Who would really want this job for more than one term?” [Pres. Obama] Then added: “But I have to run now, otherwise it’ll mean letting someone like Mitt Romney step in and get credit for the good stuff that happens after we’ve been through all this crap.
Around Thanksgiving, when [economic] frustrations were piling up, Mr. Alter reports, the president said to an old friend.
from NYTimes via Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter’s new Obama book “The Promise”
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