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November 14, 2008
Obama Camp: Lawsuits by citizens are 'garbage'
Everybody in Kenya seems to know something about Barack Obama, that Americans don't know! Hear what they have to say about Barack Obama's religion and where he was actually born. I guarantee you'll find it interesting whichever political side you may be on. Remember that the United States Constitution requires that a President must be a "natural born" citizen of the United States - born to American parents on American soil.
Obama camp: Lawsuits by citizens are 'garbage'
Legal challenges spring up across U.S., demand proof of eligibility for office
More than a half-dozen legal challenges have been filed in federal and state courts demanding President-elect Barack Obama's decertification from ballots or seeking to halt elector meetings, claiming he has failed to prove his U.S. citizenship status.
An Obama campaign spokeswoman told WND the complaints are unfounded.
"All I can tell you is that it is just pure garbage," she said. "There have been several lawsuits, but they have been dismissed."
Some of the cases across the U.S:
Ohio
David M. Neal of Turtlecreek Township, Ohio, filed suit in Warren Common Pleas Court in October to force Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to request documents from the Federal Elections Commission, the Democratic National Committee, the Ohio Democratic Party and Obama to show the presidential candidate was born in Hawaii, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
Connecticut
Connecticut resident Cort Wrotnowski challenged the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate on Oct. 31, and asked the court to order Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz to verify Obama's citizenship before allowing the candidate to appear on the state ballot. State Supreme Court Chief Justice Chase T. Rogers threw out the case for lack of jurisdiction within a half hour of reviewing it.
"I have not seen the ruling yet," Wrotnowski told WND. "So, in reality, the case was not heard on its merits. … Currently, we are assembling information for another and better try."
Washington
Steven Marquis of Fall City, Wash., filed suit Oct. 9 in Washington State Superior Court, calling for Secretary of State Sam Reed to determine whether Obama is a citizen before Election Day. Marquis released a statement saying the state has the authority to "prevent the wholesale disenfranchisement of voters" who might have otherwise had the opportunity to choose a qualified candidate should records show Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen.
Marquis said Obama's Hawaii birth certificate isn't evidence that the president-elect is a natural-born citizen because it doesn't reveal the hospital where Obama was born, a doctor's name or the baby's footprint, the Associated Press reported.
New Jersey
In Leo C. Donofrio v. Nina Mitchell Wells, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, retired attorney and New Jersey resident Leo. C. Donofrio asked the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency stay on Nov. 3 prohibiting three candidates from appearing on New Jersey's ballots: Republican candidate John McCain, Democratic candidate Barack Obama and Socialist Worker's Party candidate Roger Calero.
Donofrio claimed the candidates are not "natural born citizens" as enumerated in Article 2, Section 1, of the Constitution of the United States, which states, "No person except a natural born citizen of the United States, at the time of adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President."
He wrote, Obama is not eligible for the presidency "even if it were proved he was born in Hawaii, since … Senator Obama's father was born in Kenya and therefore, having been born with split and competing loyalties, candidate Obama is not a 'natural born citizen' …"
"Republican candidate John McCain was born in Panama," the request states. "Socialist Workers Party candidate Roger Calero was born in Nicaragua. And the birthplace of Democratic candidate Barack Obama has not been verified by Respondent."
Donofrio said Panama has never been considered U.S. soil, and that McCain is merely a citizen at birth by statute, and not a "natural born citizen."
With three ineligible presidential candidates on ballots, Donofrio warned, New Jersey voters will "witness firsthand the fraud their electoral process has become."
Justice David Souter denied Donofrio's application on Nov. 6. However, his case is still pending as an emergency stay application. Donofrio is resubmitting his request for an emergency stay of the national election results and Electoral College meeting to Justice Clarence Thomas.
Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania Democrat and attorney Philip J. Berg filed suit in U.S. District Court three months ago claiming Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen.
Berg claimed that by failing to respond Obama has legally "admitted" to the lawsuit's accusations, including the charge that the Democratic candidate was born in Mombosa, Kenya.
U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick dismissed Berg's argument on Oct, 24, ruling that he lacked standing to bring the case. He said Berg's allegations were "too vague and too attenuated."
"This is a question of who has standing to uphold our Constitution," Berg told Jeff Schreiber of America's Right blog. "If I don't have standing, if you don't have standing, if your neighbor doesn't have standing to question the eligibility of an individual to be president of the United States – the commander in chief, the most powerful person in the world – then who does?"
Berg filed a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct.30, to force Obama to produce his birth certificate. Justice David Souter rejected an emergency appeal on Nov. 3, for the court to halt the tabulation of the 2008 presidential election results until Obama documented his eligibility to run for office. However, Souter set a schedule for a response from Obama, the DNC and all co-defendants on or before Dec. 1.
"I look forward to receiving Defendant Obama's response to the Writ and am hopeful the U.S. Supreme Court will review Berg v. Obama," Berg wrote in a Nov. 7 statement. "I believe Mr. Obama is not a consitutionally-qualified natural-born citizen and is ineligible to assume the office of the President of the United States."
Georgia
Rev. Tom Terry of Atlanta, Ga., appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court the day before the election to determine authenticity of Obama's original birth certificate and his qualifications to be president.
"I bear no personal ill will against Barack Obama," Terry, an independent, said in a statement. "In fact, his election solely on the basis as the first African-American president-elect is a very positive thing for our nation. However, as an American, I have very grave concerns about Mr. Obama's possible divided loyalties since he has strenuously and vigorously fought every request and every legal effort to force him to release his original birth certificate for public review and scrutiny. I think that is significant."
Hawaii
On Oct. 17, Andy Martin filed a writ of mandamus in Hawaii's Supreme Court to compel Gov. Linda Lingle to release a certified copy of Obama's vital statistics record. His request to expedite the circuit court was denied on Oct. 22.
Martin now has a pending case seeking access to Obama's original 1961 typewritten birth certificate. The circuit court hearing is set to begin Nov. 18
The saga continues …
Several unconfirmed reports also indicate that citizens of Utah, Wyoming, Florida, New York, North Carolina, Texas, California and Virginia have also filed lawsuits or requested court orders to verify Obama's citizenship status.
As reported earlier, WND senior investigative reporter Jerome Corsi traveled both to Kenya and Hawaii to investigate issues surrounding Obama's birth.
But his discoveries only raised more questions.
The governor's office in Hawaii said he had a valid certificate but rejected requests for access and left ambiguous its origin – leaving some to wonder if the certificate on file with the Department of Health indicates a Hawaiian birth or whether it was generated after the Obama family registered a Kenyan birth in Hawaii.
The Obama campaign posted a certification of live birth, a document stating the baby was born on Aug. 4, 1961. However, according to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, there is a difference between the two documents. A certification of live birth is not an authentication of Hawaiian birth, and critics say the procedure could have allowed Obama's mother to have the baby elsewhere, return to the U.S. and obtain the document in Hawaii.
Further adding to complications, Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro, has named two different Hawaii hospitals where Obama could have been born. In a November 2004 interview with the Rainbow Newsletter, Maya told reporters her half-brother Sen. Barack Obama was born on Aug. 4, 1961, at Queens Medical Center in Honolulu; then in February 2008, Maya told reporters for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin that Obama was at the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children.
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Wild Thing's comment...........
I just don't get it, this is such an easy thing to stop, to answer and put a halt to these questions. Because of that fact the only position I can take is that it is a lie. Obama lies about all of this birth certificate stuff by his failure on purpose to do what is being asked and expected of him.
Because there is a double standard and democrats get away with their crimes, and their lies proof of Obama's birth will probably not be answered till he is out of office or maybe never.
The REAL " garbage" is any “public servant” who refuses to provide documentary evidence of his/her eligibility for office.
....Thank you Mark for this article.
Posted by Wild Thing at November 14, 2008 05:47 PM
Comments
Simple solution: Produce a legitimate Birth Certificate that will stand up to forensic testing. Or, shut grandma up real fast.
Speaking of grandmothers? I can't find where Obama attended "his typical white woman" grandmothers funeral. He did say the woman sacrificed so he could attend the finest schools.
Posted by: BobF at November 14, 2008 06:05 PM
Yes, wouldn't it be a simple thing to stop. Just produce the documents. I don't get it either. If they are there, just produce them, if not go crawl in under the rock that Ayers, Wright and the rest of them slithered out from under and resign his president elect status.
Posted by: Bob A at November 14, 2008 06:22 PM
BobF, you read my mind. I was thinking about that today. I don't remember the media saying one word about Obama going to a funeral for his Grandmother in Hawaii. They would have made a big deal of it and I have seen zip about it.
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 14, 2008 06:39 PM
Bob A, yes I agree.
I hate stress and if it was me, I would want to get rid of this question that continues and the answer is so easy. Just very odd.
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 14, 2008 06:43 PM
Just like John Kerrys DD-1080
Posted by: Tincan Sailor at November 14, 2008 07:41 PM
As everybody knows why obama went to Hawaii was to seal his birth certificate. I agree WT, she probably died the week before and he showed up to close the casket and his records by bribing the Rino governor and scooting back here in time to embellish more lies.
Posted by: Mark at November 14, 2008 07:48 PM
Mark,Obama really is evil. whew he scares me and I don't like feeling like that. I noticed on Fox tonight how many said....he is my president and I will hope for the best kind of thing.
Not me, he won't ever be my President. He is just number 44.
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 14, 2008 10:32 PM
Being in the insurance world, when someone filed a claim for a newborn, we could NOT accept a certificate of Live birth. It had to be the actual birth certificate with the raised seal that we could see on the copy.
Anyone can type up a certificate of live birth, but it doesn't mean it actually happened, now does it?
How about all those illegals doing it?
I want a certificate now before he takes office and if he's Kenyan by birth, then he needs to go, along with Joe Biden.
It's still a free country and these lawsuits are NOT garbage. We are free to have our concerns.
Posted by: Lynn at November 15, 2008 07:11 AM
Only their black 2-year old Rotweiller that was born on 6-6-06 knows the scoop?
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at November 15, 2008 09:14 AM
Unavoidable scenario: If SCOTUS disqualifies Obama BEFORE 1/20/09 inauguration, McCain is POTUS per remaining electoral college electors; if SCOTUS disqualifies Obama after 1/20/09 inauguration, Hillary likely becomes POTUS per vote of Dem controlled House of Rep. Either way, is clear Obama will NOT be or remain POTUS.
Posted by: Ted at November 15, 2008 11:03 AM
Gee, not only is his Birth Certificate suspicious, but so is his Selective Service Registration: debbieschlussel.com
Keep digging, folks! I'm sure there's more to find that he didn't get to put under seal.
Posted by: Rick at November 15, 2008 01:13 PM
the man is evil. pure and simple, i knew that from the first time he spoke at the DNC in 2004. Americans are so brainwashed that they can't see that. All all my black friends and family voted for him just because he is black!. Which is a good thing, black people need to have positive role models but he is the wrong one.
I am very scared for our country
Posted by: Suzuki Parts at November 16, 2008 12:34 AM
PS: Mark, we're approaching 11-22-08 soon - "Dallas loves you Mr. President(JFK...)- and in my studies and articles I recently found out that JFK's coffin (the one that he arrived in from Dallas on #26000 that Friday night) was quickly airdropped off the coast by a C-130 Herculese...Yes, JFK, RFK and MLK were all assassinated by ONE LOAN ASSASSIN within six years, eh?
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at November 16, 2008 09:46 AM
