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."
Just went (tried) to get back to Factcheck.org and it seems their server is down .... hmmmmmmm didn’t know it was an Obama backed site ....
Explains a lot.
Just tried to get to Factcheck.org and it seems their site is down ... hmmmmm ....
Here’s hoping we hear more about this tomorrow! If anything comes of this it will be blamed on Hillary since Berg is referred to as a Hillary supporter.
Over here, ladies...
Looks like the lawsuit may have legs.
Someone asked "How has he--Berg--been harmed?"
Seems like he's suing to prevent harm to his Democrat Party--like a person whose child is going in for surgery, but the surgeon doesn't have the qualifications of a Medical Degree--and the Hospital Administration doesn't seem to give one damn about that fact.
Berg is trying to stop an operation--the nomination of Obama--before his baby, the Democrat Party, is seriously harmed.
For me personally I think we as a country should get back to the original definition of 'natural born' as explained by the guys who actually wrote the constitution. In the Naturalization Act of 1790 natural born was clarified as: "the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born Citizens". You can't get any clearer than that! The men who wrote our constitution also wrote this act and they made it crystal clear what they meant by natural born!!
Note that in this Act it specifically stated citizens. Plural - both parents. It goes on to as well specifically describe that natural born was not based on where a person was born, but to whom. You could be born 'beyond the sea' or 'out of the limits' of the U.S. so long as you were the child of 'citizenS'.
I realize this definition was later revoked etc. etc. 14th amendment and all that - but sheez - we wouldn't have all these problems with anchor babies and everything else if we would just return to what the founders intended!
In the meantime I personally, even IF the candidate would be conservative; would NEVER EVER vote for anyone who had a parent who was NOT a U.S. citizen......
BUMP
Thanks for the link to the image!
The Philip (one L) C. Berg on Obama’s page is a lawyer in New York City. There’s a Phillip J. Berg who is a practicing attorney is Pa. This one was former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania and political activist. I believe they are two different people.
Wow! Thanks for the pings!!
The whole world's watching, the whole world's watching.
I think Barry got that Factcheck certificate manufactured during his vacation in Hawaii last week.
Not sure what that’s all about ... only know about going to Factcheck.org to read what they had to say .... so what’s with them being affiliated with Obama or the DNC???????
And we won't....that's why I've been ragging on all these hysterical Buckhead wannabe threads.
This Bullsh*t makes Free Republic look like a huge pool of idiots....and for some reason, our commander lets 'em rock on. Beyond foolish....
I lived in Japan at the time, and only really saw it in the Stars and Stripes.
I didn’t want to come home. I thought the USA was tearing itself to bits.
We had Bill’s comment about eligibility and who could forget...”What does Hillary want?”
It’s going to be one hell of a convention
Heheh, that’s a great animated gif...:)
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