Posted on 04/15/2011 12:46:25 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama predicts: 'American people will feel that I deserve a second term' By Michael O'Brien - 04/15/11 02:59 PM ET
President Obama said Friday that he's convinced that voters will come to see him as the candidate best prepared to serve as president by next fall's elections.
The president said he thinks that he can make the case for a second term, though he acknowledged that the state of the economy could be his biggest hurdle to clear in winning reelection.
"I think the economy's going to continue to improve, and I think I'm going to be able to make an effective case that ... I am the person who is best prepared to finish the job so that we are on track to succeed in the 21st century," Obama said in a video interview this morning with The Associated Press.
"I think I can make that case, and I think that, in the debates that take place over the next 18 months, the American people will feel that I deserve a second term," Obama added.
The president launched his campaign earlier this month by filing paperwork with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to formally indicate he would seek a second term. Obama advanced that effort with a trio of fundraisers last night in his adoptive hometown of Chicago, the city where his reelection effort will be headquartered.
Obama enjoys an early advantage over most of the Republicans vying for the nomination to challenge him in 2012, but polls suggest that the president doesn't enjoy broad support on the issue he says is most important: the economy. In a poll released on Friday, Gallup found Obama's approval rating stood at 41 percent, an all time low. Gallup said the figure was fueled by economic dissatisfaction.
"I think that my biggest concern, when it comes to reelection, is my biggest concern as president of the United States, which is our economy moving fast enough to give people the kind of relief that they need," Obama said.
As for the biggest strength Obama believes he has heading into 2012? He said it was his "confidence in the American people."
He is an arrogant, obnoxious SOB! Looks like Mussolini!
Disgusting.
I appreciate your informed replies to the previous poster. One of my pet peeves is when people quote 2 Chronicles 7:14 and apply it the United States, when it was a text directly related to God’s Sinaitic Covenant with Israel, a Covenant that has been set aside and replaced in Jesus Christ.
Thanks for your well-mannered request ... but we should endeavor to point people towards the Lord:
2 Timothy 4:1-2 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
“I think I can make that case, and I think that, in the debates that take place over the next 18 months, the American people will feel that I deserve a second term”
How was Obama holding his hands when he said this?
Sounds like a line somebody would use as they were attempting to mass hypnotize the voters.
Second term? No problem, Obuttboy. Jest show us your birth certificate...
He deserves to be impeached & imprisoned, along with the rest of his co-rats who continue attempting to con the public with Barry’s Big Lie(s).
Someone should send him a copy of the Rolling Stones song: You can't always get what you wantBarry is a sociopathic narcissist x1010.Along with a copy of REO Speedwagon's: Roll with the changes
And last but not least, Carly Simon's: You're So Vain
Frankly, I think he’s scared silly-—he knows the voters think he and his bunch, are a bunch of screwballs.
He got rid of some of the dead weight——Gibbs, Emanuel, Axelrod.
But he can’t easily shake-off people who are despised by the electorate-—his wife, Jarrett, Soros, Bernanke, and others who are a millstone around his political neck.
His only salvation is to keep these millstones under wraps until election day-—but it won’t be easy.
———Frankly, I think he’s scared silly——
I think you are correct.
I think he looks bad, lost weight, gray hair, exaggerated spring in his steps. He knows the truth and knows others know the truth about the economic albatross he can’t shed
do you pointing elsewhere, the FR Religion Forum for instance
Good catch———he looks bad, lost weight, gray hair, exaggerated spring in his steps.
He knows the truth and knows others know the truth about the economic albatross he can’t shed.
Yeah I think you're right. Bullies do boast when they're scared.
*** But he can’t easily shake-off people who are despised by the electorate-— his wife, Jarrett, Soros, Bernanke, and others who are a millstone around his political neck.***
Yep, and his *mrs* -- the Bigfoot Wookie, is prolly the most despised of the bunch by the people.
I got a haircut Thursday afternoon and everyone at the Barber Shop was talking about her. And it wasn't pretty. One guy was really going off on her. I almost thought he was a FReeper.Unfortunately, not enough of 'the voting public' (Sheeple) know about his puppet master, that evil bass-turd, George Soros. Just us FReepers and the couple-few million who watch & listen to Glenn Beck. If just 30% of the voters knew what Soros and Barry(1) have cooked up, Ohaha would be run out of DC.
[I can always tell when it's time to get a haircut - my Stetson© doesn't fit right ;-)]
(1) Plus Ayers, Jarrett, 'granny' - Frances Fox Pivens and their fellow travelers.
I agree that he deserves to serve 4 years...
That’s what worries me — what the American people “feel.” At least 75 percent “feel” the electoral college should be abolished; they are ignorant of federalism and as Hamilton feared subject to demagoguery.
Not at all, he thinks he is well-liked by voters, who see him as "on their side," in contrast to the "evil" Republicans, who are "tools of the wealthy." He is quite an expert at fooling the American people, which doesn't really require that much brillance.
Christ came to fulfill the Old Testament, not to replace its enduring principles.
I don’t think we get leaders “we deserve”, but such “leaders” are the mere result of the fickle wishes of uninformed peoples.
Right-—the whole thing is an act—worthy of an Academy Award.
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