He definitely seems to be willingly inviting a constitutional crisis. Obama and the left are all playing end game politics. Is he doing it to martyr himself for the leftist cause or to assume dictatorial control?
Imagine at the end of his term, just before the next president is inaugurated, he (a) comes clean that he wasn't eligible due to the NBC requirement, and (b) nominates himself to the Supreme Court.
I can just imagine the GOP falling over themselves to confirm him, and citing the declaration they made to deem himself and McCain as NBC-qualified as making everything a-ok.
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