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I was going to post in support of a recall system in place for presidents, like opie suggested.
But I don't agree that we shouldn't have more than one term. Although, at first glance, the argument that presidents should not spend too much time campaigning is persuasive, I think the second re-election campaign has an important function:
how do we know when the US public supports the policies it's president is implementing? While I may disagree with them, the majority of the voting public may actually support what the current president is doing. Even if kerry took office at the end of an 8 year bush presidency (for example), he ought to continue with the policies that the majority of the voting public supported--just like bush should have done with clinton's popular policies.
it makes no sense, in regards to the long-term health and political environemnt of the nation, to whip one's constituency into a frenzy for the first couple of years and dismantle everything the prior president did.
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