quick I need a smarting reply based on fact on why Clinton can't be

[greenbriar]

vice pres.

I know its the qualifications/two term limit

but I get mixed up in wording..

I want a smart ass accurate reply

[NMDemDist2]

1. cuz he's glad his clenis is out of the wringer and plans to keep it that

way

[greenbriar]

3. but

no he can't be because a VP has to have the same qualifications to be Pres as in Age, residency and the two term thing.


but I want a smarting reply and I am not as good as some here

[Qutzupalotl]

2. Because he can't be president again

should Kerry resign.

[Dookus]

4. not necessarily

the amendment says no one shall be ELECTED more than twice. If a vice-President assumes the presidency on the death or resignation the President, he's not elected to it.

That being said, the amendment was clearly intended to prevent someone from serving more than two terms as President, despite the wording, and I doubt any court would allow an interpretation that violates the intent.

[zbdent]

10. Dig up some old Freeper arguments or Rush Limbaugh quotes

as to them lamenting that Reagan couldn't be nominated for a third term.

I remember how one person construed it (years ago) about how candidate X could run with Reagan as the VP slot, then resign, leaving RR to be moved into a third term.

[WLKjr]

5. Well

I suppose I would say, "Can you read doofus, he can't! The Constitution says he is ineligable because he has already served his terms. He's done. Ah hell, my feeble minded republican friend. It's the Constitution dummy! but what would you and your GOP buddies know about that?"

Clinton is ineligable because he has served his terms and cannot run ever ever ever again.

[snippy]

6. Because, unlike republicans, he respects the Constitution. n/t

[patricia92243]

9. good answer

[wyldwolf]

7. sorry, the wording of the constitution allows it

However, I'm certain the courts would rule against it.

[snippy]

11. I think the wording of the 12th amendment prohibits it.

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

[greenbriar]

12. yes, that is what I said, but I wanted a scathing reply

as anytime I try to say something all I hear is


yada yada flip flop

yada yada blue dress

yada yada....

[wyldwolf]

13. actually, no it doesn't

The Twelfth Amendment would allow a Clinton Vice-Presidency. Its language only bars from the vice-presidency those persons who are "ineligible to the office" of President. Clinton is not ineligible to the office of President, however. He is only disqualified (by the Twenty-Second Amendment) from being elected to that office.

This is no mere semantic distinction. Article II of the Constitution carefully defines exactly who is "eligible to the Office of President": anyone who is a natural born citizen, at least 35 years old, and has been a U.S. resident for at least 14 years. For example, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is ineligible for the office of President because she is a naturalized, rather than a natural born, citizen. Accordingly, the Twelfth Amendment renders her ineligible to the office of Vice President as well.

But Bill Clinton can serve as Vice President, because the Twenty-Second Amendment's prohibition on running for a third Presidential term is not a condition of the office of President. The Twenty-Second Amendment states: "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than once." The language is quite clear. It places no limits whatsoever on how many terms someone may serve as President -- only how many times he can be elected.



http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dorf/20000731.html

[snippy]

15. I have read that before. He is wrong. Interesting, but wrong.

You can not ignore amendments when interpreting an amended law. Both the original provision and the amendment must be read together.

[wyldwolf]

16. He's wrong?

Michael C. Dorf is vice dean and professor of law at Columbia University, where he teaches civil procedure and constitutional law. He is the co-author, with Laurence H. Tribe, of the book "On Reading the Constitution."

But snippy says he's wrong.

[neuvocat]

8. He's already had to clear up one mess a Bush left behind

so he ain't coming back to do it again.

[comsymp]

14. ANNNND we have a winner!

To fine tune it just a little, he already cleaned up one Bush's mess and look at the thanks he got~

Also, see Bartcop's "Kiss My Ass"- it's brilliant!