Why do President spend $$$$$$ on a 2nd term?

[napi21]

This is not my question. Somebody on CNN asked that yesterday. It's a great question!

I've never been a great student of history, but it seems like any president who does get a second term always get's into BIG trouble! I was a baby when FDR was Pres, so I don't know about his, but all the ones I remember have all had problems!

Wouldn't it be better, at least for their place in history, to maybe be remembered as mostly great?

I believe every politician has a lot to hide by the time they reach the top office, and it starts getting public in that 2nd 4 years!

[pattim]

1. 'cause they think they've f*cking invincible.

And nothing happens to them for the first term, so they think, "Sweet, man! Let's keep this up!"

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. A few reasons

First, is to secure a better place in history. Another is the stigma of a 1 term president. Unfinished business might be a motivator. Or the sheer desire of power that puts them there to begin with.

[ClintonTyree]

3. The damage control monitors can give a president.......

4 years of protection by calling in every favor and bending every editor's arm. After that they're on their own and the flood gates open. I wish someone would have pulled bush's plug before '04, the country doesn't deserve this shit.

[babylonsister]

4. Because they, and their lobbyists, have to continue

to push through their "agenda", as evil as this one seems to be?

[NorCalDem]

5. The only trouble Clinton got into during his 2nd term

was political trouble. I wouldn't dare suggest that a BJ is as dangerous to our country as CIA-leaks, WMD lies, fake-terrorist threats, and all the other crap being rammed down our throats by these guys.

2nd terms are weaker because the public tires of the same face/voice all the time. Scandal is what puts you in the history books!

[LisaM]

6. Well, Supreme Court nominations, making all records secret,

pardons....there are many insidious things going on right now, despite *'s current pressures. We won't even know it all for years.

[mcscajun]

7. We don't exactly have a large pool of modern presidents who've

served two terms.

FDR -- elected to four terms; died in office

Truman -- elected to two terms
Eisenhower -- elected to two terms

Kennedy -- elected to one term (assassinated)
Johnson -- did not seek re-election (Vietnam)

Nixon -- resigned in second term (Watergate)

Ford -- did not win own term
Carter -- lost re-election bid

Reagan -- elected to two terms

Bush, Sr. -- lost re-election bid

Clinton -- elected to two terms
Shrub -- (s)elected to two terms