Posted on 09/06/2007 8:41:21 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
ABC News' Jonathan Greenberger Reports: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said Wednesday that this may be his last chance at running for president.
Asked if his '08 bid was just a strategic move to position himself for a run in 2012, Obama said he didn't think his wife would allow him to run again if it doesn't work out this time.
"Well, I'm not sure- I don't think my wife's going to let me do this twice. So let me be clear about that," Obama said while campaigning in Iowa.
Obama also sought to answer charges from his Democratic rivals that he is too inexperienced to be president, by pointing to his experience in the Illinois state legislature.
"I've been in elected office longer than John Edwards or Hillary Clinton," said Obama. "I've passed more bills I'm sure than either of them --certainly in the state legislative level."
Obama served eight years in the Illinois state Senate before his 2004 election to the United States Senate. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., is in her second term as a United States senator, following eight years she spent in the White House married to former President Bill Clinton. When Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., left the Senate following his 2004 vice presidential run, he had only served one six-year term.
Obama also took aim at Clinton's work on health care, arguing that the "closed" nature of the task force she led undermined the chances for reform.
"What the president can do," said Obama, "is shine the spotlight on the process and mobilize the American people to keep the pressure on. And that's something that didn't happen. And in some ways, in '93 that didn't happen because it was a closed process. And not everybody understood what was taking place, so when the insurance companies and the drug companies starting airing those Harry and Louise ads, you know, nobody really knew what was what. And that's why the American people have to be involved."
Obama's remarks come on the heels of a new ad, "Change," which seeks to position him as the anti-Washington and anti-lobbyist candidate.
Now we know who wears the "ears" in the family.
WooHoo!! It’s “never”!!!
Wimpish pandering to try and attract some of the “female” vote from The Beast.
Who wears the burka?
Translation: “My pimp hand is not strong.”
He’s lying, of course.
Well, she was his boss at Davis, Miner, Barnhill and Galland.
It’s Now or Never.
http://solosong.net/elvis1/never/never.html
I’ll choose `What is “never”?, Alex.’
Well, you figure that if Hillary is the Dem. nominee and is elected in 2008, then she runs for re-election in 2012. If re-elected then her VP will be a front runner for the 2016 Dem. nomination, assuming that the public will still like her and the achievements of her term in office.
If she loses re-election in 2012, then the Dem. nominee in 2016 would be going up against an incumbent Republican running for his own re-election. So then he might prefer to wait until 2020 when the election would be wide open with no incumbent. But will he still be the hot commodity in the year 2020 that he is now?
Depending on how elections are decided, and others in the running, this might be the last best chance for Obama and Edwards of ever becoming president. Otherwise they might fall into the political twilight like Dan Quayle did. Quayle was only 45 years old when he and G.H.W. Bush were defeated for re-election in ‘92, and Quayle hasn’t been heard from politically since then.
Oprah won’t let Hillary sit on her couch??? I thought Oprah liked Hillary.
Maybe its a cheaply made couch.
What a leader. He just guaranteed himself a loss.
Oh, wait, that’s right: he’s running for the Dem nomination.
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