Not one chance in a million. Remember, we're dealing with Obama here. Obama is a socialist, and he routinely flouts the rule of law.
But he is a lazy, easily-distracted, let's-go-golfing socialist. He doesn't have the temperament for any kind of coup. He's more John Lennon than Vladimir Lenin.
Now, on the other hand, if it were President Hillary...nothing would be off the table.
If Hillary loses, or even if she is forced to drop out and a Democrat replacement is defeated, its hard to imagine Obama willingly “turning over the keys” to Mr. Trump, whom he knows would dismantle and undo his “legacy”. Obama’s ego is simply too big to accept defeat and graciously walk away. No, he would fabricate an excuse or create a crisis to prevent (or at least delay as long as possible) Trump from assuming the presidency.
Who would stop him? Certainly not the Republican controlled congress. Obama has already shown complete disregard for it, the Constitution, and normally accepted political behavior. And we have seen time and again that he pays no attention to the courts. He is king and does whatever he wants. I wouldn’t put it past him to abrogate our time honored election process in favor of engineering an extension of his time in office.
Articles like this only makes our side appear paranoid and irrational.
I don't doubt that Obama would cancel the election if he could, however, I think he's smart enough to know that he could never pull that off. Lincoln could have used the Civil War as an excuse to cancel the election of 1864, but he didn't. Roosevelt could have used World War Two as an excuse to cancel elections, but he didn't. As bad as things are, we are not in as precarious a position as we were during those periods. Cancel the election? No. Rig the election? that's a much more distinct possibility.
I could easily hear Wolf Blitzer and others saying “Today, Presdient Barack Obama has said he plans to postpone the US election from November to March 2017 until the situation has stabilized somewhat. The administration fears that the divisiveness of an election will inflame the country at this crucial time. This gives voters an additional five months to register and allowed the candidates more time to discuss their issues before the voters. More on Wednesday’s attack in [Name a City] after we get back from this break.” Too easily. The media will say ANYTHING the oligarchy wants them to say.
Who would stop him? Hillary. And Bill. They desperately want back in the White House. Hillary believes she has waited long enough, and Obama has no real reason to thwart her. She isn’t going to undo the mess he has made.
The Democrat party also stands to lose were he to do something like this. They want to increase their presence in Congress, and if Obama stops the election, that won’t happen. The voters will be furious and blame them.
In a word, he doesn’t dare. Marcus is usually pretty shrewd. He blew this one.
Hillary
No one would do a thing. But I don’t think Obama would do that. He is already setting up the electoral college to install Hillary. This is evidenced by his creeping “trump is dangerous, unfit, and mentally ill” rhetoric.
Only one way to find out - may God relieve us of that burden.
So any whackadoodle can post on American Thinker now?
If he tried to cancel the elections (there are 51 of them), there would be an open revolt and blood in the streets—particularly in Washington D.C.
20 million vets
NTSA
The GOP leadership will just pee itself.
There will be an uproar.
The few small conservatives newspapers left in America will publish op-eds against the usurpation of power.
Tea Party groups will march on their governors and state legislatures demanding action.
Congress will hold meetings and hearings.
The mainstream TV media will hold televised round-table discussions to explain why this is just what America needs.
A few patriots will be arrested for posting messages urging a citizens march on Washington to oust King Obama.
Senator Hogwash and Congresswoman Bloviator will give speeches.
Some retired CIA agents and military Generals will rush books into print explaining why this cannot stand.
In the end no one will do a damn thing.
Comments, anyone? Lol.
US Constitution, Amendment 20Section. 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
Sec. 2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
Sec. 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
Will the Secret Service arrest him ?
If I see another crazy “Obama will stop the election” article I may shoot myself.
I think we heard the same line of thinking in 00 because of Y2K.