This is the big O’s way of moving toward the middle. Problem is, almost nobody is going to buy it. I think he wants to buy time internationally to concentrate on his domestic agenda of socializing us, and he just HATES alienating his lefty support this way.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,664753,00.html

Even people in other countries aren’t buying it. His credibility is zip, zilch, nada.