I LOVE it! But wouldn’t that make Maddie Halfbright technically the first woman President?
I have heard enough about Black already.
I think it was Alexander Haig. (Hey, he must have spent time in the hood somewhere!)
Answer: No.
Obama did not complete the oath of office util Wednesday afternoon. So by this logic, of the esteeemed Mr. Levin, Rice was president for about 24 hours.
I believe the line os succession following the VP, Speaker and Pres. Pro. Tem. of the Senate is the Treasury Secretary.
this is “just for fun” according to the author...
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This whole thing about the oath is pretty silly. It’s not the oath that makes him President. He becomes President at Noon. Period. The oath of office is simply a constitutionally required duty of a new President. Like the mandate in the Constitution to report to Congress annually on the state of the union. He doesn’t stop being President if he doesn’t do it, but he would be in violation of the law.
The incoming Vice President was sworn in at 11:30 AM. IF (BIG IF) Obama was not "eligible" under the 20th Amendment because he had not yet taken the oath (And neither had Condi Rice for that matter.) then Biden would have been acting as President until Obama became eligible. But he would not have been President, just acting (which is what he's doing anyway so he would have been able to step right in).
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There’s also been a lot of brewhaha about him “flubbing” the oath. If he did, and that disqualifies him, then Nixon was disqualified as well. The oath states “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution” and I’ve seen a video of Nixon’s inauguration (don’t know if it’s the first or second) where Nixon said “preserve and protect and defend...” He added an extra “and” which meant he didn’t state the oath as written in the Constitution.
As someone else said, we need to quit nitpicking on trivial stuff, it makes us look like idiots.