On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:43:37 -0500, G. Morgan wrote:

Oren wrote:

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:53:29 -0500, G. Morgan
wrote:

Oren wrote:

Um, no. U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 1, addresses
qualifications to be eligible. Nothing about deserving.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article...Vice_President

Pass all those requirements with the votes, and you deserve the title.
Its quite simple.


I think you are confusing "qualifications" with executive /
legislative branch powers once elected.

Nope, meet the guidelines set out by it and get elected (of course),
then you have earned and 'deserve' the title.

If you want to examine where the Constitution failed us, let's revisit
the 2000 Presidential election.

Nominee George W. Bush Al Gore

Popular vote 50,456,002 50,999,897
Percentage 47.9% 48.4%
Electoral votes 271 266

The Constitution didn't fail anyone.

I see something terribly wrong with that, and thus Presidents may no
longer refer to the USA as a "Democracy" due to the numbers above.

The US is *NOT* a democracy. It was *never* intended to be. Quite the
opposite, in fact. Of course you "see" what you want to "see", as uneducated
as it is.

We are most definitely a Republic, which is a step below true democracy.

No, it's a *giant* step above. As has been said here many time, a democracy
is two lions and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner.