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The by now hoary argument (4.00 / 4)

from many Obama supporters was that Obama was compromising on all manner of issues from LGBT rights to prosecuting torture to state secrets in order to "keep his powder dry" for The Big One, health care reform.

Obama is now of course making it obvious he's happy to compromise of health care reform itself. I think that at least some people are now coming to the realization that that 11-dimensional chess argument was nothing but a hoax. He's sacrificed his rook, his knight, and his Queen, and we're expecting a checkmate. We may be getting it -- but from the other side.

The moral? If a politician compromises on a number of things you care about, the most reasonable thing to expect from him on all the other things you care about is more compromise.

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by: frankly0 @ Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 15:55:33 PM CDT

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You got it. (4.00 / 1)

I think that at least some people are now coming to the realization that that 11-dimensional chess argument was nothing but a hoax. He's sacrificed his rook, his knight, and his Queen, and we're expecting a checkmate. We may be getting it -- but from the other side.

I never bought it once. When I started hearing people trying to tell me to be patient because "he has a secret strategy" early this year, I asked how it made sense. It doesn't, and we're finding out the hard way that caving into the conservatives isn't a "secret strategy for a progressive win". The "11-dimensional chess argument" is nothing but an excuse for all these conservative "compromises", and it's our duty to debunk it and urge Democratic leaders (including Obama) to stop caving in and start fighting for real solutions.

Want to save marriage equality in Maine? Ask me how! ;-)

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by: Andrew Davey @ Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 16:49:57 PM CDT

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