The case for playing politics:
Barack Obama has thrown his own Administration, half the Democratic party, and the entire Congress into chaos over the issue of torture memos and prosecutions.
As he has done most of his political life, Obama tried to play both sides of the fence when it came to the release of the torture memos trying to placate both sides by releasing the memos which documented Bush White House authorization for torture and at the same time placate the right by saying no one would be prosecuted.
"Playing both sides of the fence" as in trying to be "post-partisan" or "transformative" can also mean not knowing what in the hell he is doing. After all, with this environment, Democratic presidents can't possibly "reach across the aisle" with those who believe in a scorched earth politics, so I tend to believe Obama doesn't know shit what he is doing.
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