Actually, yes, I have. Exceptions and rules and all that. Italy isn’t the US…nor was it a great shock when they found out, since she never made any effort (IIRC) to hide the fact of what she did. They elected her anyway, not in spite of, as it were.
No…I can’t either. I substituted ‘Obama’ for ‘Any US President’, basically, and thought about it from there.
I was assuming that hardcore porno tapes would be some sort of commercial things, maybe done but a president in their youth or something like that…obscure and only recently found. If they were home movies of President shagging the wifey then I’d guess that they would have little or no impact, unless he was beating the crap out of here or something like that.
It might hurt his re-election though. I mean one of the reason women gave why they didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton was that she DIDN’T leave her husband when he cheated on her.
John Edwards campaign was doomed when his wife got cancer and he didn’t quit. Even though his wife didn’t want him to quit, women didn’t like the fact he didn’t choose to quit and spend his time with his wife. (Of course this was before the affair)
And while this stuff effects a campaign it wouldn’t be enough to impeach someone though.
I see three ways to interpret the OP’s “really disturbing”:
1: It’s child porn, rape, or something else illegal. Open-and-shut impeachment case, and (like Nixon), probably doesn’t even get that far before he resigns. Once he’s out of office, he can and probably would be tried under the conventional criminal justice system, and gets the book thrown at him.
2: It’s adulterous. See Clinton for precedent. Obama would probably be smart enough to deny them the perjury angle, but the Republicans would still find some pretext to impeach him for it. He probably stays in office, though (though it would certainly hurt his re-election chances in 2012).
3: It’s him and Michelle engaging in some really raunchy but legal behavior. The Republicans try to make hay of it, but there’s enough people out there who engage in raunchy behavior with their own spouses, or have no objection to same, that it backfires on them, and Obama’s popularity increases. The real consequences fall on whomever leaked the video (or at least, whomever is publicly perceived as having done so).
At the end of the movie, Barack withdraws, mops off his meat with a pigtail, takes a deep breath and composes himself. He saunters over to the Presidential Podium. After a brief glance at the teleprompter he clears his throat and announces, “…The Democrats.”
I’m thinking that if he’s with a hot chick, ot two or three, people will be relieved that he has re-raised the bar on standards for presidential bimbos. I mean, Kennedy had Marilyn, Clinton had Monica.
I blame Nixon!
So what are we considering as a worst case scenario? IMO 2 Obamas, 1 Cup.
That raises an interesting question: There are professional lookalikes who make a living doing appearances as Barack Obama, say, or Sarah Palin. Are there any adult film stars that do anything similar? It seems to me that an explicit scene between such people would generate a lot of publicity.