Posted on 08/02/2009 7:32:05 PM PDT by Right2BareArms
Unfortunately, this is on target.
BTW, are you an uncle? Bah-dump-pissh ;>)
I can’t imagine it would be anyone except Biden. He would serve the rest of BO’s term. But it ain’t gonna happen.
That's the REAL reason she resigned from her post as Gov of Alaska.
[Well, I can still dream, can't I?? I mean they haven't taxed that yet or given it away to the entitlement class, have they?]
Pray for America.
All well and good if the Dems were doing things normally. But they are not! For example, Obambi has shoved twice as many czars down our throats [with extra-constitutional powers], than all the czars of Imperial Russia!! And that's just the start -- throw in all the other ridiculous down the throat ram sessions we've had and it's the Rape of America by an Un-elected Thugocracy aided and abetted by an out-of-control Congress drunk with power. It makes me want to puke.
Oh, come on now. The Legion of super heros would never allow this!
Do you really believe that if the libs decided to trash and rewrite the constitution that what they did with the 2nd amendment would matter? Exactly what legal framework do you envision this happening under?
Your statement reminds me of the despondent man who places a gun to his own head when he finds his wife cheating. When she laughs he tells her: "shut up. you are next".
“It should default to McCain, the legal candidate.”
it would have to go to McCain,as zero was never a legal candidate.Therefore McCain got the most votes.
He either is or is not eligible under the Constitution. The People cannot override the Constitution, except by going through their representatives in Congress and the state legislatures, or through the Convention process, which has never been used. They can't vote in someone who only 30 years old, or has lived all but the last 10 years of is life in foreign countries. They cannot.. well you get the idea. The people are party to the contract that is the Constitution, just as the state and national governments are.
For you see, we are not a Democracy, where the "dictatorship of the people" or "3,000 tyrants one mile away" can do whatever they please.
We are a Republic, a Free Republic.
Taking the oath is just one more requirement to be President. The Constitution merely requires it be done before entering into the execution of the office. It does not, by itself, "make" someone President. The Clock and Calender do that, unless the other requirements are not met at that time on that date. There is no requirement that any particular person administer the oath, or even that it be taken orally. It's generally been the Chief Justice, but not always. It's usually not the Chief Justice, or any Justice, that does it when a VP takes over because the President has died, or in the one case resigned. Only two have been impeached. Andrew Johnson, who took over when Lincoln was assassinated, and William Jefferson Clinton. Neither was removed from office.
The Candidate(s) that came in second with regard to electoral votes in the 2008 election will become POTUS and vice-president (McCain/Palin).
Im sure appropriate measures will be taken in congress and(GAG)the VP is swiftly sworn. If lucky, thats when the real fun begins.
Brilliant!!
My assumption is assassination is the only way Obambi will not complete his term. If by chance that happens Arlen Specter will concoct a “Single Spear Theory†to explain how Obambi’s pin cushion looking corpse was the victim of a lone assassin.
It’s fantasy time for those who cannot accept the fact that Obama was elected president by both a popular and electoral majority. One of the assumptions that the Founders made when setting up our republic was that people would be mature enough to accept election verdicts not to their liking. It’s disrespectful to the electoral will of the people to so ardently hope that the nation’s choice will be proved ineligible.
Very eloquent Colonel. If your statement represented the whole story behind this issue, we who question zero’s credentials would have to accept the verdict and STFU. But, there are too many unknowns about this guy. I cannot see how you could be totally convinced of his eligibility on just the COLB that has been produced. Let’s see the document that any one of us would have to produce just to get a driver’s license.
Doesn't matter what you want, there isn't a provision in the Constitution for it.
Biden was elected by the Electoral College and isn't ineligible to serve.
Feel free to argue the point but if it isn't Biden there is ONE and ONLY ONE other choice.
The Speaker of the House is next in line.
A few.
It is even MORE disrespectful for a lying crypto-marxist demagogue to employ skullduggery, lies, deception, forgery, intimidation and the shield of political correctness held aloft by the stenographers in the MSM to hoodwink the American people into electing this incipient tyrant.
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