-=> Quoting Mark Lewis to Frank Scheidt <=-

 RS>> He beat their best, not once, but TWICE!
 FS>
 FS>> Actually Bill Clinton didn't even *face* the best the Republicans
 FS>> had to offer.  Why not?  Because a constitutional amendment
 FS>> prevented the GREAT Ronald Reagan from being easily elected to a
 FS>> third term ... [sigh] ...
 
 DC>> It also prevented Clinton from running, too.
 
 DC>> It would have been interesting!
 
 FS> Actually I think Bill Clinton, if he had been able to run for
 FS> a third term would have beaten George W. Bush easily ... and
 FS> that doesn't say much for the American voter ... [sigh] ...

 ML> are you folk forgetting that the number of terms is not limited? it is
 ML> the number of back-to-back terms that is limited...

One cannot forget what has never been.  The XXII amendment 
prevents a president from *ever* holding that office more than 
two terms.  You are probably think of some state laws which 
require some *governors* to be out of office for at least one 
term.

 ML> the president can be elected for two four year terms and then has to
 ML> sit out at least one four year term and can then be elected for another
 ML> set of two four year terms, and so on...

Not the President of the United States ...

... "Automatic" simply means it can't be fixed

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