[gcruse]

Barbra Streisand. We should be able to elect anyone we wish to be president. This country is run by and for the people. If that's what the people want, they deserve it. The same goes for limiting presidents to two terms.

[Paleo Conservative]

That sounds like Barbara Streisand.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

We should be able to elect anyone we wish to be president. This country is run by and for the people. If that's what the people want, they deserve it. The same goes for limiting presidents to two terms

So much for the constitution. Your attitude is the exact reason we should NOT change it.

[San Jacinto]

Barbra Streisand. We should be able to elect anyone we wish to be president. This country is run by and for the people. If that's what the people want, they deserve it. The same goes for limiting presidents to two terms.

You forgot the quotation marks--here

Barbra Streisand says "We should be able to elect anyone we wish to be president. This country is run by and for the people. If that's what the people want, they deserve it. The same goes for limiting presidents to two terms."

[RinaseaofDs]

You may be in the wrong forum. Democrat Underground is www.democraticunderground.com

You'll find all kinds of people there that think the constitution is a living, breathing document, that the founders were sort of adle-brained slaveholder, types that sort of got lucky on the first draft.

You seemed doomed to repeat history. A republic isn't about what the 'people' want. It's about representative government, with built in provisions, like the electoral college, that guards against forms of mob rule.

You think maybe we should have had that nasty two term rule repealed back in 1999, doncha? Big bill would still be banging interns two at a time and he and Bernie Ebbers would be doing egg rolls in Air Force One, running user manuals for all the crypto equipment to the PLA through that nifty in-flight fax gizmo.

Long as those checks kept a cashin'.

Barbara Streisand indeed.

[Eagle Eye]

We should be able to elect anyone we wish to be president.And I say support the Constitution as is on this matter.

[RightWhale]

We should be able to elect anyone we wish to be president.

That's the problem. Everybody who says anything about it says Bush was selected, not elected, but truth is we don't elect the president. The people at large elect representatives to the Electoral College, etc. Anybody can be president, it's not important to find that particular one out of 100 million. The president's job is easy if he's good at running meetings. The president also has less power than any Senator. The only ones who shouldn't be president are those who want to be president.

[Teacher317]

Barbra Streisand. We should be able to elect anyone we wish to be president. This country is run by and for the people. If that's what the people want, they deserve it. The same goes for limiting presidents to two terms.

YEAH! Who cares about silly little traditions like safeguarding the nation from life-long tyrants, from electing those who have no allegiance to this nation, or Constitutional limitations, anyway? Those old notions are just worthless in these enlightened modern times! Why, with the great increase in the numbers of non-citizens voting, we could even see a Mexican citizen, a Chinese citizen, or even the Pope himself (herself?!?) elected President of the USofA! Wouldn't that be great, to express our fondness for diversity that way?

/venom-dripping sarcasm>