Perhaps he can save all of us a lot of grief by simply announcing the principles he will abandon in his quest for re-election.
Mark Landler, White House correspondent for The New York Times, writes that the Obama administration is now having to deal with the issue on the campaign trail and that events on the ground in Afghanistan could be one of several foreign policy issues that could present obstacles on Mr. Obama's quest for re-election.
"Obama has already signaled that in his quest for re-election he's more than willing to turn against his base in order to make a compromise with his adversaries," Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch, an advocacy group, said in an e-mail, responding to the rules delay.
Finally, in Warsaw, Mr Obama was due to tell Poland that, yes, it can punch above its weight.Mr Obama's trip to Europe was not unconnected with his own quest for re-election next year, if only by stirring the ancestral sensibilities of Americans of Irish and Polish descent.
Asked about appealing to married women concerned about terrorism, Mr. Kerry expressed concern that Mr. Bush would make his antiterror effort the overwhelming theme of his quest for re-election and said, "We have to convince America of my ability to be able to manage that as effectively, or more effectively, if possible".
By contrast -- and this is perhaps the contrast that counts most in trying to assess what Mr. Bush is trying to do -- his father did not begin to attack Mr. Clinton until the summer before he lost his quest for re-election.
will now run unopposed for his party's nomination in his quest for re-election to the state's 8th District.
When the real interviews took place, former President Richard Nixon had recently traumatized the country with his criminal behavior in a quest for re-election that led to his subsequent resignation in the face of possible impeachment.
New York City's Democratic power brokers moved swiftly on Wednesday to prevent a combative sequel to the party's primary for mayor, as union officials and party leaders rallied around the front-runner, Bill de Blasio, and urged the second-place finisher, William C. Thompson Jr., to end his quest for a runoff election.
Is there nothing sacred in a Congressperson's quest for a re-election sound bite?
