Posted on 01/17/2009 5:12:22 AM PST by kellynla
As Inauguration Day approaches and Barack Obama prepares to assume his first term as president, some in Congress are hoping to make it possible for the Democrat to not only seek a second term in office, but a third and fourth as well.
The U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary is considering a bill that would repeal the Constitution's 22nd Amendment prohibiting a president from being elected to more than two terms in office.
Rep. Jose Serrano, D-N.Y., earlier this month introduced the bill, H. J. Res. 5, which, according to the bill's language, proposes "an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President."
In the past, some presidents have been critical of the 22nd Amendment, including Eisenhower, Clinton and Reagan.
In 1807 Thomas Jefferson, however, warned that presidents not bound by term limits could use their popularity and power to become kings.
"If some termination to the services of the chief magistrate be not fixed by the Constitution or supplied in practice," Jefferson wrote to the Legislature of Vermont, "his office, nominally for years, will in fact become for life; and history shows how easily that degenerates into an inheritance."
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Not necessary - he’ll destroy the country in just 2 terms.
Unbelievable. And people ask why i want to move out of America. These people are treasonous. They want to throw away history. Please take out the 16th Amendment while you are at it.
1 term.
Let’s not just stop there. Why not President for Life. Yeah, just like SCOTUS. Wouldn’t even have to have elections either. The present Prez could just appoints himself and “bingo” you have an instant dictator. Amazing how things just work out.
Where would you go?
True enough, but the idiot electorate will re-elect him.
Their attention span isn’t long enough.
;-)
“1 term.”
I agree. Obama is a celebrity passion like Paris Hilton. At the rate the press is cramming him down the public’s throat, it will be sick of him by the end of this year.
But! But! I think this person clearly understands the future:
http://tinyurl.com/7r4xgz
It all doesn’t matter, there is no way the end of our world as we know it, is not near.
Already have it planned out. I am getting a very big boat and going to live in the med, or caribbean. I probably will never set foot in America after that. I am moving all my money out of the country. I earned it, they taxed it, it is mine. Ill be damned if they are going to take my money after all i have sacrificed and toiled for in this life, just to piss it away on the high life.
Whenever Americans figure out that we need significant numbers to take control of our government, I will come back and help out. Right now 53% of Americans are out of their minds, and another 25% are too apathetic to do anything.
Americans have sold themselves into slavery.
Americans have little patience and are not easily impressed. This fraud and liar is doomed to fail as a Messiah. He can't pull it off. It won't take people very long to figure it out after he fumbles and screws around with things until everything is totally dysfunctional.
Like all "ivory tower" theorists, Obama does not know how the real world works and we are about to watch an enormous train wreck as he tries to put square pegs in round holes.
Obama is the Second Lieutenant know-it-all who gets his men killed when he tries to lead troops in battle and does not have a clue.
All Hail King Obama: President For Life
That would never work with the 15 minute span attention of most Americans.
Come June of this year tell me how happy the poeple are with barack Obama.
The media and his own campaign set unrealistic expectations for any human beng to carry out. Even in good times and better circumstances.
Already his (Obamas) staff are trying to tone down the expectations but the media in typical meida feeeding frenzy mode will not let up.
Come June 2009 when things are no better and possibly worse for most citizens, the shine will start come off the new star. Obamas support amongst tho fringe was wide spread. Each little group will be waiting for Obama to perform the one little miracle that would elevate that particular group. As he fails to do these things the fringes will be the first to react and start clamoring and whining and protesting.
I was thinking that the Bush Derangement Syndrome that the press drove to the mountasin top would never be exceeding by anything.
I have a feeling that the Obama hatred that could end up comiong from the extremes of the left may at some point exceed BDS.
After all they simply hated Bush from day one because he was not one of them. They truly believe that Obama IS one of them and as the saying goes,hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.............
This MUST NOT happen....USA are more important than OSSBAMA...
Let me tell you about Serrano’s constitutes.They were
busy rushing to the bodega to play flt 1549 in the pick four
on Thursday. The number sold out in New York state in a
half-hour of the landing!
I wouldnt worry about it too much, by the end of his first term he will have screwed this up so badly, we will be begging for a new President.
Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if Obama seved over 2 terms, IF he were an AMERICAN!
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