{"id":3350,"date":"2013-09-15T21:56:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T01:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2013-09-15T21:56:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T01:56:26","slug":"obama-may-have-played-us-all-and-won-that-is-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/09\/obama-may-have-played-us-all-and-won-that-is-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama May Have Played Us All And Won\u2013That Is Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/obama1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2754\" alt=\"obama1\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/obama1-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/obama1-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/obama1-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/obama1-400x266.jpg 400w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/obama1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In one chess match the President was able to make the rank and file Republicans seem like doves, the neocons look reckless, the Tea Party wing seem like flip flopping buffoons all while potentially shutting down Syria\u2019s use of chemical weapons without firing a shot or dropping a bomb. The Right Wing would have none of it. They are so filled with that disease, that mental disorder called hate that they would rather praise Putin as he \u2018played Obama\u2019. Remember, to the right, everything Russian is sooooo evil that even Obama\u2019s \u201cCzars\u201d means he\u2019s in league with the dirty commies.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the reality; the only ones that weren\u2019t played in this whole scheme were the President and his administration. This President is so self-assured that unlike many he is capable of taking a barrage\u00a0 of incoming missiles without\u00a0 responding. He keeps his eye on the ball. That is real leadership. One hopes that as he approaches the twilight months of his presidency, he will use this same technique for middle class centric issues, immigration issues, and other Plutocrat busting issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.addictinginfo.org\/2013\/09\/15\/obama-played-us-all\/?fb_action_ids=10202021229521892&amp;fb_action_types=og.likes&amp;fb_source=other_multiline&amp;action_object_map=%7B%2210202021229521892%22%3A568165053250043%7D&amp;action_type_map=%7B%2210202021229521892%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&amp;action_ref_map=%5B%5D\">Obama May Have Played Us All And Won\u2013That Is Leadership<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one chess match the President was able to make the rank and file Republicans seem like doves, the neocons look reckless, the Tea Party wing seem like flip flopping buffoons all while potentially shutting down Syria\u2019s use of chemical weapons without firing a shot or dropping a bomb. The Right Wing would have none&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,9,20,18],"tags":[1704,42,1414,1705],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3351,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions\/3351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}