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Originally Posted by Adraco
The stage was set for a one termer to come in and do some major cleanup. Senator McCain even said it out loud and offered to be that guy, saying that he was old enough to never need another job after the four years of presidency, so he could take all the uncomfortable decisions without thinking about reelection. Obama is young enough to have to consider a career or a future after what ever term is over. True, no ex-president will ever have to return to a normal day job but still, you need to do something.
All the promises Obama made during his campaign will come back and bite his behind in 2012. Because of the many things he promised, it will be hard to deliver.
But what do I know? I still think that we should have "re-elect Gore, in 2004".
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The problem is that McCain would have gotten nothing done. The president can only do so much without the the House and Senate's help. Both have a huge democrat majorities right now so if McCain had won the democrats would have been pissed and they would have done nothing to help him out. He would have been a lame duck from day 1.
I don't agree with everyone who says Obama will be a one term president. He might be, but we are three years away from the presidential election. A lot can happen and in politics three years is a lifetime. Just look at the election in Mass. Three months ago if you would have said that the a republican would win Ted Kennedy's Senate seat in one of the most liberal states in the union most people would have laughed you out of the room.
The reality is that Obama's re-election is entirely in his hands. Three years from now if the economy is doing decently, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are doing okay and he is making steps towards getting some of the stuff he has promised to work on (like health care ) done he will win re-election. It is very difficult to beat an incumbent president (hell just look at Bush in 2004), it is nearly impossible if he is doing a decent job.