Is it true????

[Tesla]

That during a time of War, you can't out a sitting President?
Is that in the Constitution?
Someone said he is hoping to start a new one up by next year so that it is in full swing by the 2008 elections.
That right there is reason enough to MOVE!!!

[ClintonTyree]

1. No....

it's not true.

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. No, it's not true

After FDR, it was decided that no one can sit as President more than two terms.

[ET Awful]

5. To be accurate, nobody can be ELECTED to two terms.

If a VP were to take the office of President following the death of a President, he could run for election twice.

So, technically you can sit for more than two terms, you just can't be elected for more.

[Lasher]

8. So Dubya could run for President in 2008

He hasn't been elected even once.

[ET Awful]

10. Well, despite doubts about 2004, by the legal definition, he was

"elected." Yes, I believe there was rampant election fraud, but there was not a Supreme Court intervention in the allocation of electoral votes, etc. So, technically, it counts as being elected.

However, 2000 could legally be argued as an appointment rather than an election, and some would say that legally he could run in 2008 for that reason alone.

Of course, in order to make that argument, they would have to admit to the illegitimacy of his first term.

[Kber]

14. I think how many times a VP can be elected depends on when

he starts his term. Less that two years to serve in the first term means he can run twice, therefore the maximum one person can serve as President under the current constitution is 10 years.

But I have to go look for a link now to back that up.

[Whoa_Nelly]

16. THanks for making it clearer, ETA.

:hi: Was up too late and on meds from doctor when I wrote my reply.

You helped make much better sense of the response. :hi:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

3. Not true and eh?

> Is that in the Constitution?

No. It's not true.

>Someone said he is hoping to start a new one up by next year so that it is in full swing by the 2008
>elections.

Perhaps I am extremely dense - start up a new what?

[Tesla]

4. WAR

He can start up a War and now be outseated.


Thanks for the answers, I was concerned after I heard that.

[salin]

6. we were in war during the last election

sort of disproving the notion altogether (that is - were that a provision we already would have hit it - and not only in 2004 but during Vietnam, Korea, etc.)

[Azathoth]

7. Not true at all

A state of war in no way affects the term of any elected official. Presidents have entered/left office during nearly all the major wars. The president can also be impeached and removed from office by the Senate while the country is at war.

[area51]

9. out him or oust him?

Sorry, I can't resist a lame joke. :evilgrin:

There is the rumor, of course, that Bush is gay.

[Buns_of_Fire]

15. Now THERE'S a worthy target for Phred Phelps! ;-) (nt)

:evilgrin:

[mim]

11. Remember 1974?

Nixon quit before he was fired, and that was during the Vietnam War.

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[deutsey]

13. I think that's more a truism than anything

"Americans don't want to change the Commander-in-Chief in wartime." Or something like that.