Eight is Enough – as long as there is a law about it
A short piece from the Associated Press is meant to be a human interest story, to show the fun, enjoyable friendship and camaraderie between President Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. The piece focuses around a speech Clinton gave at a State Department forum, where she was relaying a conversation the two had, presumably while drinking a beer and talking about leftist love. She mentioned how they “marvel” at despots and world leaders who want to be in power for life.
She says she and the president joke: “Oh, my gosh. Can you imagine?”
Clinton says Obama told her, “I’m going to win re-election, and then I’m done,” a remark that drew laughter from the audience.
The piece ends with the big dose of reality – “U.S. presidents are constitutionally barred from a third term.” It seems a rather odd conversation to have. Another moment where President Obama, or the First Lady, is quoted in stating their hatred, disgust or exhaustion at the job. The story is meant to make them human, likable, common….but it doesn’t do that. It makes them look like people who live in the world of contradiction. They can’t wait to get out, but underneath they wonder what they would do if they could stay in power, they could keep control, they could rule.
I found the piece to be off-putting, if not disturbing. What do you think?
they are both despicable lying people.
Since Obama is so obviously out of his depth, he is enjoying the perks of office as much as possible before he loses them. I certainly can’t blame him. The Peter Principle in action.
Of course they’re lying. They love the power. They only hate being accountable to voters.
President Doofus and the First Whiner feel hatred, digust and exhaustion at the job? Hey, join the club! We feel the same hatred, digust and exhaustion at their job, too!
It’s about time the AP stops carrying water for these guys and start showing them for what they really are…
I think you’re overreacting to harmless quip. It used to piss me off to no end when leftists pilloried GWB for every little perceived flaw. I disagree with most of Obama’s policies just like everyone else here (although I do admire his Osama-wasting policy) however he is the President and he is owed basic human respect.
Instead of navel-gazing over such trivia in such a petulant manner, why not think about how Republicans might actually improve health care, for example?
Because he can do both. I sense a concern troll.
No. The office is owed respect, he is not. I thought Jimmy Carter was as low as a President could go, but Obama has him beat hands down.
I believe our current president is entitled to EXACTLY the same level of courtesy and support from his opponents that the last one got. Next time there’s a Republican president, why don’t you show us how it’s done?
AP, one of the OARs (Obama Adoring Robots) They sure are going to need a lot more OARs this time to push the SS Obama against the stream of voter discontent.
Taxpayer, they showing them for what they are now, even if they don’t know they’re doing it. They’re a couple of incompetent, malevolent pigs who wish they were president for life.
I think it’s a sign that the job is wearing on them both, but neither of them would consider giving it up, even for their own good, let alone their own families, and certainly not for the sake of the American people who, to date, they served so poorly.
They both seem to have sold themselves on the idea that they “must” do this ‘for the people,’ while admitting that they are weary of its difficulties (one of them being, as mentioned above, the fact that so much of what they is disapproved of by so many.)
Oh, and Steve: name a candidate for the Presidency since 2001 that might have disapproved of a plan to kill OBL. Then name the Party of a candidate that would take 16 hours to make up his mind to authorize a “GO”, knowing exactly where OBL was and having all his ducks in a row.
Give up?
The answer to the first question is : ALL OF THEM.
The answer to the second question rhymes with “shmemocrats”.
No President-for-Life? I’m so very disappointed, I thought the man had ambition! (/sarc)
I found his comment really disturbing. It sounded like a total of eight years was his decision. Almost like the Constitutional limit of eight years applied only if he chose to let it apply. Very chilling.
The more he complains about it, the more I suspect he’s trying yo hide how much he likes it. Expect change of rules?
Honestly, I’m not seeing it. I’m with steve on this one: this is just like the “everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink” criticisms that the lefties used to use on President Bush (especially ironic since so many of the same things that they hated about GWB they now find so praiseworthy in The One). We’ve got much, much bigger criticisms of the president, whereas I’ve heard quotes like this a hundred times from a hundred people.
If I can catch even a sliver of an annoyance here, it’s somewhere else. Notice how President Obama put it? “I’m going to win re-election, and then I’m done”. Is this all that matters to him– is it that The Game ends when he wins the race? President Obama never seems to be at home unless he’s making partisan attacks on the campaign trail to his radical fringe base. When it comes to actually doing Presidential things, he’s hesitant, clumsy and amateurish. It’s kind of a window into his psyche that he thinks of politics as a series of elections, not a series of terms in office.
Well, Obama knows that, if he wants his second term, he will get his second term.
If not, it is obviously because of racism.
Why else would American voters reject the perfect president? His economic policies have brought prosperity, his foreign policies have reinforced traditional allies like the UK and Canada, has kept newer allies, like Poland and made new friends among old enemies, like Russia and Iran.
Abundant, cheap oil has kept the engine of America running and safety and security of her borders has ensured peace of mind.
Ask yourself, have the waters not started to recede, has the planet not started to heal? Is he not the one we were all waiting for?
And, don’t forget, no president in history has been so forthright about his past than Obama. No one! He has no skeletons to hide, no embarrassments to haunt him.
So, when you vote, Vote Obama! For a glorious future free of Emmanuel Goldstein!
This from a woman who was co-president and then bent heaven and earth trying for another go-round.
Puts me in mind of Monty Python’s ‘Herr Bilter’ routine. Watch and listen to people long enough and they end up revealing who they really are. These two revealed themselves long ago.
As jokes go, it’s not a side splitter – but it IS pretty funny. I don’t like their politics, but there’s no need to read sinister undertones into every word, especially moments of levity.
I find everything about this presidency is off-putting, if not disturbing.
I thought it was a puzzling story, too at first and was wondering why Hillary told it. Then it occurred to me: it makes Obama look bad by making him look like he’s arrogantly assumed that a second term in the bag.
So the drinkers laughed at those who drink too much. “I’m having three more martini’s and then I’m done – I’m not like those who drink too much!” Suuuuuure you aren’t.
Sir,
You want to know what I think?
Four (4) is enough.
Funny, I read it that Obama was ditching his original plan to do away with elections and declare himself President for Life. Or that he was faking out his opponents by pretending that he would stop at 8.
yeah, it was a little funny….but didn’t O also once humorously talk about how much easier the chicoms have in running things? Oh, here it is, another piece of elite humor:
“How Mr. Obama manages to do that while also balancing American interests is a question that officials acknowledge will plague this historic president for months to come. Mr. Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China. As one official put it, “No one is scrutinizing Hu Jintao’s words in Tahrir Square.””
nyt March 11th
Seems like he complains a lot doesn’t it?
I’m no Obama fan, but didn’t Dubya once make a one-liner about how much easier it would be to have a dictatorship, “so long as I’m the dictator”? Remember all the paranoid leftist moonbats predicting that Bush would suspend the elections and make himself dictator? Indeed Obama may be saying this sort of thing more often, and as a leftist is likely more prone to thinking it, but let’s not get overly worked up. He isn’t going to stay more than eight years if he even makes it past four.
“I’m going to win re-election, and then I’m done,”
Apparently, he’ll be “done” on Nov 2, 2012, before the completion of even his first term.
Done with what? My guess – the charade.