Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Unconstitional?
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[Oct 16,2009 10:24am - aril ""]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...009101502277.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
"Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution, the emolument clause, clearly stipulates: "And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State."
[Oct 16,2009 10:25am - Martins ""]
Hahaha.
The thing that strikes me about this, is that if they take the prize away from him, they'll also have to reinstate all our other constitutional rights! But they won't.
[Oct 16,2009 10:30am - Murph ""]
We've had to bend this rule before, when the French used to give our Presidents and Diplomats extravagant gifts.
I hope they take it away from him, though.
[Oct 16,2009 10:30am - arktouros ""]
They would have to take it from President Woodrow Wilson (1920?) who was awarded it during his presidency for forming the League of Nations.
He hasn't done anything close to that.
[Oct 16,2009 10:31am - Martins ""]
League of Nations was fail
[Oct 16,2009 10:32am - RyanPlegics ""]
"without the Consent of the Congress"... Does Congress not consent? That would make my day.
[Oct 16,2009 10:32am - aril ""]
arktouros said:They would have to take it from President Woodrow Wilson (1920?) who was awarded it during his presidency for forming the League of Nations.
He hasn't done anything close to that.
was thinking the same
[Oct 16,2009 10:34am - arktouros ""]
RyanPlegics said:"without the Consent of the Congress"... Does Congress not consent? That would make my day.
Extreme partisanship + democratic majority = no f'in chance
[Oct 16,2009 10:36am - sli sli sli ""]
WHERES THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE???
[Oct 16,2009 10:36am - RyanPlegics ""]
You're a terrorist.
[Oct 16,2009 10:37am - aril ""]
If only the founding fathers knew what the us govt would turn into..
[Oct 16,2009 10:41am - Yeti ""]
i hope George Washington rises from the grave and kicks the shit out of the government, a la kicking the shit out of Hans Sprungfeld.
[Oct 16,2009 10:41am - arilliusbm ""]
that would be a great concept for a B movie.
[Oct 16,2009 10:46am - RyanPlegics ""]
If you can find a way to get big-titted women into it, I bet Troma would be down.
[Oct 16,2009 10:47am - arktouros ""]
fuck the messiah
Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin 2012
[Oct 16,2009 10:52am - arilliusbm ""]
arktouros said:fuck the messiah
Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin 2012
Reading their writings led me to believe that they were indeed geniuses in their own right and that any politician alive today fails in comparison. Doesn't matter what side of the spectrum you're on, the founding fathers were extremely bright.
However, is freedom a failed goal, or is it attainable?
Certainly it's not within our grasp anytime soon, albeit we have it better than a number of other countries.
[Oct 16,2009 11:11am - Murph ""]
Martins said:League of Nations was fail
we didn't even join it.
[Oct 16,2009 11:12am - the_reverend ""]
Sir Obama
[Oct 16,2009 11:17am - Martins ""]
arilliusbm said:
arktouros said:fuck the messiah
Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin 2012
Reading their writings led me to believe that they were indeed geniuses in their own right and that any politician alive today fails in comparison. Doesn't matter what side of the spectrum you're on, the founding fathers were extremely bright.
However, is freedom a failed goal, or is it attainable?
Certainly it's not within our grasp anytime soon, albeit we have it better than a number of other countries.
Not "geniuses", just "not stupid." Seriously, it's like everything they wrote and did was for the COMMON GOOD and involved COMMON SENSE but we don't have that anymore.
[Oct 16,2009 11:17am - Martins ""]
Which I suppose would make them geniuses to us now anyway.
[Oct 16,2009 11:18am - arilliusbm ""]
So you don't think Thomas Jefferson was a genius?
[Oct 16,2009 11:23am - porphyria ""]
fuck the 'founding fathers'.
[Oct 16,2009 11:28am - Martins ""]
arilliusbm said:So you don't think Thomas Jefferson was a genius?
That's not really what I'm saying. I suppose my wordsmithing/coercion needs leveling up but what I'm saying is that, in the modern day, there's no one really thinking the same way they did and that the way they thought isn't really that farfetched and beyond our modern reasoning. They just got it right the first time around and left us to deal with the faggots who would fuck it up.
[Oct 16,2009 11:30am - arilliusbm ""]
porphyria said:fuck the 'founding fathers'.
Granted the country we live in today is completely different than when they wrote the constitution, but I don't see why there should be any negative thoughts about the people who strove to break off from Britain and establish the sovereign nation we live in today. Why you gotta hate on my brothas homie?
[Oct 17,2009 7:05am - BobNOMAAMRooney nli ""]
Moar liek UnconstiJEWtional
[Oct 17,2009 9:35am - Pires ""]
My president is black, and my lambo is blue. That's all I care.
[Oct 17,2009 2:13pm - BobNOMAAMRooney nli ""]
And I'll be goddamned if my rims ain't too.
[Oct 18,2009 1:12pm - DestroyYouAlot ""]
Benjamin Franklin was the greatest president this country ever had.
[Oct 18,2009 1:30pm - Pires ""]
DestroyYouAlot said:Benjamin Franklin was the greatest president this country ever had.
obviously. He's the one on the highest monetary note.
[Oct 18,2009 11:43pm - Ass Rapist Trainee (Junior Grade) ""]
porphyria said:fuck the 'founding fathers'.
I kind of like them, since they brought us what we have today.
Of course, if you covertly hate life... well, then nothing can save you!
[Oct 19,2009 4:18am - sli sli sli ""]
what if i openly and admittedly hate life with passion and gusto?
[Oct 19,2009 10:02am - FuckIsMySignature ""]
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[Oct 19,2009 2:52pm - FuckIsMySignature ""]
sli%20sli%20sli said:what if i openly and admittedly hate life with passion and gusto?
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