If he simply backs out, he acknowledges marxism is a failure. They're not going to do that. What's his reason for not running.
What's Hillary's scam? That's what's got me scared. I'm not ashamed to tell you, that psycho bitch scares the hell out of me.
“I agree he’s probably not going to run, but the question I have is “WHY” isn’t he going to run.”
I think a combination of reasons. The biggest one being BHO’s character. This is a rather shallow person in my view. A person who likes the trappings of running for and being President. He doesn’t like the work part of it, though. He wants the adoring crowds, the vacations, and likes it when his agenda is winning. He’s not liking it so much when he has to actually do something or his agenda is being scorned. And now that the adoring crowds are as likely to be booing as cheering, this just isn’t as much fun for him. He’s set for life, he knows it, so why deal with the aggravation of the office and the likelihood of being thrown out in 2012?
A second reason is I think political. While I could never prove it, I speculate that there is an arrangement in play here. I think it’s widely but quietly acknowledged within the Democratic party that BHO won’t win re-election. So who would have the best chance of winning against the likely GOP candidate, Sarah Palin? Then you have to acknowledge that the Clintons are extremely ambitious and still have a lot of power in the Democratic party. There is a very credible threat of their running anyway.
So why haven’t the Clintons sought to distance themselves from BHO? Why are they acting in what appears to be a very supportive manner? To me this just stinks of an arrangement.
Finally, there is something to be said for strategic retreat. BHO has moved the socialist agenda farther than any President since FDR. And I think he recognizes that. They’re looking to defend those gains.
The GOP establishment has in the past has been pretty much OK with creeping socialism, so long as it gets it’s share of the goodies. The conservative backlash endangers those gains not only due to the threat of Democrats losing outright in the elections, but the longer term threat of the GOP establishment being unable to go along with it as they have in the past. One thing the Democrats and the GOP can agree on is that the tea partiers endanger their positions of privilege. And BHO is the number one irritant driving the conservative backlash.