What about the idiots that elected Bush TWICE!! Every president is just a pawn in this country. Its funny how people blame the presidents about the what going on in this country. We live in the land of the free, when uncle sam bends you over every pay check. Which no president will ever be able to change. Too many people in to many high place make a lot of money off of our hard work. So i dont think the president has anything to do with what going on today, its much deeper than just putting someone in presidency and they call the shots.
back to my younger years when i played chess. since you use the president and pawn as an analogy. i have done it and had it done to me. i have been checkmated and have done the same with pawns. a pawn can checkmate or stalemate the game. that being said, that pawn in dc can turn this country into a stagnate sess pool or put us in checkmate, all he needs is some1 to move papers across the board/desk for him to sign. the pres may not can do it all by himself, but he has a big hand in it.