Bill Clinton could be just the ticket for Kerry (BARF)

houston chronicle ^ | 3/2/04

[butthead]

meant to say evil genius

;-)

[RichInOC]

Aside from the Constitutional problem...John Kerry (heck, anybody) putting himself between Bill Clinton and another shot at the Presidency is like putting himself between a bear and a pack of raw steaks. Both could end very badly. I'll give Kerry this much credit. He may be an arrogant, duplicitous piece of crap...but he's not stupid enough to do that.

[Jimmy Valentine]

"Klinton can't be president. I don't think it'll work."

The mutt can't be Vice President either.

The Constitution is clear as a silver bell on that one.

Regards,

[Right_in_Virginia]

Amid this conjecture, however, one name is conspicuously absent: Bill Clinton.

Isn't that because having "served" for 8 years as president he can't run for VP? Otherwise we'd have a Clinton/Clinton ticket.

[fhayek]

Clelend brings nothing to the ticket at all.

Your wrong there, my freind. He'd be great on the stump.

[GailA]

slikc would over shadow hanoi john...and a draft doger/hanoi jane..er john ticket would turn the Vet vote off.

[eeriegeno]

Here's this idiots email address let him know what you think. stephen.gillers@nyu.edu

No need to hammer this guy. Like any good little liberal reporter, he's just doing what he is told to do......

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Like any good little liberal reporter...

This ignoramus is also a professor of law at NYU.

[savedbygrace]

Here he is, a Vice Dean at NYU:

http://www.law.nyu.edu/faculty/profiles/fulltime/gillerss.html

[hobbes1]

Yes, apparently besides being a poor professor of Law, he is also a poor student of english.

This from the 22nd itself.

and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

That is how that section of 22 reads.

[Bubba_Leroy]

But he isn't constitutionally ineligible to the office of President, he is inelegible to be elected President, that's a big difference (especially for the man who argues over the meaning of the word "is"). He would be constituionally ineligible to be President if he were under age 35 or foreign born.

Not that I think that there is a snow ball's chance in hell of this happening. Kerry wants to be President, not third in line behind Bill & Hillary.

[hobbes1]

Ummmmm....Bubba, go read the last sentence of the 12th amendment

[Bubba_Leroy]

But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

He is not constituionally ineligible to the office of President. He is constituionally inelibile to be elected to the office of President.

[Bubba_Leroy]

inelibile = ineligible

[apillar]

The first objection, the constitutional one, can be disposed of easily...

This could be the motto for the entire democrat party!

[TEXASPROUD]

I believe even Kerry knows, if Bill Clinton is his vice-president, he will not survive his term of office.

[Rummyfan]

NO this would be good. It would doom Kerry!

[hobbes1]

Even Dealing with just the 22nd Amendment (and the fact that the paranoia crowd is willing to ignore the 1947 debates on the matter which SCOTUS will not), The 22nd also would make him Ineligible to be President if Kerry committed Arkancide.

The Amendment is fairly clear. 9 years,355 Days MAX.

The Only Real Argument that Could be made to put X42 NEAR the WH. Would be if Kerry needed to Replace his Veep, 2 years and one Day into his term.But he would still be ineligible for Re-Election in that position.

Personally I wish it weren't so, Because I would love to see Dick Cheney eat Clintons Lunch on MTP, or In a Debate.

[stylin19a]

I'm starting to agree with you. The nexus of the 12th is back to article 2. The 22nd really stands alone. There is no nexus back to the 12th from the 22nd.
It would be interesting to see it "tested".

My knee-jerk ( emphasis on jerk ) reaction was triggered by the thought of x42i being anywhere near the presidency.
sorry for my tirades.