Attention all B0bots – break your piggy banks now!

You didn’t really think that all the speechifying around the country was for healthcare, jobs bill or some other public policy? \

Nah, Obama is doing what he does best, campaigning for himself. Really.

Obama 2012 operation is already buzzing in Chicago

The planning for now consists entirely of private conversations, with Obama aides at all levels indulging occasionally in closed-door 2012 discussions while focusing ferociously on the midterm elections and health care reform, the Democratic sources said.

That explains the last push for healthcare, see?

On update, it was noted by others as well

, Obama would manage to betray many politically vulnerable members of his own party, proving himself a party leader of exceptional selfishness. Because the legacy of his presidency is at stake, or because of his pride, or because he is ideologically committed to an expanded public role in health care, Obama is pressuring Democratic members to join a suicide pact. When a president doesn’t care about his party, his party eventually ceases to care about him.

And all the henchmen are lined up and they even think they’ll have the benefit of

the large machine he has built at the DNC, including Organizing for America, the successor to his campaign grassroots operation.

OFA is now a DNC project with staff in all 50 states, and has worked to keep Obama’s army active through engagement on health care and other issues.

You know, the f*ing retards

Interestingly, the article is justifying this early campaining by comparing him to his predecessors, but it turns out

President Bill Clinton opened his second presidential campaign in the March after his first midterm congressional elections, and President George W. Bush opened Bush-Cheney ’04 a month later in the political cycle.

In other words, over a year later. But then again, it’s not like Obama has anything better to do with his time. Governing? What governing? It’s campaigning time, baby! (you didn’t take seriously that

“I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president”

thinghy, did you? Because if it meant anything, he would maybe concentrate on that one term now..

The only thing left to do now is find a theme

The themes for Obama’s campaign are not yet chosen, but a top adviser said not to expect a radical surprise: “He knows who he is.

We know “change” is out as right now “reform is the new change”

Obama’s all set to unveil a new election-year strategy, one of “reform,” which from now on is different from “change.” Politico’s reporting that the scaled-back language “represents a downsizing from the heady days just a year ago when he hoped to rack up legislative achievements of a scope not seen since the Great Society triumphs of President Lyndon Johnson.”

Me thinks the whole race baiting will be a bit harder to use now. As well as the skinny kid with a funny name of a single mother. Or the outsider coming to clean Washington. But they’ll think of something. After all, a recent headline about his healthcare bill captures Obama perfectly

Obama health ‘plan’ too vague to analyze

Or as his handlers say: he knows who he is: whomever you want him to be

See for instance his attitude towards Wall Street

President Obama has sought to strike a balance, calling outsize Wall Street bonuses “shameful” and “obscene” while also assuring business executives that he does not “begrudge people success or wealth.”

We’ll have to see if the blank slate works the second time around

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