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Being in campaign mode isn't

Resistance — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:28:09 +0000

In reply to 4-8 years is both too long

Being in campaign mode isn't so bad considering, we wouldn't just be getting campaign promises we would actually be voting on results.

4-8 years is both too long

Verified Atheist — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:54:07 +0000

In reply to Term- 4 at 2 years

4-8 years is both too long and too short. It'd be nice to have a more responsive President, but you also don't want one who is always in campaign mode (which we apparently already have, and have had for a while).

Term- 4 at 2 years

Resistance — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:14:15 +0000

In reply to I'm not against term limits,

Term- 4 at 2 years each?

Would it help to define term limits first?.

Presently; a President can serve Two (2) @ four (4) year terms. for a total of 8 years

Why not change the term, to Four (4) @ two (2) year terms for a total of 8 years.

The President would have to seek a vote of confidence based upon his results, and not his promises.

In todays fast paced world 4 -8 years is extremely slow to meet the needs of the Nation.

Get on with the job of governing or get replaced; sooner rather than later.

Make it less time, for lesser office holders.

Sounds as convincing as...

Qnonymous — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:29:38 +0000

In reply to I've noticed you often do

Sounds as convincing as... some of my best friends are art appraisers.

;-)

So that they finally do get

David Seaton — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:51:25 +0000

In reply to Here's a little something for

So that they finally do get fatigued?

Here's a little something for

Verified Atheist — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:21:49 +0000

In reply to Hope you don't mind being out

Here's a little something for those who don't have Jew fatigue:

I've noticed you often do

artappraiser — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:18:49 +0000

In reply to Quite the contrary. I am

I've noticed you often do this some my best friends are negroes thing after the fact. It falls flat. If you'd adjust your rhetoric in the first place I think you'd find you get more respect.

I get the same feeling now I

David Seaton — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:12:05 +0000

In reply to Hope you don't mind being out

I get the same feeling now I got in 2008, when I was warning people that Obama was a fake... I was right then, and I'm afraid I'm right now, but this is much more serious. Bloody Cassandra, that's me.

The Arab Spring is a "sea change" for US influence in the ME and there are forces at work (energy etc.) that could bring down the dollar.... and that is just the good news.

Israel cannot afford the luxury of being as stupid as the USA can... The USA is so big and so intrinsically rich that it can come back from any disaster, but Israel cannot. The relationship between the two countries is a classic folie à deux.

Hey, it's for his own

artappraiser — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:08:16 +0000

In reply to Thanks AA. I don't think

Hey, it's for his own benefit. It tires people out and prevents them from getting to the actual issue--there's all this anti-semitic layer on top that you have to deal with before you can even get to his point. When he was chicken littling about now this is really the end of America because of the UN veto, I thought about commenting--yeah it's depressing how the masses in China, India and Russia are rioting in the streets about the U.S. blocking Palestine's admission to the U.N.

Quite the contrary. I am

David Seaton — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:57:49 +0000

In reply to Funny (not) you take it that

Quite the contrary. I am about the most philo-Semitic person you are ever liable to meet and I have been since my earliest childhood, as anyone who has read my blog knows. To top it off I lived and loved in Israel as a young man (skin, lovely skin, in the game) and now as an old man, I am absolutely horrified at the direction that things are taking... and so are many American Jews (see mondoweiss) and many Israelis (see Haaretz). Anyone who has read history, which as Mark Twain said, doesn't repeat itself, but does rhyme, can see some ghastly dynamics at work right now. I feel like bloody Cassandra sometimes.