justiceseeker93: “So it has happened before.”
Yes. Nixon was forced out of office, but I think you’re mistaken if you believe this is a similar situation.
For one thing, Republicans have principles. If Obama was our guy, we’d generally support impeachment if it was proven he’d lied. Democrats, on the other hand, will back their guys in almost all cases. If they’re forced to act, they’ll do the bare minimum to punish a Democrat transgressor and restore him or her as quickly as possible.
Secondly, Republicans don’t normally resort to violence to get their way. President Obama is a member of a minority that frames many issues in racial terms. That minority will likely see any impeachment attempt as a racist attack and will respond with violence. Think large scale riots and potential civil war (assuming impeachment gets past the senate—a highly improbable event).
Thirdly, the media is completely in the tank for Obama. No matter what evidence is found, assuming more damning evidence IS found, the media will frame it in a way to protect Obama. Any benefit of the doubt, no matter how remote, will be given as evidence that President Obama is innocent.
Your thirdly is what it’s all about. Obama isn’t the President, the Media is. Think about it.
Those large scale riots you mentioned have happened before as well, in quite a number of predominantly black neighborhoods in major cities in the 1960s. That civil war you mentioned has happened before as well, albeit regarding different issues. Yet the United States of America has survived through all of that.
It is not the USA anymore if the rule of law goes missing in action all because of fear of the possible consequences of following it. The just rule of law treats all citizens (and, separately, all non-citizens) equally, regardless of color or nationality or ethnicity. If the rule of law is abandoned, the rule of the jungle is substituted in its place, and the American civilization will be gone forever.