Posted on 08/31/2007 7:13:11 AM PDT by presidio9
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told a talk show her husband, Bill, had "looked into" running as her vice president.
Appearing on the David Letterman show on Thursday, the talk-show host asked if Bill Clinton could serve as her vice president should she be elected to the White House.
But the former first lady acknowledged that he could not. "Believe me," she joked, "he looked into that."
She also remarked that if the Constitution didn't forbid a president from a third term, "he might be running."
The interivew marked Clinton's seventh appearance on "The Late Show," which was celebrating its 14th anniversary on CBS.
She first appeared on February 14, 1994, when Letterman's mother, Dorothy, interviewed her briefly from the Winter Olympics in Norway.
On Thursday's show, Clinton recounted a summer in Alaska during which she donned boots and an apron to gut salmon with a spoon.
"Best preparation for being in Washington that you can possibly imagine," she joked.
Clinton talked shop, too, discussing the need for campaign finance reform, how to pull troops out of Iraq and the importance of caring for wounded veterans.
She said that while resistance to a female commander in chief has diminished, it hasn't disappeared.
"I think it's not so much that people don't think a woman can do the job, it's just that we've never done it before," she said.
"I'm not running because I'm a woman; I'm running because I think I'm the best-qualified and experienced person who can do the job. But I know that it's a big deal that I might be the first woman president."
Clinton also read a "Top Ten List" of tongue-in-cheek campaign promises, including No. 3: "We will finally have a president who doesn't mind pulling over and asking for directions."
I stand corrected...Thanks.
I only remember her because of her flashy, gosh style and hatchet face
I’m never suprised by these two and their demonic hunger for power. They really thing the White House belongs to them and they should be in it at will because........well, because they say so! They make me wanna hurl!
What's her excuse for running?
What's her excuse for saying that he will hold power under her administration?
NO THIRD TERM.
Heaven forbid. Two crooks for the price of one. These people have more gall than I have ever seen.
“We are the President” - HRC
It's like inbreeding!!!
Clinton-Gore-Kerry-Carville-Dean have seen an end to that.
Ironically, there is little press being given to the continued Oligarchy we live under (Bush-Bush-Bush-Clinton-Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton...?).
The public has had it with both families. Look at it closed and you’ll find a small pool of Yalies who went to school around the same time.
Also look at the Democrat Presidential and VP nominees for more than the past century and you’ll see the same names (and losers) again and again and again.
1892 Democrat ticket: Grover Cleveland/Adlai Stevenson WON
1896 Democrat ticket: William Bryan/Arthur Sewall(Thomas Watson) LOST
1900 Democrat ticket: William Bryan/Adlai Stevenson LOST
1908 Democrat ticket: William Bryan/John Kern LOST
1924 Democrat ticket: John Davis/Charles Bryan LOST
1952 Democrat ticket: Adlai Stevenson II/John Sparkman LOST
1956 Democrat ticket: Adlai Stevenson II/Estes Kefauver LOST
1992 Democrat ticket: William Clinton/Albert Gore Jr. WON
1996 Democrat ticket: William Clinton/Albert Gore Jr. WON
2000 Democrat ticket: Albert Gore Jr./Joseph Lieberman LOST
A bunch of perpetual candidates in this list. Charles Bryan was the brother of perpetual presidential loser William Jennings Bryan (who also lost his fight against Darwinism in the 1920s). Two of the perpetual candidates held the office of VP; Adlai never got the presidency although his namesake grandson did get the nomination. Adlai II’s VP runing mate Estes Kefauver left fellow Tennessee senator Albert Gore Sr. in the dust (both tried to get the party nomination for president) thus passing the loser baton to another generation...
This way she could continue the Clinton hit list, and Bubba could represent her at all the funerals.
Kind of a White House efficiency twofer.
Leni
“discussing the need for campaign finance reform”
She has intimate knowledge there.
Hillary is probably lying again and heard a story about someone using a spoon.
How so? If a Clinton/Clinton ticket were elected (shudder), and Hillary took the oath on Jan. 20 and then died or resigned on the 21st, Bill could serve the full four years minus a day.
The 22nd Amendment governs who may be elected president, not who may serve. Full stop. Could the authors of the 22nd have foreseen that an ex-president might serve in the Cabinet, or in Congress, or even as VP? I think they could have foreseen that, and that we must conclude that their choice of words was considered and deliberate.
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush cannot again be elected president. I don't know of any constitutional provision that bars them from holding government office. for any length of time.
Bill could not be elected VP because he is ineligible to serve another term. If something mysterious happened to an existing VP, like he was found in a park, his plane went down, or he didn’t get his heart medication, and there were not more than two years left in the term, I maintain that Bill could be appointed for those two years.
Be is ineligible to be elected.
John Quincy Adams served in the House of Representatives after his term as President.
-PJ
If Lurleen Wallace could become Governor of Alabama, I guess Hillary figures she can be President of the US. She is almost as qualified as Lurleen was to be governor (but the comparison is unfair to Lurleen because she wasn't a scheming crook).
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