Election to the office of the Presidency of these United States is a bitterly fought and hard won victory in the most amicable circumstances, and the final determination being made by the legislature or court is as American as formaldehyde ridden FEMA trailers. Before our nation’s twenty-fifth birthday, Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson were embroiled in a battle so bitter it required six days and 36 votes for the House to resolve in Jefferson’s favor.
Corrupt Bargains and questionable backroom deals are by no means modern Republican tactics either; it was shady dealings in the election of John Quincy Adams and the naming of Henry Clay Speaker of the House that led to the formation of the Democratic Party by Andrew Jackson. And of course race has long been a source of contention and duplicity in American Politics. Rutherford B. Hayes went to bed, election night 1876, believing he had lost the election, but shenanigans in Florida made the election impossible to call. Congress entered the fray in December and formed a 15-member committee that ultimately awarded Florida, Louisiana, Oregon, South Carolina and there-by the Presidency to Hayes who had lost in a landslide. This deception signaled the end to Reconstruction.
The 2000 contest between George Bush and Al Gore marked the height of electoral chaos. Gore conceded then recanted and the whole issue hung on a Chad and an arguable biased Supreme Court Decision. On the surface, this is just another election year replete with vitriolic rhetoric and incendiary legal battles and once again the Supreme Court is involved. Though Barack Obama won the Presidency by an Electoral College landslide, there have been no less than four lawsuits filed to prevent him from ever assuming the office.
Shocking in that none of the lawsuits was brought by John McCain or his agents. More shocking because rarely has the issue of fratricide, literal or circumstantial, been so blatant or public. The suits were all based on Barack Obama’s eligibility to be President; the Supreme Court will release their ruling Monday on the lawsuit filed by Pennsylvania attorney Phillip Berg. The challenge seeks to force a narrow definition of “natural-born”; a term often used but never defined in the Constitution or any ensuing Federal Document. The contention is that because Obama’s father was a Kenyan national
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Posted By: Michelle Diane
Tuesday, December 9th 2008 at 12:47PM
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