IMPEACHMENT ?

The United States Constitution states in Article II, Section 4: “The President, Vice President and all civ­il Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or oth­er high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

The framers incor­po­rat­ed this safe­guard into the US Constitution to make sure that the coun­try’s lead­ers were hon­est peo­ple. Is there a dan­ger that this very safe­guard could cor­rupt­ly be turned around and be an instru­ment by cer­tain mem­bers of the Congress to get a sit­ting President at all cost?

Thus far in the his­to­ry of the United States there been three Presidential impeach­ment pro­ceed­ings — in 1868 against President Andrew Johnson for his removal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in vio­la­tion of the Tenure of Office Act — 1974 against President Richard Nixon for the Watergate cov­er-up (106 years after Johnson) — 1998 – 99 against President Bill Clinton for con­ceal­ing an extra­mar­i­tal affair (24 years after Nixon).

Why have ele­ments with­in the Republican Party been call­ing for the impeach­ment of President Obama? So far they have said they have no evi­dence of any crimes or mis­de­meanor , how then is the call justified?

At a town hall in Oklahoma, Sen. Tom Coburn (R‑OK) called the Obama admin­is­tra­tion law­less and warned that the pres­i­dent is get­ting, “per­ilous­ly close to impeach­ment.”http://​www​.politi​cususa​.com/​2​0​1​3​/​0​8​/​2​2​/​r​e​p​u​b​l​i​c​a​n​-​s​e​n​a​t​o​r​-​o​b​a​m​a​-​p​e​r​i​l​o​u​s​l​y​-​c​l​o​s​e​-​i​m​p​e​a​c​h​m​e​n​t​.​h​tml.

It is not unusu­al to hear this kind of kook-talk from the racial ele­ments on AM talk radio, or on Fox. That’s under­stand­able that those kooks need to release steam at the per­il of implo­sion. After all there is a black man in the White House. But why would a United States Senator who calls the pres­i­dent a friend debase him­self and the office he holds by giv­ing cred­i­bil­i­ty to this kind of non­sense. Should Tom Coburn be impeached?

The elec­toral process did not pro­duce the result Republicans want­ed over the last two elec­toral cycles. Since then there has been a sys­tem­at­ic attempt to dimin­ish and nul­li­fy the Black and Latino vote almost nation-wide. Systematic attempts to cast the President as not from the United States(which would dis­qual­i­fy him from hold­ing the office of pres­i­dent). There has been numer­ous attempts in the Republican con­trolled House of Representatives to repeal the President’s sig­na­ture Affordable Care Act (Obama care). There has been sus­tained and blan­ket obstruc­tion­ists tac­tics employed against the President’s agen­da. That Obstructionism includes whole­sale oppo­si­tion to pol­i­cy sug­ges­tions, they and affil­i­ate groups pre­vi­ous­ly supported.

So we ask, when the total­i­ty of the evi­dence is con­sid­ered ‚is there a case made, that Republicans want to nul­li­fy Barack Obama’s Presidency? If the answer is in the affir­ma­tive, what is the rea­son for it? Is this just anoth­er attempt to antag­o­nize a Democratic President, or is this about Race?