44th President... DERAILED? 12/9/08

November 4th marked something 13% of Americans (and probably more) thought would never come: the election of a black man to the Office of President.

Of course, this election was marked by a lot of personal attacks. Primarily on the fox Sarah Palin (only some of you will get that) but also against Obama, McCain, and Biden. A lot of people liked to take aim at Obama's legitimacy to the candidacy: that he was actually not a natural born citizen as required by the Constitution.

Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was born in America's 50th and last State of Hawai'i on August 4, 1961. His mother was a white woman, his father was a Kenyan immigrant... but that's all in theory.

The main problem lies in the fact that we don't have Obama's ORIGINAL birth certificate. While tons of BS like this floated up in the campaign trail, none of it was taken seriously. And honestly, a lot of it sounded stupid to me too... and I was adamantly against Obama. Still, I saw the conspiracy theorists as nothing more than Neo-Cons just trying to force out a very liberal Presidential candidate.

And that's what they've been... until now.

God certainly has a sense of humor. Associate Justice Clarence Thomas (the second Black American supreme court justice) was in the process of reviewing the case of Donofrio vs. Wells and passed out his notes to his fellow SCOTUS members. (Supreme Court of the US) For those of you who don't know, the Supreme Court doesn't just get every case it's filed, they receive so many filings a year that they pick and choose the most important ones; those are usually the ones they see will affect a majority of American citizens.

If four out of the nine Justices think the case is important enough, they then bring it to trial.

Politics is supposed to be absent from the Supreme Court, but when the guy who picks the Supreme Court isn't absent from politics, that's kind of hard. And right now, all but two of the Justices were appointed by Republican Presidents. So we are running with a very Conservative SCOTUS right now.

If enough evidence is piled against President-Elect Obama, the SCOTUS may in fact take it to trial.

Rubbish! Obama's been accepted as a citizen. And for pete's sake, we've elected him President!

True. But is he Constitutionally qualified to be President? Sure I can grab a copy of Obama's birth certificate off of the internet. The Los Angeles Times (where I first heard of Donofrio vs. Wells) published a copy on their website and in their paper.

Still, everyone's born with an ORIGINAL birth certificate. Which the State of Hawai'i refuses to to release. Suspicious? Only a little bit.

Especially when you consider that Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton haven't resigned their Senate seats yet.

This isn't a rag against Obama. I've seriously been somewhat optimistic to his Presidency. Hell, anybody would be an improvement over Dubya. But the historical nerd in me wants this to go to trial so bad only because this is completely and utterly unprecendented.

If you ask me, the Supreme Court will probably throw out the case and just let the inauguration go as planned on January 20. Of course, I'm sure the Republicans will bring it up again in 2012.

But What If they DO take it up?

First things first, the SCOTUS would subpoena the State of Hawai'i to give up the birth certificate. Only one of two things can happen:

1. They give it up. It's legitimate. Case closed.
2. They refuse to give up the, theoretically, legitimate birth certificate.

A Conservative court, a Neo-Con President, Hawai'i will have no choice in the end. Either they give it up sometime later, after the investigation gets really heated (which would be stupid in all sense of the word) or they admit that they simply don't have it. At which point, hospital records, flight records, and housing investigations in Hawai'i, Indonesia, and Kenya will have to be all checked and reviewed for any slight anomalies.

In other words, we might not get a new President until February or even March.

At which point, Bush will probably resign and we'll have an acting President. God only knows who that might be. Or maybe it'll take even shorter. Perhaps the Feds force out his certificate and there's a huge "KENYA" label on top. Or maybe they just find it on an investigation in Kenya.

Clear cut. Obama cannot be President. Who takes the Oath of Office?

In that case, it'd probably be Joe Biden. But honestly, I'd rather see a President Palin than a President Biden. And I'd rather see a President Franken than her. If the states aren't happy enough (which could be a possibility considering Biden got every major policy decision WRONG in the past 30 years) then the states could theoretically call a special election. The Republicans might have a seconds shot. Or maybe there is still some integrity in America and the GOP repays the Dems for not taking advantage of Watergate in 1974 by just letting the Democrats have a "National Primary" to decide who becomes President in 2009.

It's not that I don't want to see Obama become President, it's that I want to see something totally unprecedented and historically marking like never before. Donofrio vs. Wells, if the SCOTUS finds enough evidence, could become the most famous and influential Supreme Court ruling of our time.

12/9/08