Would an 8 year presidential term be better?

[Slystallion]

If you look at history...to lose a re-election term you have to be damn near awful or have some other extenuating circumstance like Vietnam or Ross Perot.

I'm not saying i prefer this method but i just want to discuss the pros and cons of a 4 year term vs a solid 6 or 8 year term where you know you can create an agenda and really have time to implement a true vision for the country

as opposed to a 4 year term where you may hold back decisions or not do what is best for the country because you have an election coming up.

It would suck knowing a president who's policies you don't support has no real threat to being taken out of office but if you do like his or her policies they can concentrate on their vision without having to campaign

Thoughts?

 

[Brown_Pride]

I say 6 years. It's both short and long enough. 4 years is basically 2 years running shyt+ 2 years running for reelection.

Or better yet 1st term 6 years 2nd term 4 years. You get one decade no more.

 

[DaPresident]

I say 6 years. It's both short and long enough. 4 years is basically 2 years running shyt+ 2 years running for reelection.

Or better yet 1st term 6 years 2nd term 4 years. You get one decade no more.

I like that idea...


8 is just too long, especially if you don't like the guy who won...that's a very LONG time to wait to get him/her out...

6 is perfect...not too long but not so short they can't make things happen w/o having to appease folks for reelection

 

[tru_m.a.c]

I say 6 years. It's both short and long enough. 4 years is basically 2 years running shyt+ 2 years running for reelection.

Or better yet 1st term 6 years 2nd term 4 years. You get one decade no more.

seeing as the original precedent wasn't based on any real statistical evidence that showed a direct relationship between yrs in office vs national growth.....

....I'm all for revisiting the topic....

although I only shudder to think what would happen if you got stuck with mitt romney for 10 yrs

 

[Brown_Pride]

although I only shudder to think what would happen if you got stuck with mitt romney for 10 yrs

don't even play like that.

 

[daze23]

I say 6 years. It's both short and long enough. 4 years is basically 2 years running shyt+ 2 years running for reelection.

Or better yet 1st term 6 years 2nd term 4 years. You get one decade no more.

maybe you could invert it, and have the second term be longer. then there's a short trial/probation period, in case the person is a real disaster

I like the idea of a full decade though

 

[Slystallion]

A 6 yr term with a chance to be reelected for a 4yr term sounds like the best option. I can even see some presidents deciding not to run if they got what they wanted and picking a successor to run in his or her place.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

No matter what, a large portion of the term would be spent campaigning for reelection

 

[tru_m.a.c]

A 6 yr term with a chance to be reelected for a 4yr term sounds like the best option. I can even see some presidents deciding not to run if they got what they wanted and picking a successor to run in his or her place.

lol nah but that shyt sounds like a sports contract

Moderator: "So with Obama entering his free agency period, we must wait and see if the people pick up the last 4 yrs of his contract."

Moderator B: "I don't know Bob, Obama's ERA (economic revenue average) has been pretty sub par for the amount of money he's requiring to run this country. We'll just have to wait until election season, when his true value is tested by the market"

 

[tru_m.a.c]

maybe you could invert it, and have the second term be longer. then there's a short trial/probation period, in case the person is a real disaster

I like the idea of a full decade though

only reason I don't like a short trial/probation period, is because I feel like it will definitely create a race to the bottom

 

[Crakface]

4 is long enough. Dont disrespect the founding fathers.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

maybe this is what you need to put a heavier emphasis on the legislative process at the state level

 

[Blackking]

maybe you could invert it, and have the second term be longer. then there's a short trial/probation period, in case the person is a real disaster

I like the idea of a full decade though

Imagine what a horrible, middle class hating, imperialistic, Bank empowering, war hawk, president could do in 10 years. They could take sh1t over. Take all rights away. They could plan attacks on the US, or allow them to happen, and have us begging them to take away our rights and enforce military law. they could also ruin the middle class even more.

 

[Liquid]

I think 6 years would work best

 

[Darth Nubian]

One six year term is enough. Most presidents will lose the congress in their six year anyway and lame duck it out for two years. We can just skip that part.