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To: OrangeHoof
Right, Congress will never impeach Obama. I'm hoping we will have a genuine election in 2012 and not some travesty (like Venezuela or Zimbabwe) and not a foregone-conclusion sort of thing like in 1964, 1972, or 1996. Expect the Democrats to make Nixon's dirty tricks of 1972 seem like child's play in case the Republicans do manage to nominate someone who can win.

If it did come out that Obama was born in Kenya (which I doubt), Congress would take one look at Joe Biden and think about the possibility of race riots on a much worse scale than after the King assassination, and quickly pass a law redefining "natural born citizen" so that Obama would be covered. If somehow that was impossible, Congress could quickly vote for, and the states ratify, a Constitutional amendment removing the "natural born citizen" requirement. Even if Obama's popularity continues to plummet, the politicians in Congress and in the state legislatures would be terrified at the thought of a race war if Obama was removed from office.

115 posted on 08/02/2009 1:54:27 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
the states ratify, a Constitutional amendment removing the "natural born citizen" requirement

Even if you could get 38 state legislatures to ratify it would take years. Many legislatures don't even meet each year, and others would vote no.

158 posted on 08/02/2009 10:23:20 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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