Bizarre 2008 scenario

[Middle-aged Europe]

Obama landslides in November (he wins North Dakota, Nebraska, Indiana, and both Carolinas), since it turns out that the allegations from the 2000 campaign that McCain had fathered a black child were in fact true after all.


Other possibilities:

- McCain and Obama decide to run together under a joint Democratic-Republican/Unity '08 ticket (McCain as presidential candidate, Obama as his running mate) and they take all 50 states.

- Obama narrowly wins the election and appoints his father Secretary of State after the election.


P.S. What if Obama were in fact McCain's father? (have to bring a time travel element in here)

[Middle-aged Europe]

Btw, here's my time travel scenario...

2008: Obama is elected President of the United States.

2011: Skynet starts WWIII and takes over the world.

2011/1936: Skynet figures out that John McCain was actually John Connor's (whose full name is John Sidney Connor) grandfather and sends a Terminator back through time. President Obama thinks that it is his duty to save his former opponent's life and travels back as well (living in a bunker covered by radioactive debris sucks anyway).

1936: The Terminator's outer appearance is modeled after former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (in 2011 one of the leaders of the newly fomed Human Resistance), so he almost succeeds in fooling Obama. At the last possible moment, Obama manages to locate John McCain's mother and saves her from the Governator. On the run from the ruthless machine, Obama and McCain's mom fall in love and spend a night together. In the end, the Terminator is successfully destroyed, but Obama also bites the dust in the final battle. As it turns out, Barack Obama happened to be John McCain's father as well as John Connor's great-grandfather (oh, the irony!).

1943: The successfully recovered CPU from the Terminator is used in building the ENIAC and therefore helps in ushering the modern computer age.

2008: Skynet sends a second Terminator (this time modeled after Hillary Clinton) through time in order to kill Obama shortly before to the West Virginia primary. The assassination is averted by John Connor and Obama wins West Virginia in a landslide. The real Hillary Clinton is cleared of any participation in the assassination attempt. However, opinion polls show that 44% of all blue-collar Democrats still believe that she's actually an evil killer cyborg from the future and therefore she drops out of the race. Obama and McCain promise eachother to veto the Skynet funding bill after one of them is elected president. On election day, most Americans doubt that Judgment Day was really averted and vote for John McCain since they believe that he's better equipped in building the Human Resistance.