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If Obama wins, what would he do in a second term?
Washington Post ^ | May 4, 2012 | Ezra Klien

Posted on 05/07/2012 3:59:20 PM PDT by QT3.14

“In a second term,” Mitt Romney darkly warned in a speech to the National Rifle Association last month, President Obama “would be unrestrained by the demands of reelection.”

But Romney was cagey about what, exactly, that would mean: His only specific prediction was that Obama would “remake” the Supreme Court. So it was helpful when, at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner a week ago, the president opened up about the “secret agenda” he has planned. “In my first term,” he joked, “we ended the war in Iraq; in my second term, I will win the war on Christmas. . . . In my first term, we passed health-care reform; in my second term, I guess I’ll pass it again.”

In other speeches, Obama has offered a more serious preview of what he’d like to get done if he’s reelected. On March 30, he listed second-term priorities including reforming the immigration system; remaking the nation’s energy policy so it addresses “the long-term challenges. . . . of energy independence and climate change”; doing more to ensure that “people who don’t have work can find work” and that “our housing system is working for everybody”; pushing forward on education reform; and executing an “effective transition out of Afghanistan.”

But that’s not really a list of what Obama would do in his second term. It’s a list of what he would like to do.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agenda; obama; presidency; romney
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1 posted on 05/07/2012 3:59:35 PM PDT by QT3.14
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To: QT3.14

face plant down marble stairs at the WH?


2 posted on 05/07/2012 4:00:53 PM PDT by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: QT3.14
Second term?

How about.......


3 posted on 05/07/2012 4:02:23 PM PDT by QT3.14 (Proud European-American Honkey)
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To: QT3.14

F everything up more??


4 posted on 05/07/2012 4:02:28 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: goseminoles

We’d see an immediate attack on gun rights via Executive Order that makes ‘Fast & Furious’ look like a board game.


5 posted on 05/07/2012 4:05:56 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: goseminoles

Be sure to include 400+ rounds of golf in the list.


6 posted on 05/07/2012 4:07:06 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

MooseChelle would likely wear out a whole fleet of vacation airplanes.


7 posted on 05/07/2012 4:08:20 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: QT3.14
Perhaps not much if the Tea Party votes for big Republican control of the House and Senate. He could use the bully pulpit to stomp his feet.
8 posted on 05/07/2012 4:09:57 PM PDT by Bronzy (No more RINO's)
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9 posted on 05/07/2012 4:10:26 PM PDT by PMAS (ABO 2012)
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To: QT3.14
(1) He'll revoke every tax break in the federal code. Cap. gains will be taxed as ordinary income. And his coup de grace will be federalization of all pernisons, IRA's, and 401K's.

(2) He also will create a CCC/WPA type organization that will have police state duties, after rioting starts after No. 1.

10 posted on 05/07/2012 4:11:48 PM PDT by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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To: QT3.14

Reminds me of the apocryphal question FDR asked of his secretary as he considered Einstein’s letter advising him of the potential of an atom bomb, “If Hitler had a bomb that could destroy entire cities what would he do?” She answered “He’d use it”. If Obama had another four years with no reelection worries? He’d destroy this republic.


11 posted on 05/07/2012 4:12:11 PM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: QT3.14

Depends on whether his party wins Congress.


12 posted on 05/07/2012 4:14:01 PM PDT by x
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To: Bronzy

And how, exactly, would a GOP-controlled house and senate restrain Obie’s use of Executive Orders, USSC and other judge appointments and nominaitons and foreign treaties to continue with his destruction of the USA? Perhaps by calling for his impeachment. But other than that, we’d still be royally screwed.


13 posted on 05/07/2012 4:14:05 PM PDT by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie.)
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To: QT3.14

14 posted on 05/07/2012 4:14:05 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: QT3.14

If the Lord God lets Obama get reelected then there is no Lord God! There is NOTHING any one can say or write that can convince me other wise.

I’m so tired of all the let downs:

1.) No leardership
2.) No direction
3.) No faith in God
4.) No faith in our country
5.) No hope in our fellow man
6.) No real men
7.) No family unit support
8.) No fighting for our rights
9.) No real reporters
10.) No NOTHING

Please God in heaven help us in real time of need!!


15 posted on 05/07/2012 4:14:39 PM PDT by TrumpisRight (President Palin sounds so good....)
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To: Bronzy

Issue executive orders and continue his destruction of the U.S. via his czars.


16 posted on 05/07/2012 4:15:25 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: x
Depends on whether his party wins Congress.

The punk POTUS will go ape shit governing via EO. He'll say we don't need no steeenkin' congress.

17 posted on 05/07/2012 4:17:17 PM PDT by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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To: QT3.14

He will be the cause of Revolution II.

Hopefully this time, we will use the French approach to those who loose....and loose the libs will.


18 posted on 05/07/2012 4:19:42 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: XenaLee
I don't know. Newt lead a Republican revolution and curtailed Clinton.
19 posted on 05/07/2012 4:22:49 PM PDT by Bronzy (No more RINO's)
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To: Calif4Palin
You might want to start with not blaspheming the Deity. We are not God. We don't know his timeline. I certainly hope we rid ourselves of the plague. Pretty weak faith if you deny God over an election no matter how important you think it is.
Second what are you DOING besides whining? Actions speak louder than words. People are sick of me but I will again say that our county has taken over the process here. We choose who gets elected in local and national elections.
We have clout. And the politicians know it. It was not easy and it was hard work and we rubbed many the wrong way.So what??? We achieved some of our goals and are pushing to obtain all of them.
So off the computer and work for what you want. No faith? I teach in my church's CCD class. No direction? We are providing a Tea Party led direction. No leadership. We are leaders. I lecture on the Constitution and the Courts. You have it in your hands to affect all 10 let downs.
Do it. Please. If not you who?
20 posted on 05/07/2012 4:25:40 PM PDT by prof.h.mandingo (Buck v. Bell (1927) An idea whose time has come (for extreme liberalism))
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