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Originally Posted by Mike33
What I mean by this is that by not running in this election Obama could very well jeopardize his ability to run in 4 years or forever. Who is to say that waiting or [potentially] getting more political experience than he already has would work in his favor 4 or 8 years from now when all the faces vying for the Presidency have changed and domestic and international situations have changed.
Note that I think Obama is no different than the rest. He's a politician to the core.
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I do agree with you no doubt. I believe both of them have to stay in to the convention. Him cause he is the leader in delegates even if he loses the big 3 coming up. In Texas he has a good shot since 25% of the delegates are given to a caucus so thats his in the bag. The rest are normal primary. Crazy that you can vote in the primary then have to return on the night of the 4th to also caucus for your full vote to count. In PA he will have a harder time as its a closed primary so he loses his indys and republican votes.
So either way he will have the delegate lead going in so he will stay in for sure.
Hillary should stay in as well even if she wins 2 of the 3 states as she will be close enough in delegates that super delegates can dictate the nominee if something goes really wrong with the electability of Obama in the 6 months upcoming.
She has nothing to lose by staying in and seeing how it shakes out. And there have been a few missteps lately in Obama's campaign and when things get pumping full out at him who knows where it ends up.
ie you got this Larry Sinclair thing floating about right now where he claims in 99 he did crack and blow with Obama in the back of a limo and then gave him head. Sinclair did a 4 hour lie detector test as well as drug test from whitehouse.com this weekend with results coming out on Monday. If he passes that test (he passed the drug test) well that opens up a lot of doors and ammunition for the right to pounce on.
Also claims coming out that he was with males during his time at Columbia.
Once the media starts to dig, who knows what comes out with Obama, so to me I fully expect this to goto the convention to decide what will happen with super delegates, michigan and Florida.
BTW although Obama was an unknown of sorts he had a different standing in the DNC party. Since 04 he has been a guy they wanted to groom and had their eye on as their future rock star. So Edwards may not have asked him on his own but I really believe that Howard Dean would have asked Edwards to think about Obama with his eye to the future. Certainly could be wrong though.
All I want is a Democrat as president and a lot more democrats taking over republican seats in the senate and house so that things can actually get done. Cause if you have to rely on bi-partisan to get things accomplished its going to be a long 4 years no matter who is in charge.