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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
So... she wants to run in 2012, but needs three years to study? If this is the best they can come up with, the GOP is in big trouble. My guess is a better candidate comes out of the woodwork in the next 12 months.
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Mike Huckabee said he won't rule out running next time. I have always been impressed by him personally even though I don't share many of his personal beliefs. He'll be 57 years old in 2012.
It will all boil down to whether Obama can start producing results rather than talking about them and whether the pragmatic concerns of leading the world's only superpower causes his supporters to become jaded.
I don't think that there is a solution to the Guantanamo prisoner problem for instance. He's promised to close the prison there but he can't release those men as they are too dangerous. The source of much of the evidence against them combined with how long they have been held without trial means there is no civil court that would convict them. So, does he make the argument that they are prisoners of war and as the War on Terror is not over, they can be held indefinately? How long before that affects Obama's image? Could he survive as President if he releases them only to have one of them commit an act of terror against Americans?