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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 14, 2008 - 07:25pm PT
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Don't any of you get your diapers dirty; I don't subscribe to this. How would this be handled? For SCOTUS to rule on this against him would bring on a Constitutional crisis like we haven't seen since the Civil War, all hell would break loose from Obama supporters plus the very serious problems of who would be president, possibly new elections. Also, there might be very serious international problems developing while the US was entangled in the mess. Here's a scenario that might be played out by high government officials working with SCOTUS. SCOTUS finds Obama is a US citizen and qualified. Then the FBI does an end run around the direct approach and takes him down through his associations with the Chicago political machine demonstrating that he has committed felonies: bribes and other corruptions. He's indited and forced to withdraw. It would still be a mess but not as big a mess if the government could show reasonable evidence that he was guilty. Great plot line for a novel. Remember, just funnin you here.
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Karen
Trad climber
So Cal Hell
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Dec 14, 2008 - 07:27pm PT
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Woody, your carpet is warping your mind...!
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WBraun
climber
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Dec 14, 2008 - 07:31pm PT
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What if the world is to end and the whole world said "who cares".
Submit that for your next movie too .....
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Matt
Trad climber
primordial soup
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Dec 14, 2008 - 07:47pm PT
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fergit that, what if that iraqi shoe thrower had a better arm?
i mean, come on!
what about the old "hi/low"?
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 14, 2008 - 07:51pm PT
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Wooooodie! Oh Woooooodieeeee!
How many times do we have to tell you that when you're hanging around with Locker, you're not supposed to inhale?
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Domingo
Trad climber
El Portal, CA
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Dec 14, 2008 - 08:02pm PT
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what if I woke up and it turned out the last eight years were a dream
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apogee
climber
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Dec 14, 2008 - 08:37pm PT
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If GWB won the presidency in spite of losing the popular vote by having the right political connections in Florida (K Harris), and enough money from the neocon supporters to pay off the legal fees to make it happen, then Obama should have no problem doing something similar to retain his win, and will probably do it a lot more honestly.
Though the notion is pretty ridiculous, I will entertain the fantasy by saying that if Obama's presidency was rescinded due to a citizenship issue, the social upheaval that would likely follow would make the Watts riots and Prop 8 protests look like the Muppets fighting the Teletubbies.
So far, the SCOTUS has been loathe to even consider spurious challenges like this, and it will probably stay that way. If it was rescinded, what would happen? Another election? McLame by default? Oh, geez, I think I'm gonna heave....
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
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Dec 14, 2008 - 08:54pm PT
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Nahhh, we'd just sweep it under the rug like the 2004 election.
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Dec 14, 2008 - 09:07pm PT
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You righties stop stepping on your Woodie.
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Matt
Trad climber
primordial soup
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Dec 14, 2008 - 09:37pm PT
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i'd say that in the end, bill ayers has probably done more for, and less to america than karl rove has
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Dec 14, 2008 - 09:40pm PT
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Then you obviously don't know much about either one of them.
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Dec 14, 2008 - 09:42pm PT
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For god's sake, Woody! thought you used to be a teacher.
Subjunctive mean anything to you?
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Dec 14, 2008 - 09:56pm PT
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Hasn't Bush already established that the law and constitution are toilet paper than can be ignored with impunity?
Peace
Karl
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Dec 14, 2008 - 09:57pm PT
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Nice...
Let's venture off into the make believe and ask each other questions....
To what end?
Pointless
moving on
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Dec 14, 2008 - 10:31pm PT
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What if Obama was a Martian?
What if Cheney and Rove were both gay and secret lovers?
Might as well speculate about any number of ridiculous things. Because it is 100% clear that Obama is a natural born US citizen.
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GDavis
Trad climber
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Dec 14, 2008 - 10:39pm PT
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WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
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nick d
Trad climber
nm
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Dec 14, 2008 - 10:46pm PT
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Cheney, gay? Well, his daughter inherited the traight from somewhere.
Rove? Who do you think that "Hot Military Stud.com" guy was servicing?
Isn't GOP synonymous with "gay, and in the closet"?
NTTAWWT !!!!!
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Dec 14, 2008 - 10:47pm PT
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"What-if's" are so Youthful Fantasy.
Is that the secret to your youth, Woody?
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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 14, 2008 - 11:01pm PT
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You guys aren't getting into the spirit of this intrigue. Loosen up a bit, and think it over. Even as fiction, it is a plausible scenario for just such a problem. I like it. Think of the flick it would make.
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Dec 14, 2008 - 11:04pm PT
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I'm thinking "political Blade", does that sound close?
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