Barack Obama's 'discontented ghost' — 4 reasons he'll be a new kind of ex-president

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Barack Obama's 'discontented ghost' — 4 reasons he'll be a new kind of ex-president
By James Coll, contributor - 12/30/16 01:00 PM EST

The Constitution as amended in 1951 limits an individual’s length of service as Chief Executive to no more than two terms or ten years if serving out the remaining “two years of a term to which some other person was elected President.”

But it wasn't always this way.

One early critique of the 1,023 words that created the presidency in Article II was that none of them prohibited those who held the office from running for an unlimited number of four-year terms. “Wherein does this president, invested with his powers and prerogatives,” one opponent to ratification of the document wrote in 1787, “essentially differ from the king of Great Britain?”

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http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/312218-obamas-discontented-ghost-4-reasons-hell-be-a-different

[Idaho_Cowboy]

There's more of gravy train than grave about this ghost.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

wouldn't be ironic if the new sheriff in town found the real birth certificate in Kenya, unearthed his Occidental application listing him as a foreigner, and found out he has illegally used someone else's SSN?

Could be he could be disqualified to receive his government pension and other benefits.

Now that would be a new kind of ex-president, with emphasis on ex.