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Does Barack Obama want to be re-elected in 2012?
« on: August 22, 2010, 05:38:07 PM »
An interesting article . . . naturally, from the British press.  The knob-slobbering American media would never write something like this.

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Does Barack Obama want to be re-elected in 2012?

Few Americans consider themselves bigger than the presidency but Obama might be one of them. The man in the Oval Office, argues Toby Harnden, may already be preparing for a role as a post-president in a post-American world.

Published: 9:00PM BST 21 Aug 2010

When David Plouffe, President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign manager, wrote recently that his former boss was "not concerned with his re-election", there was predictable scepticism.

After all, it has long been a truism that every politician wants to cling to power and a reality that presidential campaigns are planned years in advance. Pronouncements about not looking at polls and concentrating on getting things done are, moreover, standard fare from poll-driven, election-obsessed politicians and their apparatchiks.

In this case, however, Plouffe may inadvertently be onto something. Almost everything Obama does these days suggests that he doesn't care much about being re-elected. Strange as it might seem, perhaps he wants to be a one-term president.

Obama was elected in 2008 at an extraordinary moment in American politics. Suddenly, this charismatic figure, elected to the Senate without serious opposition in 2004 and without any executive experience, was catapulted into the White House.

His presidential bid had been based on the power of his life story and his ability with the spoken word. Doubtless he was as surprised as anyone else that he pulled it off. Governing has been altogether more difficult for him and there are signs he is already tiring of it.

More at the link:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/7958031/Does-Barack-Obama-want-to-be-re-elected-in-2012.html
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Re: Does Barack Obama want to be re-elected in 2012?
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2010, 05:59:18 PM »
I think he does - and the only way to make that happen is to lose congress.

He needs a bogeyman - a scapegoat.. And right now, there are none, save for the specter of the previous administration. And that ghost is no longer scaring people.
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Re: Does Barack Obama want to be re-elected in 2012?
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2010, 06:11:55 PM »
Quote from: miskie on August 22, 2010, 05:59:18 PM
I think he does - and the only way to make that happen is to lose congress.

He needs a bogeyman - a scapegoat.. And right now, there are none, save for the specter of the previous administration. And that ghost is no longer scaring people.

Blame Bush has just about run it's course...he needs someone else to blame now and that just might be "Blame Congress".
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Re: Does Barack Obama want to be re-elected in 2012?
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2010, 07:10:06 PM »
And if he's smart enough to listen to the Clintonistas he's hired as retreads in his administration, he COULD pull it off, provided the economy makes a SIGNIFICANT turnaround in 2011-12.

But given the taxes which are coming, coupled with the incredible spending increases, is going to create a double dip much like the Depression of 1937-38, not the recovery of the early 1980's we had under Reagan.

So NO, WaPo, do not concur with your assessment in your paper this morning.  Obama is NOT Reagan.  Not even close.
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Re: Does Barack Obama want to be re-elected in 2012?
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2010, 07:49:41 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on August 22, 2010, 07:10:06 PM
So NO, WaPo, do not concur with your assessment in your paper this morning.  Obama is NOT Reagan.  Not even ****IN' close.

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Re: Does Barack Obama want to be re-elected in 2012?
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2010, 08:03:44 PM »
He certainly does not care what the voters think. So, I don't think he cares as long as he gets more of his socialistic policies passed and turns the US into a red headed stepchild of the rest of the world politically and economically. He wants to be remembered as revolutionary. He will bow to our enemies, take a book from Chavez, kiss the muzzies ass, file suit against a state but will not take a letter from the Governor of TX.

If he is elected to a second term, it may be time to vacate the USA before the riots start.
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Re: Does Barack Obama want to be re-elected in 2012?
« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2010, 08:06:06 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on August 22, 2010, 07:10:06 PM
And if he's smart enough to listen to the Clintonistas he's hired as retreads in his administration, he COULD pull it off, provided the economy makes a SIGNIFICANT turnaround in 2011-12.

But given the taxes which are coming, coupled with the incredible spending increases, is going to create a double dip much like the Depression of 1937-38, not the recovery of the early 1980's we had under Reagan.

So NO, WaPo, do not concur with your assessment in your paper this morning.  Obama is NOT Reagan.  Not even close.

Agreed.  We also have inflation on the horizon which will complicate matters.

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