>>> It is perfectly obvious to me that Kevin has no way of knowing what is going on in Obama's head.
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>Then people should stick to the demonstrable facts.
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>In this case it's a staple of modern law that agreements made under duress are not legal. So if people want to blame Obama for the sequester, that's the first hurdle. Then they need to consider those who voted against it and then engineered partisan stalemate in the Supercommittee so that the sequester was realized. Finally, sensible commentary requires a credible motive for Obama to want the sequester. Seems to me it's more a symptom of the awful depths to which politics has sunk rather than an albatross to hang around one person's neck by dramatic fiction about his dastardly thoughts and deeds that led to it.

John
Unfortunately, Obama is up to his neck in the sequester.
We saw recently that had he stood his ground in 2011 the sequester would likely never have happened, so he gets a full ration of blame for it.
He caved repeatedly on the ACA as well.
I've concluded that his lack of experience led him to listen to the wrong people - namely Joe Biden and Rahm Emanuel - both masters of the DC scene - and he wound up making some terrible decisions.

That said, he's compounding his errors because he has not learned to use the magic words that JFK used after the Bay of Pigs where, when he was a new President like Obama, he listened to the wrong people:
"It was my fault."
JFK wryly added:
"Success has many parents, but failure is an orphan."

I rang doorbells for Obama and would do it again, but he needs to go back and re-read JFK's Profiles in Courage.