Clinton: 'I Won't Rule Out Another Run for President'

In a phone conversation with a trusted friend earlier this week, President Clinton hinted that if Vice President Al Gore loses the election, he might make another run for the White House himself.

When the friend asked what Clinton would do in the wake of a Gore loss, the President at first said, "I'll cross that bridge when I come to it," reports the New York Post's Cindy Adams.

The friend pressed Clinton, asking, "If Gore loses, would it possibly ever cross your mind to actually make the run for the presidency again?"

"I certainly wouldn't rule it out," Clinton replied.

The Constitution would seem to forclose that option:

"No person shall be elected to the office of President more than twice," the twenty-second amendment states clearly.

Then again, the lesson imparted by eight years of the first Clinton presidency is just as clear: Laws are made to be broken.

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Has Clinton read the 22nd Amendment?

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Twenty-Second Amendment

Section 1. 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.

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Or is he planning an imperial takeover?

-- watcher (imperialnonsense@dictator.com), November 02, 2000

Answers

That's odd. I just had a phone conversation with a trusted friend earlier this week, and my trusted friend said that Clinton said no such thing. I guess it's just one trusted friend's word against anothers. Unless you actually have a source, of course.

-- (hmm@hmm.hmm), November 02, 2000.

BALONEY!

-- gilda (jess@listbot.com), November 02, 2000.

Thanks, hmm. This near to a close election rumors fly like snowflakes. Obviously, this one originated from the Impeach Earl Warren crowd.

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), November 02, 2000.

Watcher is correct. The person who had the conversation with Clinton is a good friend of mine too. It seems as though our mutual friend neglected to tell Watcher something though. Clinton said that as soon as he takes over, the first person that he will have executed will be Watcher.

-- (you're not paranoid @ if they are. really out to get you), November 02, 2000.

Newsmax was the source. Take it as you will.

http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2000/10/27/75255

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

For the story behind the story...

Friday October 27, 2000; 8:54 AM EDT

Clinton: 'I Won't Rule Out Another Run for President'

-- watcher (imperialnonsense@dictator.com), November 03, 2000.

Or if you prefer another article from the same source:

http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=1999/8/29/171120

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

For the story behind the story...

Sunday August 29, 6:03 PM

Bill Clinton's "Third Term"

Sean David Morton is a futurologist. He says he can predict the future.

Morton, no doubt, has many friends in Hollywood that like such New Age stuff. A NewsMax.com reader sent us a copy of Morton's The Delphi Associates Newsletter. The following caught Inside Cover's eye:

"I have now heard confirmation from three different sources who are very close to the Clintons that Bill has no intention of leaving the White House! At first I thought it was just right-wing paranoia. But a powerful woman friend of mine in entertainment (who must remain nameless!), who is a friend of Hillary's 'special friends,' was at the White House recently for a holiday. She said that Clinton spoke openly about finding a way to circumvent the Congress and the Constitution and find a way to stay on for another term, or stay president indefinitely. Incredulously, she asked how he was going to swing this feat of magic, and she said he got the most chilling, evil, demonic look in his eye that she had ever seen come from a human being, and he said, 'World War III.'"

"This same story I heard from my lady friend, and another relation of the Clintons, was recently confirmed in an article by Ralph Forbes. It seems Clinton has been running this scheme past a number of his inner circle, and is actively seeking ways to implement his goal." **********

Yeah, well, the ignorant populace loved Julius Ceasar too, but remember how the Senate felt about it? Too bad our own Senate just LOVES the man....re:impeachment trial.

-- watcher (watcher@imperialnonsense.com), November 03, 2000.

Watcher, you're right, we are in deep shit. I met Clinton once, and shook his hand, it was the scariest experience of my life. Back in 96 when he was campaigning, I happened to be in a crowd when he passed through town to greet voters. As I shook his hand, I looked directly in his eyes, and noticed a little red glow right in the center. Inside of his eye, like in his head, I saw a flying saucer with a window, and inside the window I saw Satan, laughing his ass off. Satan seemed to be saying, "I ain't leaving", and chills ran down my spine. I realized at that instant that we are all doomed, and I shit my pants on the spot.

-- right-winger (suffering@paranoid.delusions), November 03, 2000.

Newsmax was the source.

Ah, that explains it then. Thanks, though, for reposting that famous article from last year that excited so many people on the old TimeBomb with this wonderful line:

Incredulously, she asked how he was going to swing this feat of magic, and she said he got the most chilling, evil, demonic look in his eye that she had ever seen come from a human being, and he said, 'World War III.

That was August of last year. Not too much time left to start WWIII, he'd better get cracking!! LOL

-- (hmm@hmm.hmm), November 03, 2000.

Right Winger is telling the truth, I know, I cleaned up the spot wherein he shit himself.

Nasty job but somebody had to do it.

-- afriendofafriend told me, hesaid,she said too (shh@aol.com), November 03, 2000.