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Jodi D
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Jodi D asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 8 years ago

Is it possible that Obama has or will successfully arrange things so he will remain in office for a 3rd term?

I've read that Jose Serrano has reintroduced a bill in Congress to repeal the 22nd Amendment, which places term limits on the U.S. presidency.

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  • Jim B
    Lv 6
    8 years ago
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    If the country should reach the point that its citizens are fighting among themselves (which we are) and it should turn into a civil war (which it could) Obama could call for Martial Law in which case the president in office at that time shall remain in power until the conflict is over. I personal think this is what he has planned and this is the reason he has so divided the people as to make that happen on his watch. He is a dictator want to be and this would be right down his alley to get what he wants.

  • 8 years ago

    In 1947 Congress passed a bill to amend the Constitution to establish a 2-term limit on the presidency. In 1951 this amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states & was enacted as the 22 Amendment. In the several decades since, various members of Congress have offered proposals for repealing it (23 of them in the last 20 years). All have been unsuccessful.

    Even if such a proposal was successful, it would still have to be passed by both Houses of Congress & ratified by 3/4s of state legislatures (an extremely unlikely possibility).

    If such an amendment were successful, it would allow a president to serve an unlimited number of terms in office, but would not establish anyone to be elected as "President for Life" because it would not remove the requirement that the president be elected to office every 4-years.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    That will never happen. Presidents have term limits of 2 years only.

    Besides, the President during Obama's third team will be Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton, 2016...

  • 8 years ago

    No, Congress would have to pass an Amendment to allow him to get a 3rd term and Congress does absolutely nothing so that won't happen.

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  • shoe
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    undergo in recommendations the Bush, Cheney years ? each and every of the phobia procedures used.. interior the form, of a mushroom cloud, bail out right this moment, or Marshal regulation the following day... it particularly is each and every of the rhetoric is, approximately Obama working for a third term ... only extra Republican concern procedures... My wager is, they sense they have not absolutely everyone, that may beat him...so they're argument is, he's going to be a dictator...

  • 8 years ago

    Jodi, where do some folks concoct such silly, divisive talking points?

    I recommend several books for you to read which will answer this unanswerable question, which is nothing more than a _fear-based_ hypothetical.

    Obama, like Reagan, like W, like Clinton is a mere _figurehead_ for people behind the green curtain interested in taking your taxes and interested in you _accepting this as normal_ or blaming it on this or that guy or this and that organization.

    Do you really _think_ (or believe) Obama's re-re-election or absence will alter your status one iota?

    Take the red pill.

    Be well.

    Source(s): The Democratic Facade by Daniel Hellinger and Dennis Judd; Propaganda by Edward Bernays (free on the www); Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley (free on the www); Levels of Knowing and Existence by Harry L. Weinberg; Year 501 by Noam Chomsky; "The Matrix," a film.
  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Jose Serreno has introduced this bill for the last few decades every year. It has nothing to do with Obama, and even if sent to the states, it would never pass. If Obama tries to stay in violation of the Constitution, which I doubt would happen btw, then he would be removed by force.

  • 8 years ago

    And do you really think that 3/4 of the states needed for constitutional amendment ratification will actually go for it? Never gonna happen.

  • 8 years ago

    Serrano's an idiot and his bill hasn't a chance of passing.

    Honestly, I'm a conservative, but where do my brethren get these silly conspiracy theories?

  • CharP
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    People may chuckle at your question but as you detailed, this is serious ****! Bloomberg got a 3rd Term and look at the nonsense he's involved in now. I wouldn't put anything past Democraps!

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