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Should Barrack Obama run for prez in 2020?

While a president cannot serve more than 2 consecutive terms, they can be elected after sitting out a term. Hillary should she win in 2016 will be 73 years old in 2020 while President Obama will only be 59.

If Hillary loses to Mitt Romney in 2016, we will need Obama to come back and fix the country as it will have been driven into another Republican ditch.

Update:

Those of you who corrected my mistake are correct. No one can run for more than 2 terms consecutive or not.

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  • 7 years ago
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    If you believe a president can sit one out and get elected again, you miss read the amendment:

    "Amendment XXII

    Section 1.

    No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

    Section 2.

    This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress."

  • 7 years ago

    You guys are right. I'm wrong about the sit out. Harry Truman held the exception contained in the 22nd amendment. He could have run against Ike but Bess hated Washington and moved home. He followed her example.

    I think I'll delete this question shortly, if possible.

    But it is a good idea.

  • 7 years ago

    Okay, first of all, a person can only be president for two terms. ONLY. There's no "skipping a term".

    Secondly, Mitt Romney isn't running again. He even announced it. I don't know where you got that idea from.

  • Chuck
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    >they can be elected after sitting out a term.

    No they can't. Thank god, I couldn't take another term of that imbecile 0bama. The next two years will be bad enough.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    I seriously doubt Obama wants to be president again. It doesn't look like he is having much fun.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Wrong, a President can serve two terms period He should never have served one.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    most likely in 2020 barry will be behind bars relaxing in prison.

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