Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez falsely claims Republicans amended Constitution to kick FDR out of office

Fox News ^ | March 31, 2019 | not stated

[Innovative]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., might want to brush up on some history after asserting, incorrectly, that Republicans in Congress amended the Constitution to kick President Franklin Delano Roosevelt out of office. "They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt did not get reelected," Ocasio-Cortez said Friday during a night hall event with MSNBC with Chris Hayes.

Ocasio-Cortez was referring to the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution which passed in 1947.

The text of the amendment states, “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.” FDR died in 1945, meaning he was dead for a full two years before presidential term limits were implemented.

[oldenuff35]

I don’t know how this moron graduated 8th grade. She is dumber than a stupid box of rocks and it has never dawned on her to STFU when she doesn’t know what she is talking about.

She has to take first place in the stupid congress person contest.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Will it or will it not cost her anything? If not it doesn’t matter.

[piytar]

Hey! Don’t be mean to boxes of rocks! Those can be useful! Lol

[lurk]

She has already explained. She should not be fact checked because the message is more important than fact.

[Shadow44]

Nope. Because she’s a latina and that’s all her voters care about. In fact people criticizing her will only reinforce her supports because they’ll see it as racism.

[SecAmndmt]

The fact that she is unresponsive to constituents is what will cost her. I actually like her as the standard-bearer for the Dems. She and those like her are why GOP is back ahead in the last poll I saw. There simply aren’t that many ideologically left Dems...YET. Give it time.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

She might also want to learn about his rapidly declining health in the latter part of his 3rd term. The 2 term limit was probably more in reaction to his decrepitude and the risk that had for the nation (but see “the Yalta Conference”, Miss AOC) than anything else. She is a moron. I think she will be a one term wonder - even the Democrats who control that district are going to get tired of being embarrassed by her brazen stupidity and ignorance.

[Blue Highway]

Has she ever conceded she was wrong about any of the false statements she’s made or is she the classic narcissist where she is never wrong?

[oldenuff35]

No, she never admits she is wrong but she will tell the world that anyone who points out she is wrong is a racist.

[hinckley buzzard]

It won’t mean anything. Her constituency is even more ignorant than she is. Most of them will have no clue, and will assume she is telling it like it was.

[MrEdd]

[Blue Highway]

What if another hispanic points out she is wrong?

[Fiddlstix]

[SunkenCiv]

Her parents tried to hire a ringer to take her exams for her, but they found out Mister Ed had died.

• OCASIO-CORTEZ’S HISTORY LESSON
• This Day in History: FDR reelected a record third time

[Doogle]

Airhead chases her tail again.

[oldenuff35]

It makes no difference to her. I’ve heard her speak several times about Native Americans and what they think. I’m native and she has not been right yet.

[The Antiyuppie]

...and THEN who would have been President when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

[Steely Tom]

What a flake.

[LukeL]

And of course like most amendments and laws it exempts anyone it may apply to at the time of ratification.