Obama turns running Washington into a game of Chess
One of the most frustrating things for pundits, reporters, journalist and commentators to do is to predict what this president will do next or what his reasons were for making he moves that he has already. After thinking about it for quite some time the only explanation that I can offer is to think of his moves as moves one would make on a chess board. In the campaign for president, he positioned himself as against the War in Iraq and talking with enemies that didn’t like us much. To his competitors and over-all news junkies, this was seen as a naïve and unintelligent move. What it seems to have amounted to now is a much more acceptance of American policies and because those who did not like us was mainly using the information that they had heard or seen from distant sources, they were taken back when they finally sat down and talk to this man and his administration. They learned that he really was about saying in public what he said in private. Still...