Except that, in my several decades, literally no one ever said that. if someone did say that, they're ignorant or selling something.
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Um did you forget Obama? Lol How was he not a rags to riches example of how anyone could become president?
Well I was raised in a world where at least a few public school teachers and grownups said, inter alia, that:
- “[The United States of] America’s the best country on Earth”, and that
- “In [the United States of] America, any citizen can become president”.
- “In [the United States of] America, any citizen can become president”.
So long as they are natural born, 35 years of age and can convince enough schmucks to vote for them, yeah. Of course, the demonstration of that being true is that we got Trump, a lifetime grifter with no political experience.
On the upside, he proves one of my go to sayings true: "There are two kinds of people I don't trust, salesmen and politicians. And politicians are just salesmen selling that they should be in charge."
People said that about Obama, in fact it was a large part of his appeal. Kamala as well. Trump dynasty... Not so much
Try a bath.
More time to cogitate
kinda disingenuous since 1992, bill clinton was a relative unknown governor and 2000, george bush was a relative unknown governor, and 2008, was bidens first real presence on a ticket
I think that someone who actually reached the top, being president, should not be allowed anymore. They suceeded, and can brage about, be happy. There is no need for a second turn. You did your best right? This avoids corruption.
We already have a presidential term limit.
For two periods. I am talking about only allow one period.
Two seems pretty good.
A. We already have a term limit.
B. It was put in place to prevent another FDR, someone who was re-elected so much because he spent most of his political capital on actually helping Americans and then using the looming European and Pacific conflicts to build a middle class manufacturing economy. Which we promptly started selling for parts once the the rest of the world recovered enough to host our factories.
You could very easily argue that term limits were put in place to make sure no President could stay around long enough to prevent worker centric policies from being watered down or destroyed before they can have an impact.