good gawd man, that is just a cruel thought! the worst ticket i could imagine obama prez, pelosi vp. i could not build a hole big enough to move into. now i will have night terrors!
What, are you kidding me?
Incredibly, it might be an improvement.
The electoral college process was set up to separate the executive function from the legislative function. The electoral college also serves as the last sanity check before the winner of the election is made President of the US. If BO citzen status disqualifies him, the electoral college delegates at the instruction of the states they represent can elect anyone or no one. McCain will not be picked because the Dems won the election, thus Biden is the most logical choice but Clinton can lobby the states to instruct their delegates otherwise. In the mean time the swearing in is delayed and President Bush will remain in office till it is resolved. The tricky part is if BO is sworn in and his citizen status is revealed later. At that point only Congress can remove him by impeachment. If the Dem control Congress refuses, the US Constitution and our Republic will cease to exist.
Repeat after me:
spell check is your friend
The folks in the electoral college can elect whoever they want
The good thing about Pelosi-she never sleeps. Her face is stretched so tight, she actually can’t close her eyes.
“Could Nancy Pelosi be our next President?”
Egads!
I consider that thought to be life insurance policy for the Obama/Biden ticket. There *is* someone worse than obama who could be President.
No matter how much I may dislike the thought of Obama as President, I will now pray more fervently for his and Biden’s health and continued service for the next 4 years!
The Electoral College, however, could be interesting, if one of the members stands up and demands to see Obama’s birth certificate, and raises questions of citizenship based upon reports of traveling under an Indonesian passport. I believe this is actually the only way the SCOTUS would step into the question, if such a request is made, and refused by the body.
It is an interesting legal question if Obama must submit to any requests by the body to produce any documents; I'm sure the SCOTUS would rule that they have no powers to compel Obama to produce anything, but are welcome to take that refusal into account in their voting. And probably would be willing to require the College to meet a second time, and re-vote, should a vote take place with the question unresolved on the floor about any existing questions on documents. But they'd also point out that the only body that can compel Obama to produce them would be congress, as part of an inquiry for impeachment.
If Obama is found to be unqualified to sit in the office, at that time, the Electoral College can choose anyone they wish to be president, with the exception of Biden. As his name will be on the VP ballot, he can not be elected president by the body. Pelosi’s name could come up at that point and be voted upon, but I would bet that it'd be Hillary's name and election that would actually happen, with Biden proposing it himself. The majority of electors will be Obama faithful, who would stand in opposition to Pelosi and co.
Dick Cheney ??????????
According to the Constitution, if Congress fails to certify a Vice President before January 20th due to the Democratic ticket being held up by Obama's birth certificate, the Vice-President before Janurary 20th becomes Acting-President.
In other words, Dick Cheney becomes Acting President.
After this point if Congress still can't resolve the election, especially in the case of Democrats refusing to vote for McCain as President, Dick Cheney remains Acting President of the United States until 2012.
We will sell everything we have, buy a 45’ sailboat and live on the sea...
You need to stop drinking.
Go wash your mouth out with soap.
Nah! She's WAAAAAAAY too busy with other important business! :)
Obama showed us how to throw anyone under the bus. Could it be Pelosi’s turn to toss obama under the bus and send this to SCOTUS? Wouldn’t that be fun to watch.
The election could be declared null.
The other outcome could be thatMccain/Palin would be awarded the electoral victory by the SCOTUS. on review of the constitutional isses.
The chances are slim. Scotus could easily declare that Hawaii Law is determinitive of judicial fact , and that is that Obama was de jure born in Hawaii even if his defacto birth was Kenya, by virtue of Hawaii's accepting registrations ex juris, as if they occurred in Hawaii. That is apparently the way it is done in Hawaii. They register anyone who has one Hawaian resident parent as if born physically in Hawaii.
Hillary would never allow it.
However if votes for The One were objected to, and the objection sustained (not bloody likely as it's the DemonRat Congress that would have to sustain it.) then no qualified cannidate would have gotten a majority of the votes, which throws the election into the House, but the House can only pick from the top three qualified candidates, who got electoral votes.Those would be McCain, McCain and McCain, unless some elector is "unfaithful" and votes for someone else, whom the House could then pick. I would expect that there might a couple of Dim electors who would vote for someone other than The One, possibly just as "insurance", in case the Bama candidacy goes all to snot. If that happened, then the House could pick that person, assuming they were qualified.
