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TOPIC: Obama Must Step Aside-- No Second Term (HuffPo 12/07/10)

Jen the Michigander

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Date: Dec 7, 2010

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-greener/obama-must-step-aside---n_b_793439.html Sitting presidents should be and usually are held responsible for their failed campaign promises. Lyndon B. Johnson ran for his own elected term as president in 1964 by telling the American people that in Vietnam "American boys should not be fighting a war that Asian boys should fight." Millions of Americans, including me, believed him and voted for him. He won a landslide victory over the Republican Barry Goldwater. Then President Johnson sent a million "American boys" into an Asian caldron of death. In 1968 Johnson was driven from the race for the Democratic nomination. His reelection hopes were doomed by his failure to keep "American boys" out of a Vietnamese civil war. His own promise -- and his failure to keep it -- sealed his fate. In 1992 President George H. W. Bush, who had flagrantly disregarded his 1988 campaign promise: "Read my lips. No new taxes!" suffered a fate worse than LBJ. Although Bush was renominated by the Republican Party, he was soundly defeated in his bid for reelection. Bush's electoral humiliation was historical. He received the lowest percentage of the popular vote ever for a sitting President. His own promise -- and his failure to keep it -- sealed his fate. Only 8 elected Presidents have been rejected in their bid for a second term. They are: John Adams 1800; John Quincy Adams 1828; Martin Van Buren 1840; Benjamin Harrison 1892; William Howard Taft 1912; Herbert Hoover 1932; Jimmy Carter 1980; George H.W. Bush 1992. Lyndon B. Johnson is not among them only because he dropped out allowing his Vice President, Hubert H. Humphrey, to become the 1968 Democratic Party nominee. Humphrey lost to Richard M. Nixon in what is still the closest vote differential in Presidential election history. Today we sit on the precipice staring at the ninth deserving member of the Presidential Rejection Club. That would be President Barack Obama. As I believed Lyndon Johnson when I was a young man, I made the same mistake 44 years later. I believed Barack Obama in 2008. I supported his bid for the Democratic nomination over other, arguably more qualified, Democrats because I heard what Barack Obama said he would do "when I become the President of The United States of America" -- and I believed him. Change we can believe in? I thought so. I put my money where my heart was (even if it had been someone else's heart before me). Barack Obama was the first Democrat, the first non-independent candidate, I voted for, for President, since I cast my first ballot for LBJ in 1964. Fool me once... fool me twice. Some seventy million Americans also believed him, and we all voted for him. Our votes made candidate Barack Obama "the President of the United States of America." We were sure he was the one we had been waiting for. We were wrong. Its time we admitted it. And its time we did something about it. So they want to do something about it? I can think of something! It takes a while to produce a viable presidential candidate. We have two years until the next election. The time is now for liberals, progressives, thinking independents, and all Democrats to tell the president he no longer deserves our support, and no longer has it; that he will not get our money again; and that we will not vote to reelect him in 2012. If we start now there's time for a reliable, truthful, electable liberal-progressive Democrat to emerge. The president must step aside and not run for a second term. If he insists on running, and if he's successful in being nominated, Barack Obama deserves to become the ninth sitting president not reelected. These kinds of articles are EVERYWHERE!!!!! I have only posted a few of them. There's plenty more where these came from. __________________ Nobody puts THIS baby in the corner!

VotedHillary

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Date: Dec 10, 2010

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His ego will never allow for stepping aside. But, I wonder if the far-left will sabatoge his second term run just like they did to Carter.

BTW, it was Kennedy's run against Carter that brought us those glorious folks known as the "superdelegates."

Thanks for that one, Ted.

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