Delay the election? How -
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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?
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In other news -
Brandy! More brandy!
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Date: 2004-07-13 08:16 am (UTC)I seriously doubt I'm going to convince you, so I'll just leave it there.
Trampled
Date: 2004-07-13 09:50 am (UTC)But I've yet to see any evidence to support your claim that 50K voters were somehow disenfranchised during the 2000 election. If you have some, I encourage you to send it my way and I'll look at it. Also, as a patriotic American, I urge you to file a case in Federal District Court and pursue the matter vigorously. (If you have evidence, you will have no problem finding an ACLU attorney to take the case pro bono).
Since no such case has been succesfully filed, I can only assume that no grounds for such a case exist.
Sorry, but until I see some evidence to the contrary, my opinion is that nobody's voting rights were trampled in Florida. The President was legally elected gaining the most votes in the Electoral College, just as the constitution specifies, and the U.S. Supreme Court agrees. You may not want to accept it, but those are the facts.
And I'm stlll waiting for a concrete example of the Bush administration infringing upon our constititutional rights. Lacking that, I can only assume that the people who hate him do so for irrational reasons.
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Date: 2004-07-13 10:17 am (UTC)I'm at work. Go for it.
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Date: 2004-07-13 09:26 pm (UTC)Hooookay, Jim has left the building.
*tap dances*
Aw, screw it.