"I actually think I'm a pretty good president. I think if I ran I could win. But I can't."- Barack Obama. That was the 44th president at a conference at the end of his 2nd term, Obama thought that he was a commendable president and that he was making the United States of America a finer place, but he knew he could not run for a third term and that he was going to have to take his final bow and end his presidency, and as we look further into this politic crisis, it turns out that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are one of the two most unpopular presidential candidates ever , so why can’t Barack Obama stay on for a third term, even though the majority of the democrats wanted him to stay? I strongly believe that the U.S should allow the president to serve 2 or more terms in office based on the fact that there could be a president in the following years when he or she raises the nation economy, improve the way of living, and the balance in government to a considerably higher state than it was, and where citizens would want that …show more content…
In 1951 the Twenty-Second Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution. Since then Presidents Eisenhower, Reagan, Clinton, Bush, and Obama have served two terms. And if someone takes over as President for two years or more, such as when Vice President Gerald Ford stepped in after President Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1973, they can then only be re-elected once. Another reason they considered this is because, before the amendment was written, President Franklin Roosevelt won a record four elections and was the US head of state from 1933 until he died in 1945, just three months into his fourth term. President Roosevelt’s long presidency broke a tradition of US presidents only serving two terms, even though it was not required by law at that