Good point – such Executive Orders could lend themselves some devious ploy, either as you roughly outlined or in some other form. That is quite a few moves down the chessboard — for me, anyway — but for certain, time will tell.

I just hope our Country will not be regretting these orders in the future (clueless or devious).

Interesting point. Perhaps Obama knows the brass will never agree to expand the interrogation techniques for the military as a whole. Thus, Obama can portray himself as open to a discussion of more aggressive techniques, all the while knowing it won’t happen.

He only comes out on special occasions, usually when teh gay is mentioned in any context.

Here’s the potential silver lining: By having no firm convictions, he’s just trying to get along. No real agenda, just power and control for their own sakes. So any fears of ramrodding an agressive leftwing / marxist agenda may be misplaced. We’ve called his recent backpedaling a dose of reality. What if its not a dose of reality but more of what his actual positions are? He needed to separate himself from the other candidates in the primaries; so he swung far left. Once he won, he came back to the middle. It’s a good strategy, everybody expected it. Then he needed to separate himself from McCain; which he did. But after he won, he continued to go centrist when he does not need to. We may just now be seeing the “true” Obama. Not as bad as any of us feared.

In one sense, I certainly hope this is the case. But, this is not good leadership. Would someone with no convictions be able to withstand the pressure to leave Iraq? Would a person like this be able to take a moral stand and stick with it? Would a person like this commit to a strategy like the surge and have the grit to see it through? I don’t think so. I pray that he does not have any “tough calls” to make. But he is now the President and those decisions now are his paygrade.

If so, not so…I just had a Biden moment.
and you don’t have the chops.