What will Bill's role be during Hillary's presidency? (economy, elect, money)
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She will not be president. But for the benefit of idle speculation, he could be her Vice President.
In charge of Vice, naturally.
It's an interesting scenario.
The 22nd amendment says, "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice...", but it doesn't say the same person can't BE president more than twice.
Suppose Hillary and Bill ran on the same ticket, with Hill as Prez and Bill as VP. Even sillier, suppose they were elected. Then people start asking Hillary about what she did in her Bimbo Eruptions Squad, and she falls down, hits her head again, and resigns from the Presidency. Bill becomes President, proclaims that Hillary has miraculously recovered from her "accident", and appoints her Vice President.
Legal, and Bill gets to have three terms.
Four years later, Hillary runs for Prez again with Bill as VP, and the same thing happens. Bill gets four terms!
He ran the country pretty well for 8 years. Good economy, tech boom, great foreign relations, no wars, plays the sax, very entertaining. Oversaw the longest peacetime period of economic expansion in American history. Could not have a better live-in adviser. He'd be the first First Man.
The 22nd amendment says, "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice...", but it doesn't say the same person can't BE president more than twice.
Suppose Hillary and Bill ran on the same ticket, with Hill as Prez and Bill as VP. Even sillier, suppose they were elected. Then people start asking Hillary about what she did in her Bimbo Eruptions Squad, and she falls down, hits her head again, and resigns from the Presidency. Bill becomes President, proclaims that Hillary has miraculously recovered from her "accident", and appoints her Vice President.
Legal, and Bill gets to have three terms.
Four years later, Hillary runs for Prez again with Bill as VP, and the same thing happens. Bill gets four terms!
If this could actually be done, they (the Clinton's) would certainly be the ones to pull it off. Even I would welcome Bill again over what we have going on now. I never thought I'd say that.
Yep. Tried to put Universal Health Care into place, made the mistake of writing a book describing it, and got his party booted out of more Congressional seats (and state houses, governorships, etc.) than any President in history, turning Congress over to Republicans for practically the first time since before WWII.
Those Republicans nearly balanced the budget, devolved Welfare to the states (which Bill vetoed three times before finally signing it with another election looming), and generally clamped down on any liberals schemes Billary might have had up their sleeves.
The right thing to do would be to stay out and away, since he's already done 8 on his own. We don't allow for 3rd terms. I could easily see Bill butting into every piece of legislation and every issue that comes along.
I don't think spouses, either male or female, should run after their mate has already been president because of this issue. Whether or not it should be unconstitutional or against the law, I don't know. I just think it would be common decency to not run at all afterwords.
Why stop at spouses? Why not disallow sons, brothers and daughters of presidents from running for office too. Surely a president who is also the son of the president wouldn't be able to make decisions without the x-president sticking his nose in where it doesn't belong----oh wait, I forgot about the Bushes. Maybe we should also tell Jebb Bush that the right thing to do would be to stay out of the way and not run for president, to quote you. After all, he'd be getting pressure from two x-presidents looking over his shoulder.
He ran the country pretty well for 8 years. Good economy, tech boom, great foreign relations, no wars, plays the sax, very entertaining. Oversaw the longest peacetime period of economic expansion in American history. Could not have a better live-in adviser. He'd be the first First Man.
He ran the country pretty well for 8 years. Good economy, tech boom, great foreign relations, no wars, plays the sax, very entertaining. Oversaw the longest peacetime period of economic expansion in American history. Could not have a better live-in adviser. He'd be the first First Man.
Had such a rocky first 2 years that Dems lost the US House for the first time in 40 years in 1994. Almost continuous scandals, from the travel office affair (May 1993) to the Marc Rich pardon (Jan 19,2001). Rise of the modern police state on his watch(Waco, and who can forget the pics of the stormtrooper pointing his MP 9 submachine gun at Elian Gonzales? No he didn't start it, but he sure continued it.
Clinton set the stage for the housing crises of 2008 by carrying water for James Johnson, CEO of Fannie Mae, as detailed in Reckless Endangerment by NYT reporter G. Morganstern. Provided the catalyst for the tech crash of 2001 by suing Microsoft. Repealed Glass-Steagall.
Did not do a great job of responding as the Islamic terror bubble grew on his watch. And remember how he pressured ABC to squelch their mini-series The Path to 9/11 because it put his admin in a bad light.
Appoint him as ambassador to Denmark with an office in Amsterdam.
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