Delay the election? How -

[kyburg]

Go 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!

Comments

Re: What Oppression?

[bitpig.livejournal.com]

I realize that you dislike the President, Ky, and that's okay with me, but I'm still waiting for some evidence to back up the claim that he's somehow trampling the Bill of Rights. The Guantanamo detainees, for example, are receiving due process — the Supreme Court said so. It's just that “due process” means something different in the case of enemy combatants. All the Court said was that in the future a Federal judge has to sign off on each individual case. No constitutional harm, no constitutional foul.

I repeat: I have yet to see any evidence that President Bush is eroding our constitutional rights. Every act he has taken has been subject to the harshest of legal review, and so far no indictments or move for impeachment. A supposed "lack of maturity" isn't fascism, and neither is being inarticulate; being unable to pronounce “nuclear“ correctly does not il Duce make.

If you want real fascism, look no further than Canada and Sweden the Islamic idiots we're fighting : clitoris-cutting, priceless-artwork-destroying, mind-controlling fanatics to a man. Any one of them would gladly blow up an atom bomb in your or my neighborhood if they could. We are at war, Ky, and the enemy we face is in many ways far more evil and dangerous than Hitler and Tojo ever were. The Islamic fascists cannot be reasoned with, bought off, or co-opted; they can't even be invaded or occupied. They quite simply want us all to die, case closed. Therefore, all we can do to prevent that is to kill them first, and keep on killing them by the bushel-basketful until there aren't enough of them left to hurt us.

Against an enemy like that, our only chance of winning is by putting aside our politics and backing the President who is fighting them. I have no problem with those who oppose the President's tax policies or whatever; people are entitled to their opinions, no matter how uninformed or philosophically suspect they may be. But to actively oppose the Comander in Chief in time of war just doesn't make sense.

My two cents, and worth every penny paid.