In some sense, what Obama is doing is neither chess, nor is it poker, because if it was

[LoZoccolo]

then Jane Hamsher and her buddies would have been escorted out by security for standing up on their seats and yelling junk from the audience about the stuff they know not anything about gooby gooby gooby gooby gooby gooby gooby gooby.

Dipsy doodledy doodledy doodledy doodledy!

[MannyGoldstein]

1. So you're thinking it's purely appeasement?

Noted.

[LoZoccolo]

2. Appeasement? Of who? By who? For what reason? n/t

[Dept of Beer]

10. I believe you already know the answers. Don't be shy.

[leftstreet]

3. It's Monopoly. And we all just landed on Park Place n/t

[tkmorris]

4. Never played live poker have ya?

Also, you weren't supposed to take the purple acid, man.

[LoZoccolo]

5. No, I haven't.

I used to play a game called Temptation Poker, but I've forgotten almost everything about it.

[Ozymanithrax]

6. No, he's playing Dungeons & Dragons

Using only D4's when all the other players are using D20's.

[lordsummerisle]

7. Take a deep breath

step away from the keyboard and go do something else for a while...

[Bluebear]

14. It won't help. nt

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[yurbud]

12. justifying them is the most convoluted conspiracy theory possible.

Glenn Beck and John Madden together couldn't explain it with all the chalkboards in the world.

[roomfullofmirrors]

9. and in other ways it's both. It's called politics.

[Dept of Beer]

11. I'm on my second Manhattan, and I believe that you must be on your sixth.

[Pholus]

13. A helpful link for stress management

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/stress-management/MY00435/DSECTION=stress-relief

[JHB]

15. Y'know, if you're not even going to try to make sense, just don't bother. n/t

[Ichingcarpenter]

16. +1

Sorta like this gif

[Bluebear]

17. .