Posted on 08/01/2009 6:37:32 PM PDT by djf
Pinging you to this!!
Actually, Joe Biden would be President until the House selected from the at most two QUALIFIED candidates who received the most electoral votes. There is precisely one such candidate, Juan McLame.
This struck me odd at the time and I have not forgotten it either.
Actually, if Obama ever got kicked out of the White House, what would be perfect is to have Sarah Palin in the White House and McCain can be her Vice President. We all know he belonged on the bottom of the ticket
Legally speaking, the problem this analysis is going to run into is not with the word “qualify” — it is with the term “President-Elect”. Barack Obama is no longer the “President-Elect”. The window for this particular Constitutional challenge may have closed.
SnakeDoc
McClain was not “qualified” either. He was not born under United States jurisdiction, but off base in Panama.
Obama: Epic Qualify Fail.
You newbies and your vanities! ;->
1 — the panama canal zone was US soil at the time. so it’s not even an issue.
2 — regardless, he was born to american citizens, making him a natural born american citizen regardless.
Well then, impeach every dang member of the Senate for not doing their job to verify he is qualified.
It just hit me when I read your post, then the SENATE IS RESPONSIBLE. They did not perform their duty to make sure the President-Elect was qualified. People who were arguing about this before the election, before the ignauration, etc... were mocked.
The Senate will never let this go anywhere because they know performed (or did NOT perform) an impeachable offense. If not criminal if they knew it and did nothing.
If he never “qualified”, the Constitution says he can never be President. He can call himself whatever he wants, and his enablers can act like the Constitution doesn’t exist but it does. We currently have a vacancy at the office of President “if” Obama hasn’t proven that he meets eligibility standards to Congress.
If he is in fact not Constitutionally qualified, he was never presdient elect because the ‘president’ elect or sworn in must meet Constitutional eligibility. ‘Fails to qualify’ can be read as meaning ‘fails to still have the mental faculties to act that he had when elected’ don’tchaknow.
HAHA!
(Drink)
It’s so simple as to be elegant!
Good idea! It’s Maragarita time!
If he failed to qualify as president elect, and then came along with a “the dog ate my homework” excuse and THEN gave evidence that was sufficient, I can’t speak for anyone else, but for me, myself, and I, that would be sufficient.
But none of that is forthcoming. He did, as president elect, “fail to qualify”.
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