If they'd never passed the amendment it might not have been a tradition anymore
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I thought they passed that amendment because FDR had smashed that tradition?
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FDR always said he only broke from tradition because of the unprecedented emergency of World War II
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How about Bill Clinton?
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you're assuming the precedent wouldn't already have been broken by reagan
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talk about a bad timeline
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If there were no term limits, Obama would never have been president at all. Reagan would likely have won a third term, throwing off all future elections. But let's say Clinton still runs in 1992 against Reagan instead of Bush, and Clinton wins. He'd have gone for a third too!
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The bigger effect isn’t on Obama, who didn’t want to run, but on CLINTON, who would have beaten Bush by enough that the Supreme Court couldn’t have stolen the election. Then everything is different. He probably stops 9-11.
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Trying to think this through seriously and maybe I just don't have the historical perspective, but were there any presidents between FDR and Reagan that were popular enough at the end of their second term that they could reasonably have gone for a third if they'd wanted?
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