AUDIO: Rush Limbaugh Warns Of Third Obama Term (MUST LISTEN!)

Real Clear Politics ^ | June 30, 2009 | Real Clear Politics

[ianschwartz]

You have to wonder if Obama is just trying to lay a foundation for not being a hypocrite when he tries to serve beyond 2016. I wouldn't be at all surprised if in the next number of years there is a move on the 22nd Amendment, which term limits the President of the United States. He may not do it that way, he may not openly try to change the Constitution. But there might be this movement in the country from his cult-like followers to support the notion that a democratically-elected leader who is loved and adored has carte blanc once elected. Just serve as long as he wants because the people demand it, because the people want it, because the people love it.

[ianschwartz]

And I wouldn't put it past Obama to be plotting right now how to serve beyond 2016 and I think the way he's reacting to what's happening in Honduras - Look, they've got a constitution, they're a democratically-elected set of officials down there and you had a guy running the country, Mel Zelaya, who was just going to basically rip that country's democracy to shreds and the country moved in to stop in him from doing it and Obama sides with the guy who wanted to rip up the constitution. He sides with other dictators in the region. Regardless, I mean, one thing is clear here: Obama is nothing if not a hardcore liberal. Always, always more sympathetic, appearing to side with the bad guys on the world stage. And I'll tell you folks, this business about running beyond 2016, you know, the thing that when you look at Obama's followers - and we've discussed it here - they are a cult-like bunch and their attachment to him is not political, it's not ideological, it is not issue-wise, it is cultish. It includes a wide percentage of minorities, by the way, who for different reasons, who will come to think that he simply cannot be replaced. Let him succeed with amnesty, for example, and all the illegal aliens who are instantly made citizens. He'll be too important. Just like right now he's too big to fail as far as the drive-bys are concerned, he's too important to be replaced. No one else can lead the nation, they will say. And they won't care a whit about the legalities that might be trampled. Half of the legalities if they don't even know about them because they haven't been properly educated. I think this situation in Honduras is very instructive. Anybody who thinks that he intends to just constitutionally go away in 2016 is nuts ... These are people who seek power for reasons other than to serve.

[ctdonath2]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if in the next number of years there is a move on the 22nd Amendment

The bill has already been submitted.

[FReepaholic]

I recall people here fretting about Klintoon doing the same thing. Also heard the Left's loons saying the same about Bush last year.

I'll wait a few years before I start worrying about this.

[edcoil]

A bill cannot change the Constitution.

[KevinDavis]

In fact, changing an Amendment or adding an Amendment to the US Constitution is very hard... As it should be..

[Paleo Conservative]

The bill has already been submitted.

It takes more than a bill. It takes a constitutional amendment which requires 2/3'rds supermajority in both the House and Senate. Then it has to be ratified by 3/4'ths of the state legislatures.

[ctdonath2]

H. J. RES. 5 - Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.

[davisfh]

Disregarding Amendment XXII to the Constitution, I think I know how this will eventually end. That end will not be pretty and will be decried by many when it happens. In the end though, it will be regarded by a majority of the population as the only logical conclusion to an out-of-hand situation.

[domenad]

This is absolute crap and I’m so disappointed in Rush for having put this out into the body politic. According to the fruits on the left, Obama isn’t supposed to be in the presidency, because Bush imposed martial law and refused to vacate the office due to the War on Terror. Habeus corpus was suspended, and we were all thrown into camps. Except none of that happened. We knew the people who spoke such nonsense to be either clinically insane, or just lying. Rush is now becoming one of these same people. IT”S CRAP RUSH. I expect someone of your acumen to know it, and something tells me that you do.

[ctdonath2]

Whatever the exact process details, it has started.
It has been started several times before, and is not designed just for BHO; nonetheless, the appropriate initiating paperwork has been introduced.

[KevinDavis]

But it has to pass a Super majority in CONGRESS... READ THE CONSTITUTION!!!!!

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

The movement's already begun...

End22.com

[al_c]

Whatever. First he’s gotta get a 2nd. That’s not gonna happen.

[KansasGirl]

I have been thinking the same thing as Rush throughout what is happening in Hondurus.

[johncocktoasten]

I would expect this to take place in the form of Michelle Obama running for President ala, George and Lurleen Wallace in Alabama, or the clowns down in Argentina.

[b4its2late]

Yes he is. Obama and company are on the side of dictators, and the guy in Honduras was intent on basically throwing out their constitution and making himself ruler by ballot stuffing.

[Kakaze]

He believes the Constitution, is not a guarantee of individual rights but a restriction of government..........look for a move and look for the hubris to ignore our Constitution.

Obama, is the enemy of the state.

[RebelTXRose]

Correct me if I’m wrong, this type of amendment couldn’t allow for the extension of the term of the sitting president. When the amendment was passed, it was forward looking - after FDR.

I seriously doubt the state legislatures would go for this at all!

[Tublecane]

It may not be that the administration is looking forward to changing our Constitution as well. Don’t most Western leaders share his view of the actions as a coup? I think it’s a matter of leaders protecting leaders. Technical legalities aside, these guys are deathly scared of sudden reversals of power, and therefore seek to defend legitimacy.

Imagine as if the French revolution was more peaceful, and all the crowns of Europe—Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia—who absolutely hated France yesterday nevertheless went to war with the (more or less) popular government on the grounds that its very existence threatened theirs.

[Slick91]

“It takes more than a bill. It takes a constitutional amendment which requires 2/3’rds supermajority in both the House and Senate. Then it has to be ratified by 3/4’ths of the state legislatures.”

There is another way, holding a Constitutional Convention. It’s never been done and would be unprecedented in American history with the only exception being at our founding. Nonetheless, it could be done that way.