He's not interested in national security meetings nor doing what a President is expected to do. Thereâs no doubt President Obamaâs liberal supporters are worried by his lackluster performance in the Denver debate. âEveryone is in shock,â one show-business liberal told the Hollywood reporter. âNo one can understand what happened.â The Obama faithful are offering the White House advice, talking points, pep talks â anything to improve the presidentâs performance when he next faces Mitt Romney at Hofstra University on October 16. But for some liberal writers, the concern goes deeper. Perhaps Obamaâs somewhat withdrawn demeanor at the debate was an indication that he doesnât even want a second term as president. On the morning after the debate, The Atlantic ran an analysis headlined, âSnippy Obama, Whose Heartâs Not In It.â Writer Garance Franke-Ruta suggested that Obama, as an unusually sensitive man, has been worn down by the presidencyâs demands of conducting war in Afghanistan and dealing with crises like the murder of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya. âHis supporters keep wanting Obama to be who he was in 2008,â Franke-Ruta wrote. âBut thatâs not who he is anymore.â Obamaâs old enthusiasm for the job is simply gone. Now, in the Daily Beast, liberal writer Michael Tomasky asks, âDoes Obama Even Want to Win the Election?â After poor Obama showings at the debate, the Democratic convention, and a high-profile â60 Minutesâ interview, Tomasky writes, âSomeone needs to ask the cut-to-the-chase question: is he enthusiastic about keeping this job, or he is just maybe tired of being president?â Perhaps he is. If so, there were certainly signs long before Wednesday night in Denver. A look at the presidentâs career shows he has never stayed in a job four years without looking to move on to something better. After a year or two as a community organizer, Obama became deeply frustrated by his inability to enact the kind of big changes in society that he wanted to see. He went to Harvard Law School to plug into the power structure that would help him make those changes in the future. Returning to Chicago three years later, he dabbled in the practice of law before winning a seat in the state Senate in 1996. But he became frustrated with the job almost immediately; according to a Washington Post profile, Obama began âchafing ⦠at the limitations of legislating in Springfield.â The easily-bored state legislator almost immediately began planning a run for the U.S. House in 2000 â which turned out to be his only losing campaign. Shortly thereafter, he set his sights on the U.S. Senate, winning in 2004. But within a year after arriving in Washington in early 2005, Obama was restless again. According to the election account Game Change, in 2006 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid âsensed [Obama's] frustration and impatience, had heard rumblings that Obama was already angling to head back home and take a shot at the Illinois governorship.â âI know that you donât like it, doing what youâre doing,â Reid told Obama, according to Game Change. Reid suggested Obama run for president instead. Soon Obama was doing just that. Now Obama has been president for nearly four years. Aided by a huge Democratic majority from 2009 to 2011, he achieved some big things â massive stimulus, Obamacare, Dodd-Frank. He even won the Nobel Peace Prize, essentially for showing up. But he hasnât achieved, and wonât achieve in four more years, the âfundamental transformationâ of American society that he envisioned. And his entire career suggests that by now he should be angling for a bigger, better job. The problem is, there isnât such a position â and a second term in the same old job doesnât count. The chief benefit of winning re-election to a second term might simply be to avoid being labeled a loser, to avoid joining Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush as presidents who couldnât win a second time. So if his liberal supporters sense signs of boredom and frustration in the president, they might be right.
Sheesh, who writes like that? "Should run be" whaddya get paid by the word? Stay tuned.... tomorrow this will read "Welcome new member "shouldrunbeproforextrader'" Someone is always jackin my shit off the internet. last time I posted something, someone said a dude named macbeth said it first a couple hunerd years ago, wtf....
My driveway is very long and steep (300 ft rise in elevation in about 2000 ft of driveway) and I need someone to take my garbage cans down to the street on Friday mornings and bring the empties up that afternoon. Obama seems fully qualified for that position.
And my dog needs someone to pick up her poop in the backyard. I don't think Obama could screw that up if I follow him around the first time so he knows what to do.
So when he loses, instead of the people rejecting failed leftist policies, it will be obama's heart was not in it. leftists never learn, they just want to keep destroying.
Yes, Obama himself says he is lazy. Barbara Walters, ABC News: "What's the trait you most deplore in yourself, and the trait you most deplore in others?" President Obama: "Laziness." Walters: "You're lazy?" Obama: "You know, it's interesting. There is a deep down, underneath all the work that I do, I think there's a laziness in me. It's probably from, you know, growing up in Hawaii and it's sunny outside, and sitting on the beach....... http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/12/23/obama_i_think_theres_a_laziness_in_me.html
If you listen to the loons on MSBNC he lost because he could not display his inner black thugness. The debate forum is obviously racist. We must change that so that black debaters have a chance. Romney...the presidents heathcare plan is not the plan we were sold. Obama...screw you whitey, you lies you white devil mofo. :eek: