Obama to Challenge 22nd Amendment, Become King

It could happen

As most voting Americans who use secured loans and cash loans are aware, a president can currently serve no more than two consecutive four-year terms in office. In extreme circumstances (such as the death or removal of the president), the limit is raised to 10 years for the successor. This is mandated by the 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution, and was put in place not long after Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s time in office ended. Roosevelt actually died in office. The Amendment was proposed on March 21, 1947 and eventually ratified  on February 26, 1951.

Why was the 22nd Amendment introduced? Congress was concerned that without term limits, the president would have the power to become a dictator. Thomas Jefferson foresaw this problem in 1807, and he warned that presidents not bound by term limits could use their popularity and power to become kings. In his words to the U.S. legislature at the time,

If some termination to the services of the chief magistrate be not fixed by the Constitution or supplied in practice, his office, nominally for years, will in fact become for life; and history shows how easily that degenerates into an inheritance.

Now, we have a new cult of personality in America in the leadership of Barack Obama. And we also have a movement underway in Congress that could seek to repeal the 22nd Amendment and make Obama the king of America.

He claims he isn’t…

World Net Daily (WND) reports that while President Obama supports the idea of term limits. This comes straight from the mouth of his chief spokesman, Robert Gibbs. Les Kinsolving of WND asked this question at a recent White House press briefing: ... click here to read the rest of the article titled "Obama to Challenge 22nd Amendment, Become King"