CONTROL YOUR EXCITEMENT – AT 10:05 P.M. ET:  I know how much all of us anticipate having Barack Obama for another four years.  Oh, the progress, the vision, the intellect, the...fill in your own depressing thoughts.  Now, apparently, the anointed one will announce this week that, after much thought and prayer, he is willing to sacrifice four more years to the undeserving and unworthy American peope.  From The Politico:

President Barack Obama plans to announce his reelection campaign early next week in an electronic message to grass-roots supporters, Democratic sources tell POLITICO.

Obama launches with a recovering economy and a weak, fractured Republican field, but with chaos in the Middle East that adds unpredictability to an environment that points to likely reelection. Obama’s campaign, which could raise $1 billion or more, will be based in Chicago, just a few blocks from the headquarters of his historic 2008 race.

The most likely day for the campaign to file registration papers with the Federal Election Commission is Monday, but officials are not committing to a specific date in case some transcendent event in the world would overshadow the kickoff. Obama aides want to tell their supporters first, and so are not encouraging preview stories by the press.

The president’s announcement will be transmitted directly to supporters through text messages, email and social media, not with an appearance by Obama, the sources said.

Yeah, man, we want to be cool, right, man?

The launch could come any time, according to the sources. The website is ready, the donation button has been tested, and call sheets to key political supporters are set.

COMMENT:  It was clear during the midterm campaign, concluded in November, that Obama's base has lost a great deal of enthusiam.  But it can be fired up again by painting the opposition as monsters intent on ripping children from their parents and dismantling the Constitution.  Coming soon to a press release near you.

And let us not forget that the media will be even more in the tank for Obama than it was in 2008.  It has an investment in this inept man, and doesn't want that investment challenged or lost.  Obama is their 1960s dream, the culmination of a lifetime of leftist fantasy.  People love their fantasies.

April 2, 2011