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Why do bloggers continue to press issue of Obama's birthplace? (Cover-up Alert)
McClatchy News ^ | December 4, 2008 | Rick Montgomery

Posted on 12/07/2008 7:08:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

In the outer cosmos of the blogosphere, the presidential election isn’t over.

Barack Obama, now busily forming his administration, isn’t just the wrong person to lead the nation, claim Web sites such as America Must Know and Right Side News.

He is, they contend, constitutionally ineligible to be president.

The argument is over his place of birth — Hawaii, if you accept statements by Hawaiian officials, his 1961 birth notice in a Honolulu newspaper and a certified document his campaign obtained 18 months ago.

Still, legions of anti-Obama bloggers are so convinced he was born in Kenya that they’ve filed more than a dozen lawsuits nationwide.

They cite the Constitution’s requirement that presidents be "natural born citizens." They want the election declared void if Obama doesn’t deliver an original birth certificate — subject to an inspection by forensic experts — to be sure.

One litigant’s U.S. Supreme Court filing is scheduled to be discussed in private by the justices later this week.

Justice Clarence Thomas distributed to his colleagues a request that the high court weigh in before the Electoral College makes Obama’s victory official later this month. The justices may decide in a Friday conference whether to hear or cast away a lawsuit dismissed in a lower court and appealed by a retired New Jersey lawyer named Leo C. Donofrio, who also has his own Web site.

Yet another site, PeoplesPassions.org, beckons the president-elect: “If you’re eligible, show us the proof!”

Obama's campaign tried to settle all doubts months ago when it digitally scanned for all Web browsers to view a “certification of live birth,” signed by Hawaii’s registrar of vital statistics and carrying the state’s seal.

The skeptics response of "fake" prompted Brooks Jackson, who directs the nonpartisan FactCheck.org, to call the entire affair “the stupidest, silliest thing.”

(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: barackobama; birthcertificate; certifigate; choomgang; democrats; donutwatch; illegalpresident; obama; obamatranitionfile; obamatransitionfile; obamatruthfile; presidentelectobama
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To: bushwon

I don’t have a link to the story for you, and am working right now so don’t have time, but I’m sure with a search, a news story on it could be found.

But BO did in fact go see the governor of HI while there, and got whatever records there may be in HI on him, sealed.


61 posted on 12/08/2008 8:46:31 AM PST by webschooner
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To: webschooner

Thanks, I will check later—I have heard this as well, I just haven’t seen it linked to a specific story.


62 posted on 12/08/2008 8:52:56 AM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: valkyry1

FROM Leo http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/

DONOFRIO APPLICATION DENIED - WROTNOWSKI APPLICATION STILL PENDING
Posted in Uncategorized on December 8, 2008 by naturalborncitizen
My application was denied. The Honorable Court chose not to state why.

Wrotnowksi v. Connecticut Secretary of State is still pending as an emergency application resubmitted to the Honorable Associate Justice Antonin Scalia as of last Tuesday. I worked extensively on that application and it includes a more solid brief and a less treacherous lower Court procedural history.

After six days, it’s interesting that Scalia neither denied it nor referred it to the full Court.

My case may have suffered from the NJ Appellate Division Judge having incorrectly characterized my original suit as a “motion for leave to appeal” rather than the “direct appeal” that it actually was. On Dec 21 I filed official Judicial misconduct charges with the NJ Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct, and I updated SCOTUS about that by a letter which is part of SCOTUS Docket as of Dec. 22. The NJ Appellate Divison official case file is fraudulent.

On the chance that SCOTUS was looking at both my case and Cort’s case, I must stress that Cort’s case does not have the same procedural hang up that mine does. It may be that without a decision on the Judicial misconduct allegation correcting the NJ Appellate Division case file, SCOTUS might have been in the position of not being able to hear my case as it would appear that my case was not before them on the proper procedural grounds.

I did file a direct appeal under the proper NJ Court rules, but the lower Court judge refused to acknowledge that and if his fraudulent docketing was used by SCOTUS they would have a solid procedural basis to throw mine out.

I don’t know if it’s significant that Cort’s case was not denied at the same time as mine. His case argues the same exact theory - that Obama is not a natural born citizen because he was a British citizen at birth.

All eyes should now be closely watching US Supreme Court Docket No. 08A469, Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz.

If Cort’s application is also denied then the fat lady can sing. Until then, the same exact issue is before SCOTUS as was in my case. Cort’s application before SCOTUS incorporates all of the arguments and law in mine, but we improved on the arguments in Cort’s quite a bit as we had more time to prepare it.

I was in a rush to get mine to SCOTUS before election day, which I did do on Nov. 3.

Cort’s case has a much cleaner lower court procedural history.

I’m not trying to play with people’s minds here. SCOTUS has not updated Cort’s docket and until they do there can be no closure. I was expecting, if they didn’t grant certiorari, that they would deny both cases at the same time so as to provide closure to the underlying issue. I hate to read tea leaves, but Cort’s application is still pending. That’s all we can really say with any certainty.


63 posted on 12/08/2008 9:16:30 AM PST by seekthetruth
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He STILL hasn’t shown anyone his original long form birth certificate.

There are still other cases out there including Alan Keyes’ case. Keep plugging away and never give up. If the shoe was on the other foot do you think the libs would give up? NEVER!


64 posted on 12/08/2008 10:26:26 AM PST by deannadurbin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Felipe de Jesus CALDERON Hinojosa & Schwarzenegger for US el presidente 2112! Yep in 2112. They can run the pro Gay/Green Governator with the President of Mexico for el President of the 57 states.

With the voters in Mexico, South America, Canada, Europe, Iran and "new voters" in the Former USA, the Governator can co presidente with the Mexican President for life.

No one will challenge either one including a lot of Freepers. They will win by 200 million votes, and that settles that. Just move on to 2040.

65 posted on 12/08/2008 11:09:22 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Felipe de Jesus CALDERON Hinojosa & Schwarzenegger for US el presidente 2112!)
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To: All

The MSM is too busy investigating the cost of Sarah Palin’s wardrobe to be bothered with such trivial matters as to whether or not “The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers” is legally qualified to be the POTUS


66 posted on 12/08/2008 2:09:43 PM PST by Rodney Dangerfield (I didn't vote for "The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers")
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To: Rodney Dangerfield

BTW, why has Zer0 spent 800k fighting this instead of just producing a COLB?

What is he hiding?


67 posted on 12/08/2008 2:11:26 PM PST by Rodney Dangerfield (I didn't vote for "The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers")
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To: babygene
The religion is listed as Muslim on his BC. That would have cost him the election, and it might very well get him killed by the rag-heads. That’s the only answer that makes sense to me.

The example of a long-form Hawaiian birth certificate from that era that's all over the internet doesn't have a box for "religion."

68 posted on 12/08/2008 2:14:41 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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