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."
A plurality will serve to re-elect Obama if the GOP keeps screwing up so badly that the Tea Party abandons it and a third party emerges.
In Jail???
In Chicago, they’re already voting for him.
I think he really believes this.
He’s insane.
That doesn’t even make sense ‘the American people will feel that Obama deserves a second term’. This isn’t about him, this is about the American People. The American people deserve a leader that will lead us. The American people deserve better.
famous last words as the economy crash dive
remember to save this
I certainly hope that Obama gets what he so richly deserves.
Is he still taking cocaine?
It doesn't matter what President Obama and the American people "feel".
What will God do?
If HE wants to expedite the destruction of our Nation because of past and present sins of a people that have turned away from HIM - then we'll get the leaders we deserve. People like the current occupants of the White House and Congress.
If the people repent, HE'll also give us the leaders we deserve - leaders that fear God.
Daniel 4:17b ...that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
It is well past time to repent and seek the LORD, and to beseech HIM to remove the plague from the land.
2 Chronicles 7:13-14 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
>>> He said it was his “confidence in the American people.”
I would say.
The confidence in HIS (American) people to fudge another election for him.
Americans told you what they think of you last November.
They’re gonna hammer the point home in 2012 if you make it that far.
“ONE and DONE” is what I say!
He doesn’t have to make a case to almost 50% of the people. They’ll vote for him because they don’t hear a thing he says nor do they see a thing he does.
I saw a great sticker on a gas pump yesterday:
“Hoping to get some change?”
...and why not? After all he’s a product of EEO and thats how it all worked. Its all he knows. In Barry’s world promotion isn’t about achievement its about your ethnicity.
If the voters feel he deserves a second term then America deserves third world status and economic ruin - because that’s what he will deliver once he is no longer restrained due to the term limit.
What an utterly weak thing to say. Only real losers speak that way.
Obama is showing that he can’t even spell the word confidence, let alone, display it.
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