User:Viriditas/George W. Bush's third term as President of the United States

Due to the two term limit to the office of the President of the United States in the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, George W. Bush was ineligible to run for a third term. However, critics on both the left and the right have argued that the presidency of Barack Obama has continued the policies of the Bush administration into a third and fourth term, leaving Bush-era policies intact, unchanged, and in some areas stronger than before, even though Obama was elected on a platform that opposed the positions of the Bush administration. Once elected into office, critics claimed that Bush's policies had received a third (and later a fourth) term, doing a runaround the constitutional limits in place to prevent a monarchy, but doing nothing to weaken the oligarchical tendencies of the state.