Scary Comment by Obama, "I could win a third term"

[DanTana]

Even saying this in jest is scary. I think he truly believes this. Not only that, it wouldn't surprise me he is actually planning some back door way to run third term. Another Excutive Order maybe?

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politic...term.-Could-he

http://news.yahoo.com/president-obam...-145505964.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/wo...term.html?_r=0

[yqtszhj]

That makes me want to

[Armybrat]

No, he wouldn't win a 3rd term.

[DanTana]

I wanted to share this editorial from Newsweek magazine, typically a fairly liberal view on things:

By Matt Patterson (Newsweek Columnist - Opinion Writer)
Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, the result of a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most consequential job?
Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life:
ushered into and through the Ivy League, despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer;" a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, less often did he vote "present"); and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions.
He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator. And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor;" a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man be elected president?
There is no evidence that he ever attended or worked for any university or that he ever sat for the Illinois bar. We have no documentation for any of his claims. He may well be the greatest hoax in history.
Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal: To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr.
Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberal Dom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were 'a bit' extreme, he was given a pass.
Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass - held to a lower standard because of the color of his skin.
Podhoretz continues: And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) "non-threatening," all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?
Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon - affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.
Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that Liberal whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow.
Liberals don't care if these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self-esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist. Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin - that's affirmative action in a nutshell and if that isn't racism, then nothing is.
And that is what America did to Obama. True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary.
What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks? In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people – conservatives included - ought now to be deeply embarrassed.
The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that's when he has his Teleprompters in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth - it's all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years. (An example is his 2012 campaign speeches which are almost word for word his 2008 speeches.)
And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. Remember, he wanted the job, campaigned for the task. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerless-ness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. (The other day, he actually came out and said no one could have done anything to get our economy and country back on track). But really, what were we to expect?
The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly? In short: our president is a small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job.
When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such an impostor in the Oval Office.

[JohnR]

It's an easy out, for someone who likes to twist words and bribe the SCOTUS. Amendment 22 says, "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice." No election, no unconstitutional act.

[marshal kane]

Hey, the man has a phone and a pen. I wouldn't put it past him to try to circumvent the Constitution. By now he aspires to take the seat of the Almighty.

[TheTman]

He is just itching to declare Martial Law, and send congress home and call the elections off. And he is the only one that can end the Martial Law. I heard some former high military in the know, and they thought about arresting him during he Benghazi fiasco, but they didn't think they American people would support them. The won't act as long as they don't have the support of the People, plus those people have probably all been purged by Obama.

[JohnR]

It's good to know they at least considered it. But like you said, they've probably been purged by now. The Iran deal is far worse than Benghazi. Kerry and his boss both need to be tried for treason on that. http://www.caintv.com/john-kerry-iran-may-use-weapon

[SlowBurn]

He's sabotaged and undermined this country in astonishing and far reaching ways. It wouldn't be a total shock if there's a crisis/emergency in the next 540 days and it wouldn't be out of character for him, like his heroes Fidel and Hugo, to say he can't leave office "at this critical time." But I don't think the military, even with the docile and cowered leaders he's managed to install as heads of the services, would stand still for it.

[Ikeo74]

What we have to watch for is one of his close friends getting into office and continuing his platform, as an example, Hillary.

[JohnR]

...It wouldn't be a total shock if there's a crisis/emergency in the next 540 days...

China's crumbling stock market is a bad omen. So is Greece's situation. So is ISIS's continuing situation. So is our own federal debt crisis...