2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSIGN THIS! Moveon.org petition! Change Constitution so Obama can get a 3rd term!
To be delivered to The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama
The Constitution of the United States should be changed so a President can run for a third term
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/change-constitution-so
Also on change.org
Sign this petition to give President Obama a chance to run for a third term.
https://www.change.org/p/obama-for-3-pac-sign-this-petition-to-give-president-obama-a-chance-to-run-for-a-third-term
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Kentonio
(4,377 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)astrophuss42
(290 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)whatthehey
(3,660 posts)CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts)...should be more common in our system, not less.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)You really think the GOP controlled Congress will pass this and that 3/4 of the states will ratify before the end of the year.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Just sign it, only take you 43 seconds
Oneironaut
(5,524 posts)Obama had his time. That's a silly petition. There are term limits for very good reason.
VulgarPoet
(2,872 posts)bjo59
(1,166 posts)I want a president who will not ratify the TPP, who will not carry on drone warfare around the world, who will not continue to carry out regime change operations in foreign countries ... for starters.
Not to mention it's just a dangerous precedent. The next time we get a horrible president like W and we could get stuck for 3 terms...NO THANKS!! Frankly I believe there should be term limits for all offices. Power corrupts.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)desmiller
(747 posts)Consider this OP trashed.
Old Codger
(4,205 posts)But fuck no, never.
frylock
(34,825 posts)SamKnause
(13,110 posts)yawnmaster
(2,812 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)yawnmaster
(2,812 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,978 posts)99Forever
(14,524 posts)FUCK NO.
djean111
(14,255 posts)The TPP? Jamie Dimon fucking whipping for Obama? Oh, hell, no.
More term limits, not less.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)We can revisit this issue after Bernie is elected though and it would likely garner much more support.
2banon
(7,321 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)Assuming it would ever pass, which it wouldn't, Obama would be in his seventies by the time it became effective. It takes years and years to pass a constitutional amendment. Anyhow, several thousand have been proposed and only 23 actually were enacted. And I don't want him to have a third term regardless if it means more crappy trade deals.
yourpaljoey
(2,166 posts)bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)is ...he is a Muslim and he is a dictator and he is a Marxist and he is the anti Christ who wants Sharia law ...and he will state an emergency to be a third term President ...so I suspect it was one of those people who started this petition.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)The general population here has "moved on".
Which is strangely where this petition is located and as such seems strangely oxymoronic.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)I'd vote for him again in a heartbeat.
rurallib
(62,448 posts)But we might get W vs. Obama vs. Bill Clinton. Pure excitement!
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)I don't think we're going to have enough Darwin awards to go around.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)TPP?
There is such a long, long list of horrors. Why not just elect a REAL progressive Democrat?
One_Life_To_Give
(6,036 posts)As if 8 were not enough? Lets put an end to the possibility of allowing any one person to hold that much power for a continuous 12 years.
DavidDvorkin
(19,485 posts)TheDormouse
(1,168 posts)Time for REAL change, not more of the same.