Kevin Gowen wrote:
> Ken wrote:
> 
>>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.
>>
>>Gowen doesn't seem to realize that US presidents are *not* named for
>>life and that their terms *always* come up for renewal after a maximum
>>of 4 years...  Gowen needs to read up a bit on US legal matters...
> 
> 
> Could you indicate where I said anything about presidents being named for
> life or not having four year terms? TIA!

Why should I?  You're the one making asinine statements about the
alleged resulting disappearance of term limits if certain proposals
by one retired US president were reflected in the US Constitution...


>>>>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.
>>
>>Did Reagan serve 3 terms as US president?  Or did Reagan go to the
>>trouble of being elected 3 times as president and then renounce to
>>serve his 3d term?  That's news to me.  I take it History is not
>>Gowen's forte...
> 
> Whoosh.

Whoosh?  Face it, Gowen.  You're in such a state of denial about the
fact that a Democrat 42nd president could have served *two* terms
before Dubya the 43rd, that when asked whether "Reagan or Clinton have
what it takes to be elected once more" in a thread titled by yourself
"That's our Clinton!", the only pathetic reply you managed to blurb
out is "Reagan has been elected once more"...


>>>>Would the national self
>>>>confidence or economic expansion actually continue?
>>>
>>>That depends on if the chairman of the Fed is an Alan Greenspan.
>>
>>Hmm, the Fed chairman's persona as a necessary or sufficient factor
>>to ensure US national self-confidence or economic expansion.
> 
> Did I say that? No.

Then to what extent is the Fed chairman's persona worth singling out
as the factor upon which national self-confidence or economic expansion
depends?  Has the Fed chairman the power to counteract the effects of
even a single one of the various "negligible" factors I mentioned?
If so, I'm impressed.  What are the instruments he might possibly
have at his disposal to wield such power?  I'm sure lots of central
bankers at various places in the world would be interested to know...


>>What a
>>simple and elegant Gowenworld-view.  Forget about "negligible" factors
>>like national/international political crises, balance of payment or
>>government deficit issues, oil price and currency fluctuations,
>>consumer demand/demographic/technological/productivity evolutions,
>>changes in the US industries' international competitiveness or the US
>>share in world economic output, or simply *who* determines *fiscal*
>>policy in the US...  But then again a characteristic of idiots like
>>Gowen is their inability to even grasp that the real world might be
>>actually more complicated than what their dim mind can perceive...