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Is There A Chance Obama Won’t Seek Another Term?

The folks at Hillbuzz say Chicago politicos think the President won’t run for reelection.

Of course, Hillbuzz would like that because it would create a lot of Hillary buzz.

Here’s their reasoning:

The Obama cultists in the Media keep insisting “there’s no way Obama doesn’t win re-election”, and the Cocktail Party GOP defeatists pick up their usual Eeyore cues from that and essentially seem geared to give up before the 2012 election even begins, but I keep coming back to something a good friend of mine asked me the other day that I honestly didn’t have an answer for.

She posed this question — which I invite you to answer in comments below:  ”Have you ever heard anyone who didn’t vote for Obama in 2008 wish they could go back and vote for him now, after seeing him as president?”.

This is a new take on what we hear a lot, that people who voted for Obama, now unhappy with his job performance, wish they could go back in time and not vote for him. This feeling seems to be widespread now that a good deal of the hopeychange Kool-Aid has expired.

But, have you honestly ever heard ANYONE say that “I didn’t vote for him in 2008, but he’s done such a good job I wish I had known better and can’t wait to vote for him in 2012″?

The tea leaves that HillBuzz are reading come from David Axelrod and the First Lady:

It might seem incredible that Obama would just walk away from the presidency, leaving Democrats in the lurch for 2012, but I was told, repeatedly, to watch what David Axelrod and Michelle Antoinette have both been doing in recent weeks…they give no signs whatsoever that they are engaged in a re-election campaign.

Axelrod was recently on a Chicago Sunday political show and kept dodging all talk of the re-election campaign, which is like Oprah Winfrey turning down a large supreme pizza or a sandwich bigger than her head.  It’s unheard of.

Axelrod’s favorite topic in the world is how he got Obama elected president, which means Axelrod’s second favorite topic in the world should be how he is going to re-elect Obama in 2012.  He left the White House claiming that’s why he was moving back to Chicago, to focus on the re-election bid, and when given the perfect opportunity to wax on about that, and praise himself and his efforts, he completely dodged the topic, wanting nothing to do with it.  Why?

Pressed by the reporter, Axelrod apparently said “the president’s re-election is just one of the interesting projects I am working on”.  What could be peer, in terms of being interesting, to re-electing a president if you are a political consultant?  Chicago political veterans picked up on this and saw it as a sign that those in the Obama ranks either do not believe he will win in 2012, or that he won’t even run, largely because of the former.

Then there was Michelle Antoinette on Good Morning America last Thursday or Friday, wearing something hideous as usual, also downplaying the re-election campaign and dodging questions about her involvement in it.  This, too, is strange because Michelle Antoinette has always loved talking about how influential, powerful, and generally wonderful she (thinks she) is.

Like Axelrod, Michelle Antoinette poo-poohed the re-election talk, not taking the opportunity to go on about how much her husband deserved a second term to keep doing whatever it is all day, the end results of which the American people clearly hate.

She had a very “one and done” attitude about living in the White House for Obama’s term, and people here in Chicago who know her said that she was in particularly bad spirits after returning to DC from Hawaii, because she just didn’t want to ever leave and resents having to spend any time at all in DC.

Hat tip to Uncoverage for the Hillbuzz piece.

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Posted: February 3rd, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: 2012 Presidential Politics, Obama | Tags: , | 7 Comments »

7 Comments on “Is There A Chance Obama Won’t Seek Another Term?”

  1. Freespeaker1976 said at 11:36 am on February 3rd, 2011:

    Obama’s ego will insure that he re-runs in 2012. You can almost bet on that.

  2. Town Crier said at 12:41 pm on February 3rd, 2011:

    The fact that you have to take the low road and insult the first lady proves just how afraid of Obama you really are. Besides his own intelligence and dignity he has a woman with the same qualities; a woman any real man would give his right arm for. It’s not his fault you can’t get a woman of her substance to think half as much of you.
    If you have any real, substantive criticisms of the President, by all means make them. If all you’ve got is you’re afraid that he’ll run and win because once again your party won’t have a viable candidate, your childishness is understandable (we’ve come to expect no less from you) but it doesn’t change the fact Art, that you are a joke and a bad one at that.

  3. brian said at 12:51 pm on February 3rd, 2011:

    And what exactly makes Michelle aka Grimace an expert on nutrition? obesity?
    Was it her 300k no-show job at a Chicago hospital? lt was such an important job it was eliminated once Milhous began his run? Her “sealed” thesis at Princeton.
    Take a break from the Odumba Kool-aid.

  4. ArtGallagher said at 1:07 pm on February 3rd, 2011:

    Town Crier said

    The fact that you have to take the low road and insult the first lady proves just how afraid of Obama you really are

    TC, I didn’t insult the first lady, I quoted a Democratic website that did.

    but it doesn’t change the fact Art, that you are a joke and a bad one at that.

    I may be a joke, but you keep coming back here!

    If you have any real, substantive criticisms of the President, by all means make them

    Thanks for your permission.

    If all you’ve got is you’re afraid that he’ll run and win

    Actually I’m not afraid of that. I expect it.

    because once again your party won’t have a viable candidate

    I agree the current Republican field is weak.

  5. Freespeaker1976 said at 1:11 pm on February 3rd, 2011:

    Just wait a minute Town Crybaby, unless I am missing something here; just how did Art insult the First Lady?

    Am I wrong, or isn’t he just reporting another story that insulted her? Come on, get a grip on yourself; are you getting the shakes from all of that Kool-Aid?

    As to being afraid of NObama, why yes we are; where are afraid of the wreckage he is causing this country and abroad.

  6. Jgirl said at 10:20 am on February 4th, 2011:

    @ Brian I was curious about the same thing so I looked it up. Mrs. Obama’s dietary opinions would only matter if: she studied diet and nutrition at a college program approved by the American Dietetic Association, completed 900 hours of supervised practical experience accredited by the Commission on the Accreditation for Dietetics Education, and passed an exam to become an RD.

  7. Henry Vaccaro said at 6:06 pm on February 6th, 2011:

    Art, we should only be so lucky that this poor excuse for a President does not run again,he and his socialist agenda have ruined a once Great Country.