Reply #3: Both sides need to learn how to identify authenticity & the fact that, e.g., I can agree with critic

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ism of the President almost completely, and still support him, at this time and perhaps all of the way to a possible LOSS in 2012, or, maybe a WIN in 2012.

My problems with folks like Keith O and Rachel M, have to do with the zero sum "thinking" that they trigger at a time when the macro factors are in serious (though perhaps not profound) transition.

In re the future and how people will vote > Everyone NEEDS to learn:

1. how to play their hands quite a bit closer to their chests - FOR THEIR OWN GOOD!!
2. how to play to other peoples' hands, including the President's whenever there is an opportunity;
3. they ARE affecting what opportunities to "play to the President's hand" there will be by bidding wrong and too early, going it alone, and generally telegraphing what they are holding and what they will do with it;
4. and when it all fails, guess who will get the blame once again, so that everyone will feel justified in copping out on the real struggle (not just the one going on in their own heads).