The reality of politics is that money and influence decide elections.  You need money to convince voters to like you and your message.  You need influence to get the necessary support to implement your message once in office.  It used to be that you accepted campaign contributions from rich donors, such as large corporations, and then did nice things for them in return (though not publically, as a general rule).  That just changed.

I'm writing the back-story of a roleplaying game campaign (basically "interactive fiction" managed by one person, and played by several other people) involving aliens coming to Earth and announcing that it must be completely evacuated, as the planet will be destroyed in the coming decades by an unavoidable phenomenon of physics.  The aliens will offer all possible assistance to the evacuation effort, and they have enough scientific data to verify their claims.

While this might be better suited for sites like Radio Free Tomorrow, I am posting this diary here because of my specific question: what do the usual dKos posters (who've proven to be politically savvy and clear thinkers by and large) expect would happen with the nations of the world?  How would they react to the news?  Who would leap into space, who would drag their heels?  Who would nuke their neighbors/rivals?  Who would gas their own people (or whatever)?  In short, what are the political ramifications of this sort of news?

Loving God means obeying His law.  Part of that law includes respect for life: "thou shalt not kill".  No President who can be commander-in-chief of an army, much less order men out to kill and die, can also comply with God's laws.  No President can do his job and also "turn the other cheek".  So how can any American president claim to profess the Christian faith while doing his job?