Sheesh. With comments like these from my European friends it perplexes me how us Americans are accused of "swollen head syndrome." Must be our superior athletic abilities...
The main issue with me is having a cult of personality like a head of state remain in an important and pivotal political role after his term is over. It allows for him/her to garner too much power. The balance is upset. I believe this is true no matter who the leader is. Even a paragon such as Ronald Reagan. They should go into the job with the knowledge they have a maximum of 8 years to get things done. After that it's time to play golf and write your memoirs and build houses for poor people and raise money for charity/disaster victims. Stay out of politics. dj On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 3:30 PM, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote: > One could add that those democracies which use a more sophisticated > mixture of legislative/executive structures. with the practical, day- > to-day executive elected by and responsible to parliament, don't seem > to need term limits. Governments are elected by parliament and, should > they lose their majorities (either through the collapse of coalitions > or, more usually, as a result of general elections) are replaced by > them. Prime Ministers lose their positions, go into opposition, and > are occasionally even reelected some years later. It's only in the > rarer, more primitive forms of republics, based on an eighteenth > century model which simply replaces a monarchial executive with a > presidential one (e.g. USA, France and Russia), that the concept of > term limits is even seems to be necessary. > > Francis > > On 21 Feb., 22:11, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote: >> Don, >> >> There's no limit on terms here in the UK. However, as the current Labour >> government has found out (lead by Blair or Brown), if you're in power for >> much more than a decade you end up rewriting your own policies and the >> population falls out of love with you. Obama on the Supreme Court sounds >> like a good idea -- he'll probably be be able to say awake during events and >> meetings, unlike some of the geriatrics serving there now. >> >> Right now America could probably do with abandoning democracy altogether and >> coming back under British rule. It'll be for your own good. We're living in >> a time where, because of your clumsy foreign policies, more people are >> offended by the American flag than the flag of Nazi Germany. We'll show you >> how to do it properly without drawing too much attention to yourself -- just >> like we're doing with our theft of the Argentinian's oil. It'll do you good, >> rolling with the pros. >> >> Ian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.
