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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan we push back against this "dully elected" BS
Ill put aside millions more Americans wanted Clinton and just say this. When Americans vote, they also expect that their leader wont act corruptly. By the current GOP logic the president has carte blanche to do whatever because he was merely elected. Drives me insane to hear this.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)the constitution and he is president.
He as had 3 years of freely destroying out govt, appointing federal judges that will impact America for generation(s) to come, our relationship with allies and trade partners. Everything Putin wanted to see happen as happened.
Makes that less of 2 evils bullshit more telling
Baltimike
(4,146 posts)Constitution that says he can't bribe people
Raven123
(4,847 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,649 posts)Either way... duly or dully... good point.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)I heard this somewhere a few days ago.
SharonAnn
(13,776 posts)SuprstitionAintthWay
(386 posts)between presidents who win both the Electoral College and the public's vote, and those who attain office by winning 270 or more EC electors' votes but lose the American public's vote.
I do this by speaking of the latter as electoralcolleged presidents.
I CHOOSE to not speak or write of them as "elected" but as something a little more descriptive.
Yes, legal scolds, I know that an ugly, anomolously undemocratic section of the Constitution means that merely being electoralcolleged, under law, constitutes being elected.
Again, this is a choice. I choose to verbify a noun into what is to me a more descriptive and useful way to refer to certain men's ascendancy into the presidency.
Words matter. And nouns get drafted into acting as verbs and adjectives all the time.
If the asshats on the other side can choose to refer to the Democratic Party as the "Democrat Party," I can choose to refer to Bush II and their abomination presently desecrating the Oval Office as having been electoralcolleged into it.