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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 05:48 PM Original message |
Was Joe Biden briefly president? Or acting president, but not president? |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
1. No, taking the oath does not confer power. The strike of the clock at 12 does that |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 05:52 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Correct. Obama/Biden both took power at the same time at 12 noon. |
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alwysdrunk (908 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
2. No. Joe Biden was Bush VP for a few minutes. |
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eowyn_of_rohan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-21-09 11:06 AM Response to Reply #2 |
19. That is what I figured, too |
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Orangepeel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
3. Not true. Obama became president at noon. The oath is symbolic. |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
4. Nope, Biden wasn't president... |
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Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
5. Joe Biden IS the President..... |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 05:52 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. No |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 05:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. about your signature picture |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 05:56 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. It's apparently pissing some people off. I feel bad, but it's not truly offensive |
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Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 05:55 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Stop with this drivel now!!!! |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 05:58 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Ha-ha on you! Gitmo is being shut down... for insufficient sexiness! |
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Shiver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 06:00 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Jill Biden is the hottest Second Lady ever! |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 06:51 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. You only say that because you never saw Joan Mondale's famous lap dance |
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Wetzelbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 06:54 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. your signature picture is going to haunt my dreams |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 07:41 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Sorry |
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Wetzelbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 07:59 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. really? |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 07:48 PM Response to Original message |
16. this was something new i learned, they become President based on time, not oath |
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bbernardini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-20-09 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
17. Oddly enough, due to a strange loophole, all three Jonas Brothers were briefly the president. |
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