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What would you do if it were proven Obama had no legal right to be President?
please note: This is simply a hypothetical question. I do not suggest that he has no legal right.
Doesn't matter the party here. It's a simple question. What would you do if it were discovered that the conspiracy theories about Obama not being a natural born US citizen (the requirement to be president) were proved beyond a shadow of a doubt to be true? Politically, we already know what would happen. He would be removed from office, and Biden would take his place while Congress and the Senate argued over whether or not he should face Jail. What's worse, if it were true it would render the treaties he made with China and Russia, invalid, and likely would spell for a very bad future.
That's not the point though. The question stands. What would you do, whether supporter or opposition to his presidency, if it were proven that he had no legal right to be President?
The question is a HYPOTHETICAL. Meaning if it happened, then what would YOU do. Would you support the decision, or oppose it. Any answer that doesn't follow this, and tries to bring politics into it will get an instant thumbs down and won't be considered for the best answer.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I'm not certain he would be removed. Read the Constitution, ONLY congress can remove a sitting president. If the supreme court invalidated the election it would have the result of removing a sitting president, which the judicial branch may not do. So there's that whole thorny legal question to consider, namely if the supreme court can take an unconstitutional act and simply decree it constitutional. He would have to be impeached, and with the current makeup of the Senate I'm not 100% sure he would be removed. Look at Clinton. He was obviously guilty of what they impeached him for but they still couldn't get a conviction. It would become a political hand grenade, with partisanship running rampant. Both my senators are currently democrats, and they're as partisan as you get. My rep is republican but the state as a whole has more D's than R's. So I'd write letters and whatnot, but I've seen in the past that they never even get read. But impeachment is the course that his removal would have to take, and that doesn't invalidate anything he's done.
- justaLv 71 decade ago
The only thing that would happen is that the Vice president would take the office and so we would have President Biden, that's the way the law is written.
We wouldn't be doing anything at all, and I'm willing to bet there either is or would be a law that the new President could agree immediately to all treaties and pacts that the former president signed, so there would be no lapse or change in established law.
What else is there to do, laugh, cry, throw rocks? When Nixon was shown to be a plain old criminal the world didn't end, it wouldn't end if any president leaves, we are more than just the occupant of the Oval Office.
Lets just say any president is found to be ineligble, not a R or a D specifically. What would the average person do?
And the answer to that is that the average person would shrug and go on about their business. In the real world average people are more worried about their lives than which person is in the White House.
You politicize the question when you ask specifically about Obama, but Dems aren't going to riot, and while Reps might want to skip, they still won't be taking over.
But there would have to be incontrovertable proof, not rumor, not internet bloggers, not right wing 'journalists'.
Real solid proof. And if there were it would have already been found, not just by the Republicans or Democrats, but by all the people who have made forcing Obama out a life mission. And even they can't find real unmanufactured evidence.
- norskeyenta2Lv 71 decade ago
You admit that your question has not roots to the meaning. Then why did you ask it ? Our President has proven that he has all legal rights upon election. If our President continues to serve us with all good intentions, I would stand behind him all the way. Give me a thumbs down. You deserve a thumbs down for asking a question like this. Waste of time and thought. Thumbs down to you.
- SnuffboxLv 71 decade ago
It DOES matter. Those people running political parties would NEVER allow someone to be a candidate if there were any doubts as to citizenship. Simply put, Mr. Obama is as American as it gets. There is NOTHING hypothetical to consider. You are working upon a logical fallacy. Get over it.
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- smsmith500Lv 71 decade ago
If it was proven beyond a shadow of a doubt by a credible source, Obama would have to step down as president.
- bmovies60Lv 71 decade ago
" would render the treaties he made with China and Russia, invalid, and likely would spell for a very bad future."
Quite the contrary. The treaties are for a very bad future. We would be better off without them.
- Paul HxyzLv 71 decade ago
I wouldn't do anything because it is never going to happen. The conspiracy theories are BULL-oney. He has provided a birth certificate. It also doesn't matter as his mother was a US citizen which automatically gives him US citizenship anyway. This "birther" nonsense is really starting to get old - a long time ago.
- JudeLv 71 decade ago
I'm British and find all this 'is Obama really American' stuff totally distasteful - anyway, if it were proven that he wasn't born in America, I would yet again shake my head in wonder at the total incompetence of the American political system, I mean if they can't even verify a birth certificate there must be something really wrong somewhere!
- GolferLv 71 decade ago
St off his mother is a US citizen so he is.
What is on his birth certificate that he might not want us to see is under religion--Muslim,
Or my the way he throws it might say FEMALE.
- 1 decade ago
If that was to ever happen!
I'd like to see ten liberals/democrats in every city, town and village burned at the stake!
That or have uncle teddies body exhumed and tie him to a tree branch, up side down and all Conservative get to take a whack at him!! ME FIRST!
That liberals/democrats is called fair play for what you have done to America!!!