President Obama is lengthening the game itself. Think Forever. Not today.

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2. He is a true pragmatist.

On his time at the Harvard Law Review:

"Berenson was one of the conservatives, and in a long, contentious election, his group ultimately supported Obama's candidacy.

"They did that in part because they had a sense that he was more open-minded and would listen to the conservatives, and would value and accept their contributions in a way that some of the other candidates would not," says Berenson, who worked in the George W. Bush White House and is now a member of Romney's justice advisory committee.

The conservatives' intuition turned out to be correct, says Berenson. "He ended up upsetting many more of his colleagues on the far left than those of us who were on the right, in part because the bottom line for him as president of the law review always remained putting out a first-class publication.""

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/22/153214284/obamas-harvard-days-began-with-exclamation-point