It’s becoming more and more evident to me, as time passes by, that Washington Politics is running as a Chess Game. Think about it. In chess, you have the king, queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. The President is the ‘king’, the Vice President is the ‘queen’, the ‘bishops’ are made up of supporting Congress Members, the ‘rooks’ are the czars, the ‘knights’ I’d like to think of as our Military, and the and the ‘pawns’ are Senators, in this case, Democrats. The whole point of a chess game is to keep your King safe from the opposing team’s pieces and by doing that, you use the rest of the pieces to block the other team’s game plan.

Before you start the game, you must have a plan of execution, a plan to win. Obama being the King, he must assure that he uses his Vice President, Congress, Czars, Military, and Senators to effectively play a game changing roll in his overall plan. As we all know, there is a lot of corruption in politics today. Everyone knows the direction in which the chess pieces are to be moved; traditionally the Bishop is to be moved diagonally, the Rook is to be moved vertically or horizontally, and the knights can move two squares horizontally and one square vertically, or two squares vertically and one square horizontally- in the shape of an L. Over time, in the Political World, they feel the need to change the rules. In this case, all the pieces that were once designated to be moved traditionally, can now roam free.

Instead of other threatening countries; Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, etc. being on the opposing team, the Citizens of America have somehow took on that role. Never before in my lifetime have I ever been so in awe at how much corruption is going on within my Country, within the Chess Game. The President can justify his moves and plan based on his own ideological agenda, but it’s clear that if he got the Rule Book out, if he even bothered to read The U.S. Constitution, the political world would be turned upside down, never to be the same again. There’s a common misconception in Politics and America that if something has been done a certain way for so many years that way automatically takes precedence over tradition.

If the People of the United States sit down and let the Chess Pieces of our corrupted government move like wildfire, it is our own fault at the negative, life changing, side effects we will have to deal with on a daily basis. Not to mention the debt in which our children and our children’s children will have to pay back. It’s time we engrave Checkmate in Obama’s vocabulary.

Aside from the game, there’s also the person who is in Control of the game, the two people playing against each other. Obama is an educated man, there’s no doubt about it. He has a motive for running this country in the ground, he can only deliver the message, yet not so good about defending it. There’s a void in his presence, as if there should be another person at his side. As previously mentioned the People of the United States are in one seat, but who is invisibly to the American People’s eye sitting in the other?

-Matt May