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Obama: "I'd Rather Be a Really Good One-Term President"

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Posted by tipper 2010-01-26 09:26|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I'd prefer him to be 'really good', also. But that's a long way to go from my current rating of 'piss poor'.

Posted by Tom--Pa 2010-01-26 09:44|| 2010-01-26 09:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Ever cynical, New York magazine's Daily Intel blog, noted that Obama "seems to have forgotten the third option ... being a mediocre one-term president

He appears to be achieving exuberant mediocrity just past the quarter term. I doubt the home stretch will sea much improvement.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-26 09:48|| 2010-01-26 09:48|| Front Page Top

#3 and the fourth option.....a really, really horrible one-term president. That seems more the one to bet on at present.

Posted by AlanC 2010-01-26 10:00|| 2010-01-26 10:00|| Front Page Top

#4 And finally there's the bottom category: Jimmy Carter (aka History's Greatest Monster).

Posted by Spot 2010-01-26 10:18|| 2010-01-26 10:18|| Front Page Top

#5 There is the fifth option: make his single term being for life.

Posted by JFM 2010-01-26 10:27|| 2010-01-26 10:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Spot, there is a category worse-than-carter.

Anyway. Obeyme is a gonnabe. I think he won't last a full term.

Posted by twobyfour 2010-01-26 10:51|| 2010-01-26 10:51|| Front Page Top

#7 I can help him with the one-term part.

Posted by KBK 2010-01-26 11:42|| 2010-01-26 11:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Jan 20, 2009 was the highlight of Bama's presidency. It's all downhill from there.

Posted by ed 2010-01-26 11:54|| 2010-01-26 11:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Well he might want to get his ass in gear because he's pissed away 25% of it.

Posted by tu3031 2010-01-26 12:09|| 2010-01-26 12:09|| Front Page Top

#10 Countdown

Posted by Tom--Pa 2010-01-26 12:16|| 2010-01-26 12:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Has there ever been a "really good one-term president"? The closest I can think of are Coolidge, Teddy Roosevelt, or Truman; and all of them were a-term-plus-some-fragment-of-a-deceased-predecessor's-term presidents.

Maybe Chester Arthur, but he was just a pleasant surprise, as everyone was expecting him to be another Fillmore, Tyler, or Johnson, and turned out to be more of an Adams.

There's the two Adams, but both of them were kind of failures on their own terms. John was chased out of town by a figurative mob, and John Quincy was a lame duck on the afternoon of his own inauguration. Same thing with Hayes.

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-01-26 12:28|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-01-26 12:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Senate just said NO to that Federal Debt Commission thingy.........endorsed by Obama.

Does anyone like him?

Posted by Gomez Threter7450 2010-01-26 13:17|| 2010-01-26 13:17|| Front Page Top

#13 Has there ever been a "really good one-term president"?

There was one really good one-term-plus-a-fragment president, but he was arguably the best ever.

Posted by Mike 2010-01-26 14:49|| 2010-01-26 14:49|| Front Page Top

#14 Amen, Mike.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2010-01-26 16:34|| 2010-01-26 16:34|| Front Page Top

#15 Unfortunately, iff one believes as many Netters do that POTUS Bammer is a covert or closet PRO-ISLAMIST/MUSLIM ANTI-AMERICAN set up to weaken iff not destroy America, then by extension IMO one should believe that for Radical Islam to defeat America in the GWOT, POTUS BAMMER [etal.]. MUST AT MINIMA = IDEALLY BE A TWO-TERM POTUS FOR THE MILTERRS TO ASYMMET PREVAIL "GOING NUKULAAR" + GEOPOL DEFEATING OR DESTROYING AMERICA OUTSIDE OF NORMAL OR CONVENTIONAL BATTLE.

IOW, PRIORITY TO POLITICAL + ECONOMIC + DIPLOMATIC, ETC. NON-MILITARY WARFARE AS FOUGHT AND WON IN THE HALLS OF WH-CONGRESS + WASHINGTON D.C.

* 1990's NET - PRESENT > NETTERS = Once mighty Super/Hyper-Power America goes down for the count, NATO + Western World + Western Dem,ocracy, etc. -ISMS will follow, VOLUNTARILY ANDOR FORCIBLY.

Lest we fergit, "VICHY" EURO-ISLAM = EURABIA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-01-26 17:48|| na 2010-01-26 17:48|| Front Page Top

#16 Picture is spot on. This is the second term of the Carter presidency.

Posted by DMFD 2010-01-26 18:30|| 2010-01-26 18:30|| Front Page Top

#17 I'd rather you were a really good President, too, Bambi.

But I guess we'll just have to settle for one term....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-01-26 20:36|| 2010-01-26 20:36|| Front Page Top

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