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Its clear that you should head to Hollywood for that carreer change to screenplay writer. The stuff you extrapolate on the tidbits of soundbites is really amazing. Obama said previously to ABC news that " he'd rather be an awesome one term Preseident than an average two term President. THAT'S A QUOTE.

I watched the whole interview, didn't listen to soundbites (or just what one columnist wrote, as you did).

And in the context of the conversation, no, Obama has not "accepted he's a one term President".

Even going by the exact quote you list, he's not, "accepted he's a one term President". That's not what that quote says at all

The current polls show him lagging severely in contrast to starting numbers.

So what? For nearly all Presidents, the greatest, highest polling numbers they have is the day after they are elected

Obama's personal likeability is just as high among Democrats as it was the day he was elected. It has fallen like a rock among Republicans, and fallen about halfway with Independents.

Your smarmy comments about wanting Obama to fail are so sophomoric that it boggles my mind. You belong on DU not DT. You libs want to ride on Obamas' waning popularity to pass all this terrible legislation, without taking into consideration what it will do to the US for decades. Myopic,for sure. The other half of the voters are going away that easy,period!

So you want Obama to succeed? Gosh, I couldn't tell that from your daily posts bashing and insulting him - so sorry

By the way, I'm still not "a liberal". Sorry.

And yes, I most definitely want healthcare reform. That's why I crossed the aisle to vote for Obama. Not the Senate version, the House version with a public option (what the CBO has said will aggressively help us reduce the deficit over the next 10 years). And I want it done via reconciliation, to get rid of the GOP complete blockage, and get good, aggressive reforms in there.

And why do you assume there exists an "the other half of the voters" that don't like Obama? The poll numbers don't show that at all, it shows his support at over 50% today. And it takes alot less than that to win the Presidency.

And as somebody else pointed out, the Republicans have the current lowest polling numbers of either Obama independently or the Democrats, and they have to figure out some Presidential candidate to run against Obama. And now is when those candidates usually start positioning themselves for a Presidential run - where is the GOP today? Confused, in Hawaii at a conference, trying to push through a "GOP Purity Pledge"

Poll numbers, obviously, change daily, weekly depending upon what is happening. Tomorrow, after the State of the Union tonight, they should be through the roof.