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suggests that either (a) he believes that not only will he be elected and re-elected, but the 22nd amendment will be repealed and he will be elected for a third term, OR (b) he was speaking casually and just meant two terms.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.
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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