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[This related article is recommended in its entirety.]
“In recent days, [Obama] has offered differing visions of how he might approach the country's problems. At one point, he spoke of the need for "mid-course corrections." At another, he expressed a desire to take ideas from both sides of the aisle. And before this month's midterm elections, he said he believed that the next two years would involve "hand-to-hand combat" with Republicans, whom he also referred to as "enemies." […] This is a critical moment for the country. […] Under these circumstances, Obama has the opportunity to seize the high ground and the imagination of the nation once again, and to galvanize the public for the hard decisions that must be made. The only way he can do so, though, is by putting national interests ahead of personal or political ones. To that end, we believe Obama should announce immediately that he will not be a candidate for reelection in 2012. If the president goes down the reelection road, we are guaranteed two years of political gridlock at a time when we can ill afford it. But by explicitly saying he will be a one-term president, Obama can deliver on his central campaign promise of 2008, draining the poison from our culture of polarization and ending the resentment and division that have eroded our national identity and common purpose. […] [T]he 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. […] Obama himself once said to Diane Sawyer: "I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president." He now has the chance to deliver on that idea. […] And for Democrats such as current Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) - who has said that entitlement reform is dead on arrival - the president's new posture would make it much harder to be inflexible. Given the influence of special interests on the Democratic Party, Obama would be much more effective as a figure who could remain above the political fray. […] We have both advised presidents facing great national crises and have seen challenges from inside the Oval Office. We are convinced that if Obama immediately declares his intention not to run for reelection, he will be able to unite the country, provide national and international leadership, escape the hold of the left, isolate the right and achieve results that would be otherwise unachievable.” [emphasis added]
— Douglas E. Schoen ( a pollster and senior adviser to President Jimmy Carter) and Patrick H. Caddell (a pollster for President Bill Clinton), November 14, 2010 (washingtonpost.com)
Nice idea. Unfortunately, there's not a snowball's chance in hell ...
You can put lipstick on a pig, but it would still be a
"He will not be a candidate for reelection in 2012"? What is that thing about "a pig's eye"? Even the eye of a pig wearing lipstick? Break me a fecking give ...
BTW, "gridlock at a time when we can ill afford it" is Democrat BS. This is precisely the time when we desperately need gridlock. The American people need respite from Democrat insanity, now more than ever before.
"Draining the poison from our culture of polarization" and "ending the resentment and division that have eroded our national identity and common purpose" are laudable goals, of course. But as a consequence of the actions of the most divisive President in our Nation's history? ROTFLMAO!
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