What makes Obama think he’ll even be around in 2022? With his smo0king and drinking and eating fatty foods and a family history of heart disease?
That would be the middle of his fourth term. When he ran in 2008 I figured his goal was to become President-for-Life, like Fidel, Mugabe, and Hugo Chavez. After the rise of the tea party movement, I decided he probably wouldn’t be able to get around the two-term limit. This suggests he may still hope to stay in office more than 8 years. He’ll need at least one more liberal justice to be sitting on the Supreme Court to get around the 22nd amendment. Maybe he expects to be able to appoint that person in his second term.