Per press release: Congressman Andy Ogles introduced a House Joint Resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States to allow a President to be elected for up to but no more than three terms. The language of the proposed amendment reads as follows: ‘‘No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two consecutive terms, 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 twice.’’*
Woof, they couldn’t even wait 1 week before blowing this load? Impressive
Obama would beat the pants off of Trump.
I believe they wrote it so they won’t happen “2 consecutive terms” clause
Obama would still be unable to run, the amendment would only let people with two non consecutive terms have a third go.
Why? Because he beat a couple of old school moderate Republicans? He barely managed to beat Romney. Obama has charm, but he’s not the powerhouse people think he is. He was a weak milquetoast president, and exactly the old style type politician that America has flat out rejected.
Democrats need to wake the fuck up. Returning to the old ways is not going to get us out of this mess. Obama and the Democratic establishment led us here.
“Barely”? He won by 4% pts and won Ohio and Florida including all blue wall states. I don’t know about barely. Keep in mind Obama was still recovering the country from the financial crisis and Republicans were constantly trying to pin the economy on him.
The Republicans always blame a Democratic president for the economy. Biden had a good economy and they found a reason to run on blaming him anyways.
Obama ran as a reformer in 2008 and won with a 7% margin. After capitulating to Wall Street, that margin was cut nearly in half.
Winning Florida and Ohio wasn’t as big a deal back then. Both used to be Democratic strongholds that had become swing states very recently. It’s thanks to the Democratic establishment that both are now solidly Republican.
Jesus fuck, that is patently insane. 🙄 The biggest problem with Biden is that he was a vegetable the entire time. People were even expecting him to die in office, or have the 25th Amendment used on him.
Trump is not young, either. The presidency wears down men, just look at Obama before & after. And now we’re talking about blowing up how everything works, eschewing the 22nd Amendment, and for what?? For a chance for an incredibly old Trump to run again, and likely lose? Big brain time, here.
Get this loser Andy Ogles out of office; he’s drunk or incompetent. Time for him to get a real job.
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It’s meant to endear this sycophant to Trump so he gets in line for a cabinet position when it comes out that he has ethical issues some journalist is about to expose.
This dude is just pandering to Trump for… Federal funding? Clout? A promotion? Who knows
For sure this would never pass. It’s posturing and distraction like so much else in this clownfuck’s world
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 twice.
Wut.
They don’t want Obama to come in and spoil it
This is (some of) the language of the current amendment, the difference being the replacing of “once” with “twice” as the last word. The idea is that if you’re VP and are elevated to be President, it counts as one of your two possible terms if you serve more than half of the term you took over during. Basically, this kiss ass waste of space just copy/pasted the existing amendment and incremented every number in it.
That’s a permutation of language in the original amendment. If a sitting president dies with more than two years left in the term, the new president (former vice president) can only run for reelection once, per the current amendment. This changes it to twice (10 total years as president)
Have you done any of the following?
- Been President for two terms?
- Been Acting President for 2+ years for two separate Terms?
- Been Acting President for 2+ years for one term term, and also President for another term (or vice versa)?
If you answered yes to any of these, you can’t be elected to the Presidency again.
Elaborating on what an “Acting President” is… if, for whatever reason, the sitting president cannot perform their duties, they can transfer their power voluntarily to their VP, either temporarily or indefinitely. Those reasons could be health or cognitive issues, or any number of other things. The President then remains President, but the VP will be the Acting President until such time as the President can perform their duties again. Essentially, they decided that if a guy serves the majority of the term as acting President, you were essentially just President when it comes to term limits.
Oh you lot with your “he can’t do that because of laws/the constitution”. It’s adorable.
