Posted on 01/18/2009 7:58:48 PM PST by John Semmens
Representative Jose Serrano (D-NY) has introduced House Joint Resolution 5a measure that would initiate steps aimed at repealing the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution. The Amendment, added to the Constitution in 1951, limits an individual to two elected four-year terms as president.
The idea that a man of such immense talent and vision as Barack Obama should be discarded after only eight years in office is foolish, Serrano contended. At only 47 years old, he could easily serve another 20 years or more. Why should the nation be forced to settle for lesser men as long as hes willing to serve?
Electing a president and changing an administration is expensive and time-consuming, Serrano pointed out. We ought to be looking for ways to reduce this burden on the American people.
Serrano suggested that voters be given the option of reelecting a sitting president for life. After the first four years, voters should have a pretty good idea of whether they like the guy, Serrano said. They should be given the chance to extend his term for as long as hes willing to serve. This would reduce the frequency, and thereby, the costs, of recurring, unnecessary elections and the accompanying turnover in executive branch personnel.
In related news, a new poll shows that Obama is very popular in the state of New Jersey, with over 108% of registered voters favoring his reelection.
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This would make a buzzard barf.
Why don’t they just give us real Americans the Constitution and write down what they want? it would make it much easier for them, and we wouldn’t have to be so disgusted at their overt attempts to turn our country into a socialist nation.
he hasn’t done anything yet, except wear an empty suit.
No, d*** it, we don’t want you buggers in there any longer than four years as it is. You screwed up our country already and NO we do NOT want your “messiah” to have eternal rights to the US Presidency.
I say we discard him after four years.
Dude, you do realize that HR 5 is a real bill, and not satire?
You should label the first part of the article as non-satire!!
Or a non bipedal rat.
Sadly, only the quotes are satire. The effort is real. (rolls eyes)
Bump. And the lunatic who wrote this waste of paper should be ousted at the first opportunity.
That’s why it’s semi-news/semi-satire. If they wanting fighting out in the streets of name your city USA then go ahead with this amendment.
Here’s Mr. Serrano’s contact information:
WASHINGTON OFFICE
2227 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-3216
(202) 225-4361
Fax: (202) 225-6001
You might want to let him know that we Americans like term limits for presidents.....and House members as well.
Indeed he does....
For SURE!!! I about had a heart attack right here at my computer!! Come on!! spell SATIRE folks!!!
What, the SHEEP?
They’re ready to rename the capital “Obama City” and redesignate the 1st Infantry Division the “Barack Obama Division” - after all, it’s symbol is The Big Red One...
Nah, those are just the Haitian Dignity Battalions.
I was thinking more on the lines of SS Division Adolph Hitler, SS Division Hermann Goering, SS Division Liebstandarte - in that vein, a division named after The One (piss be upon him).
Even the iranians have an armored formation named The Immortals.
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