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President Obama is faced with a huge number of influential people who want nothing more than to see him and his intiatives fail. They have no ideas of their own; they're simply automatically against anything he's for. Perhaps he's decided that the best way to beat them is to use psychology. He will propose ideas that are the exact opposite of what he really hopes to accomplish, in hopes that his enemies will support their opposites, thus accomplishing what he really wanted in the first place.

He'll do this for as long as it takes for the "Obama must fail" crowd to catch on. Then he'll go back to proposing what he really wants and the idiots, thinking that he's still trying to pull the old switcheroo on them, will support whatever he proposes, believing that he actually wants the opposite.

Brilliant!

Tongue in cheek mode OFF.