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Obama ‘Very Confident’ He Would’ve Won Third Term
Breitbart ^ | 21 Nov 2018 | Tony Lee

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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KEYWORDS: clownbammy; crookedhillary; obama; obamalegacy; obamathirdterm; presidentskidmark; theskidmark
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Obama ‘Very Confident’ He Would’ve Won STOLEN Third Term

Fixed it.

1 posted on 11/21/2018 10:42:30 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Same could be said for Clinton and Reagan.

Woulda, coulda, shoulda...


2 posted on 11/21/2018 10:44:09 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Only in the little world he lives in ,in his head


3 posted on 11/21/2018 10:44:20 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


4 posted on 11/21/2018 10:44:33 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


5 posted on 11/21/2018 10:44:52 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sure...just like he won his second election...voter fraud.


6 posted on 11/21/2018 10:45:03 AM PST by woofer2425
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Obama was stoned to the bone when he said this.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3707461/posts


7 posted on 11/21/2018 10:45:37 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Too bad the law don’t work that way, eh Barry???


8 posted on 11/21/2018 10:45:47 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Easy to say. Impossible to prove.................


9 posted on 11/21/2018 10:46:18 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m convinced obama still thinks he’s president.


10 posted on 11/21/2018 10:46:23 AM PST by robel
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Between not being able to fix stupid and election fixing.…he’s probably right.


11 posted on 11/21/2018 10:46:37 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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To: butlerweave

Sort of a backhanded way of throwing Hillary under the bus.


12 posted on 11/21/2018 10:46:38 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

NPD....
he draws more flies than votes....


13 posted on 11/21/2018 10:46:59 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The 2-term limit was put in place precisely to PROTECT us from people like Obama.


14 posted on 11/21/2018 10:48:03 AM PST by EURASLEEP (The EU is Crashing and They're Asleep at the Wheel)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Actually... Hillary was your third term... And she lost.


15 posted on 11/21/2018 10:49:00 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

former president Skidmark weighs in...


16 posted on 11/21/2018 10:49:17 AM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Not against Trump.


17 posted on 11/21/2018 10:49:55 AM PST by libh8er
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“...had it not been for both the Constitution...”

Very telling how that bastard betrays himself here.


18 posted on 11/21/2018 10:50:19 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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Trump is penicillin, the cure for the plague
19 posted on 11/21/2018 10:50:29 AM PST by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: woofer2425

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.


20 posted on 11/21/2018 10:51:31 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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