this election. By his unrelenting favors to the wealthy class and his capitulations to the GOP, he as already managed to lose many of us on firedoglake, digby and a few on HP. And, by making statements such as this, Obama reminds us that he will continue his capitulations and will likely end medicare and SS in his unrelenting quest for that holy grail called "the grand bargain". Is Obama really that great strategist who plays eleventy-dimensional chess????? I have now begun to believe that Obama really is wanting to lose this election. By his unrelenting favors to the wealthy class and his capitulations to the GOP, he as already managed to lose many of us on firedoglake, digby and a few on HP. And, by making statements such as this, Obama reminds us that he will continue his capitulations and will likely end medicare and SS in his unrelenting quest for that holy grail called "the grand bargain". Is Obama really that great strategist who plays eleventy-dimensional chess????? In 2006 Obama supported Joe Lieberman (his senatorial mentor) over progressive Ned Lamont during the Connecticutt Democratic primary. Lieberman lost, but then ran as an Independent, and Obama's support for Democrat Lamont was limitied to an email to those on his mailing list about a week before the election. Thanks BO, you unprincipled prick, Lamont lost to fucking Lieberman at a time when people still believed in your purty words. That convinced me then, what a forked-tongue snake he is. I