Obama is goading the GOP into self destructive behavior and it will work because he's already calculated they can't help themselves due to the Obama derangement syndrome. I just think he's the smartest guy in the room to be honest. There are a few Republican politico's that understand what Obama is doing and how he's baiting the GOP. He's setting them up for failure beautifully.
Originally Posted by Zanzibar789
Well, I sure am glad that you're trying to "be honest!"
The smartest guy in the room? Yes, I'm sure there have been instances where that's been the case. Perhaps, for example, when he's been in a closed door meeting with Valerie Jarrett and a few other members of his Star Chamber-style collection of flunkies.
Barack Obama sure has spearheaded an effective economic and political agenda, hasn't he? Creating a massive new entitlement program that currently clocks in at a 37% Gallup approval rating is quite an accomplishment, isn't it? (As is maintaining an overall approval rating that hangs around in the 40% range.)
And how about the losses of approximately 76 Democratic Party House and 14 Senate seats since 2010? Quite an impressive performance for any party's standard-bearer!
Perhaps if Obama were a football coach, he'd advocate giving up three quick, cheap first-quarter touchdowns in order to get the opposing team overconfident.
Veritably Machiavellian, that Barack Obama.
A decade ago, G. W. Bush seemed hell-bent on becoming the best thing that had happened to the Democratic Party in many years.
Now Obama seems intent on returning the favor by transmogrifying himself into a perfect bookend!
(But in all fairness, perhaps we just need for Professor Gruber to weigh in and 'splain why most of us are just too stupid to grasp the wonderfulness of all this stuff.)