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The inscription noting the duration of Bush's presidential term doesn't read "2001-2009." It reads "2001-BLANK." In other words, the statue says he's going to be president from 2001 through infinity! Everyone knows that Bush is supposed to leave office in January of 2009. No mystery. No uncertainty. The 22nd Amendment makes it so. It's the law. No gray area.
Or is there?
I knew this would slip out somehow, but I never thought the leak would come from a statue. Is someone at the National Guard trying to warn us? Does President Bush plan to use his Executive authority under his wartime powers to cancel the 2008 election because a change in leadership here might embolden the terrorists? The statue says 'yes.'
Go to the White House website and confirm that I didn't Photoshop a damn thing. It's absolutely real.
Originally posted by mythatsabigprobe
Seems a little suspicious to me. Why even put a start date there, it will just make it harder to match the engraving when it's updated later. It's more practical to just leave space for the whole date line and add it afterwards. It's also just a granite plinth, so no big deal to grind the front off and recarve the whole inscription if something unexpected happened. I'd expect to see the predicted dates there, or nothing at all.
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution. (Introduced in House)
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:
`Article --
`The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is repealed.'.
Originally posted by ArchAngel
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution. (Introduced in House)
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:
`Article --
`The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is repealed.'.
Thats all it would take to see Bush be legally able to run for another term.
is a gaping logical fallacy as everyone in this thread has come up with half a dozen plausible reasons for him not finishing out his term.
...Everyone knows that Bush is supposed to leave office in January of 2009. No mystery. No uncertainty. The 22nd Amendment makes it so. It's the law. No gray area....
Originally posted by dgtempe
This statue is no joke. To not put the "end" date on it, if one were to think it was done just because he may not finish his term, is in very poor taste and thats not why it was done.
The end date is KNOWN, and its never been kept out of previous busts of presidents.
That leaves one other alternative.