Last sentence: "Does the man who pretended to be president now pretend to be a candidate?"

I don't know. There's so many ways to look at what's happening. Maybe 0buzzard has decided that there's more money to be made in the private sector --speaking gigs, etc.; more time to play golf and hoops, and really has decided to get out.

On the other hand, he's an angry quasi-black man who came with a mission: Destroy a White Man's Nation, and he's still got a lot of work to do.

Maybe Michelle is on his case; maybe she's the one who wants to go on the speech and party circuit. Has anybody looked at her popularity numbers? She's about wore her welcome out with a lot of people. Obviously, she's not a worker, just like he isn't a worker. Beating up on a bunch of kids in a school room really isn't work.

Well, one strategy might be to refuse to debate a "known liar" or perhaps claim a groin injury.

Sonny Liston earned the right to be where he was. Obama, on the other hand...

This article reminds me something that was discussed at a management seminar I attended about 25 years ago.

There are two types of quitting: (1) quit and go and (2) quit and stay. #2 is the worse to deal with. They hang around and do litting to nothing useful.

I think we have a #2 on our hands.

Neither Biden or the switcheroo with Hillary are viable options at this point. The DemocRAT party is hoist by their own petard via the affirmative action president.

@#4: Bill Clinton fits right into your #2 category....

I think Mr. Obama and his family want to go to Hawaii.
But what about the power behind the throne? Those who placed him at the top will not like having their strings cut, and he will have to face them. He's in trouble.

There are two distinct but interdependent abilities involved here. One is to gather together data - facts, figures, ideas and convert them into information. Information cannot be force fed from outside. The second stage is to possess nimbleness of mind and brain to use the information - as much and as needed to put out arguments, points, conclusions.
In both these areas Romney is orders of magnitude Zippy's superior. 0bama has directly revealed himself to be an intellectually lazy, dumb ****** (put in your favorite swear word) who is no patch on his opponent. They can have three debates or three dozen. The outcome wil be essentially the same.

Nice link to the fight video. What struck me as I watched it was how Clay kept his hands low, inviting Liston to lunge at him, and when Liston lunged, off balance, Clay popped him. Just like Romney's Big Bird line.

Romney dangled Big Bird out there, and for the next week Obama was all over it. And once Obama started harping about Big Bird, Romney points out that with all that is going wrong, all Obama can talk about is Big Bird. Man, Obama took the bait, the hook, the line, the reel, the rod, the boat, and the trailer Romney hauled it in on. Sweet.

As per No. 10's comment - I remember during the run up to the '08 election having a political discussion with a nurse about socialized medicine. Like many in her profession, I assumed that she was against it. She surprised me by saying that she thought America needed a good dose of reality with BO in charge. She said before it is all over, this country would reject him & his ilk so soundly, that his plans for Obamacare & other radical social programs would be swept out of office with him. She felt that he was an "innoculation" against the fatal kool-aid that so many social progressives were clamoring to swallow in '08.

Interesting use of Ali-Liston. Many thought Liston took a dive in the rematch. Ali knocked Liston out in the first round with what has become known as the phantom punch.

It was shown later when the tape was broken down frame by frame that Liston got hit with a perfect punch flush on the jaw and crumbled. That's my hope for the 2nd Debate. Not a punch, an unexpected question for Obama that he can't answer and Romney zings him on. Something on late term abortion would work.

Another great one by "Monty." As a fan of the sweet science whose closest friend was a Golden Gloves boxer who came within one opponent (the stone-fisted, hard-headed Clint Jackson, FYI) of making it to the 1976 Olympics, I appreciate the pugilistic theme, which is most appropriate under these circumstances.

Repeatedly (and ironically) Obama has utilized the phrase "punch(ing) above his (their) weight," as if this lightweight glass-jawed weinerdog with the heavyweight voicebox had any idea what it means to enter the ring with 8 ounce gloves and beat someone else's brains out.

I agree with the essayist that Obama won't quit. There's too much at stake for the Left for the vanquished One to remain squatting on his corner stool while Romney dances around the ring, gloves raised above his head, exclaiming, "I'm a bad man!"

But the heart has gone out of Obama, who knows that he's met his match, that his phony résumé, inflated like the Hindenburg, is a bunch of hooey, that his record of achievement in office is deplorable, and that every sentient human being knows that he never belonged in any political office in the first place. Thus does the illusion meet the meat grinder of reality. I'll take mine rare: Pittsburgh style.

(In this essay there are also links to the Clay-Liston fight in 1964, as well as the Ali-Liston rematch in 1965. Boxing fans, enjoy.)

ZeroKing has to get the Agenda 21 treaties passed in the Senate.