We have been wondering for a while now who would be our best ticket too take the Presidency back. We have all seen many Blogs on the subject and seen many possabilities. I woke up this morning thinking about this. I got to wondering, could Bill Clinton be elected as Vice President?
http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2ip39sa84twbu?method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=Vice+President+of+the+United+States&curtab=2222_1&sbid=lc04b&linktext=Vice%20President
The twelfth amendment to the US constitution requires vice-presidents to meet the same requirements as presidents, and the 22nd amendment limits presidents to being elected to only two terms. It is however debated whether a former two-term president could be elected Vice-President since the 22nd amendment doesn’t limit a president to serving two terms only from being elected two terms. According to one interpretation a two term president could be elected to the vice-presidency and then serve another term in the presidency if the elected president died or was removed from office because the 22nd amendment only forbids election to the presidency twice. * In such a circumstance the two-term president turned vice-president was still only actually elected to the presidency twice.
The answer appears to be yes. Which brings us to the next question. Would Bill accept the Vice Presidential role? http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/news/2645/president-clinton-alan-colmes-tonight In an interview witth Alan Colmes he said he would under Hillary. I for one can't see that happening. Which leads me to the 3rd question.
Would President Clinton accept the nomination under Gore? I happen to believe he would. he would be involve in running the country once more. He would have a wealth of first hand knowledge to share. the office of V.P. is more important today than ever. Depite what you think of him as a person he did a pretty good job of running the country. There will be a lot of work for whoever gets elected in 2008 repairing all Bush's damage.
This scenario would be an interesting quandry for Repugs. What do you think about this?
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
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