I do not dispute the outcome of the election and do not want to make ACORN into the sort of bogeyman that leftists made of Diebold. However, irrespective of whether or not Obama was born in Hawaii or outside the United States, as some claim, he is the most un-American, anti-traditional man to be elected President. Whatever you may think about Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, etc., they are all unquestionably American. We are now dealing with a man whose paternal ancestors were black/Arab Muslims, whose father was a Communist in his native Kenya, whose stepfather was an Indonesian Muslim, and whose mother and maternal grandparents, though native-born Americans, were leftists and, in the case of Stanley Dunnam, a good friend of the notorious Communist and sex pervert Frank Marshall Davis, who was one of young Obama's mentors. Then you must look at his later mentors: Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Jeremiah Wright, etc., and his pre-political background as a community organizer (PC for leftist agitator) and a professor in the left wing atmosphere of modern academia.
Call it coup, call it sea change, or whatever you will. What we have witnessed is not a Carter or a Clinton succeeding an unpopular Republican administration, but something unprecedented in American history. God help us.
Words have meaning. Don’t call it a “coup” if it isn’t one.
Yes, I am suspicious of where BHO will take his power. He achieved it legitimately; this is different from whether, like others you note, he subsequently uses it illegitimately. Adolph, Hugo and Daniel did not stage coups to achieve power, they staged them to continue and extend that power beyond legitimate limits.
Also, Vladimir Putin was elected.