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H. J. Res. 5, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President (287 comments ↓)
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.
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Mr. Bennett
July 10, 2009, 9:13am (report abuse)Oh yeah one more thing...common sense would tell you that if it were passed it wouldn't be enforced until the sitting president who signed it is out of office otherwise it would be a conflict of interest.
Mr. Bennett
July 10, 2009, 9:25am (report abuse)CYates i couldn't agree with you more on that...we need to get some of these old career politicians out of congress and get some new blood in congress. some of the representatives in congress have been there so long and are so old that they are completely out of touch with what's really going on in society. we need term limits for congress.
PA2k
July 11, 2009, 4:05am (report abuse)"Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens."
--George Mason, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 17, 1788
Mary Ann
July 11, 2009, 11:10am (report abuse)NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! This is America not England, or some other country. We vote for our leaders every four years. God Bless America!!!!
Lakelady2
(logged in user) July 12, 2009, 9:49am (report abuse)I agree with any comment on here that talks of America being the land of the free and the home of the brave. Our freedom has been bought and paid for by so many over the last years and it would be a total disgrace to what they have done if we allow ourselves to not still want that freedom and protect it. I say NO .. NO.. NO. While our country may not be perfect it is still the best in the world and it our duty as Americans to protect it and contunue saying.. IN GOD WE TRUST. Uee your voices and let us stand together as our forefathers did and stop this if it has any chance of happening.
larry saidel
July 13, 2009, 5:09pm (report abuse)Not only should this be stopped in its tracks, the voters should demand term limits on all Senators and Congressmen/woman. They have become the old boys and gals club milking all of us for too long.
Mary Jane Shannon
July 14, 2009, 11:44am (report abuse)Too stressful of a job for any person. 8 years is probably too much. Any more would kill a person. Look at what happened to President Roosevelt.
Chuck
July 14, 2009, 7:06pm (report abuse)I'm against this repeal as well. My question is, has anyone written to Senator Jose Serrano and asked him why he's doing this in his own words? If so, has he responded? He needs to respond why he submitted it. Besides, who wants to server more than 8 years or even 4 years in such a position like that? I think many would just get tired of it anyway. But again, that senator needs to be asked why he submitted it.
Debra and Kathlene
July 15, 2009, 1:45pm (report abuse)We strongly oppose this proposition, President should continue to be term limited, as should all other representatives of the people. Agree completely with Larry Saidel above.
Jacki
July 16, 2009, 9:45am (report abuse)Them why cnn wastes our time on bs news like phony hearing when you know she is getting it anyway and put this on the news. This scares the hell out of us. The thought that Obama would be able to run this country for life if he wants. DUH of course he does he likes the power GOD HELP US NOW and thanks to those who voted for him I sure as heck did not!
Gun Toting Patriot
July 18, 2009, 1:46am (report abuse)"That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."
Quoted from the Declaration of Independence. It's about that time again boys and girls.
Gun Toting Patriot
July 18, 2009, 1:50am (report abuse)The government of this country has been steadily whittling away at the Constitution. They have taken our right to speak in favor of the illusion of security. They are in the process of taking our right to bear arms in our own defense. We cannot sit idly by and watch this country fall even more into shambles. Sooner or later we MUST defend this country, even if we're called to defend it from its own festering, bloated corpse.
Harriet
July 18, 2009, 9:30pm (report abuse)The last thing we need is to start repealing the amendments to the constitution. My husband was a staunch supporter of Amendent 2. We don't need Obama or anyone else forever as our President. Our officials should have backbone enough to stand for the 10 commandments and the Constitution of our GREAT COUNTRY. They should consider their constituents rather than how much money they can make before they retire with a fantastic retirement and health insurance plan. May God Bless Our Country! In God We Do Trust!
Russ the Democrat
July 20, 2009, 2:35pm (report abuse)This country is already going to hell in a hand basket. We've turned over our religions no matter what they are to separation of church and state. Now we're going to put the country in the hands of a dictatorship / monarchy. I think the democrats are going down a road the country can not follow. As a democrat I want the world to know I voted Republican.
Ken Ferer
July 20, 2009, 7:34pm (report abuse)This has to be a joke. I know the the words "clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right" but to repeal the 22nd admendment is beyond belief
Common Man
July 21, 2009, 9:34am (report abuse)I doubt Mr. Obama will be elected to a second term much less a President for Life. Nontheless this Bill would be a mistake to even consider.
Carl The Truth
July 21, 2009, 2:10pm (report abuse)This is some scary truth. Soon, Obama will have his Chicago-style, pork barrel politics firmly-entrenched in Washington!
We thought Bush The Idiot was bad, but this guy is shaping up to be even worse, especially for working families.
I can sleep at night because I didn't vote for this snake! I voted Third Party because both major parties BLOW!!!!
Patriot
July 22, 2009, 7:19am (report abuse)We may do better to allow only one 4 year term in succession. Then maybe after a mistake like Obama, if the last guy was way better by hindsite, re-elect him. Oh, I mean him/her.
We must make politics less appealing to the lazy, greedy lawyers/powergrabbers of this world, or the corruption in this country's governments will never end.
Joanne from Ohio
July 23, 2009, 12:15pm (report abuse)HRJ5 is one of many pieces of the Machine that is presently at work in our nation, especially since Obama took office. With all the abuse and usurping of power by the President and the lack of action by the representatives of Congress who in fact are quiet on the subject, IT'S TIME for the American people to take action and do all they can do!
Nationalized Healthcare reform is just a scam to raise the funds to support this extreme machine of corruption our U. S. founding documents and laws. If the present Administration succeeds in bringing the American people to its knees (through bankruptcy & slavery), they will have no options nor power left to fight with against these present agregious actions against the heartland of our country!
Americans - it is time to be fully awake and do ALL we can do as citizens who love our country! To many of you, I am thankful for kindred spirits. May God help us to maintain the faith and principles of this great land!
MARGARET BARNHILL
July 24, 2009, 3:18pm (report abuse)I DO NOT WANT A DICTATOR. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE TERM LIMITS ON THE HOUSE AND SENATE. I DO NOT THINK CONGRESSMEN SHOULD HAVE A LIFE LONG OCCUPATION. I THINK THEY SHOULD GO TO WASHINGTON TO DO GOOD THINGS FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ELECT THEM AND THEN RETURN HOME TO WORK LIKE THE REST OF THE CITIZENS.
Betty mansfield
July 26, 2009, 3:22pm (report abuse)Why haven't I heard of this on any of the conservative talk shows I listen to on a regular basis??? I am calling every one starting tomorrow. Get on the phone, gang, and start screaming. It's the only way we will ever regain our country.
Pissed off American
July 29, 2009, 11:54am (report abuse)"The United States does not need a dictator. If this passes it will open the door wider for that to happen. This once great country is slipping deeper into a state of totalitarian control (out-right, all-encompassing government control). This would only aid in certain people achieving that end."
You pretty much said it!
JOHN ENCINIO
July 29, 2009, 3:16pm (report abuse)America does not need a king. We do not need a dictator. If better minds than Jose Serrano and Barack Obama would not try to be president for life, i.e., Washington, Lincoln, Nixon, Truman, Jefferson, why would we want to even conceive of such a stupid idea. Are we already on the slippery slope. No one else in the world respects our new president enough to even shake his hand and Serranco wants him a "president for life."
Barb Scott
August 4, 2009, 8:58am (report abuse)OMG!!! More proof that he is follwoing in the footsteps of Hugo Chavez and Adolf Hitler. Gode help us all!
Free Man
August 5, 2009, 8:57am (report abuse)This might be the last time any of us can call ourselves free. This country is heading into the biggest mess it has seen since the 40's If we don't fight back, we are doomed. One World Gov. is real and they are shoving it up ours. If they want to see what will happen, look at USSR. When you make it so no one can make more money than the lower class who don't work for it, no one will work. Our gov is taking everything away, MOney and freedom. We need to fight back now.
Cynthia American
August 7, 2009, 9:59pm (report abuse)Does this remind anyone of Hitler? Are you all as scared as I am? What are these freaks thinking? Do they really think WE THE PEOPLE would allow this and the other things designed to make us slaves? Come on people, it is time, we have all had enough of this BS! Let's join together and make things right, our parents and grandparents died for this country
grumpyone
August 9, 2009, 2:49pm (report abuse)My first post above was too long to be accepted, so I shortened it.
The other thing I had to say is that we should channel our efforts where we can be fruitful. First, we MUST get the Democrats out of control of the House, and allow them to keep control of the Senate - a balance of power. Then we have to find a way to override the Presidential decree Obama made on his first day in office sealing all his personal documents from the light of day - i.e. his birth certificate, applications for scholarships, college applications, etc. (where he admits he is not a citizen). Then the matter would elevate to the Supreme Court to decide on his legitimacy as President, hopefully before he stuffs the S.C. with his own nominees who would kill even hearing the case. It is the only chance we have to get him out of office before his term ends!
ALK
August 10, 2009, 10:45am (report abuse)"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. you cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. you cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."
Abraham Lincoln
We don't need Obama for "King", he needs to read this, he says Lincoln was his model ??????????
Mjo
August 10, 2009, 4:59pm (report abuse)The president NEEDS to STAY within the two 4 year term restriction. Anything eles will completely distroy the USA. Senators and Representatives also need some limits too.
Mr Ed
August 10, 2009, 5:46pm (report abuse)We don't need a dictator or a king!
Our nation was founded as a Christian Nation and we need to understand this is why we are looked up to and admired for our freedoms. Those who make bad decisions will suffer for it! Let's keep the 22 Article Amendment.
Doris
August 14, 2009, 10:34pm (report abuse)NO, don't do this. We NEED term limits, not only for the president but for all senators and congressmen. We have people who have been in office over 50 years and are so entrenched that it's pitiful. Pork, pork, pork. WHAT'S WITH THIS SITE? YOU OFFER A COMMENT SECTION THEN THE SECURITY CODE "DOESN'T MATCH". THIS WILL BE MY 4TH TRY TO SUBMIT.
AJ Word
August 22, 2009, 3:51pm (report abuse)I think we the people of this GREAT COUNTRY should not re-elect any one in Washington coming up for re-election anytime in the future. Get rid of all of them. The younger ones could'n be any worse. I am for term limts on all political jobs elected by the people.. Husane Obama's hey day is over, we the people must rule.. I am against the term bill H.J.Rs.5, also the health care bill. Anyone who would sign a 1000 page document without reading it don't need to be in charge of anything.
Bbeau
August 25, 2009, 6:09pm (report abuse)I could hardly believe my eyes. I want only two terms for the Congress and certainly no more for the president. We may not have a free country after one term of Obama and his Czars. WAKE UP AMERICAN--IT IS TIME TO BE AN IMFORMED AMERICAN OR WE ARE GOING TO BE SUBJECTS SOON.
TIRED OF STUPIDY
August 28, 2009, 4:17pm (report abuse)We were screwed when Obama got into office. My only hope was that we could vote him out in the next election.If would go through we might shoot ourselves in the head.WHOO TO ALL TRUE AMERICANS !!!!!
teddy bear
September 11, 2009, 9:24am (report abuse)Not only should the president be limited to two terms but more than that all congressmen should be limited to two terms. When we look at the mess they have made, why not vote them out of office. Some are so senile they need to be out to pasture living on the Social Security checks they dole out to us.
Cayenne94
September 15, 2009, 11:11am (report abuse)WHAT ARE THEY DRINKING UP THERE ON CAPITAL HILL? After our march 9/12/09, what do you think? We are organizing and if you don't start listening to those that put you in office, 2010 YOU ARE OUT. So start doing your jobs and FORGET ABOUT THIS BILL, NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN AND HOWEVER REPRESENTATIVES VOTE FOR IT, 2010 WILL BE THE LAST YEAR THEY ARE IN OFFICE. THE NEW CRY OF THE PEOPLE IS "OUT WITH THEM IN 2010, hear our cry.
Jim Lambert
September 16, 2009, 5:20am (report abuse)We need to limit terms of Senators and Represenatives, rather-than increase the terms of our Presidents. Very few of our leaders do jobs worthy of re-election.
NotBlind
September 25, 2009, 8:08am (report abuse)Most of the comments till here are on the correct side. We don't need a dictator. We need to vote in and also vote OUT the people in public office form town, to state, to the top. No one is above the law and these "elected" cronies want to live off of our money and have stopped caring about the whole nation. We have rich and poor and we should all stop when elections come around thinking of one side. It is great we can vote for the center right or center left any time. I veto this unintelligent choice from the senate and house.
Long live the USA. May our future be bright. Remember Kevin Costner's the Postman? that's tame stuff
Zeita Hogan
October 1, 2009, 8:33am (report abuse)Why haven't we heard about this on the new media?
Freedom Liberty
October 8, 2009, 9:42pm (report abuse)I knew it wouldn't be long. Ladies and Gentleman of America you are witnessing the making of a dictatorship. Obama would literally destroy this country to get what he wants. Total Control and Power. To a dictator, "its the ends that justify the means". They will do whatever it takes to stay in power.
JMorgan
November 6, 2009, 7:06pm (report abuse)I don't believe this law should pass because no one should stay in office no more than 8 years , no matter who it is.
Don Omey
November 16, 2009, 7:55pm (report abuse)NO! Our current problems in govt. are the result of no term limits. We can't get our elected officials to conduct themselves as the voters think they should because of the peer pressure of too-long, in office sens. and reps., who have developed very bad attitudes from lobbyists who have an agenda that has nothing to do with good govt. and good laws. Presidents are even more prone to act on things that sound good as opposed to things that WORK!!
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