Posted on 10/22/2008 2:11:53 PM PDT by pissant
Barack Obama claims particularly serious embarrassment will result from turning over the requested documentation in the Berg case and has filed a request for dismissal and a protective order. Bergs filing asks for copies of his birth certificate, citizenship records, passport and travel records, and other documentation proving citizenship in the U.S. as well as other countries.
First, lets establish that I am no lawyer so dont depend on my interpretation of the Berg vs. Obama lawsuit as being accurate. I am depending on the interpretations of others who know much more than I, and assuming they have it right. With that out of the way, lets proceed.
Philip Berg (a Democrat and former deputy attorney general of the state of Pennsylvania) filed his initial lawsuit against Barack Obama August 21, 2008 in Philadelphia Federal Court, claiming Obama is constitutionally ineligible to be President based on citizenship. The first counter filing was from Obama only, but the DNC has since joined in.
Barack Obama and the DNC failed to respond to Bergs filing of Sep. 15 within the required 30 days, which means they ADMITTED to all the charges in the filing by default. When they did not respond in any manner to any of the requests for information or documention the judge extended their deadline, and they then filed a motion for DISMISSAL and for a PROTECTIVE ORDER.
Their reasoning for requesting a protective order is that revealing the information (birth certificate, passports, citizenship in other countries) would cause a defined and serious injury to Obama and/or the DNC. They say revealing these documents raises a legitimate privacy concern and the above mentioned risk that particularly serious embarrassment will result from turning over the requested documentation. (emphasis added) Then they claim Berg has no standing to ask for it.
* Is it just me, or does this sound like an admission of guilt? If his birth certificate and citizenship records, including passports and travel documentation, are going to cause particularly serious embarrassment, can we assume they do not prove he is a natural born citizen as required by the Constitution for eligibility for the presidency? How else could they be embarrassing? * Obama has already posted a copy of his birth certificate online (deemed by some experts to be a poor forgery), so wouldnt this have nullified any expectation for privacy?
From the list of 83 charges filed and not rebutted, here are some they admitted to (remember, they technically admitted them because they didnt refute them):
1. Barack Obama is not a natural born U.S. citizen 2. Barack Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya 3. Barack Obama traveled to Pakistan with friends in 1981 on an Indonesian passport 4. Barack Obama has asked others to have his birth certificate in Hawaii altered 5. The DNC has knowledge of this and is complicit in hiding it
WHERE IS THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA? With speculation that he was born in Kenya, is still a citizen of Indonesia, traveled to Pakistan on an Indonesian passport, and never re-claimed his American citizenship, does anyone doubt if this were the Republican candidate they would be spending at least as much time investigating it as they did Joe the Plumbers background? It would be all over the news 24 hours a day! But Obama? They dont investigate, they dont report. Where is their journalistic integrity?
Berg now has filed:
A) A motion requesting an immediate order deeming his request for admissions served upon Barack Obama and the DNC on September 15 admitted by default, and
B) A motion requesting an expedited ruling and/or hearing on Bergs motion deeming the request for admissions served upon Obama and the DNC admitted.
If Judge Surrick grants these motions, Barack Obama is, at least temporarily, ineligible to run for the office of President of the United States OR to be a citizen of the United States.
There are some rumblings from the courthouse that a ruling, one way or the other, may be forthcoming by the end of this week.
Bergs website You can read the full list of Requests for Admissions Obama and the DNC failed/refused to respond to, thus admitted to, at this site. In fact, you can read the history of the whole case here, including .pdf documents of all the filings.
TexasDarlin A Democrat-for-Clinton website following and investigating this case, this post interprets the information on Bergs website to help understand what it means.
Americas Right Written by a law student who works in the courthouse where the case is filed; he breaks news fast and accurately.
The embarrassment of no birth certificate
Lol, I like your scenario.
I think Hillary is remaining relevant, staying on the stage, so to speak, to step in when the 'bama falls.
I have been expecting her to pop in to 'save the party' for a while now, and if this breaks, and she stepped in as the nominee (second most delegates) it will cause unreal turmoil as the PUMAs become a swing vote, cutting back to the Dems. The very real chance of rioting in the streets exists as well.
In this undated photo provide by photographer Ed Greevy, African American poet and journalist Frank Marshall Davis speaks in Hawaii. ...
The Frank Marshall Davis Cover-Up Is Over.LINK.
...The relationship took on more concern when the London Daily Telegraph reported allegations that Davis was not only a communist but a sex pervert and pornographer, and that he smoked dope with Obamas grandfather, Stanley Dunham, who had introduced Davis to Obama when the child was only nine years of age. Dunham and Davis were drinking buddies.
Obama admits doing drugs in his youth, and we know that Obama talks about sharing alcohol with Davis. Did he share drugs with him too?
Obama, of course, is not responsible for being put into close contact with this alleged child molester, alcohol abuser, and pothead. Obamas growing-up years were sad and tragic, especially with his black father taking off and his mother spending much of her time elsewhere. His grandparents tried their best to raise him. But his grandfather should never have turned Obama over to Davis.
Since Obama wants to be the president of the United States of America, with authority over domestic and foreign policies that will affect our daily lives, we have a right to know the nature of the Obama-Davis relationship and how it affected his personal life and political philosophy. The media should demand answers...
Two undated photographs by Ed Greevy are seen on the desk of Kathryn Takara, a professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii, at her home in Kaaawa, Oahu, July 26, 2008. In the photo at left, Professor Takara, is seen with black poet and journalist Frank Marshall Davis.
There is no birth record for Obama in Hawaii or anywhere else in the US.
It’s about freeping time
Berg files a lawsuit that is legitimately allowed to proceed through channels, and the defendents openly refuse to act in response. Soon, the judge will dismiss it "just because he can."
The Secretary of State in Ohio is openly disregarding election laws in the state, admitting that 200,000 registrations and associated early ballots are unreliable, and is refusing to give state support to counties to validate these questionable votes. The courts are turning a blind eye just because they can.
The MSM is refusing to report any news that harms Obama's chances to win, no matter how important. There is a blackouit on any Democrat scandal of any kind. They are lying about McCain and Palin to the point of manufacturing news, because they can.
And we're supposed to just sit by and politely watch without complaint.
-PJ
Yeah, but we knew that already. (smile)
God help us.
He will, too. He doesn’t appreciate this — stuff.
IF YOU GO TO BERG”S WBSITE THE ENTIRE THING IS POSTED
Remember: "Get into their faces"???
I predict it will be worse than 1968!!!
Every street in America can be the same way, if people have the will to make it so.
The United States has, at last, been transformed into just another Banana Republic. The whole thing is shameful. Furthermore, as exemplar of representative government to the entire planet, we can expect others to follow suit, leading inexorably to increased decline in the political process everywhere. This bodes ill for the future.
I’d never even seen my birth certificate until a short time ago. I finally sent for a copy because it will be needed for drivers license renewal.
Its that way in Virginia now too.
A person would think that eligibility would be part of the vetting process with the Party, but I guess they just take a Senators word for it.
Everyone knows a Senator wouldnt lie. (BARF!)
Even after Obama is sworn in?
If Obama is ineligible and wins the election, it would be legally void; as if it never happened. Therefore anything that occurs after the election is also void. This meanss that Obama would have legally never have been the President, even if he is sworn in.
Sounds good to me. Hope it happens soon.
“Im glad you are seeing the light. If.... what we are talking about here is true, then this is the biggest case of fraud ever committed on the American People by a politician and in conjunction with the approval of a legitimate political party. No one can imagine it because the lie is so big.”
exactly! The sheer audacity of it is mind-boggling.
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