Posted on 11/20/2008 8:28:49 AM PST by Candor7
Well , many minds on FR have been exploring what you raise here.
Many believe that either Frank Davis Jr, or possibly Malcolm X was Obama's biological father.
Anne Dunham was a wild young thing.
It's either that, or the stock market going down to 10% of what it is NOW, based on investors' natural fears of the Obamanation and the socialist supermajority. We can handle riots better than a total economic collapse.
Your premise is nonexistent.
We'll see.
“the damage from an 0bama presidency will indeed be worse than the short term damage done by the rioters.”
Yes, very much so.
Don’t you know what your own premise is? I’m referring to your premise, not your assertion to which I was replying.
Thanks, Candor7.
The race is decided by the House. That part's not so mysterious; it's happened before.
That would be the scenario if Obama is disqualified.
If 270 of Obama's 352 electors vote for the same candidate, there's a winner. There would be a lot of jockeying between supporters of Biden and HRC, but I suspect they'd work out a backroom deal (for example, Biden names HRC veep) before voting rather than risk a contested ballot. I really don't see enough electors throwing the election to McCain.
I don’t believe McCain would be considered. It would have to be a Dem. I believe that Obama’s electors would be disqualified as they are assigned to Obama. It says the House would pick the President. I’d bet on it being Hillary and Biden as VP. Unless Biden is disqualified because Obama picked him.
That's nowhere in the law. A Dem getting elected would be overwhelmingly likely, but there's nothing in the law that requires it.
I believe that Obama’s electors would be disqualified as they are assigned to Obama. It says the House would pick the President. I’d bet on it being Hillary and Biden as VP. Unless Biden is disqualified because Obama picked him.
I don't know where you're getting these disqualifications. The electors are chosen by the states; unless there's something in state law that I don't know about, disqualifying Obama would have no effect on who is in the EC. Obama's electors would be free to vote for anyone they like, and it wouldn't go to the House unless they were unable to settle on a candidate.
I will respect the result from the process, I really need to get on with my life.
Forgive me should I echo others’ sentiments, but what a wonderful thread title.
Bill Clinton Hurls Constitution Qualifications Bomb at Obama
August 08, 2008
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?grpId=-1&articleId=281474977417055
As they say here in the South... "watch that Bill Clinton... he is a slick-'un"! How best was this phrase demonstrated than during his recent interview on ABC news... where his comments continue to generate incessant rumors at the grass root level, regarding Senator Obama's constitutional qualifications for the office of President. Clinton, the masterful dean and inventor of message innuendo said, when asked by ABC correspondent Snow about Obama being completely qualified to be President:
"The Constitution sets qualifications for the president, and then the people decide who they think would be the better president".
Why didn't #42 just state a resounding "Yes, he is" ... or a conclusive "No, he's not", when asked that question? Surely Bill Clinton understands that this statement would further fuel the constant, nagging drag on Obama––and subsequent tanking poll numbers of Obama––because of the junior Senator from Illinois' refusal to produce his original, signed, certified birth certificate. Was President Clinton signaling a hidden meaning in his "... Constitution sets qualifications for the president..." remark that he has alsobought into the wide-spread notion that Obama is hiding something by not being transparent and revealing his birth records?
Thank Freeper Beckwith!
JSR's are worthless, they have no effect as law.
The ABOVE is WRONG. MEA CULPA!
Correction, although the subject jpeg was discovered to be a fraud, by Polarik, it was never ADMITTED to be a fraud by those who had composed it.
My mistake.
The subject COLB is still referred to by Obama supporters as virtuous, when in fact it is a proven forgery.
( I hope that helps fix this!)
My apologies!
It won’t be long before the NY Slimes and the Boston Glob go bankrupt.
Will someone step up to buy the Boston Globe?
Boston Herald ^ | Thursday, November 20, 2008 | Christine McConville
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135608/posts
No. There's no precedent for this sort of thing, but the most likely scenario is that the electors would become free agents. Electors tend to be committed partisans; that's why they were picked for the gig in the first place.
This is where I just don't get it. Why should the electors won by a fraudulent candidate stand? It seems this could be abused in a big way.
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