I have not seen his litigation bills but I can tell you that the cost of defending these numerous types of lawsuits brought by Berg, Keyes, Martin and the number of other people who have filed suits in multiple jurisdictions and that have resulted in an answer or other type of pleading filed by Obama or the DNC would by now total at least several hundred thousand dollars and probably into seven figures.
We can be sure Obama is not personally bearing this cost, and it is probably coming out of the DNC compliance fund for the general election campaign. And I would be surprised if some of the firms are not taking a haircut on fees in exchange for the prestige and possible goodwill curried with Obama and the Rats by serving as counsel to Obama and the DNC. Nevertheless, with all of these lawsuits, the fees and expenses by now have accumulated to a substantial amount.
Of course to Obama, it’s just other people’s money, and we know how he feels about that.
That he could have avoided nearly all of these fees by submitting the actual birth certificate in the first of these lawsuits I think means that he is afraid of something that would be revealed by the birth certificate. McCain, as we know, submitted his birth certificate in the first lawsuit that challenged his own eligibility by virtue of being born to parents stationed in the Panama Canal Zone. The notion that Obama has nothing to hide but is just “playing” the opposition by stonewalling seems unlikely.
Not necessarily, if the lawyers are on retainer and all they are doing is filing dismissal requests, they may not be paying anything beyond their normal retainer fee.
Obama's lawyers are playing games though.. from telling judges to 'just look at a website' to faxing them blank pages or pages of flower pictures *on accident* (yea right).. it seems that Obambi's camp wants this to keep going.. they are playing games..