When was the last time you heard a president say, “ooh–that’s too much power for me. Give it to Congress!”

Yeah, Obama feels he has it won, and the way things are going, I can’t blame him for thinking it. But there’s plenty of time left, even though McCain doesn’t exactly seem to know what to do to turn things around.

Many of the key issues that Obama has “moved to the center” on are issues which extend discretionary Presidential powers in one way or another. FISA obviously does. Flexibility on troop withdrawals does. Faith based initiatives allow for discretionary constituent spoils (Reverend Wright et alia).

Now, consider for a moment that Obama might feel he has this thing won. …

Obama has been faced with the same problem that many previous politicians who have set themselves up as “change agents” have confronted: What to do with the true believers who have aided their ascent? Hitler and Stalin, being what they were, found an easy solution. Kill them.

In democracies, of course, it’s not that simple. FDR spent the first eight years in office proclaiming neutrality, and how he hated wahr, and would never get us involved in the messy affairs of Europe.

Cazart! On a dime (and before he was on the dime) he turned, and started advocating lendlease, and eventually of course “Dr. New Deal” became “Dr. Win the War.” He was perfectly correct to do so, and after Pearl Harbor had no choice anyhow.

And so here’s Obama, who ascended Disraeli’s greasy pole by marketing “change,” finally realizing that in order to remain there he’s going to have to dispose of those who, as is (or at least should be) now apparent to all, he considered merely as useful idiots.

He can’t kill them, so like FDR he has no choice but to co-opt them. And since, as we have seen, he outpoliticked the Clintons (and was not the Former First Wanker called the most skillful pol since FDR’s day, which makes Obama what?), I see little doubt that “Dr. Change” will successfully become “Dr. Pragmatic” without working up much of a sweat.

The WaPo states that Obama is taking “a modest but real step toward a responsible position”. This is a direct admission that his position on the War in Iraq has been and still is irresponsible. No kidding.

While most of us are enjoying the howls of the KOS kiddies who were shamelessly used as saps by Obama, I wonder at what point more people will wake up and realize that Obama is a skilled but fundamentally dishonest politician who is willing to undermine national security and our national interest to get what he personally wants. It doesn’t seem like his actions have damaged his standing in the polls at all.