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1 posted on 11/07/2008 2:25:18 PM PST by lowbridge
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Office of the Ego-Maniac of the US. Secret service code name: Swelled-head.


26 posted on 11/07/2008 2:36:06 PM PST by Hacklehead (Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the hippies.)
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He needs the symbols so he’ll know who he is.

Without them, he’s nothing.


28 posted on 11/07/2008 2:36:55 PM PST by Carley (Vote McCain/Palin.....Change babies can live with.)
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Obama is basically kicking bush aside and allowing him to pack up his sh-t. He’s not waiting for inaugeration it seems.

No, there isn’t no such thing as “office of the president elect”, but don’t expect MSM to say anything about it.


29 posted on 11/07/2008 2:36:56 PM PST by Nathan Zachary
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Obama would make a heck of a pimp. Can you image his pimp-mobile?


30 posted on 11/07/2008 2:36:58 PM PST by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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I think Obama is mentally unstable.


33 posted on 11/07/2008 2:37:58 PM PST by B Knotts (ConservatismCentral.com)
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Came here to post same question.

Office of President Elect (not until electoral college votes) is one office higher than office of presidential candidate...both of which are NO office at all.

36 posted on 11/07/2008 2:38:51 PM PST by Jackson Brown (Conservatives killed their racehorse in order to let their fortunes ride on a jackass)
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All of this is an attempt on the part of the Obama people to make the people who elected him think that he is already the president. I’m guessing if you asked most lib/dems on the street if Obama is president now, they would say yes. Most of them probably think he and Michelle and the girls are moving into the White House this weekend.


37 posted on 11/07/2008 2:39:42 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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Face it folks, we are all that is left to point this out. The GOP is just as responsible as the democrats for the lying and cheating to the American people.

The GOP will only gripe and take the high road after the damage is done. And it is going to be dismal. We will crouch like the low bellied idiots we are. They know it and we know it.

A pox on all the bast*rds.


38 posted on 11/07/2008 2:39:55 PM PST by dforest (Is there any good idea out there that Obama doesn't lay claim to anymore?)
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The guy is a 'poseur' extraodinaire.

Main Entry: po·seur Pronunciation: \pō-ˈzər, ˈpō-zər\ Function: noun Etymology: French, literally, poser, from poser Date: 1869 : a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person

40 posted on 11/07/2008 2:40:41 PM PST by MissMagnolia (Obad. 1:15: As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head.)
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He's got his special little logo in the middle of it all.


45 posted on 11/07/2008 2:43:48 PM PST by MediaMole
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I don’t get some of things on which Michelle wishes to focus.


47 posted on 11/07/2008 2:45:04 PM PST by Bob J (For every 1000 hacking at the branches of evil, one strikes at it's root.)
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I had a client in this afternoon when his Obama-ness was on the big-screen in the room. He said, “you know, I wonder if anyone in the entire media knows the Constitution. You see that, he doesn’t even qualify for the non-existent office that he thinks he holds - he’s not POTUS-elect until the Electoral College meets and votes for him, and the Constitution has no such office anyway. But what do you expect of our media, the idiots?”

I can’t improve on that, other than to say that the government’s carpenters had better get busy making the doors in the White House a lot wider - so that Barry can fit his head through without bumping it.


48 posted on 11/07/2008 2:45:04 PM PST by Ancesthntr (An ex-citizen of the Frederation dedicated to stopping the Obamination from becoming President)
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His ego is on overdrive.

The real name for that part of the government is the GSA Transition Office.

I expect that the c,d,e,i,l,n,p,r,s and t keys to get worn out on all government keyboards from typing the phrase "President-Elect" all the time.

54 posted on 11/07/2008 2:46:35 PM PST by 5thGenTexan
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The first time I heard the phrase “Office of the President-Elect” was from a receptionist answering phones in the Matt Santos transition office during the final episode of The West Wing.
55 posted on 11/07/2008 2:49:36 PM PST by VRWCtaz (POTUS Obama is the only thing between us and POTUS Biden - I picked the wrong time to quit drinking.)
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Hell, Pelosi and Reed are probably going to go ahead and start passing legislation and send it to this new “Office”.

lol


56 posted on 11/07/2008 2:49:40 PM PST by KoRn
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Please make him go away. PLEASE!


62 posted on 11/07/2008 2:55:06 PM PST by bergmeid
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Michelle updated her post.

Update: Mystery solved? Reader Patrick e-mails a link to the Presidential Transition Act of 1963:

SERVICES AND FACILITIES AUTHORIZED TO BE PROVIDED TO PRESIDENTS-ELECT AND VICE PRESIDENTS-ELECT

Sec. 3 (a) The Administrator of General Services, referred to hereafter in this Act as “the Administrator,” is authorized to provide, upon request, to each President-elect and each Vice President-elect, for use in connection with his preparations for the assumption of official duties as President or Vice President necessary services and facilities, including-

(1) Suitable office space appropriately equipped with furniture, furnishings, office machines and equipment, and office supplies as determined by the Administrator, after consultation with the President-elect, the Vice-President elect, or their designee provided for in subsection (e) of this section, at such place or places within the United States as the President-elect or Vice-President-elect shall designate;

(2) Payment of the compensation of members of office staffs designated by the President-elect or vice-President-elect at rates determined by them not to exceed the rate provided by the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, for grade GS-18: Provided, That any employee of any agency of any branch of the Government may be detailed to such staffs on a reimbursable or non reimbursable basis with the consent of the head of the agency; and while so detailed such employee shall be responsible only to the President or Vice-President-elect for the performance of his duties: Provided further, That any employee so detailed shall continue to receive the compensation provided pursuant to law for his regular employment, and shall retain the rights and privileges of such employment without interruption. Notwithstanding any other law, persons receiving compensation as members of office staffs under this subsection, other than those detailed from agencies, shall not be held or considered to be employees of the Federal Government except for purposes of the Civil Service Retirement Act, the Federal Employee’s Compensation Act, the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act of 1959;

(3) Payment of expenses for the procurement of services of experts or consultants or organizations thereof for the President-elect or Vice-President-elect, as authorized for the head of any department by section 15 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946, as amended (5 U.S.C. 55a), at rates not to exceed $100 per diem for individuals;

(4) Payment of travel expenses and subsistence allowances, including rental of Government or hired motor vehicles, found necessary by the President-elect or Vice-President-elect, as authorized for persons employed intermittently or for persons serving without compensation by section 5 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946, as amended (5 U.S.C. 73b-2), as may be appropriate;

(5) Communications services found necessary by the President-elect or Vice-President-elect;

(6) Payment of expenses for necessary printing and binding, notwithstanding the Act of January 12th, 1895, and the Act of March 1, 1919, as amended (44 U.S.C. 111);

(7) Reimbursement to the postal revenues in amounts equivalent to the postage that would otherwise be payable on mail matter referred to in subsection (d) of this section.

(b) The Administrator shall expend no funds for the provision of services and facilities under this Act in connection with any obligations incurred by the President-elect or Vice-President-elect before the day following the date of the general elections held to determine the electors of the President and Vice President in accordance with title 3, United States Code, sections 1 and 2, or after the inauguration of the President-elect as President and the inauguration of the Vice-President-elect as Vice President.

(c) The terms “President-elect” and “Vice-President-elect” as used in this Act shall mean such persons as are the apparent successful candidates for the office of the President and Vice President, respectively, as ascertained by the Administrator following the general elections held to determine the electors of the President and Vice-President in accordance with title 3, United States code, sections 1 and 2.

(d) Each President-elect shall be entitled to conveyance within the United States and its territories and possessions of all mail matter, including airmail, sent by him in connection with his preparations for the assumption of official duties as President, and such mail matter shall be transmitted as penalty mail as provided n title 39, United States Code, section 4152. Each Vice-President-elect shall be entitled to conveyance within the United States and its territories and possession of all mail matter, including airmail, sent by him under his written autograph signature in connection with his preparations for the assumption of official duties as Vice President.

(e) Each President-elect and Vice-President-elect may designate to the Administrator an assistant authorized to make on his behalf such designations or findings of necessity as may be required in connection with the services and facilities to be provided under this Act. Not more than 10 per centum of the total expenditures under this Act for any President-elect or Vice-President-elect may be made upon the basis of a certificate by him or the assistant designated by him pursuant to this section that such expenditures are classified and are essential to the national security, and that they accord with the provisions of subsections (a), (b), and (d) of this section.

(f) In the case where the President-elect is the incumbent President or in the case where the Vice-President-elect is the incumbent Vice President, there shall be no expenditures or funds for the provisions of services and facilities to such incumbent under this Act, and any funds appropriated for such purposes shall be returned to the general funds of the Treasury.

SERVICES AND FACILITIES AUTHORIZED TO BE PROVIDED TO FORMER PRESIDENTS AND FORMER VICE PRESIDENTS

Sec. 4. The Administrator is authorized to provide, upon request, to each former President and each former Vice President, for a period not to exceed six months from the date of the expiration of his term of office as President or Vice President, for use in connection with winding up the affairs of his office, necessary services and facilities of the same general character as authorized by this act to be provided to Presidents-elect and Vice Presidents-elect. Any person appointed or detailed to serve a former President or former Vice President under authority of this section shall be appointed or detailed in accordance with, and shall be subject to, all of the provisions of section 3 of this Act applicable to persons appointed or detailed under authority of that section. The provisions of the Act of August 25, 1958 (72 Stat. 838 3; U.S.C. 102, note), other than subsections (a) and (e) shall not become effective with respect to a former President until six months after the expiration of his term of office as President.

AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

Sec. 5. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator such funds as may be necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act but not to exceed $900,000 for any one Presidential transition, to remain available during the fiscal year in which the transition occurs and the next succeeding fiscal year. The President shall include in the budget transmitted to the Congress, for each fiscal year in which his regular term of office will expire, a proposed appropriation for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

Approved March 7, 1964


64 posted on 11/07/2008 2:57:14 PM PST by Your Nightmare
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BO, PE that’s his title;)


65 posted on 11/07/2008 2:58:24 PM PST by pbear8 (I have plenty of credit, there is no crunch)
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His ego is limitless. UGH!


66 posted on 11/07/2008 2:58:51 PM PST by GOP Poet
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What the hell is the “Office of the President-Elect?"

I lthink it's a misprint and is really supposed to say: "Orifice of the President -Elect."

68 posted on 11/07/2008 3:01:16 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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