Posted on 12/15/2008 10:48:10 AM PST by kellynla
WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court has turned down another challenge to Barack Obama's eligibility to serve president because of his citizenship.
The appeal by Cort Wrotnowski of Greenwich, Conn., was denied Monday without comment.
Wrotnowski argued that Obama was a British subject at birth and therefore cannot meet the requirement for becoming president.
He wanted the high court to halt presidential electors from meeting to formally elect Obama as president.
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The announcements came from the state Health Statistics folks. Thus when the application for the Certificate of Birth, whichever form of birth record that is on file even now, the details would have been forwarded to the papers.
Too bad their practice didn't include the name of the hospital, as many do.
In the event that he was not born in Hawaii, they would not have been thinking about future eligibility for President, just citizenship, when whoever filed those papers (Mom or Grandma most likely) did so.
Personally, it is not that I expect Obama’s election to be nullified as much as I would like to know a little bit more about this man’s history.
It is actually very shocking how little we know about him. Release of his birth records would be a positive step towards getting some of the other important documentation released about our future president...
When people act in private and behind closed doors, there is much more tendency to deceive or cover-up. If Obama believes himself to be above the law (and in this case it may be working), it could be very destructive to the proper order of our country.
I believe that trasparency and forthrightness is always needed for those in power - especially for what might be considered the most powerful position in all the world...
For elected officials, it should be made public.
First there needs to be a requirement of proof and until we get that it matters not whether is is public or private.
It’s not locked. Anyone can edit it. Just click on the “Edit” link to the right of the passage you want to edit.
Obama is a POS!! How dare he fight to keep records sealed, he had no problem what so ever having the divorce records of his opponent unsealed when he was running for the Senate. Records that were sealed to protect a child. He is a scumbag!!!!
“His birth was announced and published a day or two after the fact in a Hawaiian paper, as is usually the case after a birth. Do you really think that his parents had him in Africa and then had the fore site to know that he would some day run for President, so they had an announcement of his birth published in an Hawaiian newspaper, to make it look like he was born there?”
I live in Kansas. If my wife and I were on vacation in Florida, and she gave birth, I’d put a birth anouncement in the Kansas paper (certainly not Florida)...so I don’t think the announcement proves anything.
I happen to agree with you, though. I suspect he was born in Hawaii; but, there is something on the document that he doesn’t want people to see. My suspicions: his name is either Barack Soetoro or Barack Dunham, which is contrary to the name he has used in public, or as an attorney. But, we can’t know anything for sure until he releases the information.
I have a feeling the bailout bill for the auto industry will pass eventually (like the original TARP did). Wouldn’t it be great if a rider were added by a republican, making providing a birth cert a requirement to run for president...it would take 4 years, but we would eventually find the truth.
“His birth was announced and published a day or two after the fact in a Hawaiian paper, as is usually the case after a birth.”
http://wikileaks.org/leak/obama-1961-birth-announcement-from-honolulu-advertiser.pdf
Fourth from the bottom of the page listing births.
That is wishful thinking... and you are whistling in the dark. Read the case briefs yourself. You tell me why Obama refuses to disclose any record of his past... and I do not mean some copy of a COLB that is issued to every TD&H who happens to pass through the state of Hawaii.
This thing stinks worse than 3-day-old fish. There is something terribly wrong here. There is going to be real trouble coming our way because of this indifference to the most basic of our laws.
We cannot even get a proper review of what is arguably the most important Constitutional issue facing this nation, because our elected officials and judges are scared to be called “racist” or else tainted by some other liberal-induced propaganda.
Are the PTB afraid their precious cities will burn? So the cities burn. So what? That would clean out three fourths of the riff-raff that has infested our nation. Let the fools torch their own homes. Let them kill each other. Let them starve and freeze to death. Good riddance to the reprobates.
There is now none standing to stop any foreign power from subverting us. There is no check and balance on the corruption of power.
They have us all in a sweat by their damn threats, and we are running with our tail between our legs. We are afraid of our own shadows because of political correctness run amok. Our leaders are cowards in plain English. It is high time we start making some threats of our own... AND CARRY THEM OUT FOR ONCE!
When the invasion begins, I wager 50 percent of Americans will not lift a finger, 30 percent will assist the enemy, and the remaining 20 percent will die fighting a lost cause...
I would be interested in seeing the “1st” American Revolutionary War numbers on your point. My guess is they were about the same.
Yeah. It's been a dead letter for some time now.
On a hopeful note, I heard Judge Bork say that the Federalist Society has done great work in re-establishing strict-constructionist thought in law schools around the country.
what a contradiction in terms.
nobody is going to fall for that lie
You said — “Who will be the first?
- to decline to follow a law signed by Obama
- to decline to follow and administrative provision established by an Obama appointee?
** and then fight it through the courts?
Takes a special person with internal strength and substantial financial backing.”
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Oh yes..., I think that will happen. However it won’t change the “end result” as the same people who are refusing to do anything about it now, will be the same people who will refuse to do anything about it *then*...
On the COLB released by the Obama campaign, his DOB is stated as Aug 4, 1961.
The date of the newspaper announcing his birth is Aug. 13, 1961, 9 days later.
Anyone can put an announcement in the newspaper, do you think the newspaper demands seeing the original birth certificate, before publishing an announcement?
IOW, the announcement means nothing.
There is some Hawaii statute that people posted before, that says, that anyone who resided in Hawaii for a year, can get a Hawaii birth certificate, even if not born there.
You said — “Perhaps we just need more people who are not in positions of authority to do something and fewer apathetic defeatists.”
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Perhaps, so..., but that will happen (if it does...) long after Obama leaves office...
In other words, nothing is going to happen with this Obama birth certificate issue.
We have a PUBLIC CONSTITUTION,
We elect supposedly CITIZENS to PUBLIC office,
Our LAWS are PUBLIC laws,
Only tyrannical regimes do things in SECRET.
We have a USSC that went 5:4 on the Second Amendment... the decision should have been an easy 9:0, just as it would have been had the same argument been waged against the First Amendment. So, which “two” justices are you going to trust?
No, sir. No secret verification. I want FULL PUBLIC DISLOSURE.
... and “congressional ethics” is an oxymoron.
Shocking that this is the same guy who voted three times in favor of legalized infanticide.
I blame the voters more than the drive-bys. Everyone has a responsibility to become at least minimally informed.
There are so far 50 results on google for this story. I expect by the end of the day this might double. But still its short of last Monday’s 500 news articles worldwide that mentioned the donofrio case was turned down. (There were subsequently another 200 articles on tuesday and 100 articles worldwide on wednesday that mentioned the donofrio case was turned down.)
The bad guys are gaining confidence.
“...Too bad their practice didn’t include the name of the hospital, as many do. ...”
Or the name of the attending physician.
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