Sorry, but that sounds like the nonsense the liberals were spouting about Bush during the last administration. Sounds just as silly when our side says it.
Very true. Same goes for the armed rebellion crowd imho.
The difficulty is .. the people surrounding the President make the stuff we’re spouting much more believable.
And .. if there is another attack on NYC while the 10 terrorists are there .. could Obama declare martial law and remain in office ..?? The radicals supporting Obama surely suggest he would be open to that .. what with the new energy policy which would allow Obama to take control OF ANYTHING. This guy is really scary.
I tend to agree...IMHO, we are headed for a Chavez-type regime. Comparing Bush to Obama is comparing apples to “radical” oranges, i.e., Bush didn’t surround himself with communists, marxists, maoists, socialists. Bush never planned to create his own “civilian army”, nor did he “indoctrinate” by using his position to access almost daily TV coverage. He didn’t set up a website for citizens to snitch on citizens. He never vowed to “fundamentally transform” our country and he certainly never espoused “redistributive change”. At the rate we are going, 2012 seems a very long way off and I’m not convinced that for the first time in history, some “crisis” won’t precipitate the “postponement” of elections.
Freepers were saying it during the Clinton administration, too. The prevailing thought was that he was going to declare martial law and suspend elections.
Yep. Clinton was going to suspend the election in 2000, than Bush was going to do it in 2008 and now Obama is going to do it in 2012.
The tinfoil crowd needs something fresh.
Obama could sign an executive order, but it would not be binding.
A statute, no matter how buried, runs a major risk of getting exposed.
He'd need a majority of states to not hold an election. I don't see the states agreeing, even the bluest of the blue, without a massive uprising. Their state capitals would grind to a halt. Most state officials aren't on the ballot in 2012, so they have nothing to gain.
What I can see happening is him not abiding by the results of the election, should the outcome not favor him. He'd get Holder to invalidate the results on some sort of grounds and tie this up in court for years.