Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 05:33:17 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Tyler Trafford wrote in news:3nne77F2c0muU1@individual.net: > 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_Stat > es_Constitution > Well bugger me, I did not know that. Of course it maybe due to the fact that the book on American history I read only went up until 1945. I mean it's only 60 years difference you guys surely couldn't have done that much in that time frame. Bloody amendments,I can never remember which one is which.I am right about the extension of term during a period of war though aren't I? probably not, being a bear of very little brain and all. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .