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Author: NoirGrimoir

Oct 12th 2011 at 4:04:52 PM

I think this might be a trope, but I think the description is very negative and it needs to be fictional examples only or its asking for trouble.

And 'impeaching' isn't the same as 'removing'. Bill Clinton was impeached (for lying under oath, not sleeping around). He wasn't removed from office, that's a separate thing (you need to be impeached to be removed from office, but if you are impeached it doesn't necessarily follow that you WILL be removed). Clinton didn't get enough votes from the Senate to be removed.(Don't know what nationality you are but Americans should know this stuff.) And Americans can technically get rid of any elected official whenever we like, it just won't happen/work unless there's sufficient reason to that enough people would vote to get rid of him. For one thing, the President was voted on by the people, for that vote to be overturned by other officials (representatives voted in by the people, true, still NOT the people), there damn well better be a good reason. Besides there are so many other people involved in the process of government that if we had a horrible president, there are all kinds of built-in checks that would obstruct him from being too destructive. And then of course there's the fourth amendment. If we REALLY don't like out government, we have the right to overthrow them if they aren't meeting our needs. That's why Americans are so attached to their guns, we need them in case we have to rebel against out government.