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Amazing.  "The One" hasn't even been president for seven months and already the Left is talking about a primary challenge in 2012.  According to Rasmussen Reports:

Leading liberals are already thinking the unthinkable: Challenging President Obama for the Democratic nomination in 2012.

According to a report on the left-leaning Huffington Post website, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann and Eugene Robinson, an African-American national columnist for The Washington Post, discussed just such a possibility Thursday night. Robinson said Obama needs to be careful how he handles the health care reform issue and the continuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Olbermann said the president has "compromised on everything so far and as self-defeating as it may be, the progressive caucus and progressives would abandon him if necessary, if this was to be the policy of this administration into 2012. If it's necessary to find somebody to run against him, I think they'd do it, no matter how destructive that may seem."

Politics might just get more interesting, if that's possible!

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Huckapedia| 9.5.09 @ 12:59PM

Mike Huckabee's fan base continues to expand at a phenomenal pace.

Ronald Reagan made a comeback win from a 2nd place finish in 1976 to a stunning landslide victory in 1980.

Mike Huckabee is on his way for another America historic comeback win too in 2012.

Huckabee's Fan base network covers 50 States, 390 Counties and 12 Nations. It's expanding 24/7.

Check it out at: HuckabeeFanClub.com

Or google: Huckabee Fan Club

Mary Louise| 9.5.09 @ 1:54PM

If Obama continues the slide he's on, look for Bill Clinton's phoenix to rise.

Whatever you want to say about Bill, he was a smart guy and he was an American Child with all the promise and freedom for infamy that that holds.

When he sat down with his Cabinet he told them, look boys, we're Eisenhower Republicans now.

I don't think Obama has the intelligence or the character to think such thoughts. He's the "leader" of a number of like-minded and dogmatic men. Good leadership begins with thought and produces character, not the other way 'round.

But would I love to see a fracas like this? You betcha!

Oldefarte| 9.5.09 @ 2:07PM

Amazing----middle America is rebelling against Obama's liberalsim and Olbermann predicts a more liberal Democratic candidate. WHAT A MORON [MSNBC must be so proud]!!!!

SLA| 9.5.09 @ 7:27PM

I agree with Huckapedia. Huck is in good position to take on Obama in 2012 and win!

tonypal| 9.5.09 @ 7:57PM

Huckabee was as responsible as anyone for giving Obama the single greatest gift of his campaign, an opponent named John McCain. Even after Huckabee's campaign was dead in the water, he stuck around just long enough to siphon votes that would have gone to Mitt Romney.

Now I'm not saying that Romney would have beaten Obama, but one can only imagine how Romney would have manhandled Obama on the economic issues, particularly during the debates. So I say good riddance to the Huckster. He should just stay the hell out of the way.

Janie| 10.23.09 @ 12:45AM

Amen! Huckabee not only gave us McCain but he delivered Obama the worse President in the history of our country. Romney would have had this economy huming by now.

Mark| 9.5.09 @ 10:00PM

If Obama continues to propogate chaos and widen the gap between ideologies the way he has so far, a kumquat could beat him in 2010.

tj| 9.5.09 @ 11:22PM

so much rush to judgement regarding obama on this page. "the left will take him on in a 2012 primary, mike huckabee is rising," blah blah blah. risng yeah as the bass replacement if the who go on tour again. the reality is obama needs to make adjustments. get clear on health care, learn from the lessons that you simply cant delineate authority to a congress that cares 1st about their own jobs and positions within their own party.

in 7 months obama has become a guy without birth certificate who like socialism and resembles hitler. this is only borne out of the anger that republicans built during the campaign when obama was the media darling.. the internet has not only sped up the ability to get out a campaign message as obama proved in 2008, it's allowed anger without focus to spread at the same pace. if obama used the vineyard to take real stock of how he can improve, he'll be fine. no matter how well mike huckabee plays bass. now matter how quickly huckabee politicized ted kennedy's death.
class act move mike. real graceful. now matter how much the gop and its supporters would rather see obama fail at the cost of the country worsening, just to regain the white house.
further, the parents who wont let their kids hear obamas speech to school kids out of fear that obama is brainwashing them should spend the day instead explaining to the kids why they bought houses they couldnt afford, and voted in a guy twice who said "mission accomplished" in a war whose cost now totals 900 billion dollars. far from experts on the matter, and too angry to realize that the partisan leanings that made them blind to economics for 8 years dont give them the right to walk around pretending to be nouriel roubini and paul krugman now.

SkipM.| 9.6.09 @ 1:29AM

I agree Huckabee should stay the hell out of this next one. Huckabee gave us McCain who had zero chance of beating Maobama with or without Sarah Palin. He's a guy with some really wishy-washy stances for all that he's trying play the tough minded conservative...Check out his TV show on Fox...Pure milktoast.

fred s| 9.6.09 @ 8:54AM

my children have permission to get up and leave the room if they play his speech in school.

Volt| 9.6.09 @ 10:35AM

Hey, " U " Before you get too involved in Bush Bashing, think about this. Maybe Bush paved the way for Obama's Socialism? Bush was " Socialism Light " . Patriot Act, Wiretapping, Tariffs, and Record Spending at the time. These things in the hands of a Commie like Obama, become tools to get his " Revolution " done.
BUSHBAMA?

Shoshanna| 9.6.09 @ 3:41PM

Anyone who actually believes that Obama's re-election bid will be challenged from the left would also no doubt be receptive to an approach from someone offering to sell him the Brooklyn Bridge…

Now that the Marxist emperor's agenda has been fully exposed, and he's left standing before us bare beamed and buck naked, this is nothing more than a desperate, laughably clumsy, ham-handed, and utterly inept attempt to re-cloak him in long-since shredded garments of the fictional, "post-partisan", "post-racial", "unifier" he once claimed to be.

It's true that the phenomenal contempt in which the far left holds the American people is not entirely unjustified-- God knows it proved to be a simple enough matter to bamboozle vast numbers of them into completely ignoring everything Obama was actually SAYING, and convince them that his appearance alone was all the reason they needed to give him their votes.

And it can certainly be argued that the enormous, unthinking herd of Shropshire sheep who bleated happily down this path got exactly what it deserved. But in the months he has been in office, Obama has become so blatant, so arrogant, so egomaniacally determined to break land speed records in achieving his goal of completely dismantling the United States and destroying both the freedom and economic opportunity that made it great, that now, even the sheep are beginning to take notice-- and to become very, very afraid.

The far left has no intention of challenging Obama-- he's the best chance they've ever had (or are ever likely to have) for bringing about their long-dreamt of "better America", in which communism replaces democracy and the theoretical paradise they've worshipped on paper finally becomes reality.

(After all, look how wonderfully it's worked everywhere else it's been tried!)

But the gradually waking sheep have the leftists a bit alarmed. They're resisting being herded! They're refusing to be sheared! And when push comes to shove, they might even refuse to be slaughtered!

So, what better way to return them to their safely somnolent state of unquestioning acceptance than to assure them that their shepherd, far from being about to walk them off a cliff on the left side of the mountain, is instead being too careful, too prudent, too… CONSERVATIVE… in his choice of paths? The hope being that, once falsely convinced that the shepherd has only their best interests at heart, they'll willingly allow themselves to be directed straight into the abattoir.

It’s a crude ploy, whose almost embarrassing lack of finesse is typical of what we’ve seen from the Obama camp, and if there’s anyone out there who is buying into it, please contact me about a bridge I'd like to sell you. Granted, it’s over 125 years old, but it’s got great lines, lights up like a million bucks, still has some life in it, and I can let you have it cheap…

Red Phillips| 9.7.09 @ 10:00AM

This just proves that Olbermann only talks to people who think like he does. A challenge to Obama from the left would be great. I think a challenge to Obama from the right within the Democrat primary would be great as well. I'm pushing Traficant for that role.

I think this sort of radicalization of our politics is a good thing. American politics is, despite the talk of polarization, actually tightly centrist. A challenge to Obama from the left opens up more room on the right for radicalism, you know that crazy idea that we should follow the Constitution as originally intended.

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