[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I don’t think it is so much about class or lack there of. Perhaps it is a lack of guts, caring, or...just tired of being a target himself.

There are big issues that one would think he would be passionate about. Sometimes I wonder if he wasn’t just the face and other people behind him were the thinkers. I’m not saying he’s dumb. Just saying I am not sure he cares.

[maxsand]

“Therefore, the American people have wisely established a custom against allowing any man to hold that office for more than two consecutive terms. But every shred of power which a President exercises while in office vanishes absolutely when he has once left office. An ex-President stands precisely in the position of any other private citizen, and has not one particle more power to secure a nomination or election than if he had never held office at all, indeed, he probably has less because of the very fact that he has held the office.”
- Theodore Roosevelt