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11-14-2010, 06:06 PM
Obama running in 2012.....
"We do not come to this conclusion lightly. But it is clear, we believe, that the president has largely lost the consent of the governed. The midterm elections were effectively a referendum on the Obama presidency. And even if it was not an endorsement of a Republican vision for America, the drubbing the Democrats took was certainly a vote of no confidence in Obama and his party. The president has almost no credibility left with Republicans and little with independents.
The best way for him to address both our national challenges and the serious threats to his credibility and stature is to make clear that, for the next two years, he will focus exclusively on the problems we face as Americans, rather than the politics of the moment - or of the 2012 campaign."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/12/AR2010111202846.html
President Obama is totally a political animal. He has done not much in his entire life but run for office and be campaigning. His first TWO years were just about the most political WH in history and if he is running in 2012 this entire two years will be about him using his office, NOT for the country but for his reelection !
PS....This was NOT written by a Republican but by Democrats. They make a great case for why he should announce NOW that he will not run !
"We do not come to this conclusion lightly. But it is clear, we believe, that the president has largely lost the consent of the governed. The midterm elections were effectively a referendum on the Obama presidency. And even if it was not an endorsement of a Republican vision for America, the drubbing the Democrats took was certainly a vote of no confidence in Obama and his party. The president has almost no credibility left with Republicans and little with independents.
The best way for him to address both our national challenges and the serious threats to his credibility and stature is to make clear that, for the next two years, he will focus exclusively on the problems we face as Americans, rather than the politics of the moment - or of the 2012 campaign."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/12/AR2010111202846.html
President Obama is totally a political animal. He has done not much in his entire life but run for office and be campaigning. His first TWO years were just about the most political WH in history and if he is running in 2012 this entire two years will be about him using his office, NOT for the country but for his reelection !
PS....This was NOT written by a Republican but by Democrats. They make a great case for why he should announce NOW that he will not run !