Obama and DNC served today concerning lawsuit questioning his qualifications to be President

Private Email | September 4, 2008 | Philip J. Berg

[pnz1]

So if they have now been served can they go back and “redo” the motion that was denied?

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Popcorn ?...;0)

[Brad’s Gramma]

Thanks for the ping!

[Red Steel]

The OBAMA people said it had been dismissed but I’m quite sure he was served papers today.

Yes. The motion to restrain Obama was denied by the court, but the case goes on.

[dubie]

that is the way I understand it... Time will tell

[Fred Nerks]

PRESENT!

thanks for the ping - whatcha gunna do obama when everything goes wrong?

LOL!

[Lancey Howard]

Wow!

BUMP

[null and void]

Can the courts compel Obama to produce records proving his qualifications?

Do you have a job?

Did you need to show that you were legally in the country and authorized to work here?

Should the standards for the most important job in the country be lower than the requirements for dish washer?

[null and void]

Further, you would think that somewhere in this whole process that that documentation would be filed with somebody. FEC maybe?

The FEC would only get involved if federal matching funds were being used by the Obama campaign.

Obama has refused matching funds.

Think about that for a moment.

A democrat is refusing taxpayer funds.

Why?

[21stCenturyFreeThinker]

I'm not a lawyer but I did stay in a ... oh never mind.

Here is the order in Hollander v. McCain dismissing a similar suit against McCain. In this order the court set out the threshold a plaintiff would need to meet to have standing. Read the order if you want to know why Mr. Berg doesn't have standing.

[justiceseeker93]

It seems as if Defendants can easily stall this thing out until Election Day. If he wins the presidency, it's hard for the Plaintiff to prove that Obama was born outside the US and thus not a natural born citizen. He would have to get a birth record from Kenya (if were in fact born there) and there's no way that Kenyan officials can be compelled to comply with a subpoena from a US court. Ditto for Indonesia regarding an Indonesian passport he is purported to have obtained at age 21.

If he loses the presidential race, Berg can either drop the suit entirely or possibly seek to amend the suit in an attempt to remove Obama from the Senate - if he can somehow document that Obama was not a US citizen at all at the time of his election in 2004.

[Spunky]

"So if they have now been served can they go back and “redo” the motion that was denied?"

You are confused. The lawsuit NEVER was denied, and they have now been served for the lawsuit. Outside of the lawsuit was a MOTION to STOP Obama from being able to accept the nomination. That motion was denied and they were able to go ahead with their convention.

[null and void]

Is citizenship a requirement for congress?

[21stCenturyFreeThinker]

Obama Campaign claims that the lawsuit has been dismissed are false.

When did they claim this?

[justiceseeker93]

Mark Shields does commentary on PBS as the designated Democrat. So it's not surprising that he panned McCain's speech.

He has always been paired up with a discussion partner porported to be a Republican, to supposedly give two opposing sides to a political story. The so-called Republicans he has partnered with over the years include David Gergen, Paul Gigot, and David Brooks. Gergen worked in the Clinton White House and Brooks (now Shields' opposite on PBS) works for the New York Slimes. So those two are RINOS at best. Gigot is probably a real Republican of sorts, but kind of a "moderate" currently employed primarily by the Wall Street Journal.

[justiceseeker93]

Is citizenship required for Congress?

Yes! But one need not be a "natural born citizen." Senators must be citizens for at least nine years prior to their service, while House members must be citizens for at least seven years. That's in the Constitution.

[SunkenCiv]

Uh-oh. Guess he’ll have to skip his coronation and anointing.

[esquirette]

Innocent until proven guilty only applies in the criminal context. This is not a criminal case, i.e. it is not the state against a person, but it is a civil case, i.e. person versus person.

[null and void]

Thanks.

[berdie]

This is a long thread, I didn’t read it all. I usually try to. So if this a repeat question, forgive me..it’s late.

Is this for real? I thought I read here last week that the judge threw it out?