Posted on 08/21/2008 8:19:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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 natural born 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."
When Clinton attacks, it is over a broad range.
Tough to defend against a series of concentrated attacks on different flanks.
But dangit, Go Hillary Go!
Operations Chaos in Auto-Pilot!
Chris Matthews' head is going to explode!
JR is scheudulel to name his VP pick today, too bad a thunderstorm has descended on his parade!
I'm loving it.
Big Media will have to report a DEMOCRAT has filed the lawsuit to stop the First Black President. (Sorry Bill)
Going back to the times when the Constitution was writtten, IMHO, the standard for President was the highest possible, i.e., born of parents that were BOTH citizens.
Heheheheee:)
And that both parent standard hasn’t ever changed. Obama’s not eligible because his Dad was a foreign national. Obama does not meet the “natural born” requirement.
Who is the plaintiff? I think there is going to be a standing problem.
BTTT
Okay, now that top picture is really insulting—there’s no way we should have to associate Hillary Clinton with a great beer like Black Butte Porter!
PUMA’s show their teeth.
You had it right the first time.
Bump for later.
Still nothing on Drudge about this?
Can't wait to hear Rush today.
I certainly hope so, anyone who could stop the Obamanation steamroller from rolling into the Oval Office would be a hero in my book, even if that anyone is the Hildebeast.
There are degrees of good and degrees of evil, Barry O is pure unadulterated evil, but if the the Hildebeast can somehow derail Barry O's bought and paid for train ride to Washington she may yet prove that there is a minuscule smidgen of good in her after all.
I guess this means Hillary was NOT the pick for VP.
so the judge will say “Mr Obama, just produce a genuine birth certificate, let some of our independent experts take a peek at it, and we’ll clear this up in no time” yeah, that’s the ticket.
They figured that their organization, allied with the MSM, could cover it up and would accuse anyone offering evidence that BO wasn’t eligible for the presidency a liar. That’s the Democrat way—tell the same lie frequently and your followers, especially if they are ignorant or as duplicitous as the top of the party, will believe it.
Yes we can’? Make that: ‘Oops, we may not’
Barack Obama suddenly looks vulnerable. And the more the focus is on him, the less likely he is to become president
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4582920.ece
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