Posted on 06/04/2004 12:33:41 PM PDT by Republican Red
On CNN's website, Bill Clinton is listed as a VP Contender with the ending sentence in his credentials as follows:
CNN:
While federal law prohibits a person from seeking a third presidential term, the Constitution does not specify whether or not a former commander in chief can become vice president.
U.S. CONSTITUTION:
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Where is the Barf alert?
"I think I know where you get the "ten years" thing, but I don't believe it's actually in the Constitution. It comes from the possibility of serving two years of an unexpired term, plus two terms of one's own, for a total of ten years."
And don't think Kerry wouldn't be sleeping with one eye open (and not just due to botox swelling).
Amendment XXIIAs I said before, the supposed "ten-year limit" comes from the possibility of filling two years of an unexpired term, plus two elected terms. But whoever came up with that idea didn't consider the possibility of a former President succeeding to the office.Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, 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. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress.
NOT!!! Kerry would like to continue to live. He's got to figure if Hill or Billy are VP's, he's a goner.
ARTICLE II
SECTION I
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.
Ammendment XII
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
AMMENDMENT XXIII
Section 1.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, 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...............
Seems prety clear to me that there is a loophole allowing anyone who meets the requirements for the Presidency in ARTICLE II, Section 1, including former presidents, to run for the Vice Presidency or be apointed to it if there is a vacancy, and to serve as President if the President dies or os removed.
SO9
I believe the Speaker of the House is next in line (and the House can pick whomever they want for that position--it doesn't have to be a Member of Congress)...so in theory Clinton could be chosen Speaker, and the President and Vice President could resign simultaneously, and Clinton could become President. In that case, there wouldn't be any time limit--he could serve the remainder of the term. Fortunately that's never going to happen.
If you take a look at the actual site, you see that they list just about anyone and everyone as possible VP contenders. I mean Tom Brokaw is listed as a possible canadate. Come on!! That would be equivalent to admitting that there is a media bias, which will never happen.
If the editors / reporters had a copy of the Constitution as amended available in their offices, and if they could read, the answer would be obvious.
Congressman Billybob
It'll never happen, no matter whether the Constitution forbids it or not. Oh, people will always talk about getting Bill Clinton on the ticket, as long as he's alive, but I doubt anybody's actually dumb enough to pick him as a running mate. As loath as they are to admit it, every Democratic politician in America--Kerry, Hillary, you name 'em--knows that being the only thing standing between Bubba and another shot at the White House would be gravely hazardous to his or her health.
Have you wondered since Henry Kissinger?
It also means..Kerry's screwed...
"In support of this argument, one might also cite the 12th Amendment, which provides, in pertinent part, that "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."
President Clinton is certainly ineligible to be elected to another presidential term, based on the 22nd Amendment. Some might infer from the 12th Amendment that he is therefore also ineligible to be elected to a vice-presidential term."
INFER?? Are they Demented? It EXPLICITLY says if you can't be elected president, you can't be elected VP! That's the point of the 12th Amendment!
Hello Left! Youse is Stoopid!
Actually he would still be bound by the 21st Amendment: ". . . 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."
Mad Madeleine.
Oops! Make that 22nd Amendment.
Thats how I see it, too..
This thread and this one, too:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1147708/posts
are making me crazy.
Spinning Presstitutes make me dizzy, Lying Presstitutes make me mad!
"It EXPLICITLY says if you can't be elected president, you can't be elected VP! That's the point of the 12th Amendment!"
Kerry knows he's a dead man if Bill is VP, a sure victim of Clintoncide.
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