Such statements are exactly why Obama is president and not McCain.You are absolutely right.
I don't think he wanted to win. He was doing the work of the left, helping ensure an "historic" new president... while at the same time collecting a bunch of campaign cash for the only thing he really cared about, his 2010 Senate reelection campaign.
And he had a lot of fun at the same time.
The happy nimrod leftist useful idiot, busy bilking Americans of their hard-won freedoms, while keeping a mental-retardation smile on his face all the while.
Well I do think he was more surprised than anyone that he was the nominee:)though I think he did want to be president. It seemed that once Obama was named, he was resigned to losing and had to helplessly watch as his hopes were washed away by the relentless deluge of an historic election to which he was only an observer with zero to stop the inevitable.