Does Barack Obama want to be re-elected in 2012?

My hunch is that he's got bigger plans - like messiah aka savior of the whole world.

The man in the Oval Office, argues Toby Harnden, may already be preparing for a role as a post-president in a post-American world:

Almost everything Obama does these days suggests that he doesn't care much about being re-elected. Strange as it might seem, perhaps he wants to be a one-term president.
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Obama does not suffer for self doubt. He has long seemed so convinced of his own virtue that to question his motives is illogical. Increasingly, his pronouncements carry the tone of one who believes those who disagree are stupid or bigoted.
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For Obama, the crowning moment of his presidency have been speeches abroad - the statement in Strasbourg that America had been "dismissive and arrogant", the address to the Muslim world from Cairo, the acceptance in Oslo of the Nobel Peace Prize.

In Berlin in 2008, Obama cast himself as a "citizen of the world". He has dismissed the bedrock notion of American exceptionalism by describing it, also in Strasbourg, as little more than narrow patriotism. Elite opinion among liberal Ivy League types - of which Obama is the embodiment - holds that we are already living in a post-American world.

Obama has already achieved his goal: to weaken America. The only thing that may tempt him to run in 2012 is if he thinks he can destroy it with four more years of debt and socialism. Actually his real goal was achieved when he won in 2008. He simply wanted the title. His arrogant narcissism is sophomorically idiotic and his vanity knows no bounds.