Young Turks: Obama's Poker Strategy

[CherylK]

Run time: 06:35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfqE1OpHrnc   Posted on YouTube: December 09, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 14117   Posted on DU: December 11, 2010 By DU Member: CherylK Views on DU: 1240

 
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-12-08/obama-poker-player-his-lousy-bluffing-skills/

[rabies1]

1. I am reminded of another card game "Bridge"

You know, where someone has the "dummy" hand.

[Truth2Pwer]

2. The strategy is simple...if you think about it

[quark219]

3. WHOA! Did you hear Cenk's footnote after the screen went black? {N/T}

[freedom fighter jh]

4. He didn't seem risk averse during the campaign.

If you run for president, the most likely outcome is that you're going to get the crap beaten out of you, and then you're going to lose. Obama had to know that when he started, and he handled it with unflappability.

[timefortherevolution]

5. "I can't get a primary opponent quick enough". YEAH CENK!!

NOR CAN I????????????????

[RoccoR5955]

6. Me either.

Sanders/Kucinich '12!

[Red Knight]

7. However you look at it

He's been terrible for the left.

He's doing more to single handidly destroy the party than any Republican ever has.

And I'm not so sure I'd say he's only 30 percent complicit. His actions(catfood commission, burying the public option and lying about it, giveaways to the drug companies, enthusiasm for war,and on and on)suggest otherwise.

He does not govern as a Democrat should govern.

And his shyness about fighting? That doesn't seem to be a problem when he's fighting the left. Heck, he'll go to Kucinich's district and put the heat on--no problem--while ripping the AFL-CIO a new one for daring to go for Blanche Lincoln's primary opponent.

He doesn't even seem to want any help from the left for left leaning issues. He wants the opposite.

Complicit?

Oh-yeah.

[1monster]

8. If this was a multiple choice question...

A. He's a wuss

B. For whatever reason, he has betrayed us

C. He's was the Manchurian Candidate

D. A and C

I'd go with D.

[Enthusiast]

9. I wish I could believe he is only 'weak'.

I can't believe anyone would be weak enough to appoint a deficit commission that HE KNEW would bolster right wing talking points about the nature and causes of the deficit. That isn't weakness, that is premeditation.