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mwooldri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-06-08 06:38 PM
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Nightmare scenario: McSame is "elected", and then incapacitated.
Here's a what-if scenario. I really truly want Obama to win, and if the opinion polls are to be believed and everything it really is looking that way but I refuse to count my chickens until they're hatched. So I'll keep incubating my eggs for all they're worth.

Let's say McSame does get "elected". Let's also say the Democratic Party gets a majority of seats in the House and Senate - say 55 Senate and 56% in the House.

Let's say McSame is inauguarated in Jan 2009 but in August 2009 his cancer resurfaces and he has to go in for some aggressive chemotherapy that is going to disable him for 2-3 months. In this kind of case normally the President would sign over power to his VP, and if McSame gets "elected" then it'd be Sarah Failin.

Let's add another "what-if" into the mix. A day or two after McSame is incapacitated, impeachment procedings are presented against Failin, and before McSame is unincapacitated, Failin is convicted and removed from the VP position. The "true president" McSame is not in a position to appoint a new VP.

Who is President at this point, and would McSame have incapacitated himself out of office?

Mark.
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YDogg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-06-08 06:39 PM
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1. i don't get it. you mean *more* incapacitated than now?!?
jesus, that's frightening.
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FirstLight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-06-08 06:40 PM
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2. doesn't the constitution say the next in line
is the Speaker of the House?
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-06-08 07:22 PM
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3. Don't worry about it. Ain't gonna happen.
bu$h will declare Martial Law between the elections and the inaugurations. bu$h will have it so much easier once he's the dictator.

You really don't think the criminals will or even can just walk away do you?
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