Obama to Close Political Office and Start 2012 Campaign

[Scurrilous]

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"President Obama will close the office of political affairs at the White House, aides said, restructuring his organization to prepare for his re-election campaign, which is to start building a fund-raising and grassroots operation based in Chicago by late March.

Mr. Obama has signed off on the plan to set up his campaign headquarters away from Washington, a first for a modern-day presidential re-election campaign. To avoid turf battles, chaotic communications and duplicated efforts, aides said, a significant realignment is underway in the West Wing, with the duties of the political office being taken up by the Democratic National Committee.

The president intends to formally declare his candidacy in about two months by filing papers with the Federal Election Commission, aides said. That step would allow him to start raising money and hiring a team of advisers, whose job it would be to make him the second Democrat since Franklin Delano Roosevelt to be elected twice to the White House.

While Mr. Obama is not expected to begin engaging in day-to-day campaign activity and attending fund-raisers until late spring or summer, advisers said, he has settled on the leadership for his re-election effort. The top three officials he has chosen all held important positions in his 2008 campaign, but have been elevated for 2012."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/us/politics/21obama.html

[MineralMan]

1. So much for those who said he wouldn't run.

[Laelth]

7. I think it's been clear he would run since his first day in office.

As I explained here: http://laelth.blogspot.com/2010/12/kissing-butt-and-taking-names-obamas.html

-Laelth

[MineralMan]

14. Wow! How could I have missed your blog?

Apparently a lot of people missed it, since many have predicted that President Obama wouldn't even run for a second term. Maybe you missed those predictions, just like I missed yours, eh?

[somone]

2. What's the new campaign slogan?

[Scurrilous]

3. TBA?

[Taverner]

4. "Don't vote for the crazy woman with the gun!"

Sounds good to me

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

5. Hope. Same.

[katnapped]

6. "Republicans Suck More" ?

"It'll Be Worse If They're In Office" ?

Dunno

[Statistical]

11. "I am (slightly) to the left of the grifter from up north"?

[Earth_First]

13. SSDD n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. EGADS

"That step would allow him to start raising money and hiring a team of advisers, whose job it would be to make him the second Democrat since Franklin Delano Roosevelt to be elected twice to the White House."

Sombody please kindly remind the NYT that Trumman was elected twice...

So was Clinton...

Or were they Republican and I did not know?

Now the rest.

Kennedy got shot.

LBJ refused to run

And Carter, well the Hostage crisis ain't gonna help.

LOUSY REPORTING.

[lefairhill06]

9. Second Term

If memory serves, Harry Truman became President for the first
time following FDR's death in April of 1945.  He ran and was
elected (once) as President in 1948; Eisenhower became
President in 1952.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. And what about Clinton?

Elected in 1992 AND 1996...

AGAIN somebody CLUE the NYT... JAYSUS.

[Statistical]

12. More reading & less ranting.

"make him the second Democrat since Franklin Delano Roosevelt to be elected twice to the White House"

Roosevelt - elected twice
Clinton - first Democrat since Roosevelt to be elected twice
Obama - potentially the second Democrat since Roosevelt to be elected twice.