Re: What Happened to The 56 Men Who Signed the Declarationof Independence ?

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

On 7/7/07, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:

> Please re-read Article 5 of the US Constitution, and point out where the
> President has anything to do with amendments.  That's reserved to Congress
> and the various state legislatures (and presumably Dick Cheney in his
> not-an-executive-branch role).

Dick Cheney is the President of the Senate. So, yeah, he'd have a
little something to do with it.

> "Lincoln freed the slaves" is right up there with "Al Gore invented the
> Internet", for basically the same reasons.  In both cases, they merely acted
> as enablers for somebody *else* to actually do it.

While I technically agree with you, I don't see where Al Gore even
enabled it - the "Internet" having already been born while Gore Jr.
was still taking limousine rides to grammar school.
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