1000 dimension chess perhaps? How long have you known him for and did you like it when he voted in the Foreign Relations Committee to confirm Rice (IMHO a war criminal) or did you like his vote on FISA and protecting the telecomm companies? I voted for him over Hillary because of the mandate that he has acquiesced for. Where the hell is is backbone over that. There are enough people falling into poverty without having to worry about a mandate! Or do you admire his selection of Rahm as COS, the same Rahm that actively supported centrist or right wing Dems for Congress and cast aside Progressives? The same Rahm that has been rumored to be the brains and wind behind the "trigger".

For all his faults with the Vietnam War, when Johnson wanted something done, a bill passed, he got the job done with arm twisting. Without that, we wouldn't have had Medicare or Civil Rights Legislation. Bill Clinton got the job done with NAFTA with some arm twisting. Even Shrub used arm twisting to get many of his agendas passed. I have listened to each and every time Obama has talked about the PO, and he is, IMHO, as Harkin said, lukewarm about it. Listen to him again, objectively. The speeches are online at the WH site. If he was behind it, he would INSIST and REFUSE to sign any bill that didn't have it included. Period.

And the government is not ours, it belongs to the highest bidder. I feel as if you are much younger than I am and/or politically inexperienced.