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TRO Denied; Obama Can Still Run -- For Now
Lowering the Bar. Legal Humor. Seriously. ^ | August 26, 2008 | Kevin Underhill

Posted on 08/26/2008 10:22:55 PM PDT by Kevmo

TRO Denied; Obama Can Still Run -- For Now

The Obama campaign is probably breathing a sigh of relief now that the motion for temporary restraining order sought by Philip J. Berg, Esquire, has been denied. Berg, who says he is a Democrat (and presumably a Clinton supporter), filed a lawsuit last Thursday in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Obama, the DNC and the FEC, claiming that Obama can't be president because he isn't a "natural born Citizen," as required by Article II, Section I of the Constitution. Berg also immediately sought a TRO to "put a stop to Defendant Obama's fraudulent campaign scheme."

Berg is a Pennsylvania attorney who is acting pro se. While the skepticism that usually attaches to pro se plaintiffs may not be justified, generally speaking -- except that it is -- Berg did not help his credibility by referring to himself under "Parties" as "Plaintiff, Plaintiff, Philip J. Berg, Esquire [hereinafter "Plaintiff"] . . . ."

First, it is usually possible to figure out who the plaintiff is in a lawsuit without that kind of bracketed help, especially when he has called himself that twice already in the same sentence. Second, Plaintiff Plaintiff Berg, you're suing a presidential candidate on the eve of the nominating convention and you couldn't take a second to proofread the sentence with your own name in it? Please.

Obama -- or, as Berg calls him, "Defendant Barack Hussein Obama, a/k/a Barry Soetoro, a/k/a Barry Obama, a/k/a Barack Dunham, a/k/a Barry Dunham [hereinafter 'Obama']," is running for president. But he can't be president, according to Berg, who charges that Obama is not a "natural born citizen" because, "just to name one of the problems," he "lost his U.S. citizenship when his mother married an Indonesian citizen" and the family moved there. Just to name two of the problems with that argument, (1) it concedes that Obama had U.S. citizenship to lose, and (2) you don't lose citizenship just because your mom marries a non-citizen, even if you move. Berg did not cite any support for this point, though he did set it forth in bold underlining, which is almost as good.

For the most part, Berg just raises "questions" about Obama's birthplace (Berg claims it was Kenya) and citizenship, and then charges that Obama "has refused to prove" he is qualified to run. The complaint concedes that Obama has posted a birth certificate on his website, but, Berg says, "as posted all over the internet," that is a forgery. And as we should all know by now, anything posted all over the internet must be true.

The complaint includes three counts: (1) violation of Article II, Section I of the Constitution; (2) "dual citizenship," and (3) fraud. Berg concludes, "For the above aforementioned reasons, Obama needs to immediately step down and withdrawal his candidacy for Presidency."

What is especially amusing about all this is that, as Berg may or may not know, the other guy in the race has the same problem, if it is a problem. John McCain was not born in the U.S. -- he was born in the Canal Zone. There is no question that he is a U.S. citizen. But Article II doesn't say "citizen" -- it says "natural born Citizen." And, it seems, nobody really knows for sure what that means. Barry Goldwater had the same problem (he was born in the Arizona Territory), as did Mitt Romney's dad, George, who was born in Mexico. They weren't disqualified from running, despite the legal uncertainty about the term. George Romney's opponent apparently did insist on calling him "Jorge," but that's the worst that has happened so far.

Obama's "campaign scheme" can go forward, at least for now, because the motion was denied after a hearing on Friday. Sadly, a transcript of that hearing does not yet seem to be available, but the pleadings (downloaded from the court via PACER) are posted below.

Link: iReport.com (Flash required) Link: Complaint in Berg v. Obama (PDF) Link: Motion for TRO in Berg v. Obama (PDF) Link: Order Denying TRO in Berg v. Obama (PDF)

August 25, 2008 in Constitutional Law, Elections & Voting, Fool for a Client | Permalink

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Links: http://www.loweringthebar.net/2008/08/www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-64489

http://kevinunderhill.typepad.com/Documents/Pleadings/Berg_v_Obama.pdf

http://kevinunderhill.typepad.com/Documents/Pleadings/Berg_v_Obama_TRO_denied.pdf

CIVIL ACTION

NO. 08-cv-4083

1 posted on 08/26/2008 10:22:55 PM PDT by Kevmo
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To: pissant; LucyT; Calpernia

Links: http://www.loweringthebar.net/2008/08/www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-64489
http://kevinunderhill.typepad.com/Documents/Pleadings/Berg_v_Obama.pdf

http://kevinunderhill.typepad.com/Documents/Pleadings/Berg_v_Obama_TRO_denied.pdf

CIVIL ACTION

NO. 08-cv-4083


2 posted on 08/26/2008 10:23:25 PM PDT by Kevmo (A person's a person, no matter how small. ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: pissant; Polarik

I found this website by using a new search tool called Addictomatic:

http://addictomatic.com/topic/OBAMA+BIRTH+CERTIFICATE+FORGERY


3 posted on 08/26/2008 10:26:18 PM PDT by Kevmo (A person's a person, no matter how small. ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Kevmo

No relation to the medical procedure addadicktome, is there?


4 posted on 08/26/2008 10:29:49 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Kevmo

Yeah, hard to imagine they would have stopped the convention via TRO over one guy’s lawsuit.


5 posted on 08/26/2008 10:30:51 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Kevmo

When Meeechelle ma belle Obama gave her speech last night she mentioned a line when ‘Barack was a continent away in Hawaii’. I noticed she paused for just a split second before she mouthed the word ‘Hawaii’-—as if she substituted it for another location. Maybe it’s just my own perception of it but it did strike a faint alarm in my head.


6 posted on 08/26/2008 10:34:23 PM PDT by tflabo (:)
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To: Kevmo

I have read somewhere that McCain was born in the Gorgas Hospital in Panama which was a US Military hosp and was sovereign US territory as a medical facility. This is usually left out of references to his birth in Panama.


7 posted on 08/26/2008 10:41:54 PM PDT by givemELL
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To: Kevmo
This article is a poofter fix to what is actually a serious legal problem for Obama. 1) Minors take their citizenship from their parents. 2) There may not be a valid US CB for Obama, and if there is, it may have been issued based on false information, or may have been forged. 3) Obama is actually an Indonesian citizen, and may have no US citizenship, he used an Indonesian Passport for International travel as an adult.Why did he not obtain a US passport for such travel? He had no US birth certificate.But since that time, one has miraculously appeared.

So the issue is far from concluded, and has a gravitas pooftered by this article.

8 posted on 08/26/2008 10:47:13 PM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, (Ridicule Obama))
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To: pissant

No, but possibly the surgical procedure CephaloRectomy, which I sometimes recommend for liberals.


9 posted on 08/26/2008 10:52:48 PM PDT by Kevmo (A person's a person, no matter how small. ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: givemELL

Maybe we can toss both of these guys, I don’t care about McCain either way. But Obama comes first because the document on his FightTheSmears website is a forgery.


10 posted on 08/26/2008 10:54:06 PM PDT by Kevmo (A person's a person, no matter how small. ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Candor7

What does Pooftered mean? Not in Dictionary.com, nor on Ask.com.


11 posted on 08/26/2008 10:57:22 PM PDT by Kevmo (A person's a person, no matter how small. ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Kevmo

That search engine pulls up a lot of different stuff if you search for something. Is there a way to customize it? Like make it return search results like Google?


12 posted on 08/26/2008 11:05:04 PM PDT by wastedyears (Show me your precious darlings, and I will crush them all)
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To: Kevmo

They do it a lot in San Francisco.


13 posted on 08/26/2008 11:26:54 PM PDT by spokeshave (Joe is a clean dipstick and Obambi has sand in the gears.)
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To: wastedyears

I just found it today. Try the ‘enablers’ tab

http://addictomatic.com/enablers


14 posted on 08/26/2008 11:28:58 PM PDT by Kevmo (A person's a person, no matter how small. ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: spokeshave

Maybe you’ve been spending too much time there.


15 posted on 08/26/2008 11:30:30 PM PDT by Kevmo (A person's a person, no matter how small. ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Kevmo

4am bump! ;-)


16 posted on 08/27/2008 12:12:56 AM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here. ;-)
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To: Tunehead54; null and void

Great stuff PING! We haven’t see the last of Berg that’s for sure.


17 posted on 08/27/2008 12:45:54 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (What do Obama and Osama have in common?-They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon! - Bill Ayers)
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To: Kevmo
Rebuttal To Time Magazine Posted

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

18 posted on 08/27/2008 1:36:29 AM PDT by expatguy (Support "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" - DONATE and Help Beat Obama)
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To: Candor7
1) Minors take their citizenship from their parents.

Wrong. If Obama was born in the US, it matters not what the citizenship of his parents were. We have birthright citizenship in the US, which is why the offspring of illegal aliens born in the US are US citizens.

19 posted on 08/27/2008 1:44:23 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Kevmo

“Poofter” is British slang for homosexual


20 posted on 08/27/2008 1:49:59 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell)
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