Why do you believe president Obama will only serve one term?

Barack Obama is likely to last for only one term as President of the United States, since critics find it hard for him to be able to get selected for the next term. History reveals that there have been a lot of USA Presidents who served only for a single term and were not selected again. Here is a list given of all those presidents who managed to make it only once to the presidential office.

Twelve Presidents have served a single term - John Quincy Adams, John Adams, James K Polk, Martin Van Buren, Benjamin Harrison, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Jimmy Carter, Rutherford B Hayes, Herbert Hoover, William Howard Taft and George HW Bush.

Four Presidents made it to the Presidential office through death of their successors and then went on to serve a single elected term of their own - Calvin Coolidge, Harry S Truman, Lyndon B Johnson and Theodore Roosevelt.

Three Presidents got elected for second terms but were not able to complete them. - William McKinley and Abraham Lincoln functioned for only months of before they were assassinated; Richard M Nixon resigned just 19 months into his second term due to the Watergate scandal.

5 Presidents - William H Harrison, Zachary Taylor, James A. Garfield, Warren G Harding, and John F. Kennedy - died during their first terms and so had no opportunity to seek a second.

Apart from all the changes Obama has brought to America and its constitutional system, it is also a fact that he is unlikely to compete for the next term. With all the courage to be the first black president, Obama also has the courage to change the trend of how politicians use to run their office. Anybody could have jumped on a stage and said ...