The Senate vote was 94-2, and with that, former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was confirmed and sworn in as the Secretary of State. Timing on the Senate’s behalf wasa bit off, and thus she missed the first White House meeting of President Obama’s foreign policy team…..but Vice President Biden was probably happy to fill in for her (based on Jill Biden’s comments on Oprah).
The confirmation of Sen. Clinton made it official that her Senate seat for New York is vacant, and NY Governor David Patterson must now appoint her replacement.
For weeks, the speculation has gone between Carolina Kennedy and NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. This evening, the New York Post is reporting that Caroline Kennedy has notified Gov. Patterson that she is withdrawing her name from the competition list for Clinton’s Senate seat. Ms. Kennedy is reportedly withdrawing for personal reasons. It is not a secret that Ms. Kennedy avoids any positions that require her to disclose her finances, and many speculate that this is the premise behind her ithdrawal.
At this point, we can assume that Gov. Patterson will most likely appoint Andrew Cuomo to the position within the next 48 hours.
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January 22, 2009 at 6:34 am
Ted
Take the test.
FIRST QUESTION: Who IS the actual and lawful 44th President of the USA?
ANSWER: Joe Biden
Biden was initially the Acting President for at least 5 minutes under either the Constitution’s Article 2 or the Constitution’s 20th Amendment, from 12:00 Noon 1/20/09, having already taken his Oath of Office and before Obama completed his ‘oath’ at approximately 12:05 PM, 1/20/09. Under the 20th Amendment if the President-elect shall have failed to qualify, or alternatively under Article 2 if the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term, being 12:00 Noon 1/20/09, which ability and/or qualification includes that he take the Article 2 oath “before he enter on the execution of his office,” then either the Presidency shall devolve on the Vice President under Article 2 or the Vice President shall act as President under the 20th Amendment. (The importance of the oath in ‘commencing’ an ‘Obama Presidency’ — rather than merely the 1/20/09 Noon time — is confirmed by the re-take of the ‘oath’ by Obama at the White House on 1/21/09 after the first ‘oath’ was NOT administered by Justice Roberts NOR recited by Obama in the words as required under Article 2.)
This is significant because at such time that the Supreme Court finally rules on the merits on Obama’s disqualification as not being an Article 2 “natural born citizen” (clearly he is NOT), Biden’s automatic status (without needing to take a separate Presidential Oath) of being President would be predicated upon four different bases: First, having been Vice President under Article 2; second, having been Vice President-elect under the 20th Amendment; third, having been actual President in the hiatus before Obama took the ‘oath(s)’; and fourth, retroactively deemed President during the full period of the Obama usurpation so that the acts of the Federal Government under the usurpation can be deemed authorized and/or ratified by Biden’s legitimacy.
SECOND QUESTION: Who will be the 45th President?
ANSWER: Hillary Clinton
One must assume that Bill and Hillary Clinton have been aware of all of the above. Biden’s wife recently “let the cat out of the bag” on the Oprah Show that both Biden and Hillary had considered alternatively Veep or Secretary of State, in either case, setting up Hillary to be President on a vote of the Democratic Congress if need be.
THIRD QUESTION: Is Obama an unwitting victim of this troika or a knowing participant?
ANSWER: Yet undetermined.