An interesting metaphor, considering that an optimal strategy for exiting a maze is to always keep to the left (or right).... ("Exiting the maze" is a common competition in college robotics classes.)
But of course, that strategy is optimal because the underlying assumption is that the "mouse" in the maze has no prior information about the best way out -- it's just given a starting point and has to stumble its way through, and just reacting when it reaches a wall.
That's an amazingly accurate description of what Obama seems to be doing....
Agreed! Good one!