Reply #15: That's fine. I simply want to point out that we always want those who complain

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about OUR guy to admit to their hypocrisy when THEIR guy does the same thing. I will admit that I am not much prone to admit my own hypocrisy when I complain about THEIR guy and the MY guy goes and does the same thing. (In this situation, if I had blasted Uribe for seeking a third term, then excused MY guy for doing the same thing - presumably because it is "different" when my guy does it.)

I lived in the Philippines in the seventies when Marcos declared martial law after two terms as president. It causes me to worry when any president, constitutionally limited to two terms, decides that he is the only one who can run the country, so that the constitution needs to be amended so that he can stay in power. I wonder how many presidents who have succeeded in acquiring third terms in such a manner ended up staying in office indefinitely (what's wrong with a fourth term or a fifth term or, in the case of Mugabe, an eighth term?) since the love of power is a hard thing to let go of.