FEC disqualifies Hillary due to term limits


	FEC disqualifies Hillary due to term limits

n2sooners

12-22-2007 9:41 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c7f38359-9a2d-4038-87fe-88d1176c2252/2C63B6AB-A34B-4DF3-9B50-B7617F6D177A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2833" href="http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2833" style="font-size: 11px;">www.scrappleface.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2833">The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is expected to rule this week that Sen. Hillary Clinton can no longer receive public funding for a presidential campaign which increasingly touts her <A target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/21/AR2007122102588.html?nav=rss_email/components">experience</A> in the White House with former President Bill Clinton, because the Constitution limits a president to two terms in office.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2833">“When Bill Clinton ran for president, he promised that voters would get ‘two for the price of one’,”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2833">so Americans have already elected Hillary Clinton to the office twice.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2833">Furthermore, since both the former president and his wife claim her First Lady experience as tantamount to a co-presidency, she has already served two terms and is therefore disqualified by the 22nd amendment from re-election to the office</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2833">When news of the FEC ruling reached Sen. Clinton, she was about to enjoy dessert at a diner in Altoona, Iowa. The unflappable candidate quickly ate her cake slice, and then asked the waitress for a ‘to go’ box so that she could take it with her.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2C63B6AB-A34B-4DF3-9B50-B7617F6D177A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>