Saturday, July 24, 2010

What if Obama is planning to be a one-term president?

Some people are wondering aloud if Hillary Clinton will challenge Obama in the 2012 primary.  However, I wonder if that really is the story.

What if the Obama presidency was planned to be one term from the beginning?  What if this were the plan:

1.  Pretending to fight one another in the 2008 primaries, but Hillary would eventually concede.
2.  Obama, with an in-the-tank media and the moniker of "first black president," wins the general.
3.  Obama appoints Hillary to Sec. of State to keep her in the news and give her foreign policy street cred.
4.  Obama would focus on getting the "big ticket" items they both want (i.e. healthcare) through Congress and appoint a couple of Supreme Court judges.  These bills would be very rough and wildly unpopular, but it doesn't matter because Obama doesn't want to be re-elected.
5.  Obama puts up a weak re-election fight against Hillary when she declares her candidacy as the more "responsible" Democrat.
6.  As long as they torpedo any good GOP challengers, Hillary is elected in 2012 for eight years of what she really wants---fine tuning the rough bills that Obama put in place.

Obama gets to be president and then gets to move right on to campaigning to be Sec. General of the UN or King of the World or whatever new high office with little accountability he is interested in.  Hillary only has to wait four more years to be president and will look "moderate" campaigning for the office.  He's happy.  She's happy.  The only people that have to be aware of the plan are Barack and Hillary---everyone else can be counted upon, with the right stimulus, to move the plan forward.  Yes, it's a conspiracy theory with very little chance of being proven, but doesn't it explain a lot of things?

Okay, back to posting actual news stories, I promise.  :>

1 comment:

  1. There are some stories that are starting to run along the same lines:
    RealClearPolitics - Video - Cavuto: Does Obama Even Want A Second Term?
    And this blog may have (sort of) beat me to the punch:
    http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/0110/Clinton_signals_not_a_twoterm_Secretary_of_State.html

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