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Posted on 08/21/2008 5:00:24 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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) County, former member of the Democratic State Committee, and former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania. According to Berg, he filed the suit--just days before the DNC is to hold its nominating convention in Denver--for the health of the Democratic Party.
"I filed this action at this time," Berg stated, "to avoid the obvious problems that will occur when the Republican Party raises these issues after Obama is nominated.".
Berg cited a number of unanswered questions regarding the Illinois senator's background, and in today's lawsuit maintained that Sen. Obama is not a naturalized U.S. citizen or that, if he ever was, he lost his citizenship when he was adopted in Indonesia. Berg also cites what he calls "dual loyalties" due to his citizenship and ties with Kenya and Indonesia.
Even if Sen. Obama can prove his U.S. citizenship, Berg stated, citing the senator's use of a birth certificate from the state of Hawaii verified as a forgery by three independent document forensic experts, the issue of "multi-citizenship with responsibilities owed to and allegiance to other countries" remains on the table.
In the lawsuit, Berg states that Sen. Obama was born in Kenya, and not in Hawaii as the senator maintains. Before giving birth, according to the lawsuit, Obama's mother traveled to Kenya with his father but was prevented from flying back to Hawaii because of the late stage of her pregnancy, "apparently a normal restriction to avoid births during a flight." As Sen. Obama's own paternal grandmother, half-brother and half-sister have also claimed, Berg maintains that Stanley Ann Dunham--Obama's mother--gave birth to little Barack in Kenya and subsequently flew to Hawaii to register the birth.
Berg cites inconsistent accounts of Sen. Obama's birth, including reports that he was born at two separate hospitals--Kapiolani Hospital and Queens Hospital--in Honolulu, as well a profound lack of birthing records for Stanley Ann Dunham, though simple "registry of birth" records for Barack Obama are available in a Hawaiian public records office.
Should Sen. Obama truly have been born in Kenya, Berg writes, the laws on the books at the time of his birth hold that U.S. citizenship may only pass to a child born overseas to a U.S. citizen parent and non-citizen parent if the former was at least 19 years of age. Sen. Obama's mother was only 18 at the time. Therefore, because U.S. citizenship could not legally be passed on to him, Obama could not be registered as a "natural born" citizen and would therefore be ineligible to seek the presidency pursuant to Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution.
Moreover, even if Sen. Obama could have somehow been deemed "natural born," that citizenship was lost in or around 1967 when he and his mother took up residency in Indonesia, where Stanley Ann Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian citizen. Berg also states that he possesses copies of Sen. Obama's registration to Fransiskus Assisi School In Jakarta, Indonesia which clearly show that he was registered under the name "Barry Soetoro" and his citizenship listed as Indonesian.
The Hawaiian birth certificate, Berg says, is a forgery. In the suit, the attorney states that the birth certificate on record is a forgery, has been identified as such by three independent document forensic experts, and actually belonged to Maya Kasandra Soetoro, Sen. Obama's half-sister.
"Voters donated money, goods and services to elect a nominee and were defrauded by Sen. Obama's lies and obfuscations," Berg stated. "If the DNC officers ... had performed one ounce of due diligence we would not find ourselves in this emergency predicament, one week away from making a person the nominee who has lost their citizenship as a child and failed to even perform the basic steps of regaining citizenship as prescribed by constitutional laws."
"It is unfair to the country," he continued, "for candidates of either party to become the nominee when there is any question of the ability to serve if elected."
Supposedly, he traveled to Pakistan on an Indonesian passport, but I don’t know if that has been confirmed.
The Supreme Court needs to get on this NOW. This is not your average case.
Who is he defrauding and how? How is it personally hurting the guy who is suing, and for how much?
Seriously, we don't want the Supreme Court deciding how our political parties pick their candidates. If you don't like how your political party chooses their candidate, go to a different political party, or start your own.
I expect Orville Redenbaker’s estate to surpass Bill Gates any minute now.
It says nothing about a challenge on the grounds of qualification.
I understood Bill Hemmer on Fox to say it was confirmed when he did his hour-long report on Obama's background earlier this week. I videotaped it and could rewind to make sure if necessary.
True, that is in Article I
If this is coming from a Hillary supporter I am not sure that the legal grounds for the case is as important as spreading doubt and concern about Obama. A few more of these things and the super delegates will have to vote for Hillary. Obama will be tossed under the bus for a safer candidate. Since Hillary currently is broke, this is going to be fun.
The Obama campaign is engaging fraud by collecting money from supporters who believe he is legal to be President. I dont believe for second he was born here, and Im fairly certain he knows he isnt, either.
Produce proof of citizenship or get off the stump. I have my documents right here in my safe, why doesnt he? He wants to be president, but cant hold on to basic documents? He is not a citizen, knows it, and is therefore committing fraud by virtue of collecting campaign donations.
What is troubling is that his “Birth Certificate” was denounced as forgery, and no one is doing or saying any thing about it..
I just came from this website:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html
According to them Obama is a US citizen.
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He is defrauding the American people. Seriously, dude, if he gets enough votes and is removed AFTER the election, there will be cries of racism and blood will flow.
I agree. The guy doesn’t have much of a legal case, but the doubts introduced are probably enough to help Hilary get the nomination.
Hillary supporter or not, everything he claims is true. Obama did fake his birth certificate, he was adopted and made an Indonesian citizen, and there is evidence that his adopted father renounced Barry's USA citizenship.(Even if he didn't a dual citizenship makes him ineligible to hold the office of President). Lying about his birth certificate and legal name also disqualifies him.
All the charges are verifiable except the one about being born in Kenya(who knows he may have proof of that also) and all of the charges disqualify him.
He is correct in saying the Republican party would have brought this all out after the nomination, which would be to our benefit because it would make it that much harder to replace the lying scum bag. Now, if this guy is able to pull it off, and I don't see why he won't since the burden of proof is now on BHO's shoulders, good old Hillary will step right in there.
Don't you know she has been waiting for this and biding her time. Nice timing. I will bet this isn't the only state that gets a suite filed against BHO.
A tort was committed if Obama, with forethought and malice, did know he was not eligible for this office, and then conscripted money (donations) from donors. There is not much diffence in that and a guy who asks you to find a pea under a shell, when there is no pea under any of the three shells. Fraud.
I prefer peanuts -- Squirrelbama
Where is that little speck that was an anomaly in the earlier forgery??
I believe that's the plan. They dont care if hes eligible or not. They have the roll call vote in place, obamas numbers are going down in the poll's, McCains ads are getting uglier. Whats a SD to do...lmao
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