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Chicago Editorial Writer Suggests Obama Step Down After First Term [Run Hillary, Run!]
FoxNews.com ^ | Sept. 19, 2011 | staff

Posted on 09/19/2011 8:25:34 AM PDT by SvenMagnussen

President Obama's hometown newspaper has some startling advice for the commander-in-chief -- quit while you're behind.

Citing the president's record-low approval ratings and unease in the Democratic base, a Chicago Tribune editorial writer recommended over the weekend that Obama need not feel obligated to run for a second term.

Steve Chapman said that with Obama facing the prospect of a double-dip recession and, if he wins reelection, a gridlocked second term, it might be better to call it a presidency and let someone else -- maybe Hillary Clinton -- carry the Democratic mantle in the 2012 election.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; dreamon; hillary; obama; onetermer; president
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Steve Chapman editorial: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/ct-oped-0918-chapman-20110918,0,5039308.story
1 posted on 09/19/2011 8:25:41 AM PDT by SvenMagnussen
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To: SvenMagnussen

Obama is such a narcissist that he would not even consider dropping out.


2 posted on 09/19/2011 8:32:04 AM PDT by dragonblustar (I'm reporting this to Attaaaaaaaaack Waaaaaatch! Vigilancia de Ataque!!!!!!!!!)
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To: SvenMagnussen

Yeah, maybe Obama can just take his billion dollar war chest and ride off into the sunset.


3 posted on 09/19/2011 8:32:19 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: SvenMagnussen

They are stuck.
Cannot win without the black vote.
No Zero and the blacks will stay home.


4 posted on 09/19/2011 8:33:55 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: SvenMagnussen
NOOOOO!! We need President Piñata to run for execution re-election!
5 posted on 09/19/2011 8:38:35 AM PDT by Tonytitan
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To: SvenMagnussen
Buyer's remorse? Allz I can say is, “Caveat Emptor”
6 posted on 09/19/2011 8:39:07 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: SvenMagnussen

Someone tell Barry that Ex-Presidents play a LOT of golf!!!!


7 posted on 09/19/2011 8:40:30 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: SvenMagnussen

Steve Chapman editorial ... “The vultures are starting to circle. Former White House spokesman Bill Burton said that unless Obama can rally the Democratic base, which is disillusioned with him, “it’s going to be impossible for the president to win.” Democratic consultant James Carville had one word of advice for Obama: Panic.”


8 posted on 09/19/2011 8:41:05 AM PDT by SvenMagnussen (BHO II naturalized as U.S. Citizen after becoming an Indonesian National)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“....They are stuck...”

Gee...ain’t that a shame...Heheheh

Sometimes...playing the race card cuts BOTH ways.


9 posted on 09/19/2011 8:44:10 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: SvenMagnussen
I'm ready. TheBitchIsBack2012.com and .net
10 posted on 09/19/2011 8:46:34 AM PDT by doug from upland (Just in case, it has been reserved: www.TheBitchIsBack2012.com)
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To: SvenMagnussen

Hillary is also a Chicago politician.


11 posted on 09/19/2011 8:47:02 AM PDT by Brilliant
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"...let someone else -- maybe Hillary Clinton -- carry the Democratic mantle in the 2012 election."

I seriously don't see her picking up that mantle for several reasons, but the very fact that her name keeps coming up as the inevitable alternative to Obama, just shows you what a paucity of real leadership exists on the left.

The Dems are doomed. Doomed, I tell ya.

12 posted on 09/19/2011 8:47:24 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: SvenMagnussen; kingattax; DarthVader

Free Fallin’ Ping!

It is customary to run for a second term, and the Lyin’ King is such a Malignant Narcissist that he can’t imagine NOT winning again.

The Democrats thought they were very clever in nominating him, and now they are stuck with him, even though it probably means the death of their party.


13 posted on 09/19/2011 8:48:44 AM PDT by left that other site (Psalm 122:6)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
They are stuck. Cannot win without the black vote. No Zero and the blacks will stay home.

That's a fact, and the only person who can convince blacks to vote for someone else is the Narcissist in Chief himself. Can you really picture him campaigning for Hillary - or any other lesser being?

Not likely.

14 posted on 09/19/2011 8:50:06 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Brilliant

But she’s so 1990s!


15 posted on 09/19/2011 8:50:06 AM PDT by American Quilter (aka American Hobbit)
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To: SvenMagnussen

It’s not a bad idea. Clinton would be formidable.


16 posted on 09/19/2011 8:57:48 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (/)
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To: American Quilter
Show me love, Barack!

17 posted on 09/19/2011 8:58:15 AM PDT by SvenMagnussen (BHO II naturalized as U.S. Citizen after becoming an Indonesian National)
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To: SvenMagnussen
barry and moochelle like being king and queen way too much...then PIAPS as SOS, has a pretty awful track record...like UN gun whatever...supporting the commie thug in Honduras...etc...people ain't goin' trust any dem.
18 posted on 09/19/2011 9:00:59 AM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: SvenMagnussen

“We elected the WHAT??!!”


19 posted on 09/19/2011 9:01:14 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: SvenMagnussen
Here's your Steve Chapman editorial link.
20 posted on 09/19/2011 9:03:10 AM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)
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