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"Chicago political experts believe Obama will not seek a second term"
by Kevin Dujan

http://hillbuzz.org/2011/02/01/chicago-political-experts-believe-obam...

...In talking with various political types here in Chicago yesterday
about all this, it kept coming up that many of them don’t think Obama
is running for a second term, despite what the Media keeps insisting.
They think he will use “family reasons” for not seeking re-election,
either making up something about wanting his daughters to grow up
outside the limelight of the White House, or even using grandmother
Robinson as an excuse, saying she’s sick and Michelle Antoinette wants
the family to relocate to Hawaii for their health.

I still think he’s going to use his Parkinson’s as his excuse, like
LBJ and his heart condition, so that he can leave the White House with
immense sympathy and start his book tours and lecturing.  This is why
he wanted to be president by the way, so that he would never have to
work a real job for the rest of his life.  He just wants to write
books, the way Jimmy Carter does, that impugn and attack America,
while making millions of dollars traveling the world as a former US
president who can always be counted on to trash our country.  He is
quite looking forward to this, and Michelle Antoinette is thrilled to
be looking at mansions in Hawaii to move to.  No one here on the
ground in Chicago expects these people to live here ever again.  Why
should they?  They took everything they could get from Chicagoans,
never giving anything back or helping the black community in the
slightest, and now that they have achieved everything they ever
wanted, they are looking forward to the post-presidential perks that
will be afforded to them in Hawaii.

Where, clearly, his presidential library and museum will indeed be
located, right on the water, with as spectacular a view as possible
for this new center to his cult of personality.

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.

The Obama cultists in the Media keep insisting “there’s no way Obama
doesn’t win re-election”, and the ****tail 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 last Democrat to win re-election (the ONLY Democrat to win re-
election since FDR) was Bill Clinton.  I worked as a volunteer for
Clinton’s re-election campaign in 1996, going door to door for him in
New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.  I honestly DO remember hearing over
and over again that “I didn’t vote for him in 92, but I’m voting for
him now because he’s done a good job”.  Many people regretted throwing
their votes away on Ross Perot and decidedly backed Clinton in his re-
election, admitting they would have voted for him the time before if
they had known what a good president he would be.

That’s largely because Clinton not only connected with them on a
personal level and seemed to care about regular people in a warm way,
much like Mayor Daley here in Chicago, but also because the economy
was powering along and riding the Dot-Com initial wave like
gangbusters.

For Obama to win re-election, he will need people who did not vote for
him in 2008 to wish they had done so, and to turn out and vote for him
in 2012.

I just can’t imagine anything that could make them feel that way.

I strain myself to think of even one thing this administration has
done that’s of any good.

Using Daley as an example again, even people who hate the Chicago
Machine, the parking meters, and the patronage and corruption in this
town have to admit Millennium Park, the Cultural Center’s programs,
the beauty on our streets and parks, and all Chicago’s many festivals
are marvelous and that in these regards Mayor Daley has had a direct
positive impact on their lives as Chicagoans.

Can anyone out there (who isn’t the recipient of $50,000 in “Obama
money” from the Pigford scheme) really say they are better off now
than they were before Obama became president?

Better question:  can anyone really say with a straight face that
Obama delivered any real hope and or change?

THAT, right there, is why I think Obama will not seek a second term
and why David Axelrod and Michelle Antoinette avoided talking about a
re-election campaign.  The ads against this man just right themselves,
since he over-promised and under-delivered more than any politician in
American history.

Foolish people and confirmed idiots bought into the hopeychange
nonsense in 2008, giving Obama the benefit of the doubt, but I just
don’t see how they are duped again.  I don’t see how Obama repeats the
2008 phenomenon, even with the Media 100% on his side like usual.

I don’t see how he gets practical people to say “I didn’t vote for him
last time, but he’s done such a good job I want to vote for him now”.

Do you have any thoughts that could shed more light on any of this?

Is there an election strategy for Obama you think would work in 2012?

Can YOU, using as much creativity as you can muster, come up with even
one reason why someone who did not vote Obama in 2008 would vote for
him in 2012 because he or she thinks Obama did a good job (and be
specific about what job he did that was good)?