It is scary enough that Hillary Clinton has the audacity to think that she is a bona fide candidate for the presidency of course, counting on her loyalists to the Democratic Party… But this headline brought shivers to my spine.
Hillary Clinton with Barack Obama as her running mate.
{Hat tip The new Republic}
"The challenge, then, is to make sure Clinton’s age and
ethnicity don’t discourage Obama’s youthful, diverse supporters from turning
out in November 2016. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to make sure that
doesn’t happen. Clinton simply has to select Barack Obama as her running mate."
Even if they were actually thinking about doing this, the question comes into play about whether it the Constitution would allow Obama to run as he would become successor to the presidency.
According to the article, they explain this that the Constitution says that a person cannot "run or be elected" to office however, as they point out in the case of Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill,The Constitution does not prohibit Obama from being elected to a third term.
According to Wikipedia, According to the 22nd amendment which was ratified in 1951, "no president may serve more than two terms plus a maximum of two years acceded as president under some other presidents term…"
Franklin D Roosevelt served three full terms and a brief fourth term which included two months 24 days.
I really hope that in 2016 the people wake-up and don't fall for the "Obama phone" type of rhetoric as Hillary has already started spewing that she's for family, higher wages, etc.
In my opinion, this upcoming election is more important and any other election that we've had in our recent history.
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