[PJ-Comix]

“It does not take a crystal ball to see that the allegations against Miss Cleo may be politically motivated,” attorney William Cone Jr. said in a statement. “Is this Florida politics, or a bad remake of the Salem witch trials?”

Hey, maybe Janet Reno has a winning campaign issue here---The persecution of Miss Cleo by Jeb Bush and the wascally Republicans.

Rather than say the birth certificate was illegitimate, Cone offered seven scenarios that could account for her having a Los Angeles birth certificate while still being the shaman she claims she is.

Among them:

“A child is born in America and leaves shortly after birth to live in Jamaica, returns many years later with the Jamaican culture and accent.”

“Child is born in a country where births and deaths are not recorded as efficiently as they are here. Child is raised from 4 years on in the United States.”

“Biological father is Jamaican, mother is American, stepfather adopts the child at birth, and he is American. What goes on the birth certificate?”

When pressed, Cone said one of the seven scenarios is true. He wouldn’t say which.

How about this scenario?---Miss Cleo was framed by Jeb Bush who burned her birth certificate and spread the nasty rumor that she isn't really Jamaican.

[DoughtyOne]

Yep she's for real alright. I think she's a defrauding sack of human waste.

[3catsanadog]

Miss Cleo Jamaican? When I've listened to her commercials, she loses the Jamaican accent on occasion and lapses into her LA urban-speak.

[mdittmar]

“Is this Florida politics, or a bad remake of the Salem witch trials?”

I can hear this lawyer at the trial now.

"But how do you know she's a witch."

[Prodigal Daughter]

Can she cook roti? If not, she's a fraud. (And if she's such a psychic, she can just search the akashic records for the recipe).

[Clemenza]

Methinks Ms. Cleo is sexy with that gap tooth and faux accent.

In a few years, she'll be hawking stolen electronics at the Swap Shop.

[spald]

Some psychic! She should have seen this coming.

Cahl me now!

[briarjumper]

It would seem to me, that if she can predict the future, she would have foreseen the legal problems she is having and chosen to not be involved with the television ads that are causing her so many legal problems.

[RasterMaster]

Both she and her lawyer can be summed up in one word:

FRAUD.

[michigander]

Is she a psychic? Is she a shaman? Can she really see the future?

Yes on all counts, Cone said.

Let me guess. Monday Sept 10, 2001 was her day off. Right?

Hey Cynthia McKinney! What did Miss Cleo know and when did she know it?

[tracer]

Ha-ha-ha!! De punch cards -- dey never lie!" (except in Palm Beach polling places) .....

[americalost]

Ms. Harris's birth certificate

[william clark]

Shaman? Well, sham anyway.