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She can't. Of course Chelsea can hang out for a while...LowlyPion said:Hilary won't wait that long.
She can't. Of course Chelsea can hang out for a while...LowlyPion said:Hilary won't wait that long.
We will have elected a super computer long time before that :tongue2:signerror said:Well, looking up dates on wikipedia, the 15th amendment allowed black men to vote in 1870, whereas women did not get the vote until the 19th in 1920. So at this rate of progress, the US will have their first woman president sometime around... 2060. :uhh:
humanino said:We will have elected a super computer long time before that :tongue2:
Oh ! You just made me think of von Neumann president ! :rofl:lisab said:President Turing!
signerror said:Well, looking up dates on wikipedia, the 15th amendment allowed black men to vote in 1870, whereas women did not get the vote until the 19th in 1920. So at this rate of progress, the US will have their first woman president sometime around... 2060. :uhh:
Cyrus said:I'm heading on the redline metro in a few hours (2 am here, 4 am metro opens)
Redbelly98 said:I noticed, as part of the swearing-in process, Obama had to promise he would preserve and defend the constitution.
Is this something new they added this time around? One can only wonder how different things would be today, if only Bush had to make a promise like that at his innaugaration.
Bush did preserve and defend it - he hid it safely away somewhere where nobody could get at it.Obama had to promise he would preserve and defend the constitution.
Hurkyl said:Sheesh, the day is almost over, and we don't even have world peace, rainbows everywhere, or even unicorns prancing in the fields! I'm disillusioned!
BobG said:Or were you being sarcastic?
from bbcDie-hard Republican
Tom Sims, 45, mechanical engineer from Pennsylvania
I voted for McCain. I'm a die-hard Republican.
But I came to this with my kids because he's going to be the new president, regardless of my party affiliation.
We have to support him, nothing I can do about it now for four years, and if he does a good job, he will win my vote.
"We will restore science to its rightful place ..."
Rightful place - from whose point of view ?"We will restore science to its rightful place ..."
mgb_phys said:Rightful place - from whose point of view ?
Redbelly98 said:The godless, constitution-toting elitists who voted for him?
Yes but the FSM is a benevolent God and so there were no thunderboltssignerror said:On a completely unrelated note - did that young-earth creationist Rick Warren still end up doing the government religion ceremony thing?
cristo said:I absolutely do! But regardless, it's not who he is, it's what he represents in the office that he holds. It reminds me of a quote from a random war film "Salute the rank, solider!"
I have a pre-paid cell phone for emergencies. No camera, no nothin' else. If it can make calls, that's all I want.LowlyPion said:I think everyone in America has a cell phone camera.
At every inaugural ball Obama's appeared at, he has faced a sea of cell phone cameras.
The exact same statement could be made of Lincoln, when he became President.signerror said:Good question: how could one be excited?
It's not really fair to point out he hasn't done anything, because he didn't even finish a single term in Congress.
Gokul43201 said:The exact same statement could be made of Lincoln, when he became President.
No. I said: "The exact same statement could be made of Lincoln, when he became President."misgfool said:Are you saying for certain that Obama's achievements will shadow Lincoln's?
misgfool said:Are you saying for certain that Obama's achievements will shadow Lincoln's?
Gokul43201 said:No. I said: "The exact same statement could be made of Lincoln, when he became President."
So if by some measure, Obama has done nothing because he hasn't even finished one term in (US) Congress, then prior to being elected, Lincoln had done nothing either, by that same measure.
Ignoring the minor issue of sample size, it would appear that the odds of anyone outliving a Presidential term if sworn in at an age greater than 68 is only 50%. That's an argument against picking McCain.BobG said:We have a very small sample size covering some vastly different periods of time.
Evo said:A number of Presidents never held public office. Dwight D. Eisenhower is a recent one, US military, NATO, to President.