President Hillary Rodham Clinton

(I'll pause so most of you who just vomited can clean yourselves up; I apologize for the rude title.)

So, I was reading the Constitution again. The 2nd Amendment still says Americans can own guns, the 5th Amendment still says Americans can execute human garbage and the 14th Amendment still does not say a "health care provider" can stick a scissor in the skull of an unborn baby for the purpose of removing the brain to collapse the skull to extract the body from the carrier. Then, I read an Article of the Constitution I had never read before . . . because it's one of those crazy, ridiculous Articles worded more like it belongs in Major League Baseball's rule book than in the U.S. Constitution. Here is Article 4 of the 25th Amendment and the reason that Sen. Barack Obama would never consider Sen. Hillary Clinton as a bona fide option for Vice President:

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments (read: Cabinet) or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.

Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office. (End of Article 4 of the Twenty Fifth Amendment.)

Yes, the Cabinet, appointed by President Obama (assume Sen. McCain did have a televised nutty during a Presidential debate) should be loyal to him but it's Hillary Clinton for goodness sakes! Why would you ever doubt what she would be willing to do to become President?

Okay, Vice President Clinton could never get 2/3 of both Houses of Congress (or could she?).

I googled "Article 4 25th Amendment" and a few other words trying to come up with a movie or novel that used this as the basis of a plot line and all I could come up with was a William Saffire novel, Full Disclosure (1977), and the television series "24". The 25th Amendment was ratified in 1967. But still, in 40 years no one (other than Mr. Saffire) thought this mechanism to steal the Presidency was the basis for a good novel?

Okay, now I'm off for Mother's Day weekend; I hope you enjoyed the exposure to what I think is a truly obscure part of our Constitution.