If Obama Doesn't Run For A Second Term, Would He Be Considered A Quitter?

[MaggieMae]

No. He will have stuck out his elected term - something quitter Sarah didn't do.

Finishing your elected term is pretty much the least you can do. The fact she couldn't even to that...

Of course I'm starting to come around to the idea she won't run. I think Obama would very much like her to run as he'd wipe the floor with her in a 48 state sweep. However Sarah's making a lot more money now and probably has more influence from the outside. Running and losing would just ruin the fun.

Sarah basically told Chris Wallace that she would run "if there was no one else to do the job and if the people really wanted her." I can just hear her acceptance speech as the GOP candidate, parroting Sally Field when she won an Oscar: "You like me!! You really really LIKE me!!" (Because it IS all about her, you know.)

 

[MaggieMae]

If he stepped graciously aside in order to ensure that the best person to run the country was actually elected, I would consider him an honorable man. I don't really see it happening. That man has an ego the size of Texas.

Name a president who didn't. What do you expect from them? That they should humble themselves by whining that everybody picks on them? Any President I've been familiar with in my lifetime has stood tall for his beliefs and his efforts whether your opinion (or mine) is good or bad.

That said, I still think Obama may pass the opportunity off to Hillary Clinton by making her his Vice President and Joe Biden Secretary of State, thereby making Hillary almost unbeatable as an incumbent VP to run when Obama steps down from a second term, just as LBJ did. Johnson was wickedly unpopular among Republicans because of his Great Society mandates and among Democrats because of escalation of the Vietnam war, so he was content to turn over the keys to the White House to the next unlucky soul, and contemplate his legacy, which might have gone from bad to worse if he had stayed in.

 

[MaggieMae]

Actually, if he did not run for a second term, I think I would think of him as a heck of a lot smarter than I give him credit for. Who on earth wants the job in the first place let alone for two terms. And what would he lose by not running again? His pension is set for life anyway, why run again?

Like I said, if he doesn't run again, what does he have to lose?

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Immie

I agree Immie.

He now knows that the majority of the country isn't interested in his lefty agenda. If the Reps take over the House and even get some seats in the Senate he has lost his majority and ability to pass any of his lefty bs.

Why stay?? If it were me I'd pack it in and go make a pile more money as a speaker on that gold plated circuit they all travel on.

I don't think anyone could call him a quitter if he serves out his first term and declines on the second. Just my thoughts.

Why you people continue to repeat that is beyond me, when it simply isn't true. Just because the TV punditocrity you watch and listen to tells you that doesn't mean it's fact. LOOK AT ALL THE POLLING, here. There is no way a "majority" of the country is "against" the Democratic agenda!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The country remains just about split, which is hardly a "majority" for either agenda.

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[JimH52]

I mean he wants to transform this nation with hope and change. It looks like the voters are dissagreeing with his socialist agenda including his healthcare. Tommorrow will be like the assault on the Alamo and Palin will come out looking great after this. So if Hillary decides to run and Obama decides not to run for a second term..............wouldn't that make him a quitter?

No, but if Obama quit in the middle of his term, like Palin, then yes he would be considered a quitter.

 

[MaggieMae]

I mean he wants to transform this nation with hope and change. It looks like the voters are dissagreeing with his socialist agenda including his healthcare. Tommorrow will be like the assault on the Alamo and Palin will come out looking great after this. So if Hillary decides to run and Obama decides not to run for a second term..............wouldn't that make him a quitter?

Why would not running for a second term make him a quitter?

Why would it? You only run (campaign on) one four-year term at a time. The only reason most serve for 8 is because that's the limit and they've already got the mojo to go for it again. (Frankly, though, I suspected George W. Bush was secretly unhappy that he ran for reelection unopposed because by 2004, had had it with the job and it would have been a relief to just pack it in and go home to the ranch. Bush was unpopular by then and a solid competitor had a great chance. But we'll never know.)

 

[uscitizen]

I mean he wants to transform this nation with hope and change. It looks like the voters are dissagreeing with his socialist agenda including his healthcare. Tommorrow will be like the assault on the Alamo and Palin will come out looking great after this. So if Hillary decides to run and Obama decides not to run for a second term..............wouldn't that make him a quitter?

Umm one cannot decide not to run for another term after COMPLETING one term?

Your post is a pathetic attempt to diminish Palins quitterism.

 

[MaggieMae]

Another reason Obama may decide not to run for reelection is because of his two daughters who will be approaching their teens and who will not be able to escape the disgusting things said about their father, if his first term is any indication of what a second term would bring thanks to the filth seen on the Internet and in tabloids.