Obama, the realist

OBAMA, THE REALIST: The president has acknowledged that he may be a one-term president in an interview with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer in Iowa. Seems like a non-story at first, until you get to the quotes. "The mess has been bigger than a lot of people anticipated at the time. We have made steady progress on these fronts, but we’re not making progress fast enough. What I continue to believe is that ultimately the buck stops with me. I’m going to be accountable." That's Politico's grand acknowledgment. A realist, and certainly not a socialist; he agreed with Romney's comments that free enterprise has been the biggest wealth creator we've ever seen. One of the more amusing quotes concerns Rick Perry's misguided comments on Ben Bernanke. "I think that everybody who runs for president, it probably takes them a little bit of time before they start realizing that this isn’t like running for governor, or running for senator, or running for Congress. And you’ve got to be a little more careful about what you say." The truly concerning element of all this is that Perry may not need his advice.