Reply #29: In the words of Thomas Jefferson... [View All]

[Bucky]

The second feature {about the Constitution} I dislike, and greatly dislike, is the abandonment in every instance of the necessity of rotation in office, and most particularly in the case of the President. Experience concurs with reason in concluding that the first magistrate will always be re-elected if the constitution permits it. He is then an officer of life. This once observed it becomes of so much consequence to certain nations to have a friend or a foe at the head of our affairs that they will interfere with money and with arms.

Today, of course, the problem isn't having a friend or foe of "certain nations" stuck in the White House for too long, but for a friend of Halliburton or General Dynamics or Exxon squatting term after glad handing term in the people's house.