Trust me, when he gets that third term, he’s going to take all your guns away.
When Obama’s body dies, his head will be kept alive in a jar in accordance with the secret protocols of Obamacare, and he will serve a third term in a thousand years time, having finally qualified for citizenship through residency.
What?
Would he do that before or after all the Republicans are sent away for re-education?
Nixon’s head might have something to say about that, that’s what!
I hear Kennedy’s good with it. Says he need more intellectual stimulation.
HE made the laws? So he dissolved Congress and is ruling by decree now?
Yeah, that’s what all those “czars” were for.
Of course that’s also the definition of “conspiracy” that people use when they’re trying to explain that if two companies can collude on the price of snack foods, the moon landing might have been faked.
And the bill didn’t go anywhere, even in the House.
Another thing they have in common: they’re both out of Congress in January.
Anyway I think we are agreed that impeachment doesn’t seem likely. (I remember saying in February that I could imagine it happening but it doesn’t look that way right now.) But unless you’re suggesting some broader nefarious plot to drum up charges or public support or Senate votes, it’s not a conspiracy theory. Of course it still doesn’t make much sense. Even the nuttiest Republicans know it wouldn’t work and would only make Biden president even if it miraculously did.
With Clinton’s second term, too. I wasn’t old enough to pay attention to politics in 1984, were people afraid of Reagan serving a third term?
I can’t google-fu a cite but I seem to remember a list where there have been many cases of a few Representatives getting indignant and making motions of impeachment that go nowhere. The only three that got traction i.e. seriously considered in committee were against Johnson, Nixon and Clinton.
I concur. If the House did not impeach Eric Holder by being blown off by the AG after his contempt vote (thereby committing a crime) and the ever popular Fast and Furious fiasco then there is no way they would impeach Obama.
"With Clinton’s second term, too. I wasn’t old enough to pay attention to politics in 1984, were people afraid of Reagan serving a third term? "
Yes.
Pro-Obama: serving a third term…
Con-Obama: impeachment…
I think those cancel each other out.
That was also an arguably more legitimate scandal then Benghazi. This claim sort of fails to acknowledge the way the situation has changed: until November you could argue they hoped Obama would lose and be gone in January. But then again if you believe that, you’re sort of suggesting House Republicans held something back in their attacks on Obama.
Yeah, this seems like just more of the same we get all the time. I’m pretty sure that there were people on this board fearing Bush 43 having a third term, and I personally knew a few in real life. Also as mentioned, there was this same sort of conspiracy thought after Clinton and Reagan were reelected. I imagine that “fear” goes back quite a bit farther too. For that matter, I remember impeachment of Bush talk as well as the no impeachment of Obama talk.
Thus, at least for the foreseeable future, I expect that, thanks to the Clinton impeachment, regardless of party affiliation, there will always be talk from the sitting president’s party that the opposite party will attempt impeachment. And, similarly, ff a president should be reelected, there will also be conspiracy talk of him serving a third term and/or becoming a dictator.
I do recall Reagan appearing in 1988 before a crowd of Young Republicans chanting “Four More Years!” (By this time Reagan was senile, which his running for a third term, or continuing in office past 1988, would have made impossible to hide.)
Who was doing the chanting, Reagan or the crowd?
In the sense that zero cancels out zero leaving zero.
Yea, but all their constituents are either fleeing for Canada and Norway or trying to seceed.