The graduated income tax also penalizes people for doing well. Anyways...the whole point is to limit power, and the more someone gets voted in, the more power they get. I love term limits. I think the old legislators should be swept out from time to time. I think it would be awesome if we had term limits for Congress and the Supreme Court as well.
This is like the Grizzlies debating about the best route for their championship parade. I suppose it's sort of interesting.....but....um.....wouldn't she have to win the nomination first? How about Obama taking Bill as VP just to piss off Hillary?
Well Max, be sure to wear your tennies! (don't worry... it ain't happening, although it could) Trim Bush.
No - I tink you're right. Unless there's a separate law somewhere restricting it, I don't see why it would be technically allowed. I don't think voters would go for it, but it seems to be doable.
Interesting discussion. This subject came up on Talk of the Nation a few days ago. One of the guests, a presidential historian I forgot his name though, said that the 22nd Ammendment has been determined to apply to the VP and that a two term president cannot be VP. He didn't go into a lengthy explanation on it so I'm not sure what his reasoning is other than that the VP can't fulfill his duties as VP. Reading the Ammendment though it looks like it could be used as a loophole to have a two term president come in as a VP and then if something happens to the president take the presidency and be president again, they just can't run again.
"But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States." Per the Twelfth Amendment.
But Bill Clinton is constitutionally eligible to BE President. He's just not constitutionally eligible to RUN for President.
But Bill is constitutionally eligible to serve in the office... he's meets the age and citizenship thresholds. He just can't be elected to the office again. The 12th Amendment was in response to the Aaron Burr problem, where Jefferson and his VP nominee Burr received the same number of votes for President in the Electoral College, thus sending the election to the House. The 12th Amendment fixes the Electoral College so it can't happen again. In so doing, the Amendment references Article 1:
Just trivia, but if I recall my college history correctly (see "The Price of Union" by Herbert Agar) Jefferson and Burr hated each other (but not as much as Hamilton and Burr). In the early days of our republic, the "ticket" was not aligned. One choose to run for VP. It didn't last long before the big ticket arrived. Actually, after re-reading for clarification, in the really early days, the number one vote getter became President and the number two vote getter became Vice President.
