Maher said the president only gets about two years to work before campaigning again. Maher wants 6-year president term

Liberal comic Bill Maher wants to have a one-term limit for the president, but extend the term to six years from four years.

“Second inaugurals always seem kind of pointless and anticlimactic. We should probably just get rid of them. Actually, why not get rid of second terms altogether?” the host of HBO’s “Real Time” blogged Tuesday.


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He said that presidents spend much of their first term campaigning for the second and that by the time they get reelected, they’re about to become a lame duck.

“Everybody agrees they have maybe two years to get anything accomplished, and then people stop returning their calls,” Maher blogged, adding later: “This is why there are so many second-term scandals: boredom.”

He continued: “Why not give presidents one six-year term where they don’t have to worry about re-election or raising money or anything but trying to pass the test of history? Especially since they really only have six years anyway, and then the next election starts.”

Maher said that if he had his way, President Barack Obama would’ve gotten more done in his first term on issues like gay marriage and gun control.

“And, perhaps most importantly, the Republicans wouldn’t have wasted two years trying to destroy the economy to prevent him from getting re-elected,” Maher said.