Without the 22nd ammendment, how many terms can Bill Clinton get?

How many terms can Bill Clinton get?


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Very. Bush's direct response to 9/11 was actually pretty good, reassuring and energizing. His initial entire into Afghanistan was pretty good, quite timely, and VERY popular. The invasion of Iraq was a mistake, but it wasn't really part of his "9/11 handling."

If Clinton were President, he would likely have said, "Turn over Osama or we'll cruise missile you." The Taliban would ignore him and we'd send some cruise missiles to "bounce rubble." Then Clinton would have to figure out what to do next, probably more cruise missiles. We'd look impotent (arguably one of the things that lead to 9/11) and there might be more attacks.

Carter would almost certainly have handled it FAR worse (think Iran hostages) and Gore and Obama might well handle like Clinton, with nothing but cruise missile and/or drone strikes.

Um, no. None of these guys were peaceniks, and post-9/11, all of them (Clinton, Gore, Obama, even Carter) would have invaded Afghanistan and moved to topple the Taliban. This wasn't a minor incident and the impulse to do something dramatic ran across the entire political spectrum. Not at all akin to the atmosphere after the embassy bombings (which led to the Cruise missile strikes).
 
Very. Bush's direct response to 9/11 was actually pretty good, reassuring and energizing. His initial entire into Afghanistan was pretty good, quite timely, and VERY popular. The invasion of Iraq was a mistake, but it wasn't really part of his "9/11 handling."

If Clinton were President, he would likely have said, "Turn over Osama or we'll cruise missile you." The Taliban would ignore him and we'd send some cruise missiles to "bounce rubble." Then Clinton would have to figure out what to do next, probably more cruise missiles. We'd look impotent (arguably one of the things that lead to 9/11) and there might be more attacks.

Carter would almost certainly have handled it FAR worse (think Iran hostages) and Gore and Obama might well handle like Clinton, with nothing but cruise missile and/or drone strikes.

Do you remember what Carter did during the hoatage crisis? He tried freeing them by force and it failed. He was not one to shy away from a crisis, especially a crisis as big as this one.

The whole reason Obama focused on keeping 'boots off the ground' was because of the big stink over the failures in Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2000 that wasn't there, and an invasion would be called for.
 
Um, no. None of these guys were peaceniks, and post-9/11, all of them (Clinton, Gore, Obama, even Carter) would have invaded Afghanistan and moved to topple the Taliban. This wasn't a minor incident and the impulse to do something dramatic ran across the entire political spectrum. Not at all akin to the atmosphere after the embassy bombings (which led to the Cruise missile strikes).

This. Clinton has repeatedly gone on record as stating that he saw the bombing of the Cole causis belli for war, but didn't go after Al Qaeda partially because he didn't want to leave whoever won the election with a mess to clean up and because he couldn't get the basing rights. If he thinks that he has a good shot at winning a third term, then yes he's going to turn Al Qaeda and the Taliban in a smear on the landscape.
 
Ike's health would prohibit him from running and he seemed pretty eager to retire.

A lot of people assume that given his age and health, Ike wouldn't run again even if there were no 22nd Amendment. I am not so sure--after all, he was worried that with a Democratic president the "spenders" elected to Congress in 1958 would run wild, and in particular he did not respect JFK (whom he considered a lightweight "playboy"--at least LBK and Symington were more "mature"). If he were convinced Nixon couldn't win, maybe he would consider it a duty to run...
 
A lot of people assume that given his age and health, Ike wouldn't run again even if there were no 22nd Amendment. I am not so sure--after all, he was worried that with a Democratic president the "spenders" elected to Congress in 1958 would run wild, and in particular he did not respect JFK (whom he considered a lightweight "playboy"--at least LBK and Symington were more "mature"). If he were convinced Nixon couldn't win, maybe he would consider it a duty to run...

How could he be convinced Nixon couldn't win though? OTL was a squeaker (or not even that if you listen to some)
 
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How could he be convinced Nixon couldn't win though? OTL was a squeaker (or not even that if you listen to some)

Let's just say that (1) it was far from certain that Nixon could beat Kennedy, whereas (2) it was taken for granted by everyone that Ike, if he could run again, would do so.
 
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