It's you who needs the remedial course.
Bill Clinton is unquestionably "eligible to the office of President of the United States".
He has attained the age of 35.
He is a natural-born US citizen.
He has resided in the United States for the past fourteen years.
It's true, he cannot enter his third term by being chosen by the electors for President who will be picked on November 2, 2004. That is forbidden by the XXII Amendment.
However, if he were Speaker of the House, and the President and Vice-President died, he certainly would succeed to the office of President.
The authors of the XXII Amendment did not choose to make former Presidents constitutionally ineligible to the office, nor did they address the Vice-Presidency.
Presumably, this is because they could not imagine that the People would become so degraded as to elevate a specimen such as Clinton to the Presidency to begin with.
However, if he runs and if 271 or more electors for Vice President select him, he will unquestionably assume that office. Who or what could stop him?
And Kerry will then, unquestionably, resign.
Jim,
"However, if he were Speaker of the House, and the President and Vice-President died, he certainly would succeed to the office of President."
I made this point a bit back, but I'll make it again, by asking a question:
Is he Speaker, or otherwise a government official in the line of presidential succession? If not, then Slick ain't eligible.
**Slick is a private citizen, not in the line of succession, and therefore ineligible.**
If he were in the line of succession, then the legal loophole would exist for Kerry to pick him as a running mate. But only then.