What presidents could have had a third term without the 22nd amendment.

Well, the problem is that even given no 22nd Amendment, there was a strong tradition that Presidents do not run for a third term. FDR was the only one to ever break it. You must find a way to get rid of this tradition before it begins. Washington could have won as many terms as he wanted. So maybe if he keeps running until he dies, then other Presidents will follow his lead.

Another possibility is to butterfly away Benjamin Harrison. If Cleveland won two consecutive terms, he may have come back for a third, since that matched up with his second term anyway. I know he stepped away after term two, but he got cancer during his second term, and that health scare may have factored into his decision.
 
I noticed you didn't mention any of his accomplishments. Then again, there aren't any.
Wow, a President whose been in office a whole 9 months out of a 4 to 8 year term has only done limited things so far.:rolleyes:
Accomplishments: Black President, getting the world to not hate us and look up to us again, inspiring a generation, and more stuff to come. The point is, you have to wait.You can't put a hot dog on the grill three seconds, taste it, and complain that it's undercooked.
 
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With Clinton as President, 9/11 still happens. Would he be able to capture Nin Laden, probably not.


I'm not sure I agree with that. If 9/11, or its equivalent happens in this TL, I think Clinton will get Bin Laden. The OTL Clinton White House was offered OBL twice by the Sudanese government and refused because of Sudan's human right issues. I think they would want head off criticism that they were aware of Bin Laden and did nothing. Thet best way they could do that would be to capture or kill him.
 
With Clinton as President, 9/11 still happens. Would he be able to capture Nin Laden, probably not.

Hurricane Katrina still happens. Clinton would be more compassionate but there would still need to be reform to the disaster relief of the US and preparedness to natural disaster.

With these two big events, some other jiv turkey like Bush or McCain becomes president until they royally screw up.

Not necessarily. Clinton actually took the threat from al Qaeda seriously during his Presidency, unlike his successor, who repeatedly ignored warnings of an imminent attack on the United States. I doubt that Bill Clinton, who personally warned Bush prior to his taking office about al Qaeda, is going to shirk away from those memos in the fashion that Bush did.

Hurricane Katrina will happen as OTL, but I doubt that means that the effect of it is as widespread. Bush demoted FEMA to sub-cabinet level status upon taking office, and put a political hack in charge of the organization, rather than someone that knew how to run the agency. If Clinton is still President in 2005, I doubt that the impact of Katrina is going to be as traumatic for the country as it was under the Bush administration for those reasons alone.
 
Wow, a President whose been in office a whole 9 months out of a 4 to 8 year term has only done limited things so far.:rolleyes:
Accomplishments: Black President, getting the world to not hate us and look up to us again, inspiring a generation, and more stuff to come. The point is, you have to wait.You can't put a hot dog on the grill three seconds, taste it, and complain that it's undercooked.

Correction, he's only been in office nine months of a four year term. Lets not get ahead of ourselves or we'll be just as disappointed as Chicago.
 
I noticed you didn't mention any of his accomplishments. Then again, there aren't any.


My post was not a political one for Obama is 48 years old and if he served two terms would still be 15 years younger than Ronald Reagan. I seem to recall the first nine months of the Bush Presidency were highlighted by the
9/11 attacks which might be an accomplishment if Bush indeed wanted to be a war time president.
 
Correction, he's only been in office nine months of a four year term. Lets not get ahead of ourselves or we'll be just as disappointed as Chicago.
You have Palin, Howdy-Pawlenty, Huckabee, Romney and Steele (neither of those three will will) and Petraeus ain't gonna run. Along with that, you have a GOP that shot itself in the foot and bashed it's head against the wall over the last eight years, and which is reaching further to the furthest right and seemingly most extremist members of their base rather than locking up moderates and moderate-Conservatives as they should be (the GOP isn't going to get anywhere unless it dumps the bats**t crazies off and moderates, rather than trying to embrace those bats**t crazies as it seems they are now), against a President likely to keep around 50% to 60% approval ratings. It'll be like Goldwater v. Johnson in 1964 in a way. The GOP isn't going to win in 2012 short of the Mayan Apocalypse. I'm sorry, but you can't be anything but blunt at how ... "extreme" the Conservative movement and GOP is going now, and that's about as softly as I can put it. And I'm gonna leave it at that so we can get back on topic now.
 
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