*gasp* SCANDAL! John Kerry was transported to the US by a C-17

[Demit]

41. How about when they pick somebody to NOT attend the State of the Union

address in case of some kind of mass extinction event? That would be a pretty rocky transition period lol.

When you think about how vast the federal govt has become, far far beyond what the Founders could have imagined, it's amazing the country functions as well as it does, using their 200+ year setup. Even a duly-elected incoming president is a newbie, as pertains to the status of the executive branch. We're at our most vulnerable then, in that period of transfer of power. A lot of us held our breath on Inauguration Day 2009, didn't we? And didn't let it out until Bush got on that helicopter & it flew away from Washington.