On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> The nomic-ness of the first couple sentences of this paragraph struck me: > > On another subject, back when you were discussing what would happen > if Obama lost the citizenship issue (now mostly moot as SCOTUS has > declined to hear the case), I meant to point out that the Straight Dope > has a nice analysis of the constitutional consequences for the curious: > > http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/122/what-if-the-u-s-president-and-vice-president-elect-die-before-being-sworn-in
The idea that Atchison might have platonically been President without being sworn in because Taylor hadn't been pragmatically sworn in when his term was scheduled to begin is particularly nomicish.
