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The braying ex-mayor claims a Democrat in the White House will mean more terror attacks, but he's just trying to hide from his own 9/11 mistakes.
  • Obviously

    It doesn't matter, in that convoluted and awkward sentence, what that "obviously" modifies, the verb "I think" or "be," though the word order certainly makes it seem that it's modifying the latter. It's a glancing point at best, and it's plausible that he meant he would obviously be president.