Delay the election? How -
Jul. 12th, 2004 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgGo buy this book. Really. I carry mine in my purse.
Unlike a lot of people, I've read the Constitution and a great deal, if not most of it relates to elections and how they are to be run.
And how often the elected bodies are to meet. And so on.
Article 2, Section 4 is very pertinent right now, methinks.
Amendment XX kind of makes it very clear that a presidental term ENDS. And when.
Now, you could argue that the Constitution has not been respected much at all - particularly in the intepretation of the first ten Amendments - during the W administration.
However, you toss out all that, you toss out all chance of having any kind of credibility to simply hold office in the first place.
If they want to take steps to ensure elections won't be hijaked - fine. I am very happy to see the level of attention this is getting. I plan to drop more than one note to my elected nozzles on it - but I am not going to get incensed, flustered or GHAD FORBID - scared out of my sentient mind over it.
CNN recently had a poll on what the public thought the recent terrorist warnings were all about - 93% and better thought it was "politics, nothing more" - I applauded. Took long enough.
Capricorn One, anyone?
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In other news -
Brandy! More brandy!
Unlike a lot of people, I've read the Constitution and a great deal, if not most of it relates to elections and how they are to be run.
And how often the elected bodies are to meet. And so on.
Article 2, Section 4 is very pertinent right now, methinks.
Amendment XX kind of makes it very clear that a presidental term ENDS. And when.
Now, you could argue that the Constitution has not been respected much at all - particularly in the intepretation of the first ten Amendments - during the W administration.
However, you toss out all that, you toss out all chance of having any kind of credibility to simply hold office in the first place.
If they want to take steps to ensure elections won't be hijaked - fine. I am very happy to see the level of attention this is getting. I plan to drop more than one note to my elected nozzles on it - but I am not going to get incensed, flustered or GHAD FORBID - scared out of my sentient mind over it.
CNN recently had a poll on what the public thought the recent terrorist warnings were all about - 93% and better thought it was "politics, nothing more" - I applauded. Took long enough.
Capricorn One, anyone?
--
In other news -
Brandy! More brandy!
