If Obama cancels the presidential election, who will stop him?

americanthinker.com ^ | 8/7/2016 | Lloyd Marcus

[rktman]

Many of you have heard the conspiracy theory that Black Lives Matter and other paid thug protest groups will cause so much chaos in the streets that Obama will use it as an excuse to cancel the presidential election and remain president. I do not think that will happen.

However, I asked my wife Mary a rhetorical question: "If Obama did cancel the election, who would stop him?" Folks, the terrifying answer which we all know is "no one." For eight years, even after we gave Republicans control of the House and Senate, the GOP has allowed Obama to break the law and ignore the Constitution at will. Congress has ignored their power of the purse and funded everything Obama has decreed. Senate majority leader Republican Mitch McConnell said that no matter what Obama does, impeachment is off the table.

[Starboard]

Such a move would throw the country in turmoil...

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We’re pretty much there already. The country is a mess.

[M Kehoe]

“I do not think that will happen.”

There’s your answer.

In the fwiw dept, the several states, the people, and the peoples representatives hold the presidential election.

0bama has no say in the matter.

5.56mm

[IronJack]

In technical terms, you're correct. But seriously ... how many military folks are going to arm up on Dec 15 and go to war to enforce martial law declared by a president who has his bags packed and his china in boxes by the door? Especially if that president is thoroughly hated and has a reputation for acting unconstitutionally. And the president-elect is a staunch defender of America and its constitutional principles.

I would see a military refusing to obey the martial law directive and either waiting until the inauguration or peacefully deposing the sitting president and either installing an interim executive until the inauguration can be held or, as an emergency measure, inaugurating the president-elect early.

There is legal authority, and then there's PRACTICAL authority.

[ridesthemiles]

Absolutely
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[beelzepug]

I would prefer that he and his minions be Ceausescu’d.

[aces]

basically obozzo already is above the law, I expect riots and martial law will trigger it if trump wins, which is something that wont happen with the corruption we are seeing, they no longer worry about be accountable to the law, they write it at will.

once martial law kicks in, game over, UN in place, as well as moselimbs etc

[campaignPete R-CT]

u r much more patient man than I am

[Reily]

The only way you would have gotten even an attempt at removing Zero by impeachment would be if the GOP has 70-75 senators. That's 4+ more then needed, because there would be a handful or so that would get the “vapors” over removing the first “black” president. NO DEMOCRAT WOULD HONOR HIS/HER OATH TO THE CONSTITUTION. So you wouldn't get any votes from there. (And why would we think that? Whenever have Rats showed any fidelity to the Constitution?) That 70-75 number is impossible to get in present day America. Rats want a “Mob-ocracy”, with them leading the mob. Must voters can barely spell republic let alone understand what it means.

After the “Clinton impeachment/removal” failure, I think there was sort of a “cost/benefit analysis” done and it was decided it was better to wait Zero out. A “chicken shit” approach I know but that's what we have in office now.

And the “Clinton, etc” was a failure, you don't do that and not win. Not in this day & age, this is not 1868!

[Jim Noble]

would be if the GOP has 70-75 senators

Wow, you have a lot of faith in Republicans.

Do you know how many of your Republicans voted against the radical feminist anti-constitutionalist Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the least qualified person EVER nominated to the USSC until the Wise Latina?

Thta's the number that would vote to remove "Obama".

The GOP is finished, and that, on the whole, is a good thing.

[Jim Noble]

War is implicit in our situation. As in the 1850s, when it begins, who starts it, and where it takes us are all unknowns.

I agree that there will be physical resistance, of unknown size and scope, to a Trump inauguration. If the incumbent administration facilitates it, I believe there will be a military coup.

[Reily]

I don’t have as much faith in them as you think, I simply postulated a “best case” scenario.

I have even less faith in the GOP voters who keep them there.

[ChicagahAl]

Please tell us how he could stop it...

Lots of Pollyannas on this thread: "He can't do that; we have rules!!!!" Riiiiight.

...Black Lives Matter and other paid thug protest groups will cause so much chaos in the streets...

The question answers itself. There are more than one way to "cancel an election".

If two NBP goofballs with night sticks can stop people from voting in Philly, how about dozens of BLM thugs, armed with God-knows-what at major Republican precincts in swing-states?

You planning to shoot your way in; vote; and shoot your way back out? Yeah, I didn't think so.

Of course, we could all just send in absentee ballots and avoid the polls on election day; but I suspect that after the votes are counted, the absentee ballots would somehow show 150% of registered voters for "straight-party-Democrat".

Don't get cocky, folks. This really is a war for the soul of America. And our enemies are well-armed and evilly-clever.

[aces]

I believe you are correct, however, let’s pray our military works for the people.

[MayflowerMadam]

Even if Hussein didn’t cancel the election, he’ll have 2.5 months after the election to wreak major havoc on the country before the next president (please, God, make it be Trump) is sworn in. I put nothing past him.

[Leep]

“There are 50 state elections”

And obamacare is just a tax. And all 57 states wanted gay marriage, and of course all 57 state wanted illegals flooding our borders. Not mention obama didn’t circumvent the USC at every turn...

[publius911]

bama cancels the presidential election, who will stop him?

I can't answer that, I left my OUIJA board in my other suit.

But...
I would love to see how he would try to do that!

[publius911]

Maybe the SS would since they then would be required to protect the president elect?

What would they do, choose sides?

The SS is also required to protect the ex-president.

[publius911]

If he issued such a decree the only consequence would be it would finally put to the lie that he was any sort of a constitutional scholar.

I never bought that.
He taught only portions of the Constitution that have been misinterpreted as creating "gibesmedats" and calling it "rights."

[publius911]

I think he’d prefer to be U.N. Secretary General. That ‘job’ would be a perfect fit for him, as there isn’t squat for real work involved, and he could continue living his kingly lifestyle, jetsetting and pontificating around the world.

Not a problem, after the UN is moved to Burkina Faso, and the U.S. contribution is reduced by 80%.

He can knock himself out in his natural environment...

[The Great RJ]

If Obama cancels the elections, the media would laud his boldness for saving the country. The GOP would be whimpering in the corner.