President-elect Barack Obama made the first big announcement following his historic victory last night by naming Midas Jones as his campaign manager for his re-election bid in 2012.  Obama said he expects to spend quite a bit of time on the stump, raising funds and mobilizing the base for his historic re-election.
 
“We have a chance to reach out and make a real difference,” Obama told a stunned crowd.  “I have a lot of experience campaigning, and I don’t plan on letting it get out of date.  And I’m not going to let this historic chance for re-election slip away from me!”
 
A source close to Obama said that the president-elect enjoyed the grueling, two-year campaign, and that “he’s never had this much fun in his life.  In addition to crushing Hillary Clinton, he got to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on his favorite project: himself.”
 
Obama told his supporters not to despair.  “If something comes up in Washington that I’m needed for, I’ll be there in a heartbeat.  But I trust Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to continue to provide us the leadership they’ve shown the past two years.”
 
Joe Biden also jumped in to help, telling reporters that “we’re better off without Barack having his finger on the button, because he’s still cheesed off at Pennsylvania and might nuke them.”
 
The Obama campaign later notified reporters that Biden would not be available for comment until 2013.

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