Please stop using the phrase "lame duck". Obama is not one.

[Shanti Mama]

Are we trying to create a self-fulfilling prophesy?

From Wikipedia: A lame duck is an elected official who is approaching the end of his or her tenure, and especially an official whose successor has already been elected.

The status can be due to

* having lost a re-election bid
* choosing not to seek another term at the expiration of the current term
* a term limit which keeps the official from running for that particular office again
* the abolishment of the office, which must nonetheless be served out until the end of the official's term.<1>

Lame duck officials tend to have less political power, as other elected officials are less inclined to cooperate with them.

[sharp_stick]

1. The Lame Duck is the current Congress

not Obama

[Shanti Mama]

3. I stand corrected. Sorry.

But I think some are confused about this (not just me).

[sharp_stick]

4. A lot of media stories

are doing everything they can to connect Obama to the current congress and that pretty much gives him lame duck status by association in their eyes.

It will die down soon enough when they remember that there won't be a Presidential election until 2012.

[Ozymanithrax]

2. A Lame Duck session of congress is that session between...

the midterm election and the swearing in of the next congress.

[Bitwit1234]

5. I don't know from every thing being said I surmise everyone

thinks Obama is a dead duck.

[impik]

6. Actually, his appearance since yesterday suggest that he is. He looks beaten

and just want these two years to be over.