WASHINGTON (Official Wire) — Congress made the obvious official on Friday. President Barack Obama has been re-elected.
In a joint session, Congress formally certified that Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were the winners in the November election with 332 electoral votes, well more than the 270 required. Republican Mitt Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, won 206 votes.
It’s a mostly ceremonial — yet constitutionally necessary — vote that’s mostly intriguing to political junkies and policy wonks. The count Friday lacked the suspense of the drawn-out campaign and election but was steeped in tradition.
Biden and about a dozen senators trekked across the Capitol from the Senate to the House chamber, and the vice president joined House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, on the rostrum. Senate pages carried two dark wooden boxes that contained the results of the electoral votes that had been counted in the state capitals last month. Clerks used silver letter openers to unseal the envelopes.
Taking turns, the leaders of the Senate Rules Committee — Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. — and the top members of the House Administration Committee — Reps. Candice Miller, R-Mich., and Robert Brady, D-Pa. — read the results from each state. Biden, who presided over the session, announced the final results to applause from the scattering of House and Senate members in the chamber.
Read more at Official Wire. By Donna Cassata.
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I heard and read on various blogs people giving their reasons why this unqualified, illegal, phony, lying, racist, bigot, half breed, bi-sexual, foreign national, Muslim POTUS would be rejected by the EC. Voter fraud, Ineligibility ignores OUR Constituions, etc. I heve not made that many predictions, but so far 98% of them have been right. Here is one I will repeat. After BHO is inaugurated the games will begin. He has gotten away with so much, but you aint seen nuttin yet!!!
I was born in one country, raised in another.
My father was born in another country.
I was not his only child. He fathered several children with numerous women.
I became very close to my mother, as my father showed no interest in me.
My mother died at an early age from cancer.
Although my father deserted me and my mother raised me, I later wrote a book idolizing my father, not my mother.
Later in life, questions arose over my real name.
My birth records were sketchy. No one was able to produce a legitimate, reliable birth certificate.
I grew up practicing one faith but converted to Christianity, as it was widely accepted in my new country, but I practiced non-traditional beliefs and didn’t follow Christianity, except in the public eye under scrutiny.
I worked and lived among lower-class people as a young adult, disguising myself as someone who really cared about them.
That was before I decided it was time to get serious about my life and embarked on a new career.
I wrote a book about my struggles growing up. It was clear to those who read my memoirs that I had difficulties accepting that my father abandoned me as a child.
I became active in local politics in my 30′s; then, with help behind the scenes, I literally burst onto the scene as a candidate for national office in my 40s.
They said I had a golden tongue and could talk anyone into anything.
I had a virtually non-existent resume, little work history, and no experience in leading a single organization.
Yet I was a powerful speaker and citizens were drawn to me, as though I were a magnet and they were small roofing tacks.
I drew incredibly large crowds during my public appearances. This bolstered my ego.
At first, my political campaign focused on my country’s foreign policy… I was very critical of my country in the last war, and seized every opportunity to bash my country.
But what launched my rise to national prominence were my views on the country’s economy.
I pretended to have a really good plan on how we could do better, and every poor person would be fed and housed for free.
I knew which group was responsible for getting us into this mess.
It was the free market, banks and corporations.
I decided to start making citizens hate them and, if they became envious of others who did well, the plan was clinched tight.
I called mine “A People’s Campaign”.
That sounded good to all people.
I was the surprise candidate because I emerged from outside the traditional path of politics and was able to gain widespread popular support.
I knew that, if I merely offered the people ‘hope’, together we could change our country and the world.
So, I started to make my speeches sound like they were on behalf of the downtrodden, poor, ignorant to include “persecuted minorities”.
My true views were not widely known, and I kept them unknown, until after I became my nation’s leader.
I had to carefully guard reality, as anybody could have easily found out what I really believed, if they had simply read my writings and examined those people associated with. I’m glad they didn’t.
Then I became the most powerful man in the world.
And then world learned the truth.
Who am I?
ADOLPH HITLER
If you were thinking of SOMEONE ELSE,
You should be scared, very scared!
TELL IT, Bobmann101;
Your right on. I think ALL of US should be AWAKE & READY.
As was admitted in Walt Kelly’s cartoon strip “Pogo” – “We have met the enemy and they are us!” Fully absent from the equation was “US’; this imposter was never vetted least of all by the “governed”. Subdued by the “Lame Stream Media” who adroitly dismissed many of this man’s “misspeaks”, whether believing out of “white guilt” or allegiance to their race of whatever other aberration, this man and his followers not once but twice used the concept of “doing whatever was necessary” to head up and continue his agenda against “the late, great USA.”
Critical is not only a return to our Constitutional foundation but to that great documents foundation, the Bible! It’s framers readily admitted it was “wholly inadequate to govern a people lacking internal restraint”. As the liberally sand-bagged educational system and the Biblically bereft church have colluded against both of these bulwarks, it behooves all of us to surrender and submit to a loving, all-powerful Sovereign and live or to be subjugated by and die before a hating, God-rejecting Satan to enter his eternal domain. Consider soberly – the life you choose has eternally consequences!
Everyone of the electors of the electorial college shoud be immediately arrested in the states that had rampent voter fraud. They are traitors to the electorial process and our country. They should have not voted until the charges of fraud was confirmed or denied.
When are we going to get the phoney out of the White House and into some Prison on charges of Treason , Lord knows he has committed so many treasonous acts it is hard to keep track, but now I guess they can add voter fraud , it amazes me that every state that did not require a photo ID Obama won it and if photo ID was requirred Romney won , that give the fact that the few states that came out 100% Obama ,(which is a statistical impossibility) should be more then enough evidance to get even Obama to wake up to the fact that we are on to him and he needs to get out before we get him in a court room on trial for several dozen charges !!
Do you think this egotist will believe he is not loved by everyone? You surely are kidding, he can see no further than the end of his nose and thinks he is the chosen One to rule the USA and the stupid Congress is letting him do it.
The main reasons Obama won re-election are: (1) voter fraud, and (2) the 47% of takers all voted for him. Since he won re-election by a 51% to 47% margin, he is untouchable and he knows it. The House knows it, the Senate knows it, and the courts know it. Nothing can touch the new tuflon man. Sad but true. That means we must fight him on everything he attempts to do against the constitution; whether it be the 2nd amendment or anything else that is against the constitution.
Read my answer to Joseph-C-Moore
How can this traitor to the United States be affirmed when he has never been legally vetted?
The answer Joe is this unqualified, illegal, phony, lying, racist, bigot, half breed, bi-sexual, foreign national, Muslim POTUS has the money and power behind him. Wait until he is inaugurated then the games will really begin. I am sure in the near future there be a lot of his ass kissing worshippers will be saying OMG. what have I done!!!
http://www.teamlaw.net filed a Notice and Demand For Action To Secure A Writ of Quo Warranto. Don’t know if this is legal, but it was served on none other than Attorney General, Eric Holder, of course….It was served because Obama does not have (2) parents that were natural born citizens, therefore, he is not even legal to be our President. They claim that according to our Constitution, which no longer exists, says that in order to be a President of the United States you must have (2) parents who are natural born citizens. I have since read this Notice at Team Law notice that there is some Google links that this is fake. Not sure….I would have to check into this further in order to prove otherwise.
Get ready the REVOUTION IS ABOUT TO BEGIN, our poor country will definily chance like Obama promised. We will see RIOTS, WAR, and FEMA CAMPS in full operation and a WORLD DEPRESSION, and STARVATION world wide. We will be invaded by the UN spreading through out our boarders to help KING OBAMA fillfill his plan to destroy our nation. Get prepared to lose your GUNS in March. STOCK UP WITH WHAT YOU NEED. May God Bless you!