Win or Lose Obama Declares He Will Never Run for Office Again

[Tx4obama]

Article and video here: http://www.politicususa.com/win-lose-obama-declares-run-office.html

In Iowa today President Obama stated that whether he wins or loses in 2012, he will never run for office again.

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[Liberal_Stalwart71]

1. And who can blame him? The hatred would be too much for ANYONE, win or lose.

[AJTheMan]

2. His last political campaign, sure.

Doesn't stop him from being nominated to Supreme Court.

[WI_DEM]

6. He would be a brilliant nominee for Supreme Court--still young in 2017 when President Clinton

nominates him.

[AJTheMan]

7. Right on!

Sounds good to me.

[Kahuna]

18. Yep! My thoughts exactly!

[longship]

12. William Taft did it.

Supreme Court justice after being president.

[Brigid]

25. And Taft was happier than he ever was as presidentm

I think that was what he really wanted. And Obama? He'd be great on the Supreme Court!

[SoFlaJet]

21. I was going to post the same thing AJ

He'd make an EXCELLENT Justice and would drive the party of white guys right over the edge....and this coming FROM a white dude

[demwing]

3. Well ...

duh!

To what political office do you aspire after you've been President?

[WI_DEM]

5. if he lost he could run for president again such as Grover Cleveland did.

Some former presidents have seriously considered running for the senate--Harry Truman did for example.

[gkhouston]

22. Or he could return to the Senate, as Andrew Johnson did. n/t

[liberal N proud]

4. Why would he?

[Tx4obama]

8. Because if he lost in 2012 then he would still be the best person for 2016.

I believe that President Obama WILL win in 2012

So, that just leaves the Supreme Court for him after he leaves the Oval Office - and I do hope that a future Democratic president will appoint him when a seat becomes open

[liberal N proud]

17. The SCOTUS is not running for office

It would be nice to see him sitting there with his intelligence.

I think that the crap he has endured running for office would discourage anyone from running.

It would me.

[Tx4obama]

23. I did NOT say 'The SCOTUS' is 'running for office'. You must have read my comment wrong. n/t

[Maximumnegro]

9. Doesn't need to

Since he'll be able to make 500 trillion dollars in speaking fees anywhere in the world.

[jenmito]

10. I saw the speech/rally. He was just pointing out the obvious-that he's running now for

his second term as president. He'll either win or lose. That's all.

[Jamaal510]

11. I'll bet the RW got besides themselves with glee once Obama

announced this. We absolutely cannot give the bad guys on the other side the satisfaction of pulling a Jimmy Carter on him.

[struggle4progress]

13. Most Presidents don't run for anything ever again

John Quincy Adams, of course, went back to Congress

[Tx4obama]

14. President Grover Cleveland ran again and won.

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893–1897) and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland

Quote from his wife:

As Frances Cleveland left the White House, she told a staff member, "Now, Jerry, I want you to take good care of all the furniture and ornaments in the house, for I want to find everything just as it is now, when we come back again." When asked when she would return, she responded, "We are coming back four years from today."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland

[Art_from_Ark]

28. I think the reason why Cleveland ran again

is that he had won the popular vote in 1888, and he felt he could probably win his native New York as well as the Solid South to give him an electoral victory in 1892.

[blkmusclmachine]

15. Dollar to donuts BO goes to Goldman Sachs

or one of the other faux Too Big To Fails.

[Rosanna Lopez]

16. Military-industrial complex

Unfortunately, Obama has indeed sold out in many ways.

What disturbs me most of all is that Obama has not only refused to abolish the police state apparatus which built up under George W. Bush but has expanded it further!

He has allowed the Military-industrial complex that Dwight Eisenhower warned us about in January 1961 to get even bigger and more powerful.

[DemocratsForProgress]

30. Too ridiculous a contention to deserve a response.

So I won't bother.

[treestar]

34. +1

[veganlush]

31. you are lost.

[Whisp]

36. yeh, like you know, you the insider...

rubbish trash garbage spittle

[MrSlayer]

24. There's nowhere to go after you win the Presidency.

But he can run for the House or Senate if he wanted to. Both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Johnson did after their Presidential terms were over.

[riverbendviewgal]

26. I think he would be good in the Supreme Court

or as a constitutional law professor.

[BeyondGeography]

27. Washington will be in his rear-view mirror when the time comes

Hopefully in Jan. 2017.

I'm sure he'll be glad to move on. Big world out there for Barack Obama.

[Amonester]

29. Well, in 2017, he will have all this time to give to his daughters...

And to travel around the world giving (selling) speeches (hopefully for world peace).

[treestar]

35. Ex-President can be a full time job anyway

Yep, family time, speaking, writing, diplomacy.

[and-justice-for-all]

32. People will still turn out in droves to hear him speak...nt

[markpkessinger]

33. I don't think there have been many presidents who have run for office after the presidency . . .

. . . I mean, what would he run for?