Rep. Jose Serrano Wants Obama To Have A 3Rd Term, Maybe 4-6?

[DieHardBrownsFan]

 

Could Obama be first 3-term president since FDR?

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Law, Obama, USAA United States congressman has introduced a bill that would repeal the 22nd Amendment, which currently limits the president to serving only two terms as commander-in-chief.

 

Should the bill become a law, it could allow President Barack Obama to run for reelection yet again in 2016.

 

The bill, H.J. Res. 15, offers “an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.”

 

New York Democratic Rep. Jose Serrano reintroduced the measure on January 4, after it did not make it to a floor vote in January 2011, the Daily Caller reports. Serrano has attempted to repeal the amendment for decades and proposed similar bills in 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2007.

 

Rep. Serrano’s initiatives are not dependent on any particular party, since he has tried to get the measure passed under the presidencies of both Democrats and Republicans. But if the bill makes it to the floor for a vote this year, President Obama, a Democrat, might have a chance at a third term in the White House, which would make him the first president to possibly seek a third term since Franklin Roosevelt.

 

Even though a repeal has not made it far in Congress, there have been several attempts at bringing it to the floor, which have garnered support from past presidents and prominent legislators. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) repeatedly proposed repealing the 22nd Amendment while both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were in office, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell tried to repeal it in 1995. In 1989, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) introduced a similar resolution.

 

Former President Ronald Reagan told Barbara Walters in a 1986 interview that the 22nd Amendment“was a mistake,” while former President Bill Clinton has always believed in the option for a president to seek reelection at a later time – even if he has already served twice.

 

“Shouldn’t a president be able to take two terms, take time off and run again?” Clinton said in an MSNBC interview in November. “I’ve always thought that should be the rule. I think as a practical matter, you couldn’t apply this to anyone who has already served, but going forward, I personally believe that should be the rule.”

 

Repealing the 22nd Amendment has been supported by both Democrats and Republicans, but has never garnered enough votes to go into effect.

 

Congress passed the 22nd Amendment on March 21, 1947. It was ratified by 41 states and rejected by only two. It limits each president to two terms, but did not apply to the sitting president, former President Harry Truman, who withdrew as a candidate for re-election in 1952.

 

 

[The Cysko Kid]

I think a president ought to have ten years then out never to be back. The system as it is strikes me as stupid. The guy has to spend half his first term campaigning for his second. Preposterous.

 

This guy has been trying to get this passed since the 90s, which the article blatantly says, but I bet cal finds a Marxist democrat conspiracy in there somewhere.

[Westside Steve]

And in the second term is campaigning for whoever takes the torch in his party. So...

 

Maybe we should make the guy king for 6 years.

He can pass whatever stupid crap his party wants passed and then the next guy can clean up the mess.

WSS

[MLD Woody]

I think a president ought to have ten tears them out never to be back. The system as it is strikes me as stupid. The guy has to spend half his first term campaigning for his second. Preposterous.

 

This guy has been trying to get this passed since the 90s, which the article blatantly says, but I bet cal finds a Marxist democrat conspiracy in there somewhere.

 

 

This is what I was expecting to find also

[calfoxwc]

Once any president is entrenched for eight years, he has enough time and power to

 

torque things his way for all future elections. Then our country would be in the hands of

 

a tyrant.

 

Chavezes pull that crap. ...and FDR's....

[blowe]

Luckily it has never been close to passing. While I agree that the whole 2 term presidency thing is preposterous, I think ten years is a bit long. Six years is enough time to change the country for the better without being stuck with a bum president for ten whole years.