beagle9
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. The bar could be as low as they can get it to go, and it still wouldn't go as low as the Demon-crat bar has gone.Ah, to dream! Bigly and covfefe.View attachment 181932
Could Joe Biden pick Barack Obama as his running mate? Yes. But.
The answer seems straightforward. But it is less straightforward than it appears.
Michael Dorf is a professor of constitutional law at Cornell University. In 2000, he argued that an Al Gore-Bill Clinton ticket could withstand legal scrutiny. And when we spoke by phone on Thursday, he said that he stood by that argument.
The rough outline of his argument is this: The 22nd Amendment doesn't say you can't be president for more than two terms. It says you can't be elected president twice. If a Biden-Obama ticket won (which we'll get to), and tragedy were to befall Joe Biden, Barack Obama could become president, according to the letter of the law (which we'll also get to), since he wasn't elected to the position. As such, Obama is not constitutionally ineligible to serve as president.
So, in short: Yes, Joe Biden can name Barack Obama as his running mate. It's even conceivable that, if they won, they could argue their case before Congress to be seated as president and vice president.
More: Could Joe Biden pick Barack Obama as his running mate? Yes. But.
This sounds like a great idea to me! It's sinking in! The A-Team! What do you think?
Yep, Evangelicals must be so proud of how low they have set the bar for Christianity in America. How can they ever redeem themselves?