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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."
How does one check to see if such a suit has actually been filed?
From experience, I can tell you that this is not the case - there are a lot of conditions.
A lawsuit is filed in a district court by a top state democrat against a democrat and we are supposed to ignore it?
Seeing as none of us are admitted to that District (right?), its likely we can't.
And remember when asked if she believed Obama was a Muslim, Hillary said: "Of course not. I take him on the basis of what he says. There isn't any reason to doubt that, as far as I know."
So a person has to be a lawyer to check it out?
YAY!!!!
Just recently I was called an “inbred bigoted retard” twice, then got a lateral promotion to “worthless piece of s**”, THEN, I was promoted to “redneck hillbilly.”
That Hillary (and her supporters) is just NOT going to give up, though it’s not surprising. Phil Berg, is really something else. Though, my brother talked to him, I’m glad we didn’t go with him regarding our case against the Teamsters.
Please see reply #171.
sounded like speculation based upon family testimony
Not if it gets thrown out right away and gets no alphabet coverage between now and then.
Did Bill Hemmer’s show say Obama used an Indonesian passport when he went to Pakistan? I don’t remember hearing that. But that show didn’t mention any controversies relating to Obama.
I think it did.
Where does this stuff about Obama not producing his birth certificate even come from? Who has asked him for it? I’ve never seen this issue even mentioned anywhere but here and some other blogs. A google search doesn’t bring up anything but blogs. Has one person who has been named even asked for his birth certificate?
Where is the verification that Obama was adopted by his stepfather? Even the Fox News show on Obama didn’t say that. And what provisions of Indonesian law state that a foreigner adopted by an Indonesian loses his original citizenship automatically? And what provisions in US law say that the law in Indonesia would make one lose their status as a natural born US citizen?
Nobama is a constitutional attorney HE KNOWS he is not eligible!!
A notation on a school record does not affect anyone’s citizenship. What evidence is there that Obama’s was adopted by his stepfather? I’ve never heard of Soetoro called anything but “stepfather” which gives the appearance that there was no adoption.
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