Posted on 05/07/2002 6:57:41 AM PDT by Lucky2
Tuesday May 7, 2002; 8:43 a.m. EDT Ghoulish Media Fantasy: Hillary's Death Could Give Bill Third Term
Just how badly do some journalists want to see Bill Clinton serve another term as president? Enough to openly speculate about a scenario where Hillary Clinton's death would nullify the 22nd Amendment baring a third term for her husband.
That's the fantasy offered up by gossip columnist and media F.O.B. Liz Smith, who said Tuesday that she'd like to hear from "some Constitutional experts" on whether the macabre scheme would be "legally possible."
Here's the plan: Have Hillary run for president with hubby Bill on the ticket as V.P. They win the election, then - oops - "should the hypothetical President Hillary die in office, would her husband be allowed to ascend to the Oval Office again?"
Smith argues the answer should be yes. The gossip columnist and "many others," she says, already believe the 22nd Amendment is unconstitutional. And if Vice President Bill were succeed his dead wife, the columnist contends, he would have "'inherited' the office. He would have still 'run for it,' in a manner of speaking."
Smith decided to air the ghoulish third term scheme - which she says was floated to her "the other day by someone" - after she decided "it bears thinking about, even if - as we always say when we're treading hypothetically - it is a complete unfeasible idea."
But, the friend of Bill adds, "several smarties I know tell me" that if President Hillary dies in office, Vice President Bill would indeed be able to return to the throne.
Unbeknownst, to Smith, Mr. Bill has already been contemplating ways around the 22nd amendment. (See: Clinton Eyeing Third Presidential Run?)
In off the cuff remarks to the The Las Vegas Weekly last September, the ex-prez said it was conceivable he "could be reelected."
"Clinton had obviously researched the subject," the paper observed, since he spoke "for five minutes about constitutional law and academic studies about the prospect" of revising the 22nd Amendment limiting a president to two terms.
"Some constitutional experts think it is possible," Hillary's husband told reporters.
Why do people keep dreaming up wholly impossible scenarios for Bill to become president again? Push for the repeal of the 22nd Amendment or shut the hell up.
Then she would have those on the right and those on the left wishing that she would drop dead.
I wonder what it is like having a few hundred million people hoping for your demise?
That's not to say that Slick and his cult wouldn't ignore what the constitution says and do it anyways......
Besides, everyone knows the deal she made with Satan includes some clause about immortality...Bill better come up with another plan.
Bill Clinton cannot be VP. He is barred from doing so by the 12th Amendment--which states that whatever disqualifies one from the Presidency (in Bubba's case, having been elected to the office twice, according to the 22d Amendment) also disqualifies one for the VP slot. Moreover, a 1965 federal law forbids immediate family members from serving together in the same administration at Cabinet level or higher.
That's what I thought, too.
But when I tried to look up chapter and verse, I could not find it --- Can anyone cite this requirement?
The Constitution is here
Article II, section I, paragraph 5 says: 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.
But that says nothing about having to meet the qualifications for President.
Can anybody cite this requirement?
I presume she means "barring", not "baring".
Why would her death suddenly "nullify the 22nd Amendment"???
Talk about delusions of grandeur...
Remember, that thought originated in a Liberal's brain.
They are different from us. Don't try to understand their thought process. It's not normal.
How can an amendment to the Constitution be "unconstitutional"?
LOL! That was my thought exactly! But, in DemocRAT-Speak, "unconstutional" means "Laws we, as socialists, find inconvenient."
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