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Originally Posted by MililaniBuckeye
So, if I gin up some Ohio State stationary with the letterhead "Executive Assistant for Recruiting", I can get an office next to Tressel's?
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That isn't really even a close parallel, is it?
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Originally Posted by MililaniBuckeye
Bottom line is that there is no such official entity as "The Office of the President-Elect".
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Well, of course there is.
First - there is the neat circular argument:
There is a President-Elect, who has an office and thus there is an office, which the President-Elect occupies, which is the office of the President-Elect.
Then there is what right-wing pundits are pounding since 11/7 - that there is no elected office of "The President-Elect".
What seems to have some like
Malkin et al all riled up is that he uses proper capitalization on the words "Office" and "President-Elect." Now, when you boil it all down, it is truly meaningless hot-air on her part. She along with
others, conflates the lack of any official (in the Constitution) elected office of "The President-Elect" with what has been, in all transitions save this one, an accepted honorary title for a quasi-governmental office which facilitates the smooth transition from one Presidency to another.
True, it
is ostentatious for Obama to put it on a placard in front of the podium, but Presidents-Elect Republican and Democrat alike have used the term for decades. Not just Nixon, for example.
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Patrick adds: "The Office of the President-elect comes from the Presidential Transition Act of 1963. Stephanopoulos signed letters back in 1992 from the ?Office of the President-elect."
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So, there is clear precedent for the use of the term "Office of the President-Elect" whether or not you or I believe it to be real - which in truth, as a matter of written fact, it is.
BTW, Bush 43 also used the title - though for fewer days, for obvious reasons.