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SlipperySlope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-11 01:17 PM
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Where did the "Obama is playing X dimension chess" analogy come from?
Does anybody know exactly where and when the "Obama is playing X dimensional chess" analogy came from? I always thought it was just a DU-ism, but I saw it used in the NY Times today.
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-11 01:18 PM
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-11 01:23 PM
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2. an admonishment by the DU faithful against those spoke of the pres in less than reverential tone
'he's playing political chess, while the rest of you are playing checkers!!!' :rofl:
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PoliticAverse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-11 01:34 PM
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3. Armando Llorens aka "Big Tent Democrat" is widely attributed with using "11 dimensional chess"...
Edited on Fri Jul-22-11 02:07 PM by PoliticAverse
first in reference to Obama:

See: http://www.talkleft.com/story/2009/9/25/14291/7585
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2009/2/10/8179/36722
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2009/2/1/13752/75230

'11-dimensional chess' seems to have morphed to 'n-dimensional chess'.
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SlipperySlope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-11 12:49 AM
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4. Thanks for the links
Pretty much what I was looking for - thanks.
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