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To: thesetruths
Obama made it clear he wanted to take power immediately after the election. He has now created "The Office of the President-Elect". While previous candidates who won the popular vote were incumbent Presidents, Obama has a different take on the matter.

Just where on Pennsylvania is there a federal government office or even a cubicle entitled "The President-Elect"? Is there a spare gardener's shack or janitor's closet near the White House or on the Mall that could be used? A true Democrat cannot have any problem with such humble proletarian digs.

The Founding Fathers set up the Electoral College so that a direct vote would not be able to install a demogogue into the highest offices in the land. Now we read the incumbent President called a demogogue in the open, e.g. James Lewis at American Thinker. Also David Warren in Save Us who writes "Look at all the souls who gather in the mass rallies for this eloquent demagogue! We have seen this kind of thing so many times before in history."

Perhaps Obama wanted to do a run around against the Electoral College and the Constitution. Obama/Soetoro could be the demagogue the Founding Fathers were waiting for.

230 posted on 11/14/2008 9:19:23 PM PST by magooey (Stop the nonsense, fight the war!)
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To: magooey

velly intellesting


234 posted on 11/14/2008 9:23:36 PM PST by thesetruths
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To: magooey
Obama/Soetoro could be the demagogue the Founding Fathers were waiting for

Maybe the powers that be are just "giving him enough rope to hand himself"....

(OH, dear that's not PC!)

242 posted on 11/14/2008 9:27:58 PM PST by hoosiermama
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To: magooey

“Just where on Pennsylvania is there a federal government office or even a cubicle entitled “The President-Elect”?”

Well, you figure that it would be used, AT MOST, for 10 weeks every four years (and that is supposing that a new President from an alternating party is elected every four years.)

In the past fifty years,we have only had to have an “Office of the President-Elect” seven times. That totals less than 21 months, less than two years.

It wouldn’t really make sense to have an actual “Office” standing, whether in actual office space or just in staff and reference.

I wonder what the other seven President-Elects did during that 3-month period between the election and the inauguration? Bush in 2000? Clinton in ‘92? Reagan in ‘80?


277 posted on 11/14/2008 10:07:13 PM PST by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: magooey
ust where on Pennsylvania is there a federal government office or even a cubicle entitled "The President-Elect"?

Don't know where it is, but the GSA is providing the digs for the Office of the President Elect. Courtesy of GWB.

326 posted on 11/14/2008 10:36:30 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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