Tim Pawlenty's presidential exploratory committee seems to have been ready for the official start of President Obama's reelection campaign.
Just as the Democrats filed papers with the Federal Election Commission Monday, the former Minnesota governor launched an Internet video that asks the question, "How can America win the future when we're losing the present?"
Cue up the Hollywood music, along with an ominous thunder clap that seems to strike the White House with biblical lightning.
"In order for America to take a new direction," Pawlenty says in the video, "it's going to take a new president."
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