Current Affairs 2024 POTUS race

[LinekersLegs]

Yeah because had such a great reputation of “service and sacrifice“ before that particular massacre.

 

[LinekersLegs]

If I live 1000 years I’ll never understand why the GOP has decided this issue is a hill worth dying on. I know they have to dog-whistle to the racist element of their base, but there are other ways to do that without glorifying a bunch of guys who were losers at best and traitors at the worst.

They just seem to really like naming things after confederates.

Inside the $100 million door-knocking effort to boost Ron DeSantis

Allies of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis see the large-scale field program as the centerpiece of an effort to overtake former President Donald Trump.

www.nbcnews.com

On Thursday, NBC News was offered a behind-the-scenes look at what the DeSantis allies have dubbed their “Fort Benning” — a nod to the military base in Georgia that provides basic training and was until recently named for a Confederate general — where door-knockers like Craddock are going through an eight-day “boot camp” learning everything there is to know about early-state canvassing and DeSantis himself.

Henry L. Benning - Wikipedia

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In a February 1861 speech to the Virginia secession convention, Benning gave his reasoning for the urging of secession from the Union, appealing to ethnic prejudices and pro-slavery sentiments to present his case and saying that were the slave states to remain in the Union their slaves would ultimately end up being freed by the anti-slavery Republican Party. He stated that he would rather be stricken with illness and starvation than see African Americans liberated from slavery and be given equality as citizens:

What was the reason that induced Georgia to take the step of secession? This reason may be summed up in one single proposition. It was a conviction, a deep conviction on the part of Georgia, that a separation from the North was the only thing that could prevent the abolition of her slavery.... If things are allowed to go on as they are, it is certain that slavery is to be abolished. By the time the North shall have attained the power, the black race will be in a large majority, and then we will have black governors, black legislatures, black juries, black everything. Is it to be supposed that the white race will stand for that? It is not a supposable case.... War will break out everywhere like hidden fire from the earth, and it is probable that the white race, being superior in every respect, may push the other back.... We will be overpowered and our men will be compelled to wander like vagabonds all over the earth; and as for our women, the horrors of their state we cannot contemplate in imagination. That is the fate which abolition will bring upon the white race.... We will be completely exterminated, and the land will be left in the possession of the blacks, and then it will go back to a wilderness and become another Africa.... Suppose they elevated Charles Sumner to the presidency? Suppose they elevated Fred Douglass, your escaped slave, to the presidency? What would be your position in such an event? I say give me pestilence and famine sooner than that.
— Henry Lewis Benning, Speech of Henry Benning to the Virginia Convention, February 18, 1861.[1][2]

 

[EFCthechosenone]

At the very least he should pick a VP who is more popular than him and could potentially unite the country in the event of something unfortunate.

On that basis, while Barry Obama can't be elected President, there's nothing stopping him being VP and becoming President by default, so he needs to put his cape on and come to the rescue.

Agreed!

 

[TN Toffee]

At the very least he should pick a VP who is more popular than him and could potentially unite the country in the event of something unfortunate.

On that basis, while Barry Obama can't be elected President, there's nothing stopping him being VP and becoming President by default, so he needs to put his cape on and come to the rescue.

Nothing except the pesky 12th Amendment. It’s several paragraphs long, but the pertinent part here is the final sentence.

But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

 

[Chach]

Nothing except the pesky 12th Amendment. It’s several paragraphs long, but the pertinent part here is the final sentence.

"The Constitution lists only three qualifications for the Presidency, the President must be at least 35 years of age, be a natural born citizen, and must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years."

Term limits for the Presidency are a seperate matter.

 

[verreauxi]

Nothing except the pesky 12th Amendment. It’s several paragraphs long, but the pertinent part here is the final sentence.

"The Constitution lists only three qualifications for the Presidency, the President must be at least 35 years of age, be a natural born citizen, and must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years."

Term limits for the Presidency are a seperate matter.

I had no idea this issue was so complicated.

 

[verreauxi]

At the very least he should pick a VP who is more popular than him and could potentially unite the country in the event of something unfortunate.

On that basis, while Barry Obama can't be elected President, there's nothing stopping him being VP and becoming President by default, so he needs to put his cape on and come to the rescue.

And in light of the abstract I posted above, this Biden-Obama ticket would be very shrewd. The right would defecate ballistic kittens if this were to occur.

 

[Huyton Layne]

I mean you can't just dismiss baseless ramblings...
This guy is for sure get the dem nomination if the party machine can be stopped.

 

[LinekersLegs]

And in light of the abstract I posted above, this Biden-Obama ticket would be very shrewd. The right would defecate ballistic kittens if this were to occur.

Michelle would murder Barack if he tried it making all legal strategies moot.

 

[LinekersLegs]

I mean you can't just dismiss baseless ramblings...
This guy is for sure get the dem nomination if the party machine can be stopped.

Haven’t watched him much so it might just be an isolated incident but, even dismissing the content of the discussion, RFK honestly didn’t seem to so healthy himself in that clip.

 

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[PeregrineT]

"The Constitution lists only three qualifications for the Presidency, the President must be at least 35 years of age, be a natural born citizen, and must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years."

Term limits for the Presidency are a seperate matter.

Like in the 22nd amendment of the constitution.

He's ineligible.

 

[Chach]

Like in the 22nd amendment of the constitution.

He's ineligible.

"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice"

Being elected Vice President is not the same as being elected President.

"and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once."

This only means he couldn't seek re-election.

 

[PeregrineT]

"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice"

Being elected Vice President is not the same as being elected President.

"and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once."

This only means he couldn't seek re-election.

The last line of the 12th ammendment, "But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."