> Yet, given the volitile state of politics in this country, is it at all possible that 'President Obama' could plausibly face impeachment at some point in the future?

Relatively unlikely given the rabidity with which the Left defends itself.

You'd have to:
a) Get a GOP Congress
b) Have some damned inviolable evidence -- something like unassailable videotape of Obama doing something truly egregious -- like agreeing with Ayers that the USA needs to be destroyed and setting out plans for doing it.

I'd put the chances at something resembling "zero" and "almost zero". The media will, in the meantime, act as Democratic party shills doing everything possible to distract and obfuscate.

I agree with you Frank, as far as the remarkability of the history of this Nation -- we are, in fact, the oldest major government on the planet which has not radically altered its form since we created ourselves in our modern form in 1789, with the Constitution. The closest comparative is the UK, which shifted from a total monarchy to a parliamentary figurehead monarchy in the early 1800s. Every other single nation of any significance has had radical restructuring since then -- usually revolutions, sometimes externally forced alterations (Nazi Germany, Japan), but not one existed in anything even vaguely resembling its current form in 1789.

In that time we've had three major crises -- the Civil War, the Nixon Resignation, and The 2000 Election. And two of those times, the system, reflecting upon its people, did its job smoothly and effectively.

I'm curious if we aren't about to have another. The efforts of the Obama camp to steal this are going to be... interesting.

if he's impeached, he stands trial in front of the Senate.

if the Senate does not convict, nothing happens other than an embarrassing situation.

if your question is,if Barry H. Obama was to be found guilty in an impeachment proceeding, Joe the fisherman Biden becomes the POTUS.

yes, that Joe. the one who apparently love fishing so much, he has a gaffe for a mouth.

I'd doubt that Obama could ever be impeached - regardless of what he did or how corrupt he became. Think FDR, his attempt to pack the Supreme Court with his cronies and how he wasn't impeached for that abuse of the Constitution.

Assassination would be more likely. And no, I don't advocate that and would discourage anyone from doing that.

edited slightly for content there Dr. Bob...

if he's impeached, he stands trial in front of the Senate.

And it won't matter which party holds the majority in that chamber, they will not vote to convict. It could be 100 Republicans who were known for hard-line law-and-order, my-country-right-or-wrong views before going to the Senate, and you still wouldn't find the necessary 67 votes to convict. I'd even bet against 51 votes.

Part of the orientation for freshman Senators is castration, followed by a lobotomy.

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