Friedman: We should 'consider moving up the inauguration date'

[bdamomma]

sounds good to me, how about some feedback.



http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Friedman_Change_Constitution_for_early_inauguration_1124.html

[saltpoint]

1. Sounds good to me. How about this afternoon?

[bdamomma]

2. .......

:thumbsup:

[Warren Stupidity]

3. It is unlikely the constitution can be amended in this time frame.

Friedman, and this may come as a shock, is talking out of his ass.

[terrya]

4. There is no possible way this can be amended consitutionally before 01/20/09

Hell, this isn't some real emergency...like banning gay and lesbian people from marrying. What do you want, anyway? :sarcasm:

[RichGirl]

5. NO

Obama deserves to have all the time he needs to get his people in order and take a rest before taking on such a huge job. It wouldn't be fair to him to rush him. Bill Clinton has said, and told Obama, that his biggest mistake (before ML, I guess...LOL!) was to wait too long to select his cabinet (he took some time off right after the election) and then make rash decisions. Obama is a thinker, he needs time to think and make good decisions.

[ddeclue]

6. clueless...do you know how hard it is to change the Constitution? n/t

[WinkyDink]

7. What a dope.

[cali]

8. yeah, because it's such a snap to amend the Constitiution.

[riqster]

9. We've allowed the constitution to be shat upon for the past eight years

...let's not encourage the practice further.

[scheming daemons]

10. New Presidents need time to put their staffs together, Obama is not even half done

Ideas like this are stupid.


People don't think things through any more.

[Clio the Leo]

11. I was thinking late spring...

.... seriously, not THIS time but if Obama wins 2012 ... sorry WHEN he does .... move the Inauguration back to late spring when the weather is better. Cherry blossom time maybe. If there's no change in administration it wouldn't really effect much.

[Doctor_J]

12. Harry & Nancy could do a de facto inauguration

by declaring that nothing that Smirk proposes, suggests, or wants will be passed or even brought to a vote, ever again. All the government will do until Jan 20 is pay its bills and listen to proposals from those who will be in charge next year. They could also pass legislation without Smirk's input, upon suggestion from Obama, and send it to Smirk to sign or not as he sees fit, and tell him that if he doesn't sign it, it will be proposed again in February. This would serve to further smear his reputation on his way out the door.

[iamahaingttta]

13. They're just filling up time...

Blather, blather, blather.
Yap, yap, yap!

They've gotta say something to fill up all that time on the 24 hour news channels.
Tom Friedman is flapping his gums again, he's like the Anti-Bill Kristol.
They talk and talk talk and nothing is actually said.
They are wrong about everything, and yet they keep talking, talking, talking.

Tom Friedman is one of those guys who had one good thought once, and everything else is blather.
Yap, yap, yap... yap, yap, yap!!!

See? I can yap away all day long and say nothing also.
Its' real easy, I just wish I got paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to do it!

[RamboLiberal]

14. Thank goodness they amended Constitution to move it from March

Imagine knowing we have Obama in the wings and having to wait till March to get rid of Bush! Right now though I wouldn't mind if it was moved up a few weeks - say mid to end of December.

Inauguration Day was originally set for March 15, giving electors from each state nearly four months after Election Day to cast their ballots for president. In 1937, the day of inauguration was changed by the Twentieth Amendment from March 4 to noon on January 20, beginning with Franklin Roosevelt's second term in 1937.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_moved_presidential_inauguration_day_from_March_4th_to_January_20th