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To: Phantom Lord
You have that exactly right. No one is eligible to run for and be elected as Vice President, who is not qualified to be President, should the elected President die or become disabled. The 22nd Amendment bars anyone from becoming President who has already served two terms.

Therefore, Billyjeff Clinton is barred from running for Vice President because he is disqualified from being President.

I am absolutely amazed that anyone is so dumb as to put in print any such speculation. The answer is a slam dunk. It is no. No one who can read the Constitution, not to mention being an expert in that area, should have any doubts whatsoever about this idea -- which is factually, ethically, historically and constitutionally GARBAGE.

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21 posted on 05/07/2002 7:39:43 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob
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To: Congressman Billybob
The answer is a slam dunk. It is no.

I disagree. The 22nd Amendment doesn't prevent anyone from becoming President more than twice; it bars them from being elected more than twice:

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. . . .

Since he wouldn't be elected President a third time, he wouldn't be in violation of the Constitution.

32 posted on 05/07/2002 3:43:54 PM PDT by Iota
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