How to bring back Bill - Clinton-Clinton 2008 ticket is possible

The Christian Science Monitor ^ | May 12, 2006 | Scott E. Gant and Bruce G. Peabody

[HAL9000]

How to bring back Bill

A Clinton-Clinton 2008 ticket is constitutionally possible.

WASHINGTON, D.C., AND MADISON, N.J. – Americans are nostalgic for the 1990s. They long for a time when terrorism was perceived as a problem confined to foreign lands and when the stock market's rise seemed unstoppable. And, it turns out, many of them miss former President Bill Clinton.

In a recent poll conducted for CNN, respondents favored Mr. Clinton over President Bush on a variety of issues, including policy areas traditionally viewed as GOP strongholds. By a wide margin, those surveyed indicated that Clinton did a better job managing the economy and handling foreign affairs and taxes.

Clinton's resurgent popularity, and Democrats' difficulties in taking over the White House in recent years, might counsel a bold strategy for 2008. Whoever is selected as the Democratic nominee for the next presidential race should consider William Jefferson Clinton as a candidate for vice president.

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[Jim Noble]

Clear. Indisputable. End of story.

Correct.

Bill Clinton can clearly be elected or appointed to the Vice Presidency, since he is 35 years old, native born and resident here for the last 14 years.

Clear. Indisputable. End of story.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

No. A person can serve up to ten years as President under the 22nd Amendment.

Incorrect:

...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.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

Exactly.

[Sacajaweau]

I think he could go for VP and assume the Presidency after taking Hillary for a walk in Marcy Park. The constitution is specific to "elected for two terms".

[Luke Skyfreeper]

I'm NOT ignoring the 12th Amendment. Read post 52!

Please at least read what I wrote before commenting on it.

[lawdude]

"It might be another reason Sandy Burglar did his deed. "

You're right. Sandy removed all evidence that WJC was ever Pres. Prove he was... see you can't!

[TommyDale]

Correct. Less than two years then 2 elections at the most.

[only1percent]

A person can serve up to, but not including ten years -- nine years and 364 days, to be exact. Thus, Gerald Ford, who served more than one year and 364 days of President Nixon's term, is eligible only to be elected one more time; had he won in 1976 he couldn't have run in 1980. However, Lyndon Johnson, who became President with only a little more than one year of John Kennedy's term remaining, was eligible to be elected twice: he ran and won in 1964 and was briefly a candidate for re-election in 1968 before he decided the poor progress of the Vietnam War made his re-election unlikely.

[redheadtoo]

A vice presidential candidate must be eligible to serve as president

Hilary should give a prayer of thanks for this. She must know that if she becomes president, and Bill becomes Vice President then she will quickly become the victim of an Arkancide.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

Sorry, I stand corrected. You guys are correct. Ten years at most.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

Okay, then amend all of my previous statements: the framers of the 22nd Amendment intended a 10-year limit.

This, incidentally, weakens the notion that someone who has served 2 terms already has necessarily "reached the limit" according to the intent of the framers of the 22nd Amendment.

That would make it more likely that the USSC would fail to find such a candidate for Vice-President constitutionally ineligible.

[TommyDale]

The American people would not stand for another Supreme Court challenge in an election. Look what the last one did. The Democrats may never fully recover from the damage they created in the distrust and scandal in elections.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

A person can serve up to, but not including ten years -- nine years and 364 days, to be exact.

Nitpicking here, but I think you're wrong about this:

...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.

So the way I read it, two years precisely, you're still eligible to be elected twice. Two years and a day, you're only eligible to be elected once.

So the possible legal limits on length of service (barring getting back in via succession after all eligible elections) range from 6 years and 1 day (or possibly, any portion of a day), to 8 years, to 10 years.

[Congressman Billybob]

This is maybe the fourth time that this constitutional carp has been raised on FR and had to be knocked down. The 12th Amendment was passed to prevent a situation like that when Aaron Burr sought to steal the Presidency from Thomas Jefferson.

The next to last sentence of the 12th Amendment says, "But no person constitutionally eligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States." Since Bill Clinton is not eligible to be President now, he is also ineligible to be Vice President.

Game, set, match. Now cut out this constitutional crap that Bill Clinton can sneak in by starting as Vice President. Sheesh. As they say in computer programming, RTFM. Or in this context, RTFConstitution.

P.S. Interested in a Freeper in Congress? Keep in touch with me

Congressman Billybob

Latest article: "Presbyterians Running Loose in America!"

[ChildOfThe60s]

These people just so love to fantasize. They have such a childlike view of life when Slick Willie was pres.

It will never happen, no matter who is the presidential nominee. SW sucks all of the light and air from a room. He is like a vampire for attention. NO ONE is going to run for president playing second fiddle to him while the press gives him journalistic oral sex.

What is so very funny is the the DIMocrats still haven't figured out that SW played a major role in getting them to where they are now.

To even write gibberish like this is proof of just how deranged the DIMs have become in the role as minority party and disloyal opposition.

[aShepard]

Geez!

It's time that we place an illegal immigration fence around Ft. Marcy:

Looks like there's gonna be a lot of "Arkansides" to finally come up with the Rat ticket!

[Congressman Billybob]

You're dead wrong. Read the next to last line of the 12th Amendment. It says you are wrong.

John / Billybob

[Paige]

In my dreams? WOW How Intellectual.

[P-40]

As it has been, for the past five years.

And the question is...how long will it remain this way?

[Luke Skyfreeper]

Game, set, match. Now cut out this constitutional crap that Bill Clinton can sneak in by starting as Vice President. Sheesh. As they say in computer programming, RTFM. Or in this context, RTFConstitution.

You have absolutely zero call to come on here with such incredible arrogance and rudeness. RTFM indeed. RTFConstitution, yeah.

The fact is, I DID RTFConstitution (not that you bothered to notice).

I pinged you to this thread as a courtesy, because I thought you might be interested in the discussion. Never did I in my wildest dreams consider that you would respond with the rudeness of a rap "music" "artist."

If you had bothered to either engage your brain, or to read any of the context, you might have noticed and engaged the content of posts 52, 58, 62, 63, 65, 68, 69, 70, 74, 77, 88, 90, 91, and 93.

Not that I expect you to be capable of reading or understanding them now, but perhaps you can find a big person who can read and explain them to you.

P.S. Interested in a Freeper in Congress? Keep in touch with me

After the display of ignorance, arrogance and outright rudeness that you put on just now, I wouldn't vote for you if you were running against Hillary Clinton. And that's saying a hell of a lot.