The Twenty-Second Amendment

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

The political machine at work against itself and the institution of term limits for President of the United States.  With a Republican congress in control against a Democratic President the idea of issuing term limits seemed to be a good idea for the nation to prevent the continued election of a particular individual.  This idea was nothing new as George Washington was thought to be the first person to be elected more than twice with several other Presidents to follow suit.  This particular amendment happened while the office of President was held by Franklin Roosevelt.  Following the terms of Truman the Republicans had their own in office, Eisenhower and wanted the amendment repealed...too bad!

Politically Funny Cartoon

 What we see here is a press release image of FDR saying that the constitution is cancelled on his election for a third term.  Although the Constitution never really spelled out the term limits for president we can see that some of the populace thought that the idea of greater than two terms to be excessive.  Although reading above you can see who the progenitors of that idea were.

Obama and the 22nd Amendment or Math Genius

 

This is both a poke at the president for not being that much of a mathematical genius, and the fact that in his speech during this interview he does allude to the fact that he is planning on a 8-10 year stint as president of the United States.  This is in direct violation of the 22nd Amendment unless he plans on trying to repeal said amendment.  Although this is something that could be attempted I doubt that with the current legal speak going into previous amendments that it wouldn't take effect until after his terms.