October 26, 200619 yr I believe Obama would be the best hope for a minority candidate to win the presidency. I would vote for him. I suppose that depends upon what you mean by best.:lol: If you mean best chance of getting elected I would agree.
October 26, 200619 yr To the Clinton-Clinton ticket: There was an article in the Wall St. Journal a few days back talking about this very thing. As in turns out Clinton lawyers are getting interpretation of this from different legal scholars. The concensus is...it depends on how you interpret the wording. The majority of the scholars, judges, etc polled was that it states he cant be "elected" President. But there is nothing that says he could not secede to the office. I will try to find the article and post it. But it looks as if the Clintons are trying to see if it is viable.
October 26, 200619 yr Author To the Clinton-Clinton ticket: There was an article in the Wall St. Journal a few days back talking about this very thing. As in turns out Clinton lawyers are getting interpretation of this from different legal scholars. The concensus is...it depends on how you interpret the wording. The majority of the scholars, judges, etc polled was that it states he cant be "elected" President. But there is nothing that says he could not secede to the office. I will try to find the article and post it. But it looks as if the Clintons are trying to see if it is viable. Is anyone shocked about this view when part of his "Monica and I didn't have sexual relations with this woman" defense was the definition of sexual relations.
October 26, 200619 yr To the Clinton-Clinton ticket: There was an article in the Wall St. Journal a few days back talking about this very thing. As in turns out Clinton lawyers are getting interpretation of this from different legal scholars. The concensus is...it depends on how you interpret the wording. The majority of the scholars, judges, etc polled was that it states he cant be "elected" President. But there is nothing that says he could not secede to the office. I will try to find the article and post it. But it looks as if the Clintons are trying to see if it is viable. I thought it says, one cannot be a vice-president if they are not eligible to be president. How can you spin that one :confused: You are either eligible or you are not.
October 26, 200619 yr Author I thought it says, one cannot be a vice-president if they are not eligible to be president. How can you spin that one :confused: You are either eligible or you are not. We are talking about a masterful politician that can spin anything. I am just wondering which politician will be the first to claim that term limits for Presidents was a Republican conspiracy to prevent good Democratic candidates for holding office for a long time.
October 26, 200619 yr We are talking about a masterful politician that can spin anything. I am just wondering which politician will be the first to claim that term limits for Presidents was a Republican conspiracy to prevent good Democratic candidates for holding office for a long time.We are also talking about brilliant Supreme Court justices who surely don't want to be remembered for an obvious twisting of the Constitution.
October 26, 200619 yr Here is some of the language from the article: The answer is: He can. The 12th Amendment states that anybody who is eligible for the presidency under Article II of the Constitution (a natural-born citizen age 35 or older) is eligible for the vice presidency. Clinton is a natural-born citizen over 35, so he qualifies. The putative roadblock to a Clinton vice presidency--the 22nd Amendment--doesn't apply. This hastily worded and passed amendment, designed to block another multi-multi-term presidency such as FDR's, only bars the election of a president to more than two terms in that office. It doesn't prevent a two-term president from running for the vice presidency. The 25th Amendment affords Clinton another route to the vice presidency: In the event the vice presidency is vacated, the president appoints a new veep, subject to confirmation by Congress. (This is how Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller became vice president.) Nothing in the Constitution would prevent Vice President Clinton from becoming president via succession. Finally, another scenario could return Clinton to the White House without a pit stop at the vice presidency. If both the presidency and the vice presidency were vacated and Bill Clinton were the speaker of the House, he would become president under the 1948 presidential succession act. (Next in line, the president pro tempore of the Senate and then the cabinet officers in the order specified by the act.)
October 26, 200619 yr another: ACTUALLY… In plain english, the 22nd doesn’t disqualify him from being president again, it just says he can’t be ELECTED president again, meaning that not only does the 12th not apply, but in theory, a person could be president over and over again, as long as he keeps getting himself elected VP and then has the president die.
October 26, 200619 yr WHY would Bill Clinton run as VP, other than a way to get back to the presidency? And WHY would Hillary allow him on the ticket, knowing that?
October 26, 200619 yr WHY would Bill Clinton run as VP, other than a way to get back to the presidency? And WHY would Hillary allow him on the ticket, knowing that? Because Hillary knows that the ONLY way she would get elected.
October 26, 200619 yr I just thought of another reason Bill would want to be VP. So many interns, so little responsibility.
October 26, 200619 yr Author Here is some of the language from the article: The answer is: He can. The 12th Amendment states that anybody who is eligible for the presidency under Article II of the Constitution (a natural-born citizen age 35 or older) is eligible for the vice presidency. Clinton is a natural-born citizen over 35, so he qualifies. The putative roadblock to a Clinton vice presidency--the 22nd Amendment--doesn't apply. This hastily worded and passed amendment, designed to block another multi-multi-term presidency such as FDR's, only bars the election of a president to more than two terms in that office. It doesn't prevent a two-term president from running for the vice presidency. The 25th Amendment affords Clinton another route to the vice presidency: In the event the vice presidency is vacated, the president appoints a new veep, subject to confirmation by Congress. (This is how Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller became vice president.) Nothing in the Constitution would prevent Vice President Clinton from becoming president via succession. Finally, another scenario could return Clinton to the White House without a pit stop at the vice presidency. If both the presidency and the vice presidency were vacated and Bill Clinton were the speaker of the House, he would become president under the 1948 presidential succession act. (Next in line, the president pro tempore of the Senate and then the cabinet officers in the order specified by the act.) The part of the article that I turned to black doesn't preclude WJ? He isn't eligible for the Presidency is he?
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