Posted on 07/20/2008 6:34:01 PM PDT by Jay777
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, the reputed “Constitutional scholar,” just today said on CBS’s Face the Nation that he went to Iraq to talk to important leader that he expects to be “dealing with over the next eight to 10 years.” So, does this “Constitutional scholar” not realize that there is this little thing called the 22nd Amendment that holds a president to only two, four year terms? Um, that would be a grand total of only 8 years, Barack, not 8 to 10. Of course, the big question is, will we see this idiot gaffe race through the MSM as it would if a Republican had said it?
At the very least ABC’s Jake Tapper, one of the best political reporters in the biz, sure noticed. Tapper has a blog entry on his “Political Punch” blog all about it with an amusing side note about time travel added in just for fun.
(Excerpt) Read more at stoptheaclu.com ...
But that's what so many here are missing. Obama's "mistakes" are highly explainable. Regarding the statement that is the subject of this thread, I have no doubt whatsoever that a President Obama will look for ways to circumvent the 22nd Amendment.
Simply because the United States has avoided dictatorial takeovers so far in its history (although we came close with FDR), does not mean we are immune from them.
Barak Obama is a man in an exceptional hurry, as his resume demonstrates. The question I keep wondering about is why the man is in such an all-fired hurry to become president.
Obama's rise to the threshold of the presidency is nothing if not magically swift. Just about this time 20 years ago, he was preparing to enter Harvard Law School in the fall of 1988. His election two years later to president of the Harvard Law Review as the first "black" to hold that position is the linchpin of his entire subsequent career, a chronology of which follows:
Late 1988, entered Harvard Law School.Summer 1989, interned at the law firm of Sidley & Austin in Chicago.
Feb. 1990, elected president of the Harvard Law Review. This was widely reported and was followed in the media by several long, detailed profiles.
Summer 1990, interned at the law firm of Hopkins & Sutter in Chicago.
1991, graduated from Harvard and returned to Chicago. He was recruited by the University of Chicago Law School, which gave him a fellowship and an office to work on a book about race relations. Obama never wrote that book. Instead, he and his wife went to Bali, where he wrote "Dreams From My Father." (Obama was a Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992–1996, and a Senior Lecturer 1996–2004.)
Apr-Oct. 1992, Obama directed Illinois Project Vote.
1993, Obama joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development. He was an associate from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from 1996 to 2004. His law license becoming inactive in 2002.
1995, "Dreams From My Father" was published.
1996, Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate, where he served until being elected to the U.S. Senate.
2004, Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate. (He delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004, before the election.) He was sworn in early in January 2005, and immediately began planning his run for the presidency.
Oct. 2006, "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream" was published.
Feb. 2007, Obama announced his candidacy for president. He had been a U.S. senator for just two years.
BTW, in addition to his breathtaking race up the ladder during those years, Obama served on a number of boards of directors between 1992 and 2002.
Let me make this as crystal clear as possible. OBAMA ANNOUNCED FOR THE PRESIDENCY ON THE BASIS OF 8 YEARS AS A STATE SENATOR AND 2 YEARS AS A U.S. SENATOR. That's it. That's the basis on which this man is building his presidential run. That, and his gadfly hopping around from one patronage position to another during the 1990's.
ALL of it rests on one affirmative-action achievement, which was his election as the first "black" president of the Harvard Law Review.
There are plenty of fully black high achievers in this country who are more qualified to be president than this arrogant twit. So why Obama? What, or who, made a junior senator think he should even consider a run for the presidency with such a light resume? Either he's the luckiest SOB on the planet, or he's somebody's sock puppet front man. There simply is no other logical conclusion.
Whether his Harvard Law Review presidency, and the subsequent media attention it garnered, brought him to the notice of a (ahem, cough) "mentor" who boosted him to where he is now, or someone bought that HLR presidency for him, we'll probably never know. We just know that was Obama's first step up the ladder.
What I do know is that such breathtakingly meteoric political rises to the doorstep of national executive leadership simply do not happen -- at least not historically in Western democratic forms of government. Heck, they rarely even happen in totalitarian governments, either. However, they do happen in coups and other forms of shortcuts to political power.
The quick rise of John F. Kennedy pales in comparison to Obama's rocketship ride to the top. JFK at least served with distinction the in Navy during WWII. He was in the Congress for 14 years before being elected president: a U.S. congressman for six years, then a senator for eight. Besides, we know who was behind Kennedy's rise, his old bootlegger father Joe, former ambassador to Great Britain. We don't know who is behind Obama's rise. To think that he did it all on his lonesome, because he's some charming public speaker, strains credulity. I may have ridden in on a turnip truck, but it sure wasn't yesterday.
Think of it this way. Obama's metoric rise is the political equivalent of a newly hired mail room clerk becoming CEO of Microsoft a month after he started work there.
Stop living in a fantasy world. It's time we all came to grips with the hard, ugly reality of the situation. Obama WILL be the Dem nominee for president unless some catastrophe happens to him.
In addition, John McCain WILL be the Rep nominee.
The choice is stark and clear.
Obama is a total loon
Obama being clearly a Marxist radical probably does not really believe in elections. After he is elected his reasoning is that no further elections are necessary as the people have chosen “the one he has been waiting for”. With an Obama presidency I doubt we will have the same constitution. I am sure they will call for a constitutional convention and enact a socialist one.
His arrogance and sense of entitlement knows no bounds.
Obamalamadingdong has no intention of letting a silly little inconsequential document like the United States Constitution stand in his way. The people belive. The people want change. He will deliver. And deliver, and deliver, and deliver. Robert Mugabe has nothing on this messiah.
BTW, it's clear he believes in a "living, breathing" Constitution, so the "8 to ten years" is consistent with that.
Hard to believe that an Ivy League law school grad can be so bad in constitutional law and simple arithmetic. And what gall to make such a bold prediction that he will be president!
“Stop living in a fantasy world.”
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Well, that implies that I think having Obama removed would lead to some great improvement. Actually it would only mean that Hillary would steal the nomination which would probably mean a harder fight for McCain. I still think there is a possibility that this may happen because Obama is not the nominee until the voting is done and the superdelegates are not locked in until they actually vote. They are free to change their minds until the convention.
As for McCain I have never said or implied that I think he may not be the nominee.
BTTT!
Ping.
Please note the date on this old thread: 20 Jul 2008
0bama says: I’ll Be President For ‘The Next 8 to 10 Years’
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