See, I agree it would be both silly and insane for 0bama to run for a 3rd term.
But.
His point, as well as many here on FR, suggests that there is nothing that will stop him.
It would be laughable, and the media and the democrats and the republicans would just ignore him and brush him aside as a nut case, not to mention the much more serious and concrete barriers of law and institutions.
Your step father sounds like a goofy nut case, and yes, they do exist in the military.