The question is will we have a choice?
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."
Get over yourself Boxo.
Get over yourself Obozo.
Leavenworth?
they elected the klintons...twice...
He is talking about So American people,Americans want him doing a couple terms in Prison.
American people will feel that I deserve a second term ... in prison.
The evil Jafar knows no limits to his power.
...goes before a fall. And every law of proportion says it's gonna be a spectacle for the ages.
the American people will feel that I deserve a second term
Deserve. Earned would be a hell of a lot better term but then it hasn’t been earned by Obama, imo.
Why don’t we just skip the election and assume he would get reelected by a landslide and just keep him?
Another article from the Onion?
THIS American feels you, Obozo, deserve a prison sentence. The sooner the better, you narcissistic moron.
i’m sure the american people think about reelecting you every time they fill there car up at the gas pump- its a perfect place to put a 2012 obama sticker— right on the pump below the $5.00 per gallon price
His arrogance will be his downfall.
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