Prediction

[Ike8477]

I have nothing to base this on other than intuition and my knowledge of U.S. history, but I believe that all Americans will have a serious decision to make at the end of Obama's second term.  No, it won't be who to elect to the Presidenty.  It will be what to do about a President who refuses to step down.  I think it is doubtful that he will simply refuse to turn over his authority with no reason given.  Instead, he will manufacture a "crisis" that we simply can't solve without the great one in power. There is precident for this (FDR in WWII) and don't think that this has been lost on Obama.  If the economy goes in the tank before his term ends, he will have all the excuses he needs to stay in power indefinitely.  Does anyone doubt that this is his goal?  Well, time will tell but I am expecting him to make his play for ultimate power at some point.  Remember where you heard it.

[alfsauve]

Ike you are joining an ever growing chorus of people who are concerned about just such an occurrence. We here will duly note your prediction but you aren't the first.  This concern goes back possibly as far as his first inauguration. When I get home I'll try to remember to do a little research on when this first appeared.

[Warrior1256]

Scary stuff!!! Guess we will have to wait and see.

[Solus]

I remember hearing towards the end of the first term that the 'team' was looking into what it would take to forgo further elections...have no ideal how reliable the source of that report was....

There might be a question about how to do it, but I can think of one way to stop it.

[Respen33]

He would need to reverse a constitutional amendment. Put in place to prevent the FDR's of the future.

That isn't to say he can't use the cards in his minority, liberal, and Muslim deck. Somewhere in there he could find a way to break more laws.

After all its only the honorable, ethical, and moral who follow the laws that society dictates.


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[kmitch200]

Does anyone doubt that this is his goal?

He's just a sock puppet. There's plenty more useful idiots around.
Why would the person doing the real planning need this bozo any more?

Different face, same agenda, same outcome and they can have the impression that it's all legit.

[DGF]

In order to to do this, first he would have to stockpile an awful lot of ammunition.

[tombogan03884]

As Alf posted it has been discussed before, the 2 options are to overturn the 22 Amendment or declare Martial law and postpone elections until after the "emergency".
But it's still a bummer of a first post.
Welcome aboard anyway. 

[JC5123]

Hey Tom, going to completely hijack the thread, and really don't care, cause hey, that's what we do here.

I just noticed on your tag that you show the Birthdate of America as 1775. Not to pick nits, but isn't the actual date July 4th 1776? The signing of the Declaration of Independance? Or am I missing something?

[tombogan03884]

I just used the years, I could have used 11-06-2012
But I figure you are free as you are going to ever be when you start shooting at Govt officials.for a short time in April the highest earthly authority they had to answer to was their Captain.