The Emperor Has No Shield?

Just a short snip at Emperor O before I get back to serious blogging…

In his almost daily press conferences, Obama is usually standing at a podium with a shield (seal if you prefer) that says “Office Of The President Elect…”

As usual, I consulted my handy copy of our Constitution to see what it had to say about this office.  Those of you who are way ahead of me already know there is no such “office”, it is a status, a state of being.  What you may not have realized is that Obama is NOT officially president elect either.  That status is conferred after the Electoral College has voted, presented the outcome of said vote to the Senate, and had it confirmed by the President of the Senate, the current Vice President.

If Obama insists on having an interim title, prior to the coronation, I suggest “presumptive president elect”.

Neal Boortz, on his syndicated radio program, has been making much the last few days of the fact that some number of our elected officials took the citizenship test and got an average score somewhere in the 40’s, if memory serves.  What was even more distressing is the nature of the questions they missed.  (Please go to www.boortz.com for details, should this interest you that much.)

Those of you who have visited Monticello know that Thomas Jefferson designed his own grave marker and the inscriptions on it which say:

Here was buried
Thomas Jefferson
Author of the Declaration of American Independance (sic)
of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom
& Father of the University of Virginia.

Note what it does not say and, in doing so, realize how far backward, toward kingship, we have gone.

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