It’s a THREE-fold scenario, and most folks aren’t considering the third possibility.
He wins: four more years of whatever mischief Obama can do to harm our economy, military, space program, and weaken the bonds of civil society. Oh, and harm Israel.
He loses: Mass pardons for criminals, mass EPA regs and other administrative regulations and other mischief as he packs boxes to move out of the White House.
The “third scenario” I spoke of is the one that I personally fear the MOST: When it’s all behind him. In the past. When he’s the EX-President.
Imagine Obama with complete freedom to say (and do) whatever he’d like, because he’s not bound—even nominally—by ettiquette, tradition, or common courtesy of the Highest Office in the Land.
Imagine Obama as a street organizer thug with the personality cult of being a former president. He can get any number of cameras, donations, attract attention on a scale that Jimmy Carter and Clinton couldn’t—and what if he led a *genuine* “million man march” on D.C. and asked for supporting marches in *every* U.S. city to show solidary to whatever cause du jour he espoused?
I think people would show up.
I think the press would give him oxygen and exposure.
I think he’d pull that same characteristic brinksmanship he’s always exhibited: “boot on the throat,” “I’m all that’s between you and the mob with the pitchforks,” etc., that kinda thing. Things he’s already said (those are only two examples).
He could essentially hold this nation hostage.
Be could decide he’s not *yet* powerful enough to do it on a national scale (though I think he is). But let’s say he wanted to “pinpoint” an industry, or a particular business. He’s have the power of Occupy Wall Street, the devious, cunning planning ability of the environmental movement, and the money of leftist billionaire benefactors—all in support of him.
No, I’m afraid of what this man will do when he feels he is completely FREED from constraints of common courtesy, and yet feels his mission is left unfinished.
He’ll be a formidable and frightening former president.
Sauron
You mean like what he says and does now?
I don't think there would be any difference.
All that you say is true—however, as posted before, he’s lazy as crap and just wants to watch sports and play golf. All of what you say requires getting up in the morning, getting yourself there and actually doing something. I don’t see it.
You voice a very real concern. Perhaps one worried over with Bubba but not yet fully realized.
Way before it comes to such a Third Way, the Gents in the back room need to give the boy a talk’n to, set the inviolate conditions of his “lifetime parole.” And the penalties for going off the reservation.