Bush Ratings At All-Time Low. 34%.

Kharn said:
Xavierblazer said:
if he resigns by next january couldnt he rerun if his total was under 10 years?
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No. Two terms are two terms. Clinton resigned before his second term was up too, made no difference.

Besides, a president that resigns tends to have little popularity left.
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Clinton went 2 full terms

January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001

Nixon resigned into his second term

January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974
 
blablabla.

Clinton was impeached more than 2 years before the end of his second term. Same difference.
 
Eh? He was impeached, but acquitted and continued to serve his complete term. Hence, he has nothing to do with not completing your terms and then continuing for a third one (which is indeed impossible).
 
Yes it does.

Clinton was succesfully impeached. He was not removed from office, but he was never acquitted "of impeachment", which makes it similar to trying to quit office.

Quit, impeach, Clinton only finished his second term in reality, for the law he didn't, hence the legal similarity.
 
[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States" said:
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The House of Representatives impeached President Clinton on December 19, 1998 on grounds of perjury to a grand jury (voting 228-206) and obstruction of justice (221-212). Two other articles of impeachment failed — a second count of perjury in the Jones case (205-229), and one accusing Clinton of abuse of power (148-285). The Senate impeachment trial lasted from January 7, 1999 until February 12. No witnesses were called during the trial. A two-thirds majority, 67 votes, would have been necessary to remove the President from office. The both charges were defeated: perjury (45-55) and obstruction of justice (50-50).
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According to this, he also legally finished his second term, sicne he was never legally removed from office by the senate. The only thing that happened was that the House decided he should appear before the Senate to be judged, that's being impeached, whereupon the Senate decided to acquit him.
 
Wikipedia? You're citing Wikipedia?!

*fine* Either way, this is all ant-fucking 'round the main point of no more than 2 terms can ever be done, whether complete or not.

All out of republican fear.
 
Kharn said:
Wikipedia? You're citing Wikipedia?!

*fine* Either way, this is all ant-fucking 'round the main point of no more than 2 terms can ever be done, whether complete or not.

All out of republican fear.
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Hey, I have to cite *something*, plus, wikipedia is usually a good starting point since it has a tendency of citing its sources. But if you don't like that, here's the text from the site of the US embassy in Bogota about impeachment.

But yeah, you're right, two terms is the maximum. It's not bound by any form of time. Suppose you serve two terms of a day you're still not going to be able to ever be president again.
 
Kharn said:
Well, y'know, unknown to many people, we already had our shortest presidency ever, really
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Too bad the 22nd amendment talks about not being elected more than twice instead of not serving more than twice. That would mean Bush just needs to get another anesthetic and Cheney can never be president. Ehehehe.

Interesting, though, that the longest you can serve as president now is 9 years, 355 days, 23 hours and 59 minutes, more or less. YOu can be elected twice, and have served as president for two years under the elected term of someone else, on account of that someone else dying and you being the VP.
 
Wooz said:
Thing is, over 50% voted Bush in the last election. That says something about a nation's populace and voting preferences.
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The thing is it wasn't 50% of the people, it was a little over 50% of the people that submitted their votes that voted for him, which in reality isn't really democratic. Or can we say that the Pope elections are democratic, you can vote how ever you like, but the vote won't probably be calculated cause, you as a church mender, probably won't pass the extreme requirements that are required to vote in the election.
the Quote of the century said:
Historians will note that, so far, the 25th amendment is only used when it involves both a George Bush and a colon.
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:D
 
Wooz said:
Thing is, over 50% voted Bush in the last election.
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Jarno said:
The thing is it wasn't 50% of the people, it was a little over 50% of the people
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That's... exactly what I said?

Or can we say that the Pope elections are democratic
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Hah!

No, they're not. The voting is made by the Conclave, which is a gathering of very high-ranking priests. There is no universal suffrage for the Pope's election. Don't see why there should be, anyways.
 
Sander said:
Interesting, though, that the longest you can serve as president now is 9 years, 355 days, 23 hours and 59 minutes, more or less. YOu can be elected twice, and have served as president for two years under the elected term of someone else, on account of that someone else dying and you being the VP.
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how about declaring martial law (and thereby delaying the vote) or having the constitution changed for endless terms! :twisted:

go bush go!
 
Wooz said:
That's... exactly what I said?
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Not really.

I think he meant that the 50% that voted for Bush was only 50% of the 50% turnout, AKA (less than) 25% of the people. Not exactly a majority.
 
I think its great that Bush have the power atm.

He is a run away train thats going to hasten the destruction of the US position in the world.

I mean how many new "friends" have he made during his time? There are allot more "none US loving" nations today than it was a few years back. :)
 
It would be nice if two wacky females went at it for the presidency. Maybe the Libertarian Party could run a male an win or at least get a good percentage and get attention in the future.
 
Kharn said:
I think he meant that the 50% that voted for Bush was only 50% of the 50% turnout, AKA (less than) 25% of the people.
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Aye, after re-reading his post five times, I got it. My bad.
 
Condi has enough dirt on folks to keep them quiet. But it would be an interesting race. One for the minority! Hopefully Rice won't make any antisemtic remarks like Jessie Jackson did when he tried to run.
 
Meh...I think most of us have had our share of the Bush to not want to go through one of his subjects. Let's let someone else fuck up our country now.
 
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