Today on CBS's Face the Nation, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in Afghanistan, told the paparazzi-pursued correspondent Lara Logan that "the objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or Prime Minister Maliki or President Sarkozy or others who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to 10 years. [emphasis added]
"And it's important for me to have a relationship with them early, that I start listening to them now, getting a sense of what their interests and concerns are."
The notion that Obama will be dealing with world leaders for eighjt-to-ten years, possibly up through July 2018, suggests that either (a) he believes that not only will he be elected and re-elected, but the 22nd amendment will be repealed and he will be elected for a third term, OR (b) he was speaking casually and just meant two terms.
Actually, I think the answer is (c): if elected, Obama will change our very concept of time. :)
Another possible answer might be (d) Obama can't count too well (hey, he thinks there are 57 states!).
Apart from the whole time-space continuum thing, isn't it a teensy bit presumptive for the good senator to assume not only that he'll get elected this year, but also re-elected in 2012?
Obama seems to want to portray his election as a fait accompli, which might backfire come November, because Americans tend to like the underdog. We like the scrappy fighter who comes from behind to overcome difficult odds and win -- just ask Hilary Clinton, a/k/a The Once "Inevitable" Candidate. Obama might want to think about that before he wraps himself in Senator Clinton's former cloak of inevitability.
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the dems seem to think they are running against bush. as bush hasn't put together much of a campaign so far, i can see how they would assume victory.
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