Obama: If I Ran for a Third Term, I Could Win

Time ^ | 7/28/2015 | Maya Rhodan

[McGruff]

President Obama said that if he could run for a third term he thinks he would win, while calling for African leaders to adhere to term limits during a historic speech before the African Union.

“I actually think I’m a pretty good president. I think if I ran, I could win. But I can’t,” Obama said in Ethiopia on Tuesday. ” There’s a lot that I’d like to do to keep America moving, but the law’s the law.”

[RipSawyer]

I don’t see how that kind of ruling would be any more absurd than some of the court’s recent decisions.

[bd476]

Wow! Words fail...

[MeshugeMikey]

I SHALL forgive they iggnance and MOVE AHEAD!!

[MeshugeMikey]

DAILY!!!! daily!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Easy to cheat when you’re the incumbent.

[manc]

he and his voters are really that delusional. The man is way out there and certainly not in the mainstream. It goes to show drugs can be bad for your mind.

[WildHighlander57]

Hotlanta Mike,

Many thanks for the link!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3317548/posts?page=42#42

LucyT,

Ping to the above link; looks like it reaches all the way to the top.

[houeto]

This is called a trail balloon. Run it up and see what happens. We should be afraid...very, very afraid.

When I heard him speak those words I KNEW that he plans to stay.

Something Wicked This Way Comes!

We ain't seen nuthin' yet.

[Hardens Hollow]

I never thought he was going to leave.

[highball]

“As sad as it is, he’s probably right.”

Too true. Especially since we seem determined to nominate another loser this year as we did the two he stomped.

[eartick]

What a dunce....wait I was thinking of the people that elected the queer

[Theodore R.]

66 million + think just like this.

[Theodore R.]

The Republican primary voters seem incapable of nominating anyone much good.

[Jim Noble]

And if he did run for a third term, the RINO’s would just be RINO’s and let him. Make absolutely zero effort to enforce law

What law is that?

The XXII Amendment may be the worst drafted amendment in history (although there is stiff competition). It does not even say, as it should have, "The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

The first couple of times you look at it, it seems clear enough: "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice...".

But the Constitution makes no provision for something called a "Presidential election".

The Amendment could have easily said, "a person who has served as President for 2922 days shall thereafter be ineligible to the office", conforming itself to the language of Article II and Amendment XII.

"Being nominated", "Running for President", and "Presidential elections" are all outside the Constitutional framework.

So, what does the XXII Amendment actually ban or prohibit? Upon whom does it act?

Does it mean that a State Legislature may not, in its chosen process for appointing electors, allow a twice-President to be considered? Does it mean that an elector, once appointed, may not vote for a twice-President? Does it mean that Congress, meeting in the Constitutionally-designed special electoral vote counting session, may not count votes naming a twice-President, even though Amendment I makes clear that the House and the Senate may make their own rules without interference?

I'm afraid that, as drafted, XXII can't withstand attack from a determined enemy, which may well be what we are dealing with here.

[nathanbedford]

Seven years ago your analysis would have been summarily dismissed as outlandish but, alas, we have entered an age of the plastic, elastic Constitution, a time in which words on parchment mean whatever a closed elite deems them to mean, an age in which those who who are charged by the instrument with the defense of the instrument instead turn their talents and their powers to the distortion of the Constitution to make room for the advancement of special interests. Those charged by election under the Constitution with the administration under Article 2 have long ago turned their talents to the advancement of an ideology which seeks to subvert the Constitution.

So the words mean little and the party in opposition will do little. But the essential problem is not the wording of the Constitution which is clear enough for an honest man, the problem is that if we have come to the place where a brazen distortion of the Constitution should be perpetrated by the likes of Barack Obama to extend himself into a third regime, we will have an entire breakdown of civil society and we will probably have widespread violence if not civil war.

Barack Obama is not a man to shrink from civil war but I believe that his contemplation of it would be entirely focused on timing rather than on the morality of it.

[Jim Noble]

Seven years ago your analysis would have been summarily dismissed as outlandish

Actually, fifteen years ago I was making the case that Bill Clinton could be Al Gore's VP, and I made the same case in 2004 regarding a Kerry-Bill Clinton ticket.

XXII does not make a person "ineligible to the office" in the XII Amendment sense, it makes them "ineligible to be elected" (whatever that means).

[tacticalogic]

XXII does not make a person "ineligible to the office" in the XII Amendment sense, it makes them "ineligible to be elected" (whatever that means).

Gerald Ford wasn't elected.

[MeshugeMikey]

[reg45]

But could 0bama beat Bill Clinton. If 0 could do a third term so could Bill Clinton.

[PLD]