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Why Obama May Pass on Reelection
Business Insider ^ | August 17, 2011 | Russell Halley

Posted on 08/17/2011 6:24:41 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012

Political observers of a certain age will remember the night of March 31 1968. At the very end of a long speech about the Vietnam War, President Johnson shocked the nation with his announcement that “I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”

Don’t be surprised if Obama makes a similar announcement.

To understand why, its worth looking at how we got the President we have.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; obama2012; obamaoneterm
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To: ilovesarah2012

Obama is far too narcissistic not to run for reelection. Even if he wavered, his boss Soros wouldn’t hear of his declining another four years.

Obama pull an LBJ and call it a day? Never happen.


41 posted on 08/17/2011 7:18:53 AM PDT by ScottinVA (As a party that gives Obama what he wants, what again is the GOP`s 2012 selling point?)
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To: gunnyg
For all we know, a deal may have already been cut for him to walk away scott free!

I'd almost be inclined to accept that deal if it meant a guarantee of ridding the country of his entire poisonous regime.

42 posted on 08/17/2011 7:21:43 AM PDT by ScottinVA (As a party that gives Obama what he wants, what again is the GOP`s 2012 selling point?)
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To: P-Marlowe
" He just took possession of two taxpayer funded campaign buses and took them out on the campaign trail"

I'm kinda new to this deal but is Obama, as president, supposed to be campaigning during working hours? Is (taxpayer funded)campaigning for office more than a year before the election even legal? It seems at least an ethics violation to be campaigning for himself and his party when the campaign is being underwritten by democrats, republicans, independents and so forth.

I suppose this is another case of "no controlling legal authority" coupled by the acquiessence of the spineless quislings in the republican leadership and the lickspittle, bootlicking mainstream press.

Just asking . . .

43 posted on 08/17/2011 7:24:03 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: sickoflibs
"...If Obama does actually get re-elected he will inherit one hell-of-a-mess from himself..."

You just created a great bumper sticker!
  If Obama Gets Re-elected He'll Inherit a Hell of a Mess from Himself.  

44 posted on 08/17/2011 7:25:57 AM PDT by frankenMonkey (By God, we will not squander what has been given us!)
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To: frankenMonkey

...although a bit of a lengthy one!


45 posted on 08/17/2011 7:27:00 AM PDT by frankenMonkey (By God, we will not squander what has been given us!)
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To: ScottinVA

“I’d almost be inclined to accept that deal if it meant a guarantee of ridding the country of his entire poisonous regime. “
*******************

??????

are we yet free of the effects of the lincoln regime...


46 posted on 08/17/2011 7:28:50 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: ilovesarah2012

You just know all the Dems who count are looking at their internal polling and seeing their party plunging into a black hole. And we all know they keep massive dirt files on one another which come in handy at “persuasion time”.

One of these days the call will come. “Coach wants to see you, bring your playbook”.


47 posted on 08/17/2011 7:30:09 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ilovesarah2012

lol, no way obama gives this gig up, willingly.


48 posted on 08/17/2011 7:31:21 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: Girlene

Do you really believe Obama makes his own decisions? Remember, he couldn’t even decide whether or not to kill Bin Laden. If his bosses tell him he has to go, he goes. They won’t let him destroy the democratic party for his ego.


49 posted on 08/17/2011 7:35:26 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012
LBJ quit running because he was not going to win his own primary.

He already was facing challengers, if he had thought, for even a moment, that he would have won the primary, he would have taken his chances.

Zero has made sure there will be no primary challenger, no one will dare try and run against him, if they do so, the punishment would be so severe, their political career would be destroyed as well as that of anyone who worked for them or with them or supported them.

Zero has already started running for re-election, he won't stop, until we make him stop.

50 posted on 08/17/2011 7:40:44 AM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: ilovesarah2012

One thing I see - something tangible has changed in the last month or so - I think the fake credit rating debt ceiling “crisis” caused the bloom to fall off the rose and the wizard to step out from behind the curtain.

It’s not that *everything* has changed - the media is still the media, the freeloaders are still the freeloaders - but *something* has changed.

How this will all play out will be fascinating to watch.


51 posted on 08/17/2011 7:41:22 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: faucetman; SatinDoll

OLFBC sealed after Soetoro adoption finalized. Soetoro COLB sealed after Obama Sr. returned to HI to complain his parental rights were terminated without due process. Obama COLB created after court hearing to annul Soetoro adoption. BHO II ordered to remain in the custody of American Refugee Resettlement Organization located in CT.


52 posted on 08/17/2011 7:42:27 AM PDT by SvenMagnussen (BHO II naturalized as U.S. Citizen after becoming an Indonesian National)
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To: frankenMonkey
RE :"...If Obama does actually get re-elected he will inherit one hell-of-a-mess from himself..."... You just created a great bumper sticker!

Thanks, maybe I will draw it up and upload it to photo-bucket for ease of posting

53 posted on 08/17/2011 7:42:33 AM PDT by sickoflibs (If you pay zero Federal income taxes, don't say you are paying your 'fair share')
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Maybe he will retreat to the “Office of President Unelected”


54 posted on 08/17/2011 7:42:43 AM PDT by spokeshave (Obamas approval ratings are so low, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the USA.)
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To: Sonny M

You give Obama way more power than he has. Remember, he did not get the nomination on his merits. What his bosses give, they can take away. And I won’t be surprised so see Hillary jump in at the last minute.


55 posted on 08/17/2011 7:42:43 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

I have noticed those in the MSM are now starting to criticize Obama as well. At some point people realize America is really in trouble and Obama keeps making it worse.


56 posted on 08/17/2011 7:44:30 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

Depends on whether he can totally destroy the US in one term.


57 posted on 08/17/2011 7:57:59 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: ilovesarah2012

Unless another job offer comes up, like king of the world, this is obama’s dream of where he should be. He will not go willingly.


58 posted on 08/17/2011 8:00:42 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: ilovesarah2012
Hillary won't run, walk, or move towards an election, no matter what under any circumstances. SHe's broke, B-R-O-K-E, her campaign people all left her (many with IOUs that she owes them), her contacts are spread across the land, and she is so far away from being able to do anything, that it would take her years to run for even a city council job.

Obama is a narcissist whom defeat is so unfathomable, whose megalomania so delusional, he almost certainly believes he will win, and I'd go a step further that he is delusional enough to think he will win by landslide.

We're talking about someone who has gone through 3 budget chiefs in only a couple of years, and they were sycophants, because the idea of disagreement leaves such a stench to him.

His re-election team is in place, he has already begun his run, his campaign HQ is set up (in chicago again), Axlerod is already out of the white house and working on the campaign, and no democrat, none, has gone within miles of coming anywhere near setting up a campaign (mostly because even hiring someone to do so, would telegraph such a move and bring swift reprisal).

59 posted on 08/17/2011 8:04:17 AM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: gunnyg
are we yet free of the effects of the lincoln regime...

Or most regimes since...

That said, you bring up a good point... I'm just eager to see the bass-turd and his cabal gone.

60 posted on 08/17/2011 8:04:51 AM PDT by ScottinVA (As a party that gives Obama what he wants, what again is the GOP`s 2012 selling point?)
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