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Wut.
They don’t want Obama to come in and spoil it
This is (some of) the language of the current amendment, the difference being the replacing of "once" with "twice" as the last word. The idea is that if you're VP and are elevated to be President, it counts as one of your two possible terms if you serve more than half of the term you took over during. Basically, this kiss ass waste of space just copy/pasted the existing amendment and incremented every number in it.
Have you done any of the following?
If you answered yes to any of these, you can't be elected to the Presidency again.
Elaborating on what an "Acting President" is... if, for whatever reason, the sitting president cannot perform their duties, they can transfer their power voluntarily to their VP, either temporarily or indefinitely. Those reasons could be health or cognitive issues, or any number of other things. The President then remains President, but the VP will be the Acting President until such time as the President can perform their duties again. Essentially, they decided that if a guy serves the majority of the term as acting President, you were essentially just President when it comes to term limits.
Oh you lot with your "he can't do that because of laws/the constitution". It's adorable.
That's a permutation of language in the original amendment. If a sitting president dies with more than two years left in the term, the new president (former vice president) can only run for reelection once, per the current amendment. This changes it to twice (10 total years as president)