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Barack Obama

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2. More like political Jiu-jitsu. He uses their own energy against them.

Reply to WinstonSmith4740 (Original post)

Tue Sep 10, 2013, 09:28 PM

Sep 2013

I agree.

He proposed at first largely what a RW hawk would propose and they all scrambled to criticize it one way or another.

He rope-a-doped them from the outset, and Putin, too.

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Just another game of Three Dimensional Chess for The Man. [View all] WinstonSmith4740 Sep 2013 OP

Just what I was thinking flamingdem Sep 2013 #1

More like political Jiu-jitsu. He uses their own energy against them. NYC_SKP Sep 2013 #2

Yes he did. Big time. IrishAyes Sep 2013 #4

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Thank you so much, fresh! Cha Sep 2013 #10

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