Is Vice-President Obama For 2024 Joe Biden’s ‘Hail Mary’ Solution?

(Congressional Agenda) – There’s no doubt that President Joe Biden’s latest tumble across the stage after delivering a speech at a graduation ceremony for the Air Force Academy last week was a major blow to his overall strength and fitness for serving in the Oval Office. It will likely be seen in many GOP political ads over the course of the next couple years, as Republicans draw attention to the fact that Biden is way too old and fragile to be running a country like the United States, a fact that is adding to his current unpopularity among voters heading into the 2024 election season.

And as if that isn’t bad enough, well, Kamala Harris is his vice president. Need I say more?

Given the long list of gaffes, tumbles, stumbles, horrifically bad economic policies, weakness on the global stage, and the fact Harris is his right hand, what can Biden do to boost his chances of seizing a second term in the White House?

According to Philip Allen Lacovara of The Messenger, the only logical course of action the president can take to bolster his chances of winning reelection is to name former President Barack Obama as his running mate for 2024, replacing Kamala Harris on the ticket.

I know, horrifying thought.

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However, Lacovara pointed out this isn’t the first time the idea has been considered. Back in 2015, before the end of Obama’s second term as president, there was talk of such an idea.

“I think that Obama has been wrongly excluded from discussion about the 2024 race because it is simply assumed that he is constitutionally barred from running as a candidate on the national ticket. That is a mistake. As I will explain, the Constitution permits this kind of gambit — and, despite the apparent unlikelihood of it happening, both Biden and Obama owe it to the country to consider using it,” Lacovara said.

“Biden continues to sink in the polls, with a recent Washington Post/ABC poll showing him actually behind Donald Trump, something considered almost unthinkable even before Trump’s indictment in New York three months ago. Biden has two crucial but connected problems — his age and his vice president. Harris’s unpopularity compounds voters’ concerns about Biden’s stamina and even his survival through a new term,” he wrote.

“Since Biden shows no sign of willingness to step aside himself, both his low approval ratings and the danger to the country from Trump’s potential return to the White House make it imperative that Biden select a running mate who best enhances his chances for reelection. Obama is the only person who could practically guarantee Biden’s reelection, whose qualifications cannot be disputed, and who could replace Harris without alienating a major constituency,” Lacovara noted in his op-ed.

The writer goes on to say that neither Biden or Obama would be too keen on the idea at first, but would then probably go for the idea due to their “concern for the good of the country.” Yeah, I don’t think that’s why they would do it. It’s more likely they would opt to take this particular path as a means of ensuring that the progressive agenda would continue to be implemented, one brick at a time, in order to set up the transformation of the U.S. into a socialist nation built from the blueprints left behind by Karl Marx.

Lacovara points out that back when Obama ran for his first term as president he was still wet behind the ears. It was the addition of Joe Biden, a long time senator, who brought experience and political know-how to the ticket and helped ease fears that Obama wasn’t ready for the job. So wouldn’t it only be fair for Obama to return the favor?

Sure, Harris would probably be furious, but let’s be honest. She’s one of the most disliked politicians in the country. Her approval rating and any chances of having a successful political career on her own have already been flushed down into the sewers. The pair of candidates would no doubt throw out a bone for her sacrifice and hand Kamala a position so gravy it would be nearly impossible for her to screw it up, thus ensuring her career continues and she doesn’t get in the way of the team’s progress.

“At first blush, the 22nd Amendment might be thought to preclude Obama from being on the 2024 ticket. That amendment provides: ‘No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice …’ While Obama is precluded from ever running again for election as president, the amendment does not prohibit him from running for any other office, including vice-president,” Lacovara continued.

The last sentence included in the 12th Amendment also does not put up a roadblock for Obama serving as vice president, as per the writer. It says that “no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”

“First, the 22nd Amendment was adopted to address a single, perceived problem — Franklin D. Roosevelt’s decision to run for reelection to a third and then fourth consecutive term as president. Thus, it bars two-term presidents only from being ‘elected to the office of President.’ It says nothing about running for, and being elected to serve, as vice president,” he added.

Lacovara then explained, “Second, the 12th Amendment regulates voting by members of the Electoral College. The “constitutionally ineligible” clause ensures that the electors may not vote for someone who does not meet the qualifications for the presidency set forth in Article II of the Constitution, which provides only three requirements to be ‘eligible’ to become president: ‘No person except [i] a natural born citizen … shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office [ii] who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and [iii] been fourteen years a resident within the United States’.”

He then brought up the fact that a former president can run for Congress, which is what John Qunicy Adams did back in 1830. There is apparently nothing listed in the Constitution that prevents such an individual as being chosen for the role of Speaker of the House, and given that the Speaker is in the line of succession right behind the Vice President, well, you have a situation where a former president could end up being the commander-in-chief should something happen to the president and his vice president. There’s nothing in the Constitution to prevent that from happening.

“Similarly, a person in Obama’s position would be ‘eligible’ for nomination to fill a vacancy in the office of vice president under the 25th Amendment, which contains open-ended authorization to select a vice president. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the vice president, ‘the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.’ Nothing suggests that a former two-term president would not be an otherwise “eligible” candidate for the vice presidency in such a process,” the op-ed stated.

With a little twisting and turning of the Constitution — which the left has become exceedingly good at — you could end up with Biden and Obama back in the White House, though in reverse order.

Let’s hope that no matter who is running with Biden, the ticket is shut down by whoever the GOP nominee ends up being so we can begin the long, arduous process of repairing the nation and restoring it to the glorious position it deserves.