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Yes, as hard as it has been to imagine just a few years ago, Obama is even more narcissistic and egocentric than the Clintons and less capable of hiding it - which is a good thing because "I feel your pain" mask saved Clintons' bacon more than once. Yet...

1. Clintons never really moved to the center, they were only portrayed as moderating and moving to the center by the "adult supervision" of David Gergen apparatus post-1994 revolution. "The era of big government is over" was an ovbious fakeout.

2. Obama will have no chance to move forward with his agenda, only portrayed as a roadblock stopping "radical extremist right-wing agenda" of Republican Congress... i.e., the theme and PR will be that of "moderate triangulation," and with weak and incompetent GOP leadership and PR efforts it just might succeed... again.

3. The Clinton scenario is really his best chance to blame someone else for the problems (blaming Bush has gotten stale and is fast running out of steam) and to get reelected - Republican House is his best choice to accomplish that. The Dems might well go along with this battlefield plan, as the Big Prize is the entrenchment and expansion of radical liberal judiciary appointments in the next term, if Obama wins. Dems understand the value of the sacrifices to be made in the House, if it helps keeping Obama as President for another term. Keeping (even small) majority in the Senate has value for judicial appointments confirmations.

Losing House - instead of keeping a small but ineffective and despised token majority - is a gambit that has the best chance for Dems to succeed in getting through their bigger agenda in the next 6-years plan.