The Lame Duck

We need to remove the term limits for Presidents. It is, in my opinion, seriously damaging our society. Especially in today's world of polarized politics, I think getting rid of the term limits to the office of the President is essential. The debate should be held annually every four years--every politician should be responsible for his behavior and decisions and the people should have the chance to prove at every election where they really want the nation to be headed.

Yes, I realize that the party in power typically brings this argument up...and yes, I realize that if we had allowed Reagan to reverse the law, Clinton might still be President. To these concerns I say this: I don't care. The law is a stupid one, and is making the second term of the president less and less effective...and that is backwards thinking in my opinion. We cannot effectively knock the legs out from under our leaders directly after their successful re-election for fear that they might continue to be re-elected by virtue of their political success. That's madness. The circumstances that produced the 4 terms of FDR don't happen everyday. I think its far more likely that the office of the President would grow in its ability to accomplish something than that it would immediately evolve into our own version of a dynasty.

I suppose this seems as if it came out of no where...I have heard too many discussions recently about the dwindling support of the President and the "fact" that he's a lame duck, barely two years into his second term...and I just get tired of it. I don't expect it to change anytime soon--neither side wants to give up power to the other, and ultimately Congress doesn't want the office of the President to have more power than he absolutely needs...but if we were actually trying to fix things that have gone wrong in our country, that would be one of them.