Obama is skipping the election and proceeding at full speed to the turkey pardons and state dinners.
Last year, Obama was on a bus in Iowa, his future uncertain. This week, he's getting chauffeured by the King of Jordan and saying he expects to be on the global stage for the next decade. Team Obama says he's not getting ahead of himself. Still, the Republican National Committee's "Audacity Watch" tweaks Obama for the following:
Obama said he wanted to meet world leaders "who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to 10 years."
An Obama foreign policy adviser cited White House rules Tuesday when asking to be off the record during a media briefing. Reporters retorted: Obama isn't the President.
Team Obama initially looked at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate for a major speech today - a site that President John F. Kennedy famously visited and where President Ronald Reagan spoke. The German chancellor suggested that was inappropriate.
Alex Conant, an RNC spokesman, quipped, "At this rate, it's only a matter of days before he opens his presidential library."
This air of inevitability is remarkably similar to that exhibited by a recent foe of the junior senator from Illinois, but so quickly he and his allies forget what sunk the Clinton campaign.
