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To: Snardius
She also remarked that if the Constitution didn't forbid a president from a third term, "he might be running.

Yet again our founders protect the country from the stupidity of its voters....


Actually, that one can't be attributed to the Founders. Washington set precedent by serving only 2 terms. There was nothing in The Constitution regarding presidential term limits.

We may need another amendment to get some new blood in and get rid of the family dynasty attempts. If Clinton is elected for 2 terms, there will have been a Bush/Clinton in the administration for 36 continuous years:

Bush1 VP 1981-1989
Bush1 Presidency 1989-1993
Clinton1 Presidency 1993-2000
Bush2 Presidency 2000-2009
Clinton2 Presidency 2009-2013 or 20l7

[That is too much of too few. It is not good for the Nation.]
27 posted on 08/31/2007 7:31:04 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy

Yeah and why stop 2017? Jeb Bush can follow 2017-2025. Chelsea Clinton will be old enough then to take over. LOL.


29 posted on 08/31/2007 7:34:03 AM PDT by SolidWood
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To: TomGuy

We do need some new blood, but the best way to accomplish that is through elections. Did you know that since 1952, there has been a Bush, Nixon, or Dole on every Republican ticket except 1964?


44 posted on 08/31/2007 7:51:11 AM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (Now more popular than Congress!* *According to a new RasMESSen Poll.)
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To: TomGuy
[That is too much of too few. It is not good for the Nation.]

It's like inbreeding!!!

89 posted on 08/31/2007 9:47:17 AM PDT by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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To: TomGuy

Ironically, there is little press being given to the continued Oligarchy we live under (Bush-Bush-Bush-Clinton-Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton...?).

The public has had it with both families. Look at it closed and you’ll find a small pool of Yalies who went to school around the same time.

Also look at the Democrat Presidential and VP nominees for more than the past century and you’ll see the same names (and losers) again and again and again.

1892 Democrat ticket: Grover Cleveland/Adlai Stevenson WON
1896 Democrat ticket: William Bryan/Arthur Sewall(Thomas Watson) LOST
1900 Democrat ticket: William Bryan/Adlai Stevenson LOST
1908 Democrat ticket: William Bryan/John Kern LOST
1924 Democrat ticket: John Davis/Charles Bryan LOST
1952 Democrat ticket: Adlai Stevenson II/John Sparkman LOST
1956 Democrat ticket: Adlai Stevenson II/Estes Kefauver LOST
1992 Democrat ticket: William Clinton/Albert Gore Jr. WON
1996 Democrat ticket: William Clinton/Albert Gore Jr. WON
2000 Democrat ticket: Albert Gore Jr./Joseph Lieberman LOST

A bunch of perpetual candidates in this list. Charles Bryan was the brother of perpetual presidential loser William Jennings Bryan (who also lost his fight against Darwinism in the 1920s). Two of the perpetual candidates held the office of VP; Adlai never got the presidency although his namesake grandson did get the nomination. Adlai II’s VP runing mate Estes Kefauver left fellow Tennessee senator Albert Gore Sr. in the dust (both tried to get the party nomination for president) thus passing the loser baton to another generation...


91 posted on 08/31/2007 10:10:01 AM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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