alleviate some of the American people's fears and insecurity. Don't we all just want to believe we're in good steady hands -- and that there's a plan? A great leader wouldn't hide that, especially if he wants to be reelected. And I don't believe he is doing it. He's just plodding along trying to do a good job and survive. It is what it is.

[RaleighNCDUer]

12. well he sure sucks at poker. nt

[Rex]

13. BAD!

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[Brickbat]

15. The problem with chess is that it has an endgame. I'm not sure he has one.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

16. Well, he's mastered the art of sacrificing pawns.

[NOMOREDRUGWAR]

18. Sarah Palin can't even read, and Rick Perry had a 2.22 GPA in college

2.22.

2.22

2.22

2.22

2.22

Just to make that clear.

2.22 GPA

Nothing wrong with failing in your dream to become a veterinarian, but I don't think I want someone as president who couldn't manage above at least a 2.8 or 2.9 in college.