Did speculate several weeks ago that wouldn't surprise me if Obama had already lost interest in being president [if it was all about ego and image, of being lionized as the first black president and the money shot of liberal wet dreams everywhere, why now endure the slings and arrows of actually holding the office in difficult and uncertain times that can only serve to diminish that image?] and possibly contemplating with some relish the idea of either losing in 2012 or making a Johnson-like departure and then blaming his defeat/departure on backward thinking republicans and a political system too flawed and limiting for the great purpose he asked of it, only to be reborn on the world stage as the one thing he has any real interest in being: Cynosure of the left, celebrity incarnation of grand causes, giver of stirring speeches that vaguely promise much while accomplishing very little [but conveniently paying exceedingly well].
Sure enough, in recent interview he suggested he'd have no problem with being only a one term president. Given the sparse amount of info and observation that have fed my Obama conjectures I find myself a little shocked about how well I seem to have nailed him. Must mean I'm quite wrong, oddly gifted - or the failure of the press as a whole to subject the man to a proper regimen of dispassionate scepticism has created the false impression of some complex puzzle in need of explication.
