One six year term, no two four year terms

I don't agree with term limits for any elected official. For better or worse, the electorate should be able to choose whoever they like as many times as they like.

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how would that solve the last two years being meaningless problem?

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Year seven and eight always seem to be lost years. Year six seems to be the cutoff point of productivity. Of course I guess year five and six could turn out the same way for a six year term presidency. That being said, I would much rather have two elections over twelve years than the three we have now.

Wouldn't that just beleaguer the non-productive years? I think it has everything to do with burnout frankly and 3-4 years tends to do that with many people, not just the presidency.

Hear ye...Hear ye....this.....abolishing or even reforming the IRS....will NEVER happen. N E V E R!!!

The people voting on changing them are the main benefactors of the system is being as it is. Thanks for playing, next item please.

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Wouldn't that just beleaguer the non-productive years?

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Possibly but you would have a president with four uninterrupted years of no campaigning to try and get the job done. Right now we have two years of productivity, so to say, and then two years of campaigning. If reelected, two years to do something then two years of slowing fading into the sun. So out of eight years you get four years of trying to do something. With a six year term you get four consecutive years with two less years of unproductivity.

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Mexico has a one, six-year term limitation. Are they doing well with it?

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Ridiculous. As if Mexico's problems lie completely in the design.

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.