""What's your take on President Obama thus far?"

I'm not sure. It could be one or another of the following:

1. Willing and compliant servant of the real corporate powers behind the throne, faithfully obeying the agenda they have set out for him while pretending to be a progressive force in American politics.

2. Genuinely progressive idealist who has found himself trapped in a totally corrupt power structure utterly beyond his ability to control...and if so, he's in great personal danger unless he decides to do what they tell him to.

3. Cool pragmatist and brilliant speechmaker who will steer his way conservatively through the shoals of the ruling power elite, do what they require of him because he really has no choice, and make progressive-sounding noises to keep people hoping something different is going to happen.

4. Closet admirer of authoritarianism who is planning to sell out the nation to fascist zombies and install William Shatner as Emperor for Life after imprisoning all those who refuse to watch old Star Trek reruns and archival footage of Hitler's Nuremberg rallies....

Now guess which one of the above is a joke, and take it from there...

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