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"Are ya thick, mon?" The 12th and 22nd Amendments are PART OF THE CONSTITUTION. And the Constitution's text states that all amendments become part of the base Constitution as if they had been written in at the beginning.
It is absolutely irrelevant that Billyjeff Clinton or anyone else meets the requirements to be President that were laid down in the Constitution in 1787. Anyone who does not now meet the requirements of the 12th and 22nd Amendments also, cannot run for President, and also, CANNOT RUN FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
The idea is unconstitutional on its face, from the plain text of the WHOLE Constitution -- and that includes all of the Amendments. Anyone can manufacture an argument by conveniently leaving out some of the language in the WHOLE Constitution. The lamestream media does that all the time.
But FReepers are supposed to be better than that. FReepers are supposed to do their homework, and put up rational posts. I repeat, from the movie, "Waking Ned Devine," "Are ya thick. mon?"

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But FReepers are supposed to be better than that. FReepers are supposed to do their homework, and put up rational posts. Agreed. And that's why I'm going to try one more time to correct your error.

Here's what the pertinent part of the 12th Amendment says: "But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."

Here's what you appear to think it says: "But no person constitutionally ineligible to RUN FOR the office of President shall be eligible to RUN FOR that of Vice-President of the United States."

Because Clinton was elected President twice, the 22nd Amendment bars him from running again, and thus if the preceding text said "RUN FOR", his ineligibility to run for the presidency would keep him from running for the vice-presidency.

But the 12th Amendment doesn't say "RUN FOR". It says anyone who's "ineligible to the office" of the President can't be the Vice President. Clinton's still "eligible to the office" of the President, because he still meets the requirements of Art. II, Sec. 1, because he's still a natural born citizen over the age of 35. Because he's still "eligible to the office" of President, he can run for Vice President without running afoul of the 12th Amendment.

All the wishful thinking in the world doesn't change that.