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He's tanned, He's Rested, He's Ready. Vote Clinton 2004.

(From a minimal butterfly world in which the 22nd and 25th Amendments have slightly different wording. Instead of denying any President more than two terms or ten years in the White House, the amendments prohibit any President from serving more than two terms or ten terms consecutively. Therefore a former President becomes eligible for the Presidency after a four year interim. This change in wording doesn't affect things too much. Eisenhower has no interest in running in 1964, Nixon is far too disgraced to run in 1980, Reagan's Alzheimer's disease precludes a Reagan 1996 campaign. Bill Clinton is the first former President who has an opportunity to take advantage of the loophole. After much convincing former President Clinton decided to enter the 2004 campaign. Yes I know I'm torturing butterflies here, and the probability of this happening may well be ASB. But still Bill Clinton vs. George W. Bush is a scenario I've been thinking about, regardless of the improbability involved.)

I have to say I love it and I don't think that's going to butterfly things a lot in any case. It's more or less a matter of one person somewhere in the US government writing up a line different, and no one noticing the loophole until much later. I don't see why that couldn't happen without too much of an impact on history.

And I do know that a single thing going different is going to lead to everything being different and so on and so forth but still this would be a timeline I for one would be very much interested in reading, whether you could consider it ASB or not.

This would or could btw make Clinton the second US president ever to serve non-consecutive terms, which would make ole' Bill much more noteworthy in the grand scheme of things than he ever was OTL (where he quite frankly, apart from the sex scandal, didn't make much noise, so to speak).
 
I have to say I love it and I don't think that's going to butterfly things a lot in any case. It's more or less a matter of one person somewhere in the US government writing up a line different, and no one noticing the loophole until much later. I don't see why that couldn't happen without too much of an impact on history.

And I do know that a single thing going different is going to lead to everything being different and so on and so forth but still this would be a timeline I for one would be very much interested in reading, whether you could consider it ASB or not.

This would or could btw make Clinton the second US president ever to serve non-consecutive terms, which would make ole' Bill much more noteworthy in the grand scheme of things than he ever was OTL (where he quite frankly, apart from the sex scandal, didn't make much noise, so to speak).

The strange thing is, Bill Clinton is still my definitive President of the United States, to the extent that I tend to view both W and Obama as Clinton's successors. Although from a historical standpoint George W Bush will probably end up being more memorable. I guess that's what I get for being introduced to the Presidency while Clinton was in office.

Aside from butterflies, I think that the main problem with my scenario is Hillary. I'm not sure she'd be happy about Bill running for the White House, and thereby frustrating her intention to become President in 2008. That and Clinton's heart trouble.
 
A Republican Rally Sign, circa 1920

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WE'VE GOT WOOD

(yes, it's kind of sophomoric, but I like it :eek::p)
 

Technocrat

Banned
Romney-Jindal in '12: Because Change is All We Have Left.

Disinformation campaign, nice. The best slogans say the exact opposite of the truth. Republicans rack up a huge deficit and cause a huge recession, a Democrat lowers the deficit while creating jobs, Republicans say he's robbing future generations with that huge Republican debt he's only managed to partially digest. This slogan fits the style of GOP campaigning recently, as they've apparently hired one A. Hitler as their new campaign adviser: "if you are going to lie, make it a big lie" will probably be the new GOP motto sometime soon.
 
Read the 22nd Amendment: No Third Term!
Conservative bumper sticker expressing opposition to Senator Hillary Clinton's ultimately successful attempt to win the Presidency in 2008. The slogan was largely a response to the prominent role former President Bill Clinton played in his wife's campaign.


How about

Hillary Rodham Kirchner
 
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