From CNN
“Clinton’s nomination popular, but is it constitutional?”
“Article 1, Section 6 of the Constitution says the following: “No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time.”
Translation: A lawmaker cannot fill a position if the salary for that position has been raised during that lawmaker’s term in office.”
To be honest, that makes complete sense and sounds fair to me. If Clinton had become president she probably would have picked Obama for some cabinet position just the same and the situation would be the same.
I’m not a supporter of Clinton being put in a cabinet position as it is. I think I talked about it a bit in this post .
Obama and Clinton smeared one another throughout their entire campaigns. Clinton refused to concede when hope was but a faint glimmer in the distance. Now they’re one big happy family with, Clinton especially, nothing but the nicest things to say about their former opponent. Where’s the loyalty, not only to the people to supported Obama over Clinton, but where is Obama’s loyalty to the things he said during the campaign? How are we supposed to believe anything else Obama has said if he can go ahead and take back all the criticism of Clinton? I’m not so sure the “change” we all heard so much about is going to be the kind we want.
Though, admittedly, the shortsightedness of our forefathers might save Clinton due to the that little piece of the constitution specifying “he”. And I’m assuming Clinton will go the route of taking the pay cut anyways…so I guess I’m more still just angry but all the backtalk.
Categories: R-A-B-L-O-G Posts
Tagged: change, clinton, constitution, obama, transition
September 17, 2008 · 3 Comments
This is the first big election year that I am able to vote, and I am certainly registered to vote but I Really have no desire to vote. I don’t think I have to explain to anyone that all it comes down to is the lesser-of-two evils in just about every election.
In this presidential election I can definitely say I feel McCain is the overwhelming GREATER of two evils and there is no way I would ever vote for him, but Obama doesn’t have much going for him either and I would rather have someone else OTHER than Obama to vote for. I prefer Obama over Clinton, but I would have preferred Kucinich over Obama. I was kind of hoping for Obama/Kucinich this time around to set Dennis up for the next election.
And now I just saw this.
An excerpt: “John McCain’s campaign says the Republican is picking up the support of a top Hillary Clinton fundraiser and member of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee.
Lynn Forester de Rothschild has said she thinks Democratic nominee Barack Obama is arrogant and has a problem connecting with average Americans.”
Wait, what was that? “Barack Obama is arrogant and has a problem connecting with average Americans.”
Just to make this clear, de Rothschild is a multi-millionaire married to a British banker with “sir” before his name. And she lives in London for a lot of the time. Sounds like she’s really down with us average Americans.
Sir and Lady de Rothschild
Barack Obama may not be the ideal presidential candidate, but he’s sure as hell closer to the average American than John McCain ever could hope to be.
Rothschild is being bitter towards Obama for winning the nomination and not choosing Hillary as VP. The fact that a member of the DNC could switch sides so fast and to do it simply out of spite is horrible. It’s a sign of severe ignorance and immaturity on her part.
I’m not saying she should have turned and taken all the money she was giving to Hillary and give it to Obama. I’m just say she needs a real excuse to go full turncoat on her party if we’re to hold any illusion of loyalty and maturity in our government.
Categories: R-A-B-L-O-G Posts
Tagged: 2008 election, barack, campaign funds, clinton, DNC, election, fundrasier, hillary, john mccain, mccain, money, obama, politics, Rothschild, turncoat
