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.’’*

  • Tinidril
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    3 days ago

    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.

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      3 days ago

      “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.

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        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.