I Heard a Shithouse Rumor That Hillary is Considering Bill Clinton as VP?

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

On the other hand, the 22nd Amendment says the President cannot be ELECTED more than twice. So if Hillary dies in her first term for instance and Bill is VP, he would take over her remaining term. He would not be elected, so that seems it would satisfy the 22nd. However he could not run for office once he finishes Hillary's first and only term.

LBJ served the final two years of JFK and was eligible to serve two more terms for a total of 10 years. He chose not to run for a 2nd term.

On the other hand, the 22nd Amendment says the President cannot be ELECTED more than twice. So if Hillary dies in her first term for instance and Bill is VP, he would take over her remaining term. He would not be elected, so that seems it would satisfy the 22nd. However he could not run for office once he finishes Hillary's first and only term.

LBJ served the final two years of JFK and was eligible to serve two more terms for a total of 10 years. He chose not to run for a 2nd term.

LBJ served less than two years of Kennedy's remaining term. If LBJ had served for more than two years, he could not have been elected to that position more than once. Here is what the Constitution says: “.... 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” (Article XXII, Section1). According to the Constitution, ten years is the most that anyone could serve as President, and it could be as little as six years.

Further, Bill would not be eligible to run for the office of Vice President. When the Constitution says, “But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States” it means that no one who is ineligible to be ELECTED President can be elected as Vice President. So what does it take to be eligible to run for the office of president? Well, according to Article II, Section 1, he must be a natural born citizen, at least 35 years old and have resided in the United States for 14 years; further, according to Amendment 22, Section 1, he cannot have been previously elected to the office for two terms.

You seem to think that Bill could serve again as President if something happened to Hillary because he would be appointed to that position rather than being elected. I have a Juris Doctorate and have studied Constitutional Law. I find your interpretation of the Constitution to be in error. The law is simple: If someone is ineligible to run for President, he is also ineligible to run for Vice President.

You can have the last word. I am done with this thread.

You should get a refund for your education. They forgot to teach you to read, because the red text is not contained in the original Constitution and the 22nd Amendment says he cannot be elected president. It does not say he is ineligible.

 

[Granny]

Maybe a better position for Bill would be Cigar Czar. We've got so many Czars in DC now, what's one more? I'm wondering how one of those ornate Kremlin domes would look on our US Capitol building. It's America ... anything can happen.

 

[Faun]

bill cant be her vp....he cant serve another term as president...did yall even take civics?

Please quote the applicable part of the Constitution. You can't because it is not there.

What the fuck is wrong with you brain-dead cons? You [collectively] shit nonsense here all day long and don't know what the hell you're talking about.

AMENDMENT XII

But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.​

Where does it say that he is not eligible to be President? If it existed, it should be in the 22nd Amendment which limits them to two terms or ten years as President, but it says that if they met those requirements they can no longer be ELECTED.

He can still become President, but he cannot be ELECTED.

WOW!

You're even dumber than most of the brain-dead cons who post here.

Why would it be in the 22nd Amendment when the 22nd Amendment didn't exist when the 12th was ratified?

Clinton is ineligible to be president; therefore, he's ineligible to be vice-president.

The 12th Amendment does not contain any prohibition of a person being eligible to serve as president other than those contained in the original Constitution.

It only states: "But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."

Those requirements are: natural born citizenship. having lived in the US for 14 years, and be 35 years old.

You're a complete fucking idiot, i.e., a typical conservative, to think Constitutional Amendments don't apply to the entire Constitution, but only the parts of the Constitution not included in Amendments.