Dr. AL-HASANI: They boycotted the last election or for other reasons they couldn't elect--go to election, so they didn't have a voice in the National Assembly.
They don't elect time-sharers and it's not a job that you can do time-sharing.
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Although there is absolutely no reason why we can't elect a Speaker of the House right away.
The American people are not absolutist, and they don't elect us to impose a rigid ideology on our problems.
Since 1965, the only years the writers didn't elect a candidate were when Yogi Berra topped the 1971 vote by appearing on 67 percent of the ballots cast and when Phil Niekro headed the 1996 ballot at 68 percent.
But last Friday many observers were disappointed that the president-elect didn't make any further personnel announcements after meeting with an all-star cast of economic advisers that included former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker and former Treasury secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers.
Even Vice President-elect Joe Biden wasn't happy about it, telling CNN producer Ted Barrett it was "a mistake, " while defending the choice of Panetta for the job.
President-elect Barack Obama won't have much time to savor victory.
Meaningful or not, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama won't be there.
"You can't think clearly and elect whom you want if you are thinking about what food you are going to eat tomorrow and where you are going to stay, " says Michael.
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And why should they turn out to re-elect a Republican Congress that can't get its act together on anything that matters?
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And I don't believe that President-elect Obama will be full of self-pity.
If that doesn't work, they should elect candidates who will.
Although their tactics vary, they are all telling voters the same thing: if you are a Labour voter, there is no point voting Labour with your second vote because you will not elect any more members, so why don't you give it to us?
You elect them, and without your votes they won't be able to make it to be policy makers.
That didn't stop many on the left from helping to elect Obama and Biden.
Clinton said yes, she'd exhausted herself selflessly working to elect Mr. Obama in '08, she wasn't sure she wanted to take on a cabinet position.
So is the TSA response that those who don't want to "submit" to it can always elect not to fly.
President-elect Barack Obama appears to be aware of the issue but hasn't signaled which way he'd lean.
We need to elect Barack Obama because we need a president who understands that America can't compete in the global economy by padding the pockets of energy speculators while ignoring the workers whose jobs have been shipped overseas.
The majority leader-elect of the House of Representatives, Steny Hoyer, said yesterday there aren't any more troops to increase because the Army is so depleted.
Though the new government, elected through the May 11 polls, won't be in place, Mr. Li will meet prime minister-elect Nawaz Sharif, who heads the Pakistan Muslim League-N, the rival to Mr. Zardari's Pakistan Peoples Party.
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Mr. ARMAND PESCHARD-SVERDRUP (Center for Strategic and International Studies): At least the Mexicans won't touch NAFTA per se in the meeting, but try to make President-elect Obama aware of how integrated the two economies are and how to some extent there is a benefit in working together in trying to strengthen the competitiveness of the two economies vis-a-vis the rest of the world.
And because Mr. Blagojevich stands accused of trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the president-elect, Mr. Obama's name will be forever linked to the case, even though he isn't accused of wrongdoing.
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