Tomorrow's may be the most important Presidential address since Nineleven(TM).

[KamaAina]

[femmocrat]

1. Let's hope so. nt

[SHRED]

2. I refuse to get my hopes way up

Buy they are mildly elevated.

[NightWatcher]

3. Transcript leaked: "America needs me to prevent this epic fuckup from occurring,

so I will retain the office of the Presidency for a term of 4 years. In that time, we will secure our elections and pass new voter protection measures that allow each citizen a voice."

[C_U_L8R]

4. The suspense.

I hope our President doesn't hold back and gives
us a good Obama-style mic drop. This is 3D chess
you Trump chumps. Obama out !

[DeminPennswoods]

5. I'll put my money on a wimp out

and Obama calling on Americans to play nice with pres-elect Trump.

[BigDemVoter]

8. I don't think he'll ask us to play nice.

But he very probably won't go ANYWHERE near as far as he should.

[DeminPennswoods]

34. His temperment is just concilliatory

I wish he was different, but he's just not one to go on a classic rant.

[GusBob]

11. I would not bet on that

In September he told putty to his face to knock it off or else

He has to come out swinging

[roamer65]

17. Fuck that.

No way I am playing nice with a fascist.

[JudyM]

28. Sadly in agreement with you.

[Dave Starsky]

35. He's going to have a very special announcement.

Santa Claus will be appearing on the White House lawn tomorrow, if anyone should like to bring their little Americans to meet Jolly Old Saint Nick. And if Santa just happens to look like award-winning film and television star Martin Sheen in a beard (wink), then all we can say is, "Ho Ho Ho!"

Hot apple cider and sugar cookies will be served.

[SammyWinstonJack]

37. +1

[mnhtnbb]

6. My hope?

Nullification of the election and nationwide do over scheduled for Jan 20, 2017.

My belief?

Nice speech encouraging the Electoral College to rise to what appears to be a Constitutional crisis.

[flamingdem]

7. Would be sad if he left all hope to the Electors

They aren't going to do squat

[SickOfTheOnePct]

12. The President has no power

to nullify the election.

[mnhtnbb]

14. No, but the Supreme Court does with the precedent of Bush v Gore 2000.

And Obama could certainly announce that legal action has been commenced...

[SickOfTheOnePct]

15. Bush v. Gore

did not nullify an election.

[mnhtnbb]

20. Really? They stopped the vote recount in Florida which

effectively stopped the process to verify the election results.

Independent analysis of the votes by several organizations after Gore conceded indicated that he did, in fact, win Florida.
The Supreme Court sure as hell did void the election results in Florida.

So the precedent is there for the Supreme Court to get involved.

[NYC Liberal]

22. There is also other precedent for a court overturning an election result due to fraud.

However, at least one federal court decision suggests there may be some federal case law on the question of whether it is possible to invalidate the outcome of an election after the fact when there is fraud, and replace a candidate benefitted by fraud with his opponent. The case, Marks v. Stinson, is the first and only known case in which a federal judge reversed an election outcome.

In 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review an appellate court’s decision of Marks v. Stinson, a case originally brought before a federal district judge in Pennsylvania in 1993, which was subsequently appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1994. The Third Circuit partially upheld the federal judge’s decision to intervene and invalidate a 1993 state senate election due to fraud. Interestingly, the federal district judge ordered the winner be removed from office and the subsequent vacancy be filled by his opponent.

The 1993 state senate contest pitted Republican Bruce Marks against Democrat William G. Stinson. Stinson was named the winner, but was later accused of participating in a scheme with elections officials to commit election fraud. Namely, Stinson was accused of conspiring to cast illegally obtained absentee ballots in his favor.

In February 1994, after Stinson had already taken office, the federal judge ordered he “be removed from his State Senate office and that his opponent, Bruce Marks be certified the winner within 72 hours.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/russian-interference-could-give-courts-legal-authority_us_584be136e4b0151082221b9c?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

23. I agree that had the count continued

Gore would have won. However, it didn't, so the Supreme Court didn't void the election results.

There is precedent for the Supreme Court to get involved, but there is no precedent for the Supreme Court to nullify a Presidential election.

[PoliticAverse]

44. Actually Gore opted to call for recounting in only 4 counties and independent analysis showed...

he actually lost in those 4 counties. So if the Supreme Court had let the state court's decision
to recount those 4 counties stand Gore would apparently still have lost.

However the analysis also showed that if the entire state had been recounted Gore apparently would have been the winner.

[KamaAina]

24. And now you know why the fascists stalled Garland all this time.

[BigDemVoter]

9. I didn't even know he had one scheduled. . . .!

Do you know what time?

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. 2:15 eastern time last I heard.

[cwydro]

21. And on a Friday.

I got no hopes here.

[pbmus]

13. Certainly hope so..

[Chasstev365]

16. Only if he declassifies all the Russian info.

Sorry: he will denounce it, but not reveal what every American needs to know.

[roamer65]

18. Hopefully full declassification.

All of it.

[madinmaryland]

19. Huh? Tom Brady is going to be announced as the new Surgeon General.

Expert on deflated balls and such.

[KamaAina]

27. I heard it was going to be Tony Romo.

Expert on excess lachrymation and such.

[Achilleaze]

40. Yet Brady still managed to thrash the Ravens this week with surgical precision

Surprisingly, defeated opponents keep grinding their molars about past-tense invisible air that existed within scientific tolerances and never was never is nevermore. Go figure.

[lame54]

25. Finally...

He's gonna take their guns

[milestogo]

26. I'm hoping for a Constitutional coup so that he can stay in office for life.

They do that in Africa.

[spin]

32. And they do that in South America. ...

That's just fine in banana republics but not in a representative democracy or a constitutional republic.

If Obama declared himself to be President for life there would up an uprising that would split this nation right down the middle.

I seriously doubt the military would support Obama if he tried to do that. It would probably take over the government until a solution could be found. I don't want to see the military running this nation either.

The best hope we have is the Electoral College and if that fails the impeachment of Trump when he steps too far out of line.

[PoliticAverse]

29. He's not really "addressing" the nation, he's holding a press conference...

before he leaves for Hawaii.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obama-pressconference-idUSKBN1442YG

[Backwoodsrider]

30. got nothing

He is just going to do a press conference before leaving the continent maybe remind us to do what our new president elect says because we won the electoral vote

[Warpy]

31. I'm completely pessimistic about it

The good puppy press will be too afraid of offending Twittler to ask any hard questions about the Russian hacks. Obama is unlikely to volunteer any new information.

I hope I'm wrong but I'm horribly used to being right.

[McCamy Taylor]

33. He can call a state of emergency. That is within his power.

He can declare that we are now at war with Russia for violating our election laws and hacking our government. Americans love war. They hate being hacked.

Those are presidential powers. He should use them. What is the point of having a commander in chief if he does not defend the country?

[forthemiddle]

36. Will he call the state of emergency

Before or after his Hawaii vacation?

Let's face it, a Friday afternoon press conference, right before he leaves on vacation, is not the time that we are going to get any bombshells.

As a matter of fact, if he had any concerns about the Electoral College, which meets Monday, he wouldn't be going on vacation either.
This time Tuesday it will officially President Elect Trump, and there will be nothing anyone can do about it.

[dumbcat]

38. We might review the Constitution

He can declare that we are now at war with Russia for violating our election laws and hacking our government. Americans love war. They hate being hacked.

Uh, no. Only Congress has the power to declare war.

Those are presidential powers. He should use them. What is the point of having a commander in chief if he does not defend the country?

Nope.

[madokie]

39. Tomorrow is today

and yes I think this will be a block buster of a speech, one that every single person in this country should hear.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

41. I'll just set my expectations super low and hope that he exceeds them.

He'll just wish us happy holidays and fly off.

[tavernier]

42. He will smile and say

You asked for it
You got it
Toyota.

Mic drop

[KamaAina]

43. Thread win!