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But the other side is, how many of those "polled" actually got out and voted? If someone doesn't vote then I could care less about his/her complaints or opinions of the outcome.
Originally posted by Gazrok
[Interesting that any poll done about if America is happy with the election result, will show that over 50% are not...
Originally posted by dgtempe
Well, we have one voting for dictatorship, do we hear more? I knew eventually we'd find one.
I no more would have wanted to see Clinton in power after his 8 years than I do Bush.
Originally posted by dgtempe
I'd like to know how many of you think this president is so great you would like him to remain....err....president...AND WHY.
While you're at it, i'd like to know if you think this would be a dictatorship or just a great president wanting to finish the job he started.
thanks
Originally posted by dgtempe
Lighten up? No need at all We're having fun here, you heard of sense of humors?
He's from Canada anyway.
Originally posted by topsecretombomb
permanent president? jesus! what are you all expecting in our future?
do you only state negative things because its easier than stating the good?
U.S. Constitution - Amendment 22
Amendment 22 - Presidential term limits
1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President, when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
www.usconstitution.net...
"Rethinking White House Term Limits"
An Essay by President George W. Bush
In today's America, there are many fine laws that protect the rights of Americans to preserve their vast fortunes. But sadly, there are also some laws that protect the rights of terrorists to do terror. It is essential that we destroy � or at least bypass � these terrorist-helping laws, and we must do it now.
Topping off the list of these laws which support evil is the eight-year term limit for President. True, the eight-year term limit used to be an effective way to ensure that domestic regime change occurred � but that was before terrorism, when wars were short and change was a good thing.
When the enemy fought as a nation, the Commander-in-Chief had the luxury of being able to invade an evil country, exterminate its people, and be holding tickertape parades before his term was over. Indeed, a Commander-in-Chief could even last eight years or less without compromising national security.
Sadly, those days are behind us. Terrorism is here for the long haul, and we need to fight it on the long-haul timeline.
In 2008, at the end of my term, everything I have built to take out terrorists at home and abroad will be at the mercy of a new Commander-in-Chief. Why should we take that kind of risk? If you were winning a football game in the first quarter, would you put in your second-string quarterback?
I don�t think you would � and I wouldn't either.
2004.georgewbush.org...
News Release
For Immediate Release
May 29, 2003
Contact: Kurt A. Gardinier
(202) 379-3000 ext. 109
CLINTON CALLS FOR CHANGE
TO 22ND AMENDMENT
Wants to Modify Presidential Term Limits
(Washington, D.C.) � While speaking at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum yesterday, former President Bill Clinton announced that Congress should change the 22nd Amendment that limits a president to two terms.
"I think since people are living much longer . . . the 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime," Clinton said.
Stacie Rumenap, executive director for U.S. Term Limits, responded to Clinton's comments: "By term limiting the president of the United States, the 22nd Amendment provides that no matter how much power a given chief executive may gather, there's a definite limit on how long he may wield it. At a maximum, a fresh face and a fresh perspective will be brought to the White House every eight years."
While Clinton said such a change "probably" wouldn't apply to him he didn't rule out the possibility of a future run.
"There may come a time when we elect a president at age 45 or 50, and then 20 years later the country comes up against the same kind of problems the president faced before. People would like to bring that man or woman back but they would have no way to do so," Clinton said.
www.termlimits.org...
Originally posted by Bout Time
We have two stolen elections in a row, with a sizable portion of the country willfully blind to it, another more sizable chunk completely disenfranchaised and the last portion oblivious, yet poorer & sicker none the less.
No to consecutive terms, but if you have a president, like Clinton, who reversed the destructive policies of the previous 12 years prior to his first term, why not take him in 2004 or 2008, should he muster the votes?
People actually knowing what they're getting? Good god, can't have that, can we!?!?
Originally posted by dgtempe
All we need is one more act of "terrorism" in the U.S. and bing..Police State goes in effect and our rights are gone.
I dare say this is pretty damn close to a dictatorship, eh?
Originally posted by dgtempe
I dare say this is pretty damn close to a dictatorship, eh?
Originally posted by Mynaeris
Unless the Democrats can find one visible or credible candidate... Hillary couldn't win if she was given a 49 State headstart.