re: One six year term, no two four year terms

Screw that. Four years is just about right. Enough continuity, enough to survive a mistake.

I think where we (the voters) make a mistake is conceding the second term to the president too easily. I remember a friend saying just after Obama got elected "He's going be a great leader for the next 8 years". I asked "8 years, it's 4 year term?" His response " yeah but unless a president does something really wrong, he will get a second term."

He turned out to be right. I think many voted out of the default "he's didn't completely f*ck up, so let's keep it going" position."

That's the (abhorrent) power of incumbency in modern presidential politics.

I continue to think the second term should be only for very exceptional presidencies. Reagan, yes. Bush 41, no (got that one right!). Clinton, no. GWB, not if the democrat candidate was better. Obama, should have been primaried.

Maybe I just hate incumbents? Ultimately it's up to us--the voters to take care of this. Seems the fears of the founding fathers of the people electing themselves into an aristocracy were well founded... We've forgotten our roots.