A Useful Bargaining Chip
I would leave this is as a comment on Big Lizards, but the comment software won’t let me.
Dafydd of Big Lizards predicts that Obama will not run for reelection, but will instead ‘trade up’ to General Secretary of the United Nations. In the first two comments, Steven Den Beste objects that “the SG of the UN can’t be from a veto power”, and Dafydd retorts “Any rule can be waived”. Not to give anyone any ideas, but I can see Obama offering to give up the veto power in return for the Secretary Generalship, or even just for the Hell of it.