That's incorrect Rodney. Clinton could not have run this year. Once you've been elected twice, that's it for life. The Constitution makes no mention of consecutive or nonconsecutive terms -- after two elected terms, you're done and can't run again.
There was some speculation that he could possibly have run for VP, and had they won and the President stepped down at some point, Clinton could serve as predicent again because he wouldn't have been "elected" to office. According to various legal scholars, though, it couldn't happen -- while the actual text of the constitution would seem to support that interpreation, the underlying notes explicitly forbid it.
"Amendment XXII
Section 1. 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. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term."
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