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realwest5/23/2009 9:55:40 pm PDT

re: #354 freetoken That is certainly an interesting analysis. But Truman got beaten by Ike (for many of the wrong reasons, IMO - though I thought Ike turned out to be a pretty good POTUS - especially at enforcing Brown vs. Board of Education and other matters) and Truman wasn’t going to run again.
I doubt you’ll find ANYONE who would bet you that Obama won’t run for a second term. And to win that race, I think he NEEDS, desperately, the MSM and the Unions - especially the UAW (of whom I am a member and which bragged that my dues and LOTS AND LOTS of other members dues went to support Obama AND that they had put 65,000 people “on the street” to hustle votes for Obama. And of course the Teacher’s union and other unions. Big Unions have money and people (“volunteers”) and I think that for Obama to become his own man BEFORE he runs again in 2012, he’s gonna have to placate the Unions, the MSM, and other, powerful Democrats like Pelosi and Reid (although I hope Reid is gone after 2010) and numerous other supporters and backers. Barring a cataclysmic event (of which I pray will NEVER happen) I think Obama is too much indebted to too many people to truly be his own man until the 2012 elections are over.