<p>Lets face it if Obama wins he will eventually be assassinated. This became clear to me yesterday when I saw a bumper sticker that said "There is a reason it's called the White House." White supremicists will not take this lying down. So who is okay with Biden being the next President.</p>
<p>I agree he may eventually be assassinated. I don't take it as fact, but certainly there are many people out there who want him dead, more than McCain at least. And when I see him shaking hands with people at these small local events I sometimes get scared. That being said, I would be confident with Biden as President. Not happy, because it would have meant Obama was killed, but he'd certainly make a great President. Better than Palin at least lol.</p>
<p>just to make it clear I dont want to see Obama dead either</p>
<p>I belive strongly he chose Biden for that reason. He knows he will be assassinated. JFK and MLK knew it was only time.</p>
<p>Um, just so you know, if something happens to remove the current president from office, the Speaker of the House takes over first, followed by the vice president. So, Biden won't be president unless something happens to the Speaker of the House too.</p>
<p>^You're wrong. The vice president outranks the speaker of the house. </p>
<p>United</a> States presidential line of succession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>
<p>The vice President takes over. Speaker of the house comes after VP.</p>
<p>Dang, I was hoping nobody would look that up. Oh well, at least I got one person =].</p>
<p>^You really thought that the people on this forum, who are mostly overachieving, brilliant high school students aiming for HYPSM, wouldn't look that up?</p>
<p>Hm so Pelosi becomes VP then?</p>
<p>No, Pelosi does not become VP. If the president dies, the VP takes over. If the VP dies or moves up to be president, then the VP is replaced, hopefully fairly quickly. If both the president and vice-president offices are empty, then the Speaker of the House becomes president; it there is no Speaker, then the president pro-tem (sp?) of the senate, usually the most senior of the majority party, becomes president; following that members of the cabinet are in the succesion order in the order that their offices were created.</p>
<p>Thanks, that cleared up things a lot. Pelosi becoming Palin's VP if McCain were to be elected and pass away just didn't sound right.</p>
<p>If you could get past Bush, Cheney, Pelosi, Robert Byrd (Senate Pres. Pro Tempore) without a replacement for any of them then Condi becomes Pres.</p>
<p>Obama's not dumb, he considered this before he even announced his candidacy.
He'll look to invest in hard-core former special forces body guards.</p>
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Obama's not dumb, he considered this before he even announced his candidacy.
He'll look to invest in hard-core former special forces body guards.
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<p>...or an Obama look-a-like that goes out in public for him!</p>
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Obama's not dumb, he considered this before he even announced his candidacy.
He'll look to invest in hard-core former special forces body guards.
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The commander in chief is under protection of the USSS, not uh..'hardcore special forces body guards'.</p>
<p>^ and coincidentally, Barack will only have 10 years of SS protection, not a LIFETIME like the rest of the presidents (either Bush was the 1st to only have 10 years, or the next president will be the first--it's one of the two).</p>
<p>Hilarious! A candidate who spouts 'change' continuously picks a VP who is a long time Washington politico and part of the same old same old. So much for that change baloney.</p>
<p>I think that the "change" message was a show. It's pretty obvious now. Not that Obama shouldn't be elected, but it should be on the liberal views he holds, that happen to be the same as those in the last 30 years.</p>
<p>Hilarious! A candidate who spouts 'experience' continuously picks a VP who for a very short time was in elected office and was only a mayor of a town of 8000 only 20 months ago. So much for that experience baloney.</p>
<p>Baelor, if we play this on the issues, I think Dems have the advantage. McCain doesn't want it that way.</p>