Kevin Gowen wrote:

> Eric Takabayashi wrote:
> > Kevin Gowen wrote:
> >
> >> http://tinyurl.com/cyez
> >
> > What would be wrong with that?
>
> Americans tend to like term limits for members of the executive.
>
> > He knows it doesn't
> > apply to him,
>
> Does he know that? He said it "probably" wouldn't apply to him. He talks
> about someone who was elected president when 45-50 and then being elected
> again a generation later. Gee, what recent president was first elected at
> age 46 and then went on to serve two terms thereby constitutionally
> preventing himself from serving again? I think we all know who he has in
> mind.

And he would still have to be re-elected over any future President or
candidate.

> > and it would still be up to a President
> > to try to be re-elected. Why curtail a future
> > Roosevelt?
>
> So he can foul up the domestic side like the last Roosevelt did?

You mean the one who brought the US out of the Depression and got them
through WWII?

> > Obviously Bush Sr., Carter, Ford did not cut
> > it. But would Reagan or Clinton have what it takes to
> > be elected once more?
>
> Reagan has been elected once more.

Could he do it again after the public realized how he put future generations
in deficit?

> > Would the national self
> > confidence or economic expansion actually continue?
>
> That depends on if the chairman of the Fed is an Alan Greenspan.
>
> --
> Kevin Gowen