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Ter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 03:53 PM Original message |
If there were no term limits, would Bill Clinton still be President? |
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northoftheborder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
1. The Gore/Bush selection is one of the greatest American history tragedies |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
2. Why on earth would anyone want Clinton to still be President? |
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Ter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 04:02 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I neither endorsed nor rejected the idea |
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Rageneau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 04:19 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Peace? Prosperity? Responsible government? Smart appointments? National image? |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 04:34 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. DADT, DOMA, Telecomm Act, NAFTA, ending Glass Steagall, welfare reform, enron loophole |
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AlabamaLibrul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 05:58 PM Response to Reply #8 |
21. LOL, no. n/t |
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Avant Guardian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 02:03 AM Response to Reply #2 |
32. Because the national debt would most likely be paid down by now |
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Rambis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
3. Clenis landslide |
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Kennah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
5. If he were still President ... |
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Ter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 04:11 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Depends on if 9/11 would have happened |
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Proud Liberal Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 04:23 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. His administration thwarted a lot of REAL terrorist plots |
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Dawson Leery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 09:41 PM Response to Reply #9 |
30. Correct! |
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road2000 (995 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 04:56 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. Remember the Gore Commission? |
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LiberalFighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
7. He probably would had been elected to a third. Not sure about a 4th. |
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SheilaT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
10. If there were no term limits |
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Kennah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 04:30 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Might have been a third term, but ... |
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Ter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 05:15 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Reagan certainly would have won if he ran in 1988 |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 05:34 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. If that was the case we would gotten GHW until 2000. |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 08:02 PM Response to Reply #16 |
26. FDR was very sick when he ran for a fourth term... |
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SheilaT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 10:41 PM Response to Reply #16 |
31. My take is that by then he'd have been so well isolated |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
13. Yes. |
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bigwillq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 05:03 PM Response to Original message |
15. No one really knows. |
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Ter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 05:18 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. It seems every political viewpoint supports presidential term limits |
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bigwillq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 05:26 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. They're always free to move to North Korea (nt) |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
20. He could have won in 2000 |
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Greybnk48 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
22. Yes, definitely. |
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Uzybone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 07:46 PM Response to Original message |
23. Would he have fired Greenspan by now? |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
24. Interesting..... |
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WolfoftheWild (355 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
25. nope. he has had heart disease and surgery. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
27. Only if he had prevented the economic collapse of 2008, which seems unlikely considering... |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 08:38 PM Response to Original message |
28. Yes |
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craigmatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-04-11 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
29. I think he might've lost in 2004 because of 9/11 or the dot com bust. |
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Beacool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-05-11 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
33. I think that he would have won a third term handily. |
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