HILLARY CAN'T CONSTITUTIONALLY BE ELECTED PRESIDENT - OR VICE-PRESIDENT EITHER

Jon Christian Ryter ^ | 06/23/04 | Jon Christian Ryter

[mhking]

Bull. And when President Crusty takes office, the writer of this bird-cage liner will be forced to eat his words -- that is if she doesn't try to have him prosecuted for heresy...[rolling eyes]

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[FreedomCalls]

If this prevents Condeleeza Rice from running as the VP in 2004 and from seeking the Presidency in 2008, I'm against it.

[B4Ranch]

Didn't you mean udderly?

[Doctor Stochastic]

Who the heck is Jon Christian Ryter?
Did he ever get past 8th grade?

Where's the evidence that he/she/it/one/él/ella/uno/sie/es/er/man/il/elle/on actually did get past 8th grade?

[freedomlover]

Maybe because she's not human, but not for the reasons you give.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

Hope you don't mind me buttin' in, but I was always told to bump my posts right away. Then to bump them on occassion and to ping them to people I knew so they would get out there.

FRegards

[Dawgreg]

Since when did the Clinton's let a little thing like the Constitution stop them from doing what they damn -well please? Hitlery can only get past it with help from Republicans like that idiot Hatch! Pleeeeeeze......all you voters in Utah vote that "booby Hatch" out of office! He's a disgrace to the office.........and the Clintoons are just disgraceful......period.

[dvwjr]

"Although Mondale and Ferraro lost in the biggest election upset since 1820 when John Quincy Adams won only one electoral vote in his fight to win the presidency from James Madison"...

You can tell when someone who writes screeds like this one has no idea behind the history he quotes. The election of 1820 was when James Madison was running "UN-OPPOSED" for reelection, an event that has only happened in 1820 and with both elections of George Washington (in the pre-12th Amendment EC system). John Q Adams(6) was then the Secretary of State in the Madison Administration and was NOT trying to "fight to win the presidency from James Madison" as the 'author' so blithely asserts, Adams received the electoral vote of a "faithless" elector who was trying to both flatter future presidential candidate Adams(6) and deny James Madison a 100% electoral college sweep.

This would be about as intellectually bankrupt as saying that Ronald Reagan was crushed in the electoral college voting in December 1976 when both Jimmy Carter (297) and Jerry Ford (240) were well ahead of Reagan's (1) electoral college vote. The history: Reagan was not running for the presidency in the general election of November 1976. A Ford/Dole elector from the State of Washington changed his electoral vote to Reagan/Dole.

dvwjr

[badgerlandjim]

Hillary ain't worried. She'll just whip out her genitals and show that she's a guy.

[cherry]

I can just imagine this guy.....a little twit of a guy, bespeckled, humped over, skinny and weak, trying to dig up obscure facts to fit his "woe is me" attitude towards life....

I sure as hell don't want the Hilary witch anywhere near the White House, but I know that other women exist that would/ could be the next American Margaret Thatcher's......

[tdadams]

Why? What is the point of bumping a post right away?

[weegee]

What does the Constitution say about a "co-president" holding the office for more than 8 years. And for those who say that Hillary didn't wield much power, she tried to nationalize health care with closed door meetings.

Bill Clinton would get ANOTHER 8 years as "co-president" as well.

Another end-runaround the Constitution.

[weegee]

Hillary had "unelected" power and attempted to nationalize health care. The case can legally be made (and the term comes from her own phrasing).

[1Old Pro]

Not an issue for hillary, she is a man.

[dirtboy]

Hillary had "unelected" power and attempted to nationalize health care. The case can legally be made

No, it can't. Bill Clinton was the elected president from 1993 to 2001.

[frithguild]

Many old statements of common law and older statutes are not gender nuetral. Foe example, the classic definition of murder given by Lord Chief Justice Coke was:

"Murder is when a man of sound memory and of the age of discretion, unlawfully killeth within any county of the realm any reasonable creature in rerum natura under the King's peace, with malice aforthought , either expressed by the party or implied by law, so as the party who, or hurt etc. die of the wound or hurt etc. within a year and a day of the same."

But that never stopped the prosecution of a female for murder.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Doesn't the Constitution bar the spouse of the President from succeding him/her?

Where does it say that?

[Recovering_Democrat]

Yet, Article II, Section 1 declares that the President will be a man 16 times. Further, as noted by J.A. Corry, principal of Queen's University in London, and Henry J. Abraham, Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, in their political science text book, Elements of Democratic Government (©1964; Oxford University Press) that in addition to the "written" qualifications for the office, there are also several "unwritten" qualifications and customary requirements that precedent has added to the qualifications for the office of President of the United States. Corry and Abraham insist these prerequisites must be viewed in the light of the entire composite. Being male is necessarily one of them.

This is specious thinking. Such literalism is not going to be upheld by the electorate or the courts. And rightly so.

[TheBattman]

What do you "guys" make of this? Makes for an interesting argument!

[sweetliberty]

I don't have time to read the whole article, but I will say this. Since when did Bill and Hillary let a little thing like the Constitution get in the way of what they wanted to do?