Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (53699)	8/7/2012 12:22:44 AM
From: calgal	Respond to of 71588

The dozen or so diehards Obama trusted most rode his competitiveness to a historic victory in 2008. And they knew he would need that competitive fire even more in 2012... Obama's will to win everything he undertakes is not an element of his personality that he tends to emphasize. Biographers, led by Obama himself, were more enamored with his complexity, his commitment to elevating American politics. ... "It's why he played to win-and why so many of his top staffers were former high school and college jocks, guys-and they were, after all this time, mostly men-who'd start a fifteen-hour day with a ninety-minute run. 'He's the single most competitive man I've ever met,' Robert Gibbs, his first press secretary, told me, adding: 'What's the one thing Barack Obama hates more than losing? Losing twice.' Obama's "genuine disdain" for Romney, the book suggests, is helping to motivate the president's drive to win this year's presidential contest.