YIKES!

Could Barack Obama Become President again ... as Speaker of the House? Could Barack Obama Become President again as Speaker of the House? Posted on 8/2/2018, 6:45:41 AM by Jim Noble The XXII Amendment to the Constitution says, in part, "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." Notice what this Amendment prohibits: "No person shall be elected to the office of the President". It says it twice. Notice also what the Amendment does not say: "Any person having served blah, blah, blah shall be ineligible to the office of the President". If the Democrats take the House and elect Obama as Speaker, and then manage to remove the President and Vice President (by whatever means), would Obama's succession to the Presidency happen by him "being elected to the office?" I don't think so. The Amendment only prohibits a third term that happens as a result of an election (which, BTW, is not in the Constitution to begin with). A Freeper (Jim Noble) asked that very question. Bear in mind that the ruling party can elect anybody Speaker.  I'm a longtime advocate of using this rule to give Sarah Palin, or Ann Coulter the job.  That would be legal, but I'm not sure of this gambit, although I seem to remember  that, at the end of  the Clinton Terror, there was similar talk about a Speaker Willy.