Clinton for Pres in 2008?

[David Alan Coe]

The Constitutional limit is two consecutive terms. Just becuase someone has yet to challenge a candidate in a third term election, does not necessarily deem it unconstitutional. God-willing, former President Clinton will not run for the executive office again, sparing the country another 8 years of a disgraceful "Southern" man in place. His wife, that ferocious little woman, should refrain, too from tossing her name in the hat. Keep you Yankee elitism and liberalism in Harlem where it belongs. Bill Frist will be POTUS after the 2008 election. How about a Frist/Guliani ticket. Guliani I can stand becuase he has a good head on his shoulders, and realizes the truth about how government should be run, even though he does live in New York.

[Rudey]

Originally posted by David Alan Coe
The Constitutional limit is two consecutive terms. Just becuase someone has yet to challenge a candidate in a third term election, does not necessarily deem it unconstitutional. God-willing, former President Clinton will not run for the executive office again, sparing the country another 8 years of a disgraceful "Southern" man in place. His wife, that ferocious little woman, should refrain, too from tossing her name in the hat. Keep you Yankee elitism and liberalism in Harlem where it belongs. Bill Frist will be POTUS after the 2008 election. How about a Frist/Guliani ticket. Guliani I can stand becuase he has a good head on his shoulders, and realizes the truth about how government should be run, even though he does live in New York.

I saw the movie Deliverance and know what goes on in the South.

-Rudey
--I am happy that doesn't go on in NYC.

[saetex]

Originally posted by kddani
Ummmm... Bill Clinton has already served 2 full terms as president, thus reaching the constitutional limit.

there's that dumb ignorance i've been waiting for.....try again....think hard.....think CONSECUTIVE

[sugar and spice]

Damn, the Southern educational system once again proves its worth . . .


jk kids.

ETA:


No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and 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. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

[mu_agd]

Originally posted by David Alan Coe
The Constitutional limit is two consecutive terms.

Nope, it's two terms total. From the 22nd Amendment:

"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and 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."

[kddani]

Originally posted by saetex
there's that dumb ignorance i've been waiting for.....try again....think hard.....think CONSECUTIVE

Oh yes, you so smart.

Lol.

Isn't that sort of thing something people learn in elementary school?

[saetex]

ok yall got me.....bring on the Southern insults and stereotypes....I know you all want to

[kddani]

Originally posted by saetex
ok yall got me.....bring on the Southern insults and stereotypes....I know you all want to

Didn't you claim to have been accepted into a top tier law school? But yet you don't know this most elementary element of the Constitution?

[KSig RC]

Originally posted by kddani
Didn't you claim to have been accepted into a top tier law school? But yet you don't know this most elementary element of the Constitution?

This is completely tangential to the dickswinging contest this thread has devolved into, but I hate 'elementary element' - the etymology of 'elementary' essentially requires the item to be an 'element' of the larger object's basic composition . . . let's go with 'elementary principle', or something like 'basic element'. I realize this is really nerdy, but this thread is starting to suck, so I don't feel bad at all.

[saetex]

Originally posted by kddani
Didn't you claim to have been accepted into a top tier law school? But yet you don't know this most elementary element of the Constitution?

no I did, to be honest, I just wasnt thinking. I too thought it said more than two consecutive terms. sorry, i didn't have my constitution with me at the time.

[mu_agd]

Originally posted by KSig RC
This is completely tangential to the dickswinging contest this thread has devolved into, but I hate 'elementary element' - the etymology of 'elementary' essentially requires the item to be an 'element' of the larger object's basic composition . . . let's go with 'elementary principle', or something like 'basic element'. I realize this is really nerdy, but this thread is starting to suck, so I don't feel bad at all.

RC, were you trying to figure out how many words you could use that started with "e" in this post?

[KSig RC]

Originally posted by mu_agd
RC, were you trying to figure out how many words you could use that started with "e" in this post?

alliteration is the new black

[bluefish81]

Originally posted by saetex
no I did, to be honest, I just wasnt thinking. I too thought it said more than two consecutive terms. sorry, i didn't have my constitution with me at the time.

Good thing that Grover Cleveland knew better. Otherwise he probably wouldn't have run for that second term. He was President 1885-1889 and 1893-1897. Don't people learn anything in History class anymore?

[KSig RC]

Originally posted by bluefish81
Good thing that Grover Cleveland knew better. Otherwise he probably wouldn't have run for that second term. He was President 1885-1889 and 1893-1897. Don't people learn anything in History class anymore?

I learned that the 22nd Amendment was passed in 1950 . . .

[saetex]

Originally posted by bluefish81
Good thing that Grover Cleveland knew better. Otherwise he probably wouldn't have run for that second term. He was President 1885-1889 and 1893-1897. Don't people learn anything in History class anymore?

thanks for that history lesson......considering the 22 Amendment wasnt passed till 1950