I must presume that you realize too, that: were Obama to adopt Your style of 'dialectic'
--extreme distillation of a kernel you dare us to extract, much in the manner of *nix MAN ls, then
--Yes! he'd score lots of zingers, appeal to the few minimalists amongst the vox populi ...
and earn a big FAIL in communication with the remaining not-actually-Nutzo citizen-minority
of the traditionally non-voting vox populi.

There's tactics and there's strategy; ... observe how BO waited his chance, then skewered the birthers (and the silliness of a Trump candidacy)
in pure prescient fashion. Ergo: the man possesses a strategic (not just a Good-) mind. Etc.

You think he is Pwned, lock, stock and $gun-barrel, by the national Greed-heads.
(One Can go there, as with Every Single predecessor who ever pandered to the 0.1%, either momentarily or consistently.)
But I submit that such a charge violates Occam and his straight-razor. Were BO a mere dupe/dilettante, also verily a Hypocrite throughout:
then his character has been so skillfully acted-out ... [Sincerity, when you can fake that, you've got it Made--in Murica]
that millions of thoughtful/skeptical people (but not You!) have been utterly faked-out and left with no hope that Anyone-at-all is possessed of simple/rare integrity,
such is the USSR-of-A by 2011. But What-of Obama?

I will deal with my frustrations that, often he acts in a manner not-My-way; I can live with this for realizing that, not only is he lots smarter than I,
he also is equipped with the knowledge learned through experience, of how the Demagogue plays the *words game,
where their Achilles Heels are located and (I may only hope, on this last): that he probably possesses a keen sense of,
WHEN to skewer: at a real Inflection Point, some long-running idiot-koan of the mouth-breathing Class.

* I suspect that, has he never encountered? Chase's The Tyranny of Words--written to help instruct his own children--that BO most likely could have written that manual;
as-likely, also teaches his children that Key to recognizing blab-words© like ... Freedom, Truth, TheMuricanPeepul ad nauseum
and the rest of the vocabulary of shallow-Pols everywhere.

Prediction: should he, via whatever compound-scurrility next transpires, become a one-term Prez?
Then the USSR-of-A shall cease to exist in recognizable form--in maybe a matter of months, certainly of,
..a few years after the ascension of a one of guaranteed-Lesser mind, heart and instinctual clarity.
[It may expire anyway, so dire is the threat of unified Greedhead$, seeking to cash-in, split and gloat.]

The forces against-Clarity are staggering and funded in the $T, as all along, since Ronnie made Greed patriotic and tax-free forever.
Dismantling shall proceed apace, as Promised.
(I'd bet you a grand on this proposition, except: I would be paid-off in the equivalent of Weimar Republic Million-DMark notes) :-/

If Swift-boating works again, the USSC gets to 'decide' Anything re next sElection?
that will constitute proof (to me) that anything short of revolution shall fail to reform and reverse the [-] slope we have been on since '68.
And soft-Muricans have no stomach for fighting, except flaccidly to send their offspring offshore, to such mentors as the Cheney Shogunate..
because they'd love to have a beer with a folksy tongue-tied Texan who swaggers. No barricades in streets.

I'd rescue any cat before I'd try to 'rescue' This Murica from its own suicidal myths, thankyouverymuch.
(I felt similarly during the McCarthy assaults.. so I've had in-trenches Practice with our dysfunctionality all my life.)
Yours is an experience here of quite lesser duration. Dueling mindsets, eh?


Carrion