The problem with chess, 11-dimensional or otherwise.

[lumberjack_jeff]

What's the purpose of all those pieces? To protect the king.

I'm getting tired of that paradigm.

[rug]

1. The pawns share the sacrifices.

[Odin2005]

2. K&R

[WillyT]

3. K & R !!!

:kick:

[napoleon_in_rags]

4. I just love the fact that everybody is talking poker.

Cards are my game. I couldn't play chess to save my life.

In chess you can see the whole board, but cards are about acknowledging and working with unknowns. That to me really speaks to how things are in this world.

[jimlup]

5. Yeah politics is poker not chess...

And Obama doesn't seem to be that good of a player at either really. But we need to give him a better hand in 2012 if at all possible.

[QC]

6. Obama just has his own unique approach to poker, that's all.

[Brickbat]

9. That. Is awesome.

:thumbsup:

[woo me with science]

15. It's not his shirt he gave away. It's ours. nt

[tnlefty]

16. I K&R this thread just for that cartoon!

:kick:

[napoleon_in_rags]

7. Yeah, he's got a tough hand, that's for sure.

21st century politics is bizarre. I can't imagine Kennedy or whoever being in a better spot if they walked into the scene today. But I think good things are coming, mostly from the people. If Obama can hold on he may get to surf a good wave coming up here.

[jimlup]

8. I'm old enough to know that wanting stuff to go right doesn't make it happen...

I think things could go either way after this debt debacle is behind us. I'm thinking at the moment that it might hurt Obama fatally. I'm sorry about that because Obama is in my opinion our only chance of holding the Presidency. If Obama gets hurt and goes down even in a close election that doesn't bode well for congress.

The thing is if that is how the cycle proceeds by the time we get to 2016 things will be so screwed up that the pendulum may swing back our way again - but the instability of a repuklian president and congress would be horrible for 4 years.

[napoleon_in_rags]

10. Well, let me be clear here.

Whatever the story is from here on out, it starts out with the line "It was the time of dusk on a mighty empire, and...". The story from there on out may be good, or it may be bad. But the setting is established: The way we have lived is going to change, it has to change, and like it or not that its coming. So from the perspective of the status quo, from the the perspective of many things we have known, everything is doomed. There is no saving this thing as it is.

But from another perspective there is hope, if we are willing to accept that. What I think this whole thing has accomplished is it has shown the American people how bad the situation really is, how broken the process is. As soon as the awareness begins to grow that the whole thing is in our hands, no help is coming, than the sleeping giant of the American spirit can be awakened. Really the best thing any leader can do at this point is to foster that awareness in the people.

[immoderate]

12. Remember the words of Mr. Mencken...

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."

--imm

[jimlup]

13. Yeah - I'll certainly 2nd that

Nicely put...

[KoKo]

11. Protecting "The KING" whoever, whomever he is ...

back to the "Old Times." K&R

[tabasco]

14. Whoa, duuuuude,

that's like soooooo deep.... :smoke: