Re-Elect Obama?

So the anointed one has announced his candidacy for a second term, some 20 months in advance of the election. Like anyone doubted he wouldn't run again.

I suspect the early start is to allow him to vacuum up all the easily available donations well in advance of someone else announcing and forcing him into an expensive and possibly embarrassing primary fight.

Watch the donation amounts in the coming months and see if they seem a bit low, as donors hedge their bets and keep some or even most of it back until the landscape becomes a bit clearer.

The scriptwriter for Mad Magazine, lurking inside me sees Hillary announcing her resignation as Secretary of State later this year, and her plane crashing while carrying her on one last assignment, apparently due to a bomb on board which explodes over the middle of the Pacific, where the wreckage will never be recovered. The smile on Obamas face while he delivers the eulogy is a dead giveaway.