[AlexdeLarge]

H. J. Res. 5

Proposing 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.

Change you can believe In! Obama...... El Presidente for life !

[vtsnowedin]

While they are at it why not remove the "Natural born citizen" requirement so ARhhhnoold has a chance.

[pedalling_faster]

H. J. Res. 5

Proposing 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.

Change you can believe In! Obama...... El Presidente for life !

as long as he doesn't start wearing his pants down around his knees.



if he had sons instead of daughters ... and we had a rebellious young person in the White House ... the gangster look in the Rose Garden ?!

for that matter, why can't young women wear their pants down around their knees, in public ?

i was just out running an errand and saw a young Hispanic guy with all the tats and the pants-around-the-knees look. got me thinking.

[Tyler_JC]

I never liked the 22nd amendment.

If the founding fathers thought that a President taking more than two terms would be an abuse of power, they would have written it into the constitution in the first place. The practice of taking accepting only two terms in office was only violated once, by FDR in 1940 and 1944. He won both elections by a landslide. People liked him.

If a President manages to stay popular throughout his entire 8 year career, it must mean he is doing something right, no?

Eisenhower was a competent leader and deserved a third term...he didn't get one thanks to the 22nd amendment.

Bush was incompetent and didn't deserve either his first or his second term. But he would never have won re-election after his disastrous second term.

The American people should have the freedom to keep the winners like Eisenhower and ditch the losers like Bush.

[RdSnt]

H. J. Res. 5

Proposing 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.

[i]Change you can believe In! Obama...... El Presidente for life ! [/i

So what you are proposing, given the type of system you have, is to establish a monarchy. Crown a king and establish an inherent right to rule by a royal family. You're pretty close to that already given the length of term many of your politicians have and the number of families that are seen as "rightful" members of both Houses.
Or perhaps you're just looking for a "strong, decisive" leader? Someone like Hitler or Mussolini?

[smallpoxgirl]

The Supreme Court just unilaterally invalidated the fourth amendment. Really the whole thing is becoming farcical. We should just admit we're a totalitarianism and get it out of the way. This slow crumbling business is becoming tiresome.

[wisconsin_cur]

I never liked the 22nd amendment.

If the founding fathers thought that a President taking more than two terms would be an abuse of power, they would have written it into the constitution in the first place. The practice of taking accepting only two terms in office was only violated once, by FDR in 1940 and 1944. He won both elections by a landslide. People liked him.

If a President manages to stay popular throughout his entire 8 year career, it must mean he is doing something right, no?

He locked up 110,000 Americans and legal aliens because of the shape of their eyes.

I do not care how much a person is liked. the longer someone stays around the more people you have who have never known anything but the great leader. If tradition is not enough to keep presidents from seeking a third term, than we need the 22nd Amendment.

[NoahsDove]

Democrats have some bizarre notions about FDR as some sort of a savior, but it was because of FDR that America was in a Depression as long as it had. It was only after FDR died that America was able to get out of it's Depression. Most Americans have no real understanding of their own history.

[Plantagenet]

Changes to Venezuela constitution could keep Hugo Chavez in power ... - Jan 14, 2009
Venezuela's Government has approved amendments to the electoral charter to allow President Hugo Chavez to run for re-election indefinitely, in a move that ...

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Changes to American constitution could keep Barack Obama in power ... - Jan 16, 2009
A proposed amendment to the American Constitution would allow President Barack Obama to run for re-election indefinitely, in a move that ...


Coincidence? I think not.

[RdSnt]

The American hysteria over Obama is really getting out of hand.
The man has accomplished absolutely nothing in government yet and the US is treating him like the second coming. The level of disappointment is going to be huge, and we know what happened the first time a saviour disappointed his followers.

[mattduke]

Coronation of George IV

[vision-master]

The American hysteria over Obama is really getting out of hand.
The man has accomplished absolutely nothing in government yet and the US is treating him like the second coming. The level of disappointment is going to be huge, and we know what happened the first time a saviour disappointed his followers.

He's just the 'black' puppet for the Illuminati.

As the light gets brighter the dirt shows more.

[Tyler_JC]

And if you think Obama is doing a bad job in 2016, vote for his opponent.



As for the Japanese internment during world war two, that was a serious violation of civil rights but was not directly linked to FDR's third term.

If Wendell Willkie had won the election in 1940, who knows how he would have handled the war and its domestic impacts. He might have felt that interning the Japanese was a good idea.

[wisconsin_cur]

And if you think Obama is doing a bad job in 2016, vote for his opponent.



As for the Japanese internment during world war two, that was a serious violation of civil rights but was not directly linked to FDR's third term.

If Wendell Willkie had won the election in 1940, who knows how he would have handled the war and its domestic impacts. He might have felt that interning the Japanese was a good idea.

and he might have rounded up old women and shot them in the street. Might of is not an argument. Who would the dems have put up if FDR had followed tradition and not sought a third term?

After FDR somber minds came together and said, "We need to make an amendment to the constitution to make sure this does not happen again." It first applied to Eisenhower which, although I am not familar with the details of how the amendment was passed, means that it got a lot of Democratic support. Even FDR's biggest fans, his own party, got on board. They all looked back and said, "We got out of this ok but it is a bad precedent and the power of the presidency needs to be restricted by restricting the office holder to two terms.

And I agree with them.

[RdSnt]

That should hold to for all elected politicians, at least a "drying out" period.
No one has any business being in elected office for 20, 30 and 40 plus years.