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The Annenberg Political Factcheck website has published photographs and an analysis of what it says is the "original birth certificate" of Barack Hussein Obama II. While the physical document depicted in the photos resemble the document image previously scanned and published by the Daily Kos website and Obama's own "Fight the Smears" site in June, FactCheck's case for authenticity and its claims to objectivity are undermined by a litany of process flaws, conflicts of interest and factual inconsistencies that raise doubts about its motives and methods of those of the Obama campaign. The Factcheck.org report, titled "Born in the USA,"...

Democrat sues Sen. Obama over 'fraudulent candidacy'Lawsuit disputing U.S. citizenship based in part on discredited claims By Drew Zahn © 2008 WorldNetDaily Posted: August 23, 2008 A prominent Pennsylvania Democrat has sued Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic National Committee and the Federal Election Commission, claiming that Obama is not a natural-born citizen and, therefore, is not eligible to be president of the United States. Philip J. Berg, a former member of Pennsylvania's Democratic State Committee and former deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania, filed the lawsuit this week in U.S District Court, asking the court to declare Obama ineligible for the...

In June, the Obama campaign released a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate to quell speculative charges that he might not be a natural-born citizen. But the image prompted more blog-based skepticism about the document's authenticity. And recently, author Jerome Corsi, whose book attacks Obama, said in a TV interview that the birth certificate the campaign has is "fake." We beg to differ. FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a...

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Lawyer Phil Berg will be on http://www.GCNLive.com today at 2 pm ET talking about Barack Obama's citizenship issues and Berg's suit to enjoin the DNC from nominating Obama. The show will be available on demand for one week at http://gcnlive.com/Programs/WorldCrisisRadio/On_Demand.html. Berg's fact brief supporting his suit is at http://www.waronfreedom.org/dox/BO-NO-Citizen-BriefFacts.htm . The gist plus a list of Obama scandals is at http://www.waronfreedom.org/dox/BONoUsCitizen.htm .

Roger Hedgecock taped an interview with attorney and Hillary supporter, Philip Berg, who filed a federal lawsuit challenging Barack Obama's status as a natural born citizen. Roger will be in Denver at the convention next week. Berg will also be there.

Well, well. I was wondering when this “story” was going to “break” now that Obama has returned from Hawaii. What a coincidence that it’s today, because we just pointed out that Factcheck.org has a conflict of interest in covering Barack Obama because they are owned by The Annenberg Foundation. And now they have published a new “fight the smears” story about Obama’s Certificate of Live Birth (COLB). They have a photo of “Factcheck representatives” holding the COLB, and close-ups of the certificate number, stamps, and seal. Before we go any further, let me stop to say this: YES, I also...

Usually I take a look at the C2C website before the show starts. Today was a bit surprized to see Ian Punnett will be interviewing Philip Berg, about his lawsuit challenging Hussein Obama's legal qualifications for the office of President...

MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER AND FOR EXPEDITED DISCOVERY Plaintiff Philip J. Berg, Esquire [hereinafter “Plaintiff”] hereby offers this Memorandum in support of his motion for a temporary restraining order, to enjoin Defendant Barack Hussein Obama, a/k/a Barry Obama, a/k/a Barry Soetoro, a/k/a Barack Soetoro, a/k/a Barry Dunham, a/k/a Barack Dunham [hereinafter “Obama”] from running for the office of President of the United States; to enjoin Defendant, Democratic National Committee from Nominating Defendant Barack Hussein Obama, a/k/a Barry Obama, a/k/ a Barry Soetoro, a/k/a Barack Soetoro, a/k/a Barry Dunham, a/k/a Barack Dunham’s and placing his...

First Hour: Attorney Philip J. Berg discusses his lawsuit challenging Barack Obama's qualifications to be president. Open Lines will follow. Filling in for George: Ian Punnett

DENVER -- While all eyes are on Sen. Barack Obama and his freshly minted running mate Sen. Joe Biden -- one week from today (the day after Sen. John McCain announces his running mate), Gov. Tom Ridge will introduce McCain along with unsaid running mate on a southwestern Pennsylvania stage. According to a Republican official, Ridge will be introducing McCain in Washington County next Saturday, which probably means Ridge is out, Mitt Romney remains the favorite, and Team McCain is planning to fight it out with Obama-Biden in the Keystone State. Many analysts and strategists are keeping a keen eye...

First Hour: Attorney Philip J. Berg discusses his lawsuit (view copy of Complaint here} challenging Barack Obama's qualifications to be president. Friday 8/22/2008 10:00 PM Pacific Time. Open Lines will follow. Filling in for George Noory: Ian Punnett Excerpt from Berg's web site: Obama CrimesPhilip J. Berg, Esq. Files Federal Lawsuit Requesting Obama Be Removed as a Candidate as he does not meet the Qualifications for President Suit filed 08/21/08, No. 08-cv-4083 Contact information at the end of this press release. Documents filed with the court and a copy of this press release can be downloaded at the end of...

I previously announced that this blog would be going dark on Aug. 25th, at the start of the Democratic Convention. It will close sooner so that I can get a headstart on travel. Special thanks to Judah Benjamin, whose work is the finest. He is responsible for the most important research and articles that were published on this blog. I also want to thank his wife, Natalie, for research assistance, support, and kindness. As for the blogging future, I will evaluate that after the convention/ vacation. Thank you to everyone who has supported the work of this blog. And thank...

The University of Illinois said Friday it is releasing records of Barack Obama's service to a nonprofit organization linked to former 1960s radical William Ayers. Supporters of John McCain have been trying to exploit the tie between Obama and Ayers, with a conservative group spending $2.8 million on an ad focusing on Ayers. Ayers' Weatherman group took credit for bombings that included nonfatal blasts at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol four decades ago. The records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an organization that Obama chaired and that Ayers co-founded, will be made available to the public Tuesday, the University of...

Imagine if a prominent Mitt Romney supporter who was a former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania as well as former Republican Party chair in Montgomery County in that state had filed a lawsuit against John McCain questioning his eligibility to become president. How many milliseconds after the filing of that lawsuit do you think it would take for that news to be prominently featured on the New York Times website as well as the many other MSM websites? Well, something very much like that has happened only instead of a Republican suing McCain it was Democrat Philip J. Berg, a Hillary Clinton...

Looks like the Clinton machine is springing into action ..... A prominent Philadelphia attorney and Hillary Clinton supporter filed suit this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic National Committee and the Federal Election Commission. The action seeks an injunction preventing the senator from continuing his candidacy and a court order enjoining the DNC from nominating him next week, all on grounds that Sen. Obama is constitutionally ineligible to run for and hold the office of President of the United States. Phillip Berg, the filing attorney, is a...

If the lawsuit has been filed, why is Berg v. Obama being ignored?

Barack Obama's presidential campaign has faced so many false rumors about his family history that it has put his birth certificate on the Internet: he was born in Honolulu, nearly two years after Hawaii became a state, making Obama a U.S. citizen by birth. But that hasn't stopped Montgomery County lawyer Philip J. Berg from challenging Obama's qualifications to be president. Berg, a Hillary Clinton supporter, announced he's filing a federal lawsuit today, claiming that Obama lost his citizenship when his mother relocated the family to Indonesia when Barack was a boy. Under the law, however, moving to a foreign...

>UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA PHILIP J. BERG, ESQUIRE >VS. CIVIL ACTION NO. BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, a1k/a BARRY SOETORO, a1k/a BARRY OBAMA, a1k/a JURY TRIAL DEMANDED BARACK DUNHAM, a/k/a BARRY DUNHAM, THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE, THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION AND DOES 1-50 INCLUSIVE >Defendants >COMPLAINT FOR DECLARTORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF PRELIMINARY STATEMENT Article II, Section I of the United States Constitution, states in particular part, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of...

Now that Phillip Berg has sued Obama in Federal court it might bring to light the headline topic that a African newspaper published back in the Early part of June 2008. I fortunatly kept a screen shot of the headline as it was very exciting to see somebody make this wild connection. Is it true or not only Barack and the US Federal Court System can determine that for sure. But thanks Phil Berg for filing your Law Suit. You my friend are a true American! In the lawsuit, Berg states that Sen. Obama was born in Kenya, and...

Raining on Barack's parade Barack Obama's presidential campaign has faced so many false rumors about his family history that it has put his birth certificate on the Internet: he was born in Honolulu, nearly two years after Hawaii became a state, making Obama a U.S. citizen by birth. But that hasn't stopped Montgomery County lawyer Philip J. Berg from challenging Obama's qualifications to be president. Berg, a Hillary Clinton supporter, announced he's filing a federal lawsuit today, claiming that Obama lost his citizenship when his mother relocated the family to Indonesia when Barack was a boy. Under the law, however,...

A prominent Philadelphia attorney and Hillary Clinton supporter filed suit this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee. The action seeks an injunction preventing the senator from continuing his candidacy and a court order enjoining the DNC from nominating him next week, all on grounds that Sen. Obama is constitutionally ineligible to run for and hold the office of President of the United States. Phillip Berg, the filing attorney, is a former gubernatorial and senatorial candidate, former chair of the Democratic Party in Montgomery (PA)...

Born in the U.S.A. August 21, 2008 The truth about Obama's birth certificate. Summary In June, the Obama campaign released a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate to quell speculative charges that he might not be a natural-born citizen. But the image prompted more blog-based skepticism about the document's authenticity. And recently, author Jerome Corsi, whose book attacks Obama, said in a TV interview that the birth certificate the campaign has is "fake." We beg to differ. FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements...

Update 1: Case #08-CV-4083 This is the information I have received as of 5:28 PM EST: Papers have been filed, not yet scanned into the Pacer system. The complaint is asking for declaratory (asking the court to declare Obama is not a US citizen, a “natural born” citizen and not eligible under the qualifications of the US Constitution to run for Office of President). Also asking for injunctive relief and an emergency TRO. Further asking for EXPEDITED Discovery. We are asking that Obama provide a “ceritified copy” of the oath he took to regain his citizenship. We are asking for...

Update 1: Case #08-CV-4083 This is the information I have received as of 5:28 PM EST: Papers have been filed, not yet scanned into the Pacer system. The complaint is asking for declaratory (asking the court to declare Obama is not a US citizen, a “natural born” citizen and not eligible under the qualifications of the US Constitution to run for Office of President). Also asking for injunctive relief and an emergency TRO. Further asking for EXPEDITED Discovery. We are asking that Obama provide a “ceritified copy” of the oath he took to regain his citizenship. We are asking for...

What's This, FactCheck?? From the high-res photos that FactCheck provided, I was able to confirm a number of my findings that exposed the FactCheck COLB image as a manufactured forgery. To get everyone up to speed, there has been one, and only one forged image. From this one source image, several copies were generated. One was kept by the Obama campaign while one copy went to the Daily Kos, and the other went to FactCheck. Both the Daily Kos and the Obama campaign cropped their images before posting them on June 12. The Obama Campaign posted a very small, low-res...

Obama Crimes Is Obama a Natural Born Citizen? Obama Crimes Philip J. Berg, Esq. Files Federal Lawsuit Requesting Obama Be Removed as a Candidate as he does not meet the Qualifications for President Thursday, 21 August 2008 22:09 For Immediate Release: - 08/21/08Suit filed 08/21/08, No. 08-cv-4083 Contact information at the end of this press release. Documents filed with the court and a copy of this press release can be downloaded at the end of this press release. (Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania – 08/21/08) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, [Berg is a former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania; former candidate for...

Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist, has implicated himself in the production of fraudulent Hawaii birth certificate images similar to the one endorsed as genuine by the Barack Obama campaign, and appearing on the same blog entry where the supposedly authentic document appears. The evidence of forgery and manipulation of images of official documents, triggered by Israel Insider's revelation of the collection of Hawaii birth certificate images on the Photobucket site and the detective work of independent investigative journalists and imaging professionals in the three weeks since the publication of the images, implicate the Daily Kos,...

A prominent Philadelphia attorney and Hillary Clinton supporter filed suit this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee. The action seeks an injunction preventing the senator from continuing his candidacy and a court order enjoining the DNC from nominating him next week, all on grounds that Sen. Obama is constitutionally ineligible to run for and hold the office of President of the United States. Phillip Berg, the filing attorney, is a former gubernatorial and senatorial candidate, former chair of the Democratic Party in Montgomery (PA)...

*BREAKING* Lawsuit Being Filed Today in Philadelphia *MEDIA ALERT* [Update] August 21, 2008 I have just received word that a lawsuit will be filed today in Federal Court challenging Barack Obama’s qualifications to be President. I am told that ALL MEDIA should report to the U.S. District Courthouse in Philadelphia in approximately one hour. US District Court, Eastern District of PA 601 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19106-1797 Ph: 215-597-7704 It is currently 3:30 PM EST. UPDATE: The motion will be for an emergency temporary restraining order prohibiting Obama from running for president, and enjoining the DNC from nominating Obama as...

JERUSALEM – Was Sen. Barack Obama a citizen of Indonesia at any point in his life? That question has been circulating on the blogosphere with increased fury the past few days, since a photograph emerged of Obama's school registration papers as a child in Indonesia – the world's most populous Muslim nation – showing the presidential candidate listed as a "Muslim" with "Indonesian" citizenship. An investigation into Indonesian citizenship law and a review of Obama's biography and travels suggest the Illinois senator at one point may have been a citizen of Indonesia. That would not necessarily disqualify Obama to run...

I have been debating for three weeks, whether to post my August Feature on the Obama Phenomenon at Free Republic. It raises issues that some Republicans would rather ignore, yet it is very relevant to the survival of America. The Obama acceptance, despite the absence of traditional American roots--indeed, he is really here by accident, as his father was neither a settler nor an immigrant, but merely passing through, and his mother could not wait to run off to Indonesia, after the Kenyan left her--speaks to a condition of the public conscience that is being applauded on the Left. But...

Was Sen. Barack Obama a citizen of Indonesia at any point in his life? That question has been circulating on the blogosphere with increased fury the past few days, ever since a photograph emerged of Obama's school registration papers as a child in Indonesia – the world's most populous Muslim nation – showing the presidential candidate listed as a "Muslim" with "Indonesian" citizenship. An investigation into Indonesian citizenship law and a review of Obama's biography and travels suggest the Illinois senator at one point may have been a citizen of Indonesia. That would not necessarily disqualify Obama to run for...

An AP photo that recently surfaced showing Barack Obama registered for school as an Indonesian citizen of the Muslim religion provides tangible evidence for some of the claims made by author Jerome Corsi in his best-selling book, "The Obama Nation." "The Associated Press document provides additional evidence suggesting the Obama campaign's insistence that Obama was never trained in Islam and he never lived as a Muslim is not accurate," author and WND staff reporter Jerome R. Corsi said. "Moreover, the document indicated that Obama may have been an Indonesian citizen when he lived there," Corsi continued. "This is an issue...

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Jerome Corsi goes on FOX News & destroys Barack Obama, Daily Kos, other critics

Anti-Obama and right-wing bloggers have been throwing more and more criticism against the wall to see what sticks. One of their more fanciful charges is that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, born in Hawaii in 1961, is not a U.S. citizen and therefore cannot be elected president. In the face of Internet insinuations that the Illinois Senator was actually born somewhere outside the U.S. and therefore does not fall within Article II of the Constitution ("A natural born Citizen") and the 14th Amendment, Barack Obama's campaign has posted a copy of his birth certificate on its rumor-discrediting Web site, www.fightthesmears.com....

14 Aug 08 -Andy Martin- 'Is Obama Jakarta Birth Certificate Genuine?" Quote: OBAMA AUTHOR ANDY MARTIN ON THE EMERGENCE OR REEMERGENCE OF A "DOCUMENT" ABOUT BARACK OBAMA'S PAST MYSTERY SCHOOL RECORD ON OBAMA RESURFACES-IS IT GENUINE? IF THE OBAMA SCHOOL REPORT IS AUTHENTIC, OBAMA FACES MAJOR PROBLEMS, SERIOUS QUESTIONS ABOUT ADOPTION, LOSS OF CITIZENSHIP AND MORE (NEW YORK)(August 14, 2008) When I prepared my new bestselling book "Obama: The Man Behind the Mask" (http://OrangeStatePress.com) I made clear on the back cover that the book was a "work-in-progress." ContrarianCommentary.com received a mysterious document from various sources this morning, August 14th. The...

So, once again, it is not the underlying facts that cause concern, it is that Obama seems not to be forthcoming with those facts. He denies he was ever a Muslim, but apparently he was. Why doesn't he just say so? If he was adopted by his step-father and his name was Soetoro, why not just say so? If he was once an Indonesian citizen, or held dual citizenship, tell us. It is Obama's failure to address these things that is the most troubling, because he leaves it to members of the public and the press to find out basic...

Photo Documents Barry Soetoro: Indonesian Citizen, Muslim Religion We just received this photo of a school registration form, courtesy of reader “curious,” taken by Tatan Syuflana, an Indonesian AP reporter and photographer. To my knowledge, the AP has not written a story about this . [revision: There was an AP story story in Jan. 2007, but it did not include this photo]. The photo has become relevant now in the context of other revelations reported on this blog. Here is the AP folder where Syuflana’s photo was found: www.daylife.com. The AP caption reads: “This registration document, made available on Jan....

This photo of Obama’s registration for school in Jakarta with the original caption from AP documents Barack Obama as Barry Soetoro and religion as Islam.

    Introduction by TexasDarlinLet us state, unequivocally at the outset of this article, that we have NO bias against Islam and nothing against Islamic people.We are not the ones insulting Muslims. In fact, we feel badly that one of the largest religions in the world is being insulted by a leading contender for the US Presidency. So much for unity.Barack Obama has made it very clear that he considers it a “smear” to be Muslim, or to be labeled a Muslim.The proof of that is right out in the open, on his campaign’s “Fight The Smears” webpage, where he “fights”...

We are not allowed to post Media Matters' Soros funded garbage here, for good reason. But Corsi on Fox news this AM brought up Obama's forged COLB. And Media Matters immediately jumped in to defend the forgery as legit. Folks, let's push this thing fast and hard. Obamaramadingdong needs to be kicked out of the Senate for producing this forgery, even if the info on it is mostly accurate.

Granted, you may find it a little strange for an author to talk about himself in the third person. But, for what I have to say, I should be the one to tell you. I'm going to share with you everything that there is to know about the infamous image of Obama's alleged "birth certificate. For those FReepers who are new to the forum, or who have only recently started learning about the birth certificate controversy, you will be brought up to speed on one of the most bizarre events in American politics. For those of you who know me...

18 months ago: This registration document, made available on Jan. 24, 2007, by the Fransiskus Assisi school in Jakarta, Indonesia, shows the registration of Barack Obama under the name Barry Soetoro into the Catholic school made by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro. The document lists Barry Soetoro as a Indonesian citizen, born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, and shows his Muslim step-father listed the boy's religion as Islam.(AP Photo/ Tatan Syuflana)

August 13, 2008 Tonight's Maryland Independent Party conference call was a humdinger We had some guests from out-of-state on tonight's Maryland state conference call, including Markham Robinson of California. I invited Markham to join us and discuss the lawsuit announced today which contends that John McCain is ineligible to serve as president, and thus should not be allowed to be placed on the ballot in California. Callers had many questions and comments, and Markham answered all comers with scholarship and good humor. Listen to the mp3 recording of the call by clicking here -- http://www.marylandindependentparty.org/archive/Maryland_Independent_Party-conf_call-20080813.mp3 It's a tad over an...

Tatan Syuflana, of the Associated Press, took this photograph, showing that "Obama" attended school in Indonesia, as Barry Soetoro, with religion listed as "Islam": But "Obama" told the Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois that he had never had another name:

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Barack Obama may be on a world tour surrounded by a fawning media, but Sunday an expert in electronic document forensics released a detailed report on the purported birth certificate -- actually a "Certification of Live Birth" or COLB -- claimed as genuine by his campaign. The expert concludes with 100% certainty that it is a crudely forged fake: "a horribly forgery," according to the analysis published on the popular right-wing Atlas Shrugs blog....

I have decided to leave out the low level technicalities and the how-to section of this report due to a lack of time and more importantly I want to get the facts out as quickly as possible. As some of you may or may not know some asshat decided to track me down and vandalize my car and hang a dead mutilated rabbit from my front door in a lame attempt to intimidate me from proceeding with releasing any details of my analysis. They did succeed in delaying the report by a few days but instead of deterring me they...