Is Biden Saving Obama??

United States
May 17, 2010 7:31am CST
Just a thought.... I have notice that many people would like to see Obama impeached but do not want Joe Biden to become president. So my question to you all is Biden Obama's political safety net? Do you think things would be different if we had a different Veep?
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@quita88 (3715)
• United States
17 May 10
I know what you are saying and most likely you are right. The only thing I can really say, is get rid of our BIG problem, OBAMA and we'll take our chances............... quita
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• United States
17 May 10
I agree! I really don't think anyone can be as devious and bad for America as Obama . So I also say let's take our chances!
• United States
18 May 10
LOL, where were you during the Bush years??????
@quita88 (3715)
• United States
18 May 10
Ok, WHITEHEATHER...........You are soooo right about the deviousness of Obama and our wonderful America. He's ruining our precious world. You bet! We'll take our chances.........I can't see we have any more to lose do you?
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@spalladino (17891)
• United States
17 May 10
Are you suggesting that honorable, upstanding members of congress would intentionally overlook impeachable offenses simply because they didn't want Biden to be the president? I'm not buying that one for a minute.
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@spalladino (17891)
• United States
19 May 10
I just find it impossible to believe that, with something as important as the eligibility of a president to hold office, not one member of congress would bring a call for impeachment to the floor so that the legislature could get to the bottom of it. My theory is that they have already seen the evidence and even the Republicans who can't stand him are satisfied that he was born in Hawaii.
• United States
18 May 10
Maybe that is why Bush wasn't impeached. Lord knows if the democrats would have spent the same amount as republicans did investigating Clinton, Bush would have been the latest impeached president.
@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
17 May 10
The House of Representatives (under the control of Speaker Pelosi) must draft the Article of Impeachment. Once President Obama is impeached, and convicted by the US Senate, VEP Biden becomes President Pelosi is just a heart beat away from being President until the Senate can approve a new VP. What if VP Biden is implicated in the impeachment charges and is also impeached and convicted next in line is Speaker Pelosi. That is a real nightmare that I do not even want to think about.
• United States
18 May 10
Bob, can you think of anything Obama has done to be impeached??????
@laglen (19759)
• United States
17 May 10
I think this has been the role of the VP for a while. People that didnt like Bush certainly wouldnt kill him, then there would have been Cheney. He shoots back! lmao!
@laglen (19759)
• United States
17 May 10
What?? Who could forget him! he is my hero. I would vote for him in a heartbeat!
• United States
17 May 10
I forgot about Cheney!!!
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• United States
18 May 10
What has Obama done to be impeached? If you would have went with the assassinated theory I might have agreed with you. But, Joe Biden isn't Dan Quayle, or D!ck Cheney, both of which could have destroyed this country (D!ck did a great job of destroying the country as VP, we are all just lucky he never had ALL the power!!).
• United States
19 May 10
I was a Democrat during the Bush years but Obama, Reid and Pelosi have so disgusted me that they have destroyed my faith in the Democratic Party. I also commented to you at Response #1.
• United States
19 May 10
White, you can call Obama what you want, but see my response above. I understand your anger at Obama, I use to say the same thing about Bush.
• United States
20 May 10
White, I understand how you feel, but I do have more faith in Obama than anyone from the republican party. I do like Ron Paul, but it would be almost impossible for him to run for president, and keep his independent ideas in the forefront of the race. I think he should ditch the RNC, and bring all of the third parties together under one roof, and fight against both parties. This countries needs another party that isn't so entrenched in the system that it can't see the trees from the forest.
@epicure35 (2814)
• United States
19 May 10
Your thought is quite cogent. The evil usurper Obama needs to be removed at all cost. As for the dimwitted Biden, he may not necessarily ascend to the role of president since this is an unconstitutional, illegal presidency. A mandatory election might be deemed necessary for so many valid reasons. Among them is the fact that the DNC certification of their candidates did not include the necessary phrase "is eligible under the provisions of the Constitution" for the team of Obama-Biden in 49 of the 50 states (only HI got the exact same form with the phrase included, strange bedfellows). Additionally, the various Secretaries of State failed to properly address this issue and call for proper vetting, as is their duty. Nancy Pelosi and the evil O should immediately be tried for treason, among other things. Biden must know that O is illegal as well. Most of congress and our courts do, yet they haven't an honest bone or a spine amongst them. Your idea of 'SAY IT AIN'T SO JOE" and the prospect of his absolute ineptitude as a leader is a point well taken, but in this instance of the greatest treason and sedition in US history, I don't know if any other VP would generate a different outcome re impeachment. The nightmare continues.......
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
19 May 10
There is no provision in the Constitution to invalidate an election so the mandatory election that you envision does not exist. Obama was sworn in as president, the only way to remove him from office IS the impeachment process which would focus entirely on Obama...no one else. If he were impeached Biden would become the president. You say that Biden "must know that O is illegal" but that would need to be proven through a separate judicial process and, in the meantime, someone would fill the vacancy he left in the office of the Vice President. If Biden were found guilty and impeached as well that person would become president. This is how our government works...this is how important offices (like the Vice President) are not left vacant.
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
19 May 10
You might want to do some research then because that's how it is. Obama was sworn in as president...he is the president regardless of whether his candidacy was illegal or not. The ONLY option for removing him from office is if he is impeached and the grounds would be election fraud, not treason. The first thing Biden would do as president is to recommend someone to replace him as Vice President because that office cannot be left vacant. Congress would approve his choice unless there was a strong reason not to and, if that were the case, another candidate would be offered. You can search high and low and you will not find anything in the constitution or the amendments to it that address a special election to replace a sitting president. The transfer of power in this country is specific for a reason.
@epicure35 (2814)
• United States
19 May 10
Spalladino, I'm not sure that an illegal, unconstitutional ururping "president" even has to be impeached, just removed. Biden might temporarily act as president in the event of O's removal, but I'm not so sure that a new election process would not be forthcoming in face of treason, sedition, hoax, illegal candidacy, etc.
@GardenGerty (169453)
• United States
17 May 10
It may be disbelief that is saving Obama. People do not believe that things are this bad and going to get worse. And apathy, we want something done, but do not want to take the action that is required.
@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
17 May 10
HAdnt thought about that one and it ery well could be maybe the Dems cant control; Biden the way they waqnt too
@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
17 May 10
The reason people feel this way about Biden, a formerly respected Senator of some experience, is the way he has been perceived as buffoon since he became VP. However, let's face it, many of those "gaffes" came about because what he said was embarrassingly true and NOT the official WH line. Sure, he's proved he's inept as far as saying the politically-approved thing, but what the heck? Maybe he's smart enough to know that he doesn't know a lot about many things and would actually listen to someone else - like an expert advisor, or even the American people? The reason that he could not do worse, no matter how many mistakes he made, is simple: this is Obama's agenda, not his. A man, given his head, will go his own way and choose his own path. A VP must support the agenda of his President. A President can set his own agenda. Biden's agenda might be quite liberal, but never in the past has he shown a tendency to the very far left ideas being put forth by this administration. I say we go for it. Let ol' Joe have his day in the sun.
@K46620 (1986)
• United States
20 May 10
Kind of, and that's the case with every President. I think it used to be that whoever got the 2nd highest number of votes in the Presidential election became the Vice President, so this problem did not exist then.