The Freeman's Burden:

To defend the principles of human liberty; to educate; to be vigilant against the ever expanding power of the state.

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Do it to us one more time (Presidential Debate #3) (Pre-debate)

Why are they having another debate? I'm watching MSNBC where the panel has just laid out everything the candidates will say and what every retort will be. So I guess the only reason to watch is to see if Bush snaps at the moderator or Kerry's head explodes. That would be interesting. Maybe Bush would be taken out by skull fragments. Would Edwards and Cheney then be standing for president or would the whole thing cause a Constitutional crisis and end up in the courts? After all, that's not who the parties nominated for president. The mind wobbles. Jeff Greenfield wrote a similar plot into a book called "The People's Choice". He ask what would happen if a candidate won the presidency, but died before the Electoral College could meet to cast their ballots. Since the electors where sworn to the dead guy for president and not the V.P.-elect, where they Constitutionally obliged to vote for the veep, the dead guy or someone else. I'm not telling, you'll have to read the book.

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