Posted on 11/21/2018 10:42:30 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Former President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that he was “very confident” he would have won a third term had the Constitution and his wife allowed him to run again. Speaking to his former top adviser David Axelrod at a live recording of the “The Axe Files” podcast at the University of Chicago, Obama said he believes voters felt that he had “taken the job seriously, worked hard, been true to my oath, observed and hopefully strengthened the norms and the rules and the values of our democracy.”
“I feel very confident that I was in a position—had it not been for both the Constitution and Michelle—to continue in office,” Obama said.
Axelrod had earlier said that some people would like Obama to serve in perpetuity and joked about some of Obama’s supporters even wanting him to run for vice president.
The former president, though, added that he is “not sure it is a healthy thing” to serve more than two terms, pointing out that in countries without term limits, “even very good people… lose their edge and get stale and comfortable in the position.”
Obama said it is “useful to have a democracy have to continually evolve.”
Had Obama been allowed to run for a third term, he would have faced off against Donald Trump in 2016. But when Axelrod asked whether Obama believed he could defeat President Trump in 2020 in a hypothetical one-on-one matchup, Obama did not take the bait.
“I will not answer that direct question for obvious reasons,” Obama said.
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Fixed it.
Same could be said for Clinton and Reagan.
Woulda, coulda, shoulda...
Only in the little world he lives in ,in his head
The Constitution says he can’t be President.
He is NOT a natural born citizen.
He was born a British subject wherever he was born.
Natural born citizens are NATURALLY citizens because they have only ONE nationality.
Whether he would have finished it is another story. After two terms, most AMERICANS had had all the Kenyan bull**** they were going to take.
Sure...just like he won his second election...voter fraud.
Obama was stoned to the bone when he said this.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3707461/posts
Too bad the law don’t work that way, eh Barry???
Easy to say. Impossible to prove.................
I’m convinced obama still thinks he’s president.
Between not being able to fix stupid and election fixing.…he’s probably right.
Sort of a backhanded way of throwing Hillary under the bus.
NPD....
he draws more flies than votes....
The 2-term limit was put in place precisely to PROTECT us from people like Obama.
Actually... Hillary was your third term... And she lost.
former president Skidmark weighs in...
Not against Trump.
“...had it not been for both the Constitution...”
Very telling how that bastard betrays himself here.
In fairness, the Democrats didn’t need to rig an election against Romney because Romney, like McCain before him, was in the bag for Obama anyway.
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