Born in the U.S.A.? (Obama!)

Times Herald ^ | 08/25/2008 | KEITH PHUCAS

[neverdem]

PHILADELPHIA - A Lafayette Hill attorney filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday challenging Sen. Barack Obama's claim to United States citizenship. The action seeks to remove the Democratic candidate from the November ballot.

To be eligible to serve as U.S. president, a person must be born in this country. According to Obama's birth certificate, which his campaign posted on its Internet site in June to quell rumors that he is foreign born, the Illinois senator was born in Hawaii on Aug. 6, 1961. On Thursday, Philip Berg filed a temporary restraining order in federal court to bar Obama from running for president, claiming the Democratic candidate was actually born in Africa.

"We really don't believe he was born in Hawaii," Berg said. "We think he was born in Kenya."

The presidential candidate's father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya, according to Obama's campaign Web site.

Berg's suit claims the senator's grandmother, brother and sister, who live in Kenya, believe they were present during Obama's birth in the African country.

Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Kansas, and his parents met at the University of Hawaii when Dunham was a student there, according to the Obama campaign. Eventually, Obama's father returned to Kenya, and his son grew up in Hawaii with his mother and for a few years in Indonesia after Dunham married an Indonesian man, Lolo Soetoro. Also, Obama lived with his maternal grandparents in Hawaii.

"If he was born in Hawaii, and he was adopted in Indonesia by Lolo Soetoro, (Obama) would lose his citizenship," Berg said.

The Obama campaign has a special section on its Web site, "Fight the Smears," that debunks the birth certificate story and other reports that have circulated about him during the campaign.

"It's part of a smear campaign," said an Obama campaign volunteer who identified herself as Rachel. "There are just so many lies out there."

The lawsuit claims three "independent" document forensic experts performed extensive tests on the digitally-scanned image of Obama's "Certificate of Live Birth" posted on the campaign's site and found the document to be "a forgery."

Jerome Corsi, author of the book, "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," has also deemed the birth certificate phony, according to The Annenberg Political Fact Check, www.FactCheck.org.

The Annenberg Political Fact Check, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, aims to expose deception and confusion in U.S. politics.

Recently, FactCheck.org staffers "touched, examined and photographed" the original birth certificate kept at the Obama campaign headquarters in Chicago and concluded the document is genuine.

"The evidence is clear: Barack Obama was born in the U.S.A.," FactCheck.org staffers concluded.

Sean Smith, Obama's Pennsylvania communications director, was contacted Friday about the suit but declined comment.

The civil suit filed by Berg will be reviewed by the U.S. Federal Election Commission, according to Patty Hartman, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Keith Phucas can be reached at kphucas@timesherald.com or 610-272-2500, ext. 211.

[null and void]

If they lose and Obama is not eligible, they are absolutely finished as a political organization. This would be an unrecoverable error.

This would be bad because....???

[MainFrame65]

“Fact Check” is as non-partisan with respect to Obama as President Bush is to John McCain. FactCheck is a part of the Annenberg Foundation, which is also the parent of the Annenberg Challenge Grant program. The Chicago operation that this group funded was chaired by Obama, and led by William Ayres, a founding member of the terrorist Weather Underground (along with his wife, Bernadine Dohrn).

Annenberg, through its FactCheck subsidiary, is doing nothing more noble or non-partisan than covering its own butt-naked backside.

But do stick around here for a little while - you might actually learn something. Your 10 days (to date) don’t afford the insight you need into the issues or the characters.

[ncfool]

Funny you said Safari! Well guess who went on that Safari! Yes it was William Jefferson Clinton around the first of August 2008 when ABC news ran this story on him in Africa.

BILL CLINTON SAID WHILE TRAVELING IN AFRICA August 2008 - ABC News: (you tube link) Bill Clinton: Barack Obama Is Qualified Constitutionally

"The Constitution sets qualifications for the president, and then the people decide who they think would be the better president".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q1RIJJcZwk

[JerseyDvl]

Are you kidding LSYM???? I mean really???!
That damn site is owned by Soros and run by Ayers.
Check Wiki...jees. Have been hiding in a hole or something?
The guy has submitted two forged documents as BC’s!!!
I was waiting for the sarcasm tag.
You know NOTHING about immigration law or how to qualify as a citizen to speak that nonsense and should leave here and go read an encyclopedia about some of thee things....you just sound like a LIB.
You would have someone run who can’t prove he is a citizen and has lied about it EVERY TIME???
WTH is the matter with you?
Sorry to go off, but if you don’t cre about our President actually being American....WHY ARE YOU HERE?
OK, sorry for rant but that was an idiotic statement.
This man has a secret identity and you don’t care....Please Explain why the prez doesn’t have to be American.
And do you know anything of McCain’s lineage???
It’s not even a questionable call and they have raked him over the coals.
Alright, I have to recommend DU since the only people that agree with you post there.
That was like saying: Who cares what Kerry said after ‘Nam?????

[null and void]

BTW, can any freepers tell me how to post pictures on here, I seem to be having problems

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[SunnyUsa]

This is ridiculous and wishful thinking...

Don’t you think the Supreme Evil Ones aka The Clintons would’ve uncovered this by now?

Come on....

[Jack Black]

You post pictures by linking them from another online source. You use this command (IMG SRC=” YOUR PICTURE URL HERE “). Only replace the () with the pointy ones <>. (If I put those in my example your browser would not show you it, thinking it a bad HTML tag !!)

[ncfool]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q1RIJJcZwk

[quintr]

But on the other hand, if Obama doesn’t produce an accurate birth certificate, then a cloud remains over him all the way to election day.

Voters will suspect a cover-up and that suspicion will sink his Good Ship Lollipop.

[JerseyDvl]

Oh, you are a newbie troll....lol.
Thanks for providing the outlet for me to voice what a liability you and the Disciples of ObaMessiah, the Traitorous, Non-American, Anti-America Kenyan.

[null and void]

Ummmmmmmm, actually McCain wasn’t born on US soil, it looks like neither was Obama.

If the supreme court ever get around to ruling on exactly what ‘natural born citizen’ means they could end up ruling ‘em BOTH ineligible!

[JerseyDvl]

Bump for the Traitor Bastard and his Anti-American Disciples!

[Redbob]

"The Annenberg Political Fact Check, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania,..."

Is this the same "Annenberg" of B. Hussein's and William Ayres' "Chicago Annenberg Challenge?"

Is there some connection, no matter how tenuous?

[null and void]

Don’t you think the Supreme Evil Ones aka The Clintons would’ve uncovered this by now?

Uncovered? Sure. Disclosed? Maybe. The DNC convention isn't over yet.

I won't count the Hildabeast out until the last of a legion of demons has left her rotting corpse.

[claymax]

Thank you so much for that info. I didn’t realize there was so much to do to add a pic, I was trying to drag and drop it, lol. I guess you can tell I am a newbie at this. :)

[claymax]

Thank you so much for that info. I didn’t realize there was so much to do to add a pic, I was trying to drag and drop it, lol. I guess you can tell I am a newbie at this. :)

[ncfool]

[null and void]

Maybe a troll, maybe not.

The test is educability.

I’m willing to wait and see if the light bulb goes on. (My Viking Kitty has eaten recently)

[DBrow]

No, I’ve read them all.

I think that the court system and FEC will disregard these niceties and fine points and dismiss the case without even getting to the meat.

On the surface, there is documentation showing Obama’s birth in Hawaii. That will be sufficient to get a dismissal.

If he’s elected, then we can cry “stolen election” for four years.

[neverdem]

Is this the same "Annenberg" of B. Hussein's and William Ayres' "Chicago Annenberg Challenge?"

Is there some connection, no matter how tenuous?

I believe it's the same Annenberg original source.