This doesn't make sense. If it could have been done sooner, why didn't Bush do it and take away "the Obama card"? As far as early campaigning, this year is nothing. I remember way back in October 2006 seeing Obama on TV with Oprah Winfree and thinking "Holy shit! We haven't even had the midterm elections yet and Obama is campaigning for President already." And it turns out I was right: Obama began informally campaigning over two years before the Presidential election of '08. At least this time we were able to get past the midterms.Quote from ElectricSavant:
by the way...It took 10 years for the assassination to take place...It's not that it could not be done...its that this was the Obama card being played (there is already campaigning talk starting even earlier than last time, Obama could not wait any longer). He held this card in his back pocket to get re-elected.