Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : Tyler Trafford Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 05:26:15 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > "Finnigann" wrote in > news:43166C69.330.farscape@bnb.synchro.net: > >> To: weirdwolf >> -=> weirdwolf wrote to alt.tv.farscape <=- >> >> > >> > It works pretty well most of the time. If the actors aren't >> > criminals. >> >> we> You see as a pessimist I would much rather have several methods >> of we> getting rid of somebody inept or criminal than have to suffer >> them we> until the next election. Getting them set up in place before >> the system we> is required in the certain knowledge that one day you >> will pick a dud we> again. I do however rather like your two terms >> custom, it is one that we> would have served us well over here in the >> last few years. I always we> wondered however why they stuck with a >> set time period for terms and we> elections always struck me as >> rather inflexible. >> >> >> You know, that it wasn't writen into the constitution. FDR had four >> terms. The congress feared popular presidents might just grow to love >> the job and the people would just keep on vote'n 'em back in. So the >> set the two term limit. >> >> Else it would STILL be President Clinton... and not that turd tosser >> from exas. > > I was under the impression that it wasn't actually written anywhere as a > hard and fast rule but it was as I said a custom that had originally > started because Washington had only served two terms. > I believe in theory that a president could if he wished to declare a > state of war and extend his term idefinitely. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution -- Tyler Trafford All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. -- Sean O'Casey .