If You Were Planning A Third Term Would You Tell The World That You Wanted It? Of Course Not!

Why President Obama Says He Wouldn’t Want to Run for a Third Term

BY ABC News Radio | 01/24/2016

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(WASHINGTON) — President 

Obama says he wouldn’t pursue a

 third term in the White House 

even if it was permitted.

In a wide-ranging interview with

 CBS “Sunday Morning,” 

Obama was quick to answer 

when asked if he would want

 to stay in the White House after next January, if third terms weren’t prohibited under the 

22nd Amendment to the Constitution.

“No. I wouldn’t,” Obama said. “Number one, Michelle wouldn’t let me.”

Obama has said in the past that he believes he could win again if he was allowed to run. 

While he is expected to push over the next year for a Democrat to again take the White

 House, Obama said there’s a point when an individual becomes more prone to making 

mistakes by getting comfortable in office.

“This is a process in which the office should be continually renewed by new energy and 

new ideas and new insights,” Obama said. “And although I think I am as good of a

 president as I have ever been right now, I also think that there comes a point where

 you don’t have fresh legs.”

Obama also said there “absolutely” are days when he wonders why he ever ran for

 the presidency, saying there are times when he gets “tired” and “frustrated.”

“And yet, there has not been a day that I have not walked into the Oval Office and

 understood that at no point in my life will I ever have the chance to do as much good 

and make as much of a difference in the lives of people as I do right now,” Obama said.

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