Originally Posted by kane

Here is why he can't win.

He refuses to take any kind of corporate money and he won't get into the "machine" of politics to raise money. While that may be honorable, it is just not reasonable if you want to win. Obama will have hundreds of millions to campaign with. Without allowing the machine to work for him and get him the big money, he can't compete. It is kind of like if you start a baseball team and only spend 12 million on player salaries.You can't expect to compete with the Yankees and Red Sox who spend 200 million on players.

Until he accepts the fact that if he wants to play in the big game he is going to have to play by some of their rules he will never be more than a niche candidate. I think he knows this and embraces it. He knows he can't win, but he runs anyway because it helps him sell books and it is easier being the guy with the great ideas when you don't have to actually carry them out than it is being the guy who makes the promises and has the ideas and then actually has to deliver them. Obama is feeling that pain right now.