Posted on 09/06/2008 6:57:37 AM PDT by solfour
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama was served with papers yesterday connected with the lawsuit filed more than two weeks ago in federal court in Philadelphia questioning his constitutional eligibility for the American presidency. Service was made at his Washington, D.C. Senate office at approximately 1:00 p.m.
From a press release provided by filing attorney Philip Berg and available on his Web site:
Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obamas eligibility to serve as President of the United States, has received confirmation from his Process Service Company that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Senator Barack Obama were served today, September 4, 2008, with the legal documents pertaining to Berg vs. Obama, Civil Action No. 08-cv-4083.
The DNC was served at 12:00 p.m. and Senator Obama was served at 1:00 p.m. The U.S. Attorneys Office accepted service on behalf of the Federal Elections Committee (FEC) on or about August 22, 2008.
A telephone call to Obama's Senate office in Washington, D.C. yielded no official comment, as his staffer maintained that she was "not familiar with any legal action" and, even though I mentioned that service was made in D.C. to that office, it was "probably a campaign-related issue."
The subsequent call to the senator's campaign headquarters, however, yielded the same result but in a more entertaining fashion.
"That's very interesting," said a campaign official who declined to provide a name and admitted that this was the first he had heard of Berg's lawsuit. He asked whether anything about the civil action had appeared in the newspapers, and when told that the story had appeared in the Washington Times, he laughed.
"Has the story appeared in the New York Times? How about the Washington Post? Or the Los Angeles Times? The Chicago Tribune?" he asked. "Those are all more trustworthy papers than the Washington Times. When the story appears there, then we might have something to say about it."
"If Sen. Obama were ineligible to run for president," he said, "I think we would have heard about it by now."
Berg, over the phone, mentioned that he has received phone calls and advice from dozens of lawyers across the country, and was currently working on preparing a motion for expedited discovery to be filed before the next conference with Judge Surrick. While he was unable to provide a copy of the affidavit of service--as soon as I get a copy, it will be posted here--he was more than happy to offer his perspective on the predictable response I received from Obama's senate office and campaign headquarters.
"They know about it," he said, noting that the story has catapulted across the Internet and radiowaves, citing 7.9 million hits on his Web site and mentioning that he is booked for a pair of radio interviews this evening, and will be sitting with a newspaper photographer for another story to appear in the [Norristown, PA] Times-Herald. "Too many times, a lawsuit can be filed and nobody knows about it. This time, the political people must know for sure."
"The silence is proving me right," he said, wondering why no doctor or nurse has come forward to claim the inevitable publicity which would accompany an admission that they were in attendance for the Illinois senator's birth. "I think it's an insult to the American public and even more so to his campaign supporters who have worked so hard and donated so much money. All they're doing is prolonging the agony. If I'm right and they stay quiet, they could sit on it for 60 days, get elected, and the only way out would be impeachment by this do-nothing Congress."
"What does that do for America?" He asked. "This deserves a comment one way or another."
Come on! It’s been all over the internet. His father was Kenyan and the mother was too young to automatically confer US citizenship to Obama. That makes him a naturalized citizen at best (anybody’s seen his naturalization papers? no? hmmm). Hey, if he can be president, so can I. How do I go about running for vp next election, with Sarah running for president?
Well now that’s an interesting photo I hadn’t seen before. Are we certain it hasn’t been shopped? Any way to know the date of the photo? Is the plaque still there?
Because of all the murkiness involved in this issue- I’ve gone on the assumption that he was, in fact, born in Hawaii and the whole COLB mess has been an attempt to hide some possibly embarrassing info- but not his actual birthplace.
I do have questions about whether he was a citizen of Indonesia at one time- how and when it was changed to American.
The man is a mystery- a dangerous mystery.
The lawyer is a Hillary supporter.
ROTFL! That’s funny!
LOVE your name!!!
That is soooo photoshopped. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Yes dear....you do.
And we need for the little "o" to stay just right where he is so that we can stomp him into oblivion. ;-)
Knowing how corrupt some of the courts are, this could take several years to settle. I don’t think obama will be off any ballot,. But it could cost him 25% of the votes he would have had otherwise. Defeated. Gone! Good riddence!
It's completely and crudely 'Shopped, and I don't believe DfU is pretending otherwiseit's just a joke.
The copy of his birth certificate is on the internet. It has the raised seal and the certification number. He was born in Hawaii making him a U.S. citizen regardless of the age or citizenship of his parents.
You guys have the investigation skills of a gnat.
I have probably a stupid question... but I thought that a child born to a US citizen is, in fact, a US citizen no matter where he or she is born. Is that correct or not? Otherwise, wouldn’t children born in foreign countries to military families not be US citizens? Is the difference that Obama’s dad was not a US citizen?
I am just curious about this.
He did a great job. I thought it was real! I assumed it was his father’s home town taking credit for giving us the great and powerful Obama by putting up a plaque in his honor. LOL
*snicker*
Makes sense since almost everything is made in China anyway.
Whether or not that would be true, Obama's "church" is adherent to Liberation Theology, which is thoroughly known to be Marxism -- using hand-picked Bible passages out of context.
The silence isn’t surprising. The first line of defense to to find some defect in the service of process. Even if process service was all right, usually a party has at least thirty days to respond from the date of service so nothing is required until at least October 3. Then the defendants can request an extension to answer, dragging it out even further. If they answer within the 30 days, they can submit enough affirmative defenses to the action and to jurisdiction by Berg’s chosen forum that it will drag it out further. No way will anything happen before the election because Obama can argue irreparable damage would occur, if Berg turns out to be wrong and Obama right, by causing him to forfeit the election. Then the lawsuit would be dragged out further in discovery until, if Obama were to win the election, at least inauguration, after which it will either be dismissed or Obama would be impeached or whatever and Biden would be president. Best to work on defeating him in November and disqualifying him later on if it appears he really is disqualified.
I am new at this so please forgive me if I’m not doing things correctly. Does anyone know where Obama’s mother is?
Another bad performance on the O’Reilly Factor, it’s coming out in dribbles so your forced to return to see Bill, but Obama getting angry, and not being able to define his positions again(Saddleback), is going to have to be revisited by the Obama campaign, again.
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