You still have to deal with the logistics of getting someone “out of office” and getting someone else “into office”. And in those logistics, it’s exactly as I said — you have two dates to deal with — and they are 2010 and 2012...
No matter what you want to say about it, you have to deal with those two dates and people better make the right preparations for them, if they want to win and make a difference...
I wasn't addressing getting someone in or out of office. The 2010 election is still a ways away and a great deal of things can happen before then.
For example, a national emergency could be declared, even one of a financial order, by presidential fiat before then and things would be real different, real fast. There is even the haunting specter, within the framework of such a mental exercise, that the 2010 elections may never be held. A "Catastrophic Emergency", like that mentioned in NSPD 51 could be declared.
IMO a lawyer, and not even a particularly good one, could twist...(b) "Catastrophic Emergency" means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions;...to fit our current economic "crisis" into a national emergency. There are, of course, a plethora of other executive office decrees that could also go into effect if such an emergency were declared.
If it was imaginable during the Bush administration isn't just as, or even more imaginable during 44's tenure in office?
Was the subject of presidential powers too touchy? It seems that you are tactfully trying to divert the topic away from that with this divergent statement of yours.