For the asshat LA Times writers:
The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution requires the vice president to meet the same eligibility requirements as the president. That is, the vice president must be at least 35 years of age, a natural born citizen, and a resident of the U.S. for 14 years. The Twenty-second Amendment limits the president to only two terms in office. (Any period of service in the office of president, having succeeded from the vice presidency, counts as one term if it is for two years or more.) Thus, the maximum number of years a person may serve as president is ten years (two full four-year terms and one two-year term having succeeded to the presidency). Once a person is ineligible for the office of president, he is also ineligible for the office of vice president.
DUH
Bill Clinton is not ineligible to serve as President, he is merely ineligible to be *elected* President. Read the 22nd Am. carefully and see how Congress screwed up in the final drafting of the amendment, thus opening up a loophole that would allow Bill Clinton to accede to the White House if the President died, resigned or was removed and Bill Clinton was next in line.
And the 12th Am merely says that persons ineligible to serve as President are also ineligible to serve as VP, so since the 22nd Am doesn’t declare Bill Clinton ineligible to *serve* as President then he is not ineligible to serve as VP (or be elected VP, for that matter).
So if we want to keep Bill Clinton from serving as President again, we need to make sure he is not elected VP (or Speaker of the House or President Pro Tempore of the Senate, or get confirmed as a member of a Cabinet).
Same thing applies to George W. Bush, by the way.