No, I don’t mean by growing a mullet. I mean by going one-and-done and quitting in 2012.

Somehow I missed this from Toby Harnden in The Telegraph:

When David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, wrote recently that his former boss was “not concerned with his re-election”, there was predictable scepticism.

After all, it has long been a truism that every politician wants to cling to power and a reality that presidential campaigns are planned years in advance. Pronouncements about not looking at polls and concentrating on getting things done are, moreover, standard fare from poll-driven, election-obsessed politicians and their apparatchiks.

In this case, however, Plouffe may inadvertently be onto something. 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.

Then there’s this delicious line: “There are few Americans who see themselves as bigger than the presidency but Obama could well be one of them.” Ha!

For the record, it’s hard for me to imagine a situation in which Obama wouldn’t run for reelection. He might be primaried…