You may be onto something. I, too, have thought he might not run for a second term. The amount of time he spends playing golf (already more than Bush 43 played in 8 years), some of the things he’s said and done, make me think he’s already achieved all he needs to get into the history books and he knows it, and would rather go out to loving crowds and read speeches and that’s all. Even his biggest fan can’t argue he’s very engaged in the job, other than those parts involving cameras and applause.
If he could win a second term like Bill Clinton, he would stay and run again. But too much is piling up for him to want to say.
From the possibility that he could find himself in the embarrassing spot of not being on the ballot in all 50 states.
To the fact that most of the real trouble with the economy will come crashing down to earth during his second term.
Deficits, Heath Care etc...
His last two years will be none events, due to the lock the Repubs will have on Congress come November, so nothing more of his will pass after that. And there is a real possibility the Repubs will refuse to fund Health Care in lieu of raising taxes on us.
Bambi will be in a bad boat without the whole birth certificate mess in 2012, if he has it to worry about as well. Yeah he’s gone.
Does that not sound just like a narcissist? He’s bored already and ready for the next conquest.
I’m pretty certain of his narcissism. But I’m not sure of whether he’s a sociopath, yet.