It depends on what kind of story his staff can erect for him. He will probably get the shaft from Fox, but I would expect him to be able to pull out from it and see his polls climax.
You’re assuming the press would report it. And if they did, wouldn’t do so to blame the Republicans.
Like they did with Clinton? :rolleyes: The press has always sucked up to the Republicans and gone out of its way to hound Democrats. Clinton being a case in point. And Gore, and pretty much any prominent Democrat.
Realistically, I’d say that his career as a politician in the US would be over. I seriously doubt he’d get re-elected to county dog catcher in bum-fuck (pun intended) Alabama.
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But we’re not talking about just a Democrat, we’re talking about The One. You know, the one they slobbered over on the lead up to the election.
Freepers do a several article expose about darkies and their sexual ways.
I mean, considering what they said about Malia Obama’s wearing a peace sign t-shirt, that doesn’t seem like a stretch.
Well, that seems to go along with being President regardless of scandals. They go do something else.
No, that’s just a Right Wing fantasy, projecting their standard behavior towards their leaders onto the other side.
Yeah, but there are scandals, and then there are SCANDALS!! This would be a whopper, no doubt about it. Timing would be everything. If it came out before the election, I’d say he’d be sunk. If after, then it wouldn’t really matter, unless it happened while he was president (IOW, if he were monumentally stupid enough to be filmed banging someone other than the wifey in the OO or something along those lines). If that happened he’s have several years to polish his image and for the hoopla to die down and people to forget or handwave it away.
Mind, I wouldn’t have a problem with it…but then, I didn’t have any serious problems with Clinton’s supposedly toking on a joint, and really didn’t have a major issue with him getting a hummer in the OO and painting some interns tonsils or dress either, so I’m not exactly a representative sample.
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I don’t know if this is better suited to MPSIMS, IMHO, the Pit, or Games, bit it is nothing like a debate.
We’ll try it out in IMHO and see if they toss it elsewhere.
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Actually, that does make you a representative sample. The Republicans wanted to make it into a big deal, and the media wanted it to be a big deal, but most people didn’t care that much; his popularity stayed high and ratings for stories on the “scandals” weren’t that good IIRC.
Or some evidence of whether or not Obama is really black enough.
But that changes the argument altogether. Him just having sex? Possible scandal that he could overcome, lots of hypothetical outcomes. Him having sex with minors when he was an adult? Criminal charges, major uproar, no hope of continuing as President. Or politician, or parent, or, well, anything at all, really. Huge, huge, huge difference.
Furious masturbation by many women and men of my acquaintance.
Does he really have the largest stimulus package of any President in history?
It really depends on if any laws are being broken. “Extreme and disturbing” doesn’t have to be illegal. Watersports or diapers could be extreme and disturbing (to see a President do), but would not be illegal. Absent any crime, or any attempt to distribute the vidos on Obama’s part, it’s just a private matter. Yes, Fox News would try to make hay from it, but when the dust settled, it would still come down to whether or not he actually broke any laws or hurt anybody. Any incident of adultery would probably damaging to his public image, but that’s something politicians – even Presidents – have weathered before. It’s not a political death sentence, necessarily.
If it involves minors or anything non-consensual, then it obviously becomes an instant issue for impeachment, and he would probably resign before it even got that far.
Here’s a hypothetocal – what if a tape turns up of Obama doing it with Sarah Palin? What does Fox News do with THAT?
I seriously doubt that even the main stream would give a sitting president a pass if a video tape were released of him in a porno movie, even if it was just straight sex. I realize that some of you think that all of the hoopla on this would simply come from Fox, but that ain’t so…and the furor wouldn’t come ONLY from the right wing either. Main stream American’s are prigs, at heart.
And we aren’t the only one’s. Realistically, I’d have to say that most countries (even in fabled Europe) would probably not favor a sitting head of state who had done a porn movie in their past that had become released to the public. It would be hard to take such a man (or woman) seriously on the world stage if you keep seeing video of them scrumping for money.
As to what Fox would do with Obama and Sara Palin, I’m sure they would have a field day with both…and Palin’s career would be as over as Obama’s (more so, because she is a woman. It’s not fair and not right, but it’s reality).
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Ever heard of Cicciolina?
Man, I had no idea she kept filming while in office.
That being said, I’m sad that Wiki didn’t have a “Politicians with a porn career” link at the bottom, since I thought I’d heard about at least one other European (Italian?) politician who’d done that.
Wait, are we assuming Obama made a porno in this hypothetical or that it was just a good old fashioned “home movie.” Because while the former would be bad, the latter would probably not be a big deal. There’s no way to prove that a “home movie” stars Obama (hypothetical be damned!) and the bigger question would become “How did it become public?” Obama’s role in the proceedings would be ignored for the bigger story that someone broke into the White House and stole some very sensitive material.
I just can’t imagine Obama really doing anything like this. Clinton, yes, John Edwards, yes. Obama…just can’t see it. The most I could see would be finding out that he and Michelle had gotten kinky after a few glasses of champagne and made a dorky video for their own amusement, which somehow got stolen or leaked. If that were to happen, I think it would probably actually be more endearing than harmful.