| Author | Message | ||
     Whisperstealth |
http://news.yahoo.com/presidential-term-limits--ne cessary-and-right--or-bad-for-democracy-192726518. html I mean why bother with term limits. It's not like the voting machines can be rigged or anything.... I've been saying in threads for years now that Obama will do anything to stay in office past his two terms. This is just part of that plan IMO. Start getting the public used to the idea. | ||
| Xdigitalx |
LOL....over 35k comments... people are talking about it. | ||
| Swampy |
I thought George The II was going to become supreme ruler after 9/11 I didn't think it was going to get worse... | ||
| Aesquire |
Don't forget the fears that Bill Clinton would never step down. Of course, Barack Obama is no Bill Clinton. Ask Bill. He'll tell you. I have a slight objection to one of the authors comments, he thinks it's because Barack is a lame duck that the Congress doesn't cooperate with him on his policies. Wrong. It's because the racist obstructionists won't give him what he wants. And that's just the Democrats. The R's object because his policies are for permanent D rule. At least some of the R's object. Not the Country Club types. They're too busy figuring out whose turn it is to lose in 2016. For how well America does with no term limits, I suggest the Movie "Watchmen" with Nixon serving his 5th term. Alas, we have no superheroes to save us. (Message edited by aesquire on December 01, 2013) | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/365137/polit ics-not-soap-opera-andrew-c-mccarthy Bill Clinton was a lucky guy who got to live off the fat of the land: the broad prosperity of Reagan’s economic boom, post-Soviet unipolar U.S. dominance on the world stage, and plunging crime rates at home. New threats, such as the global jihad’s setting its sights on America, were just emerging; new time bombs, such as government’s extorting banks to grant mortgages to poor credit risks, were just beginning to tick. Clinton’s personal corruption reduced the stature of the presidency and Dick Morris’s miniature populism — the president as champion of, yes, school uniforms for third-graders — reduced its gravity. The president trundled along from scandal to scandal, all unsavory but none consequential enough to threaten American security or prosperity. As he did, the media marveled not at how dissolute Clinton was but at how fabulous he was at lying about it. In previous times, gross fraud was a disqualifier for offices of public trust. Now, fraud and the dexterity to carry it off in the light of day — to look the press itself in the eye and lie with indignation — became admirable political attributes. The story was never the sordid facts of the scandal du jour; the scandal was merely a barometer for measuring Clinton’s survival skills. Now, of course, we have another celebrity-in-chief whose left-wing orientation aligns with the media’s. Obama is a more ambitious and doctrinaire statist — one who didn’t come to Washington just “to do school uniforms,” as he admonished his staff — but one who lacks Clinton’s charm. As increasing numbers of Americans sense, the current president is more into inflicting your pain than into feeling it. Yet Obama’s biggest problem is not that, for all his talk about it, empathy seems so alien to his experience. It is that the world has gotten far more serious. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
President for life next? | ||
| Cityxslicker |
term limits only apply... if you have elections..... I am betting they don't or if they do it will be in True Soviet Fashion. Yes, Komrade we have vote - and it is your duty to do so - but we know it is such a burden - so we have filled it out for you. PS - if you don't 'vote' we kill your family. have fabulous day Komrade Citizen. It is funny (linguistically peculiar) that to strike a bullet, and cast a ballot are the same idiom in Russian. Enjoy the show Tovarishii - this cr@p has all been done before For your next lesson in History that rhymes..... How did Trotskiy die ?..... anyone - Bueller, Bueller, Bueller.... | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
"He got an ice pick, that made his ears burn" | ||
| Strokizator |
President for life next?" No longer wanting to be referred to as POTUS, Obama has conferred upon himself the title "His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Barack Hussein Obama II, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and blah, blah, blah ( I've heard this before). | ||
| Elsinore74 |
The biggest obstacle to eliminating term limits at this time is Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Just like the biggest obstacle to impeachment is Shotgun Joe. |
