Obama's real mother:
Posted on 10/24/2008 7:31:37 AM PDT by presidio9
IF MONTGOMERY County lawyer Phil Berg has his way, Barack Obama won't be on the ballot on Nov. 4.
And if Berg's right, Obama could be struck from the ballot as soon as today.
Talk about an October surprise!
In August, Berg filed a federal suit alleging that the Democratic presidential candidate was not born in Hawaii, but in Kenya, and is not even an American citizen, but a citizen of Indonesia.
U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick has not ruled on the merits of Berg's suit, although he did deny Berg's request for a temporary restraining order.
This week Berg asked that his allegations against Obama be "admitted" since Obama had failed to respond within the 30-day time limit.
Berg's suit has been hot stuff in the right-wing blogosphere for a while.
Several similar suits have followed Berg's, including one in Washington state this week and one in Hawaii last week challenging that state's privacy law, which prevents officials from making the original birth certificate public.
Mike Finney, deputy clerk to Judge Surrick, says that their office has gotten a blizzard of phone calls about the suit.
"Within the past week the calls have instensified," Finney told us. "People from all across the country have been calling." He said we should expect a ruling soon.
Berg failed to return our calls, but he is no stranger to Clout.
In 1998, when he launched a run for governor against Tom Ridge, we offered this slogan: "Those who think Ridge is unsinkable should know there's a Berg up ahead."
He promptly printed it on campaign buttons, becoming the only politician ever to take advice from Clout. It was clearly a danger sign.
After the Sept. 11 attacks, Berg established a Web site accusing the government of either planning the attacks or knowing about them in advance.
To fight the birth rumors, the Obama camp posted a document issued by Hawaii confirming his birth there. Critics call it a forgery, although the nonpartisan FactCheck.org examined the original document and declared it legit.
Also worth noting is a birth announcement in the Sunday, Aug. 13, 1961, Honolulu Advertiser listing Obama's birth there on Aug. 4.
Of course, it is possible that Obama's family, knowing he would seek the presidency one day, planted a false announcement.
And, if you enjoy conspiracies, isn't it interesting that Obama is cutting short his campaigning this week to visit his grandmother in Hawaii?
Is she really sick? Or is he trying to keep her quiet? Or is this silly stuff going to be kicked out of court forcing us to find better material next week?
Obama and the Phillies
Obama's declaration during the NL Championship Series that he was rooting for the Phillies prompted Todd Bernstein to produce the T-shirt you see on this page.
His inspiration goes back to 1992, when he was an aide to then-senator Harris Wofford, D-Pa., and they were campaigning for Bill Clinton in Colorado.
"In the Denver campaign office someone had a T-shirt that had Clinton-Gore with the Broncos logo and on the back, it said, 'Go Clinton! Go Broncos!' " Bernstein recalled. "I thought I'd like to do that back home when the time was right.
"It took 16 years for the stars to be aligned with Barack Obama and the Philadelphia Phillies."
Bernstein, who heads the Martin Luther King Day of Service project, made some up for his friends.
"Then more people started asking about it, so I made more, and then other people began hounding me and now I'm in the rag business," he said.
Bernstein is up to several hundred shirts by now, but says he doesn't want any more requests, which is why we're not printing his e-mail address.
Tayoun: Sales pitch
Obama's Pennsylvania political director, Kevin Washo, was sipping on a beer at the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee dinner Monday night, when someone introduced him to former Councilman and ward leader Jimmy Tayoun, now publisher of the weekly paper ThePublic Record.
"Will you guys buy a friggin' ad in my newspaper?" Tayoun said, as he shook Washo's hand. "Every committeeman in the city gets a copy of it."
We checked in with Tayoun at week's end, and he's still got zippo from the Big O.
Goo-goo: Street money is good
Ward leaders aren't the only ones who think Obama should pay "street money" to Philly's Democratic organization for Election Day turnout.
Marc Stier, a former City Council candidate and good-government type who's active in Neighborhood Network - a grassroots organization that many ward leaders regard as a threat - says that Obama should pay the machine.
"We're seeing an enormous number of Obama volunteers coming here who don't know the territory they're working," Stier said. "They don't know much about the voters they're talking to, and they don't know practical things, like where to rent a room for canvassers, something a ward leader can help with."
Stier said that it's true that most voters don't seek ward leaders' advice on presidential votes, but "in some parts of the city where voters may be a little uncertain, a word from a committee person they've known for years can make a difference."
O'Brien: A Repubmocrat?
When party chairman Bob Brady called Democratic candidates up to the stage at Monday's party pep rally, Clout did a double-take.
Is that House Speaker Dennis O'Brien, a Republican, up there?
Indeed.
Turns out that while running unopposed in the Republican primary in April, O'Brien also ran a successful write-in campaign to get on the Democratic ballot, too. So he's technically a Democratic candidate.
Does that mean O'Brien, who was also elected speaker with Democratic support, backs Obama? O'Brien would say only that he's "a proud Republican." *
So you're saying Obama wore the same diaper for the prior three weeks?
There is also a record of a “Barrack Hussein Mohamed Obama” born on 23 August 1961 in Canada...
And I believe that it has been shown that the two are not connected.
“I wonder if someone could order a few certificates with serial numbers in sequence just before and after Obama’s. While they are at it, order one with Obama’s exact number as well and see what you get.”
Dunno, it would probably be hard to do since 0bama blanked out his certificate number.
My thoughts exactly. This conspiracy business is so seductive but I think we could really regret listening to a 911 "Truther".
Look at it from the viewpoint of parents and grandparents in 1961, without a crystal ball. WW2 and Korea was just a few years in their past. They would have seen a significant probability of a war with the USSR at some point in the future. In that world, having a son with Kenyan citizenship might not seem such a bad idea.
The birth announcement supposedly came from the Honolulu Advertiser.
Thanks!
I just cite ‘em, I don’t write ‘em. Blake clearly stated in an interview that Stanley Ann did not know how to change a diaper.
And does that make sense to you?
If Barack’s mother wanted him to be a U.S. citizen, she and her family would have a reason to leave out the part about beiung born in Kenya.
Obama's real mother:
Yes, being a new mother, if she wasn’t properly taught to change one, maybe she was doing it wrong. I just don’t take the giant leap in logic that she didn’t change it that you do.
The address listed in the birth announcement is NOT associated with the Dunhams or Obama Sr. The Dunhams lived first in a “large house on Kamehameha Ave.” then in “a modest wooden house on University Ave. near Kamanele Park” before moving to “the 10th floor apartment at 16175 Beretania St” where Madelyn Dunham has lived for the past 40 years. Obama Sr. lived at the Atherton Y.M.C.A. before moving to a “small house in St. Louis Heights(which was torn down before Sr’s visit in 1971(as per Jr’s book)
The house at 6085 Kalanianaole Hwy is a 5 bedroom, 2 bathroom home in a very high rent district. I invite you to go to google maps and plug in University Of Hawaii at Manoa then plug in the addresses one at a time making sure you stipulate Oahu. You will notice all the addresses are within a mile of the University with the exception of the birth announcement address which is approximately 7 miles in the opposite direction of the others! Ask yourself where all the pictures are of the infant Obama too!
The information for the addresses was found in various articles by “The Honolulu Advertiser” found in their special Obama section.
And I'm assuming that after three weeks she would have figured out how to slap a diaper on the kid. It isn't rocket science. Fold it into a triangle, tuck once tip between the kids legs, wrap the other two around his waist, pin securely. How do you screw that up?
Well, from all accounts, she wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer...
That could well be true.Some countries don't recognize/allow dual citizenship.And it's also possible that he was required to renounce his US citizenship before an official of the Indonesian government,by that government,in order to obtain Indonesian citizenship.But among the many rulings that the Federal courts (including the SCOTUS) have made on the subject of citizenship in the last 40+ years is that "renunciation" of one's US citizenship before an official of a *foreign* government has no bearing...does not affect in any way....that person's being recognized as a US citizen by the US Government.
Remember that African sensibilities differ from Western culture. It's not unusual there for a woman to give birth and immediately return to her normal routine.
Note that an old friend in the Seattle area (where Stanley Ann attended high school) said she met Stanley Ann with her newborn there about that time. The route from Kenya to Hawaii could very well have involved a stopover in Seattle, as it was on the BOAC route at the time.
Also, the birth announcement in the Hawaii newspaper - if legit - could have been placed by Stanley Ann's parents, the Dunhams, after receiving the news of the birth but before she got home to Hawaii with the newborn.
Doesn't matter. Obama wouldn't be taking the Oath of Office until January, plenty of time to rule him ineligible...or illegitimate (LOL).
The writer is incorrect. The supposed birth announcement does not mention the place of birth.
Furthermore, there appears to be no record in any Honolulu hospital at the time regarding Stanley Ann or baby Barack.
The more interesting stuff here is the conflicts between the Philly machine and Obama’s outside ground game. Wonder what all that’s about? Sounds to me like Obama doesn’t trust the Philly machine to turn votes out for him so he’s not providing the walking around money.
Hmmm.....
Read the article. Birth records are not public in Hawaii. As for listing a birth in the paper one could do that as easily as having an obituary or a engagement/marriage listed. They don't have to come from any government agency.
As I recall Berg's allegation is that Obama was born in Kenya--witnessed by his paternal grandmother--and was brought to Hawaii soon after by his maternal grandmother. For all we know he's giving Granny the third-degree right now about what the hell actually happened. BTW...a lot of people said there was no there there when the Swift Boat allegations came along...not to mention Lewinsky, Loral, Whitewater, etc. I wouldn't be so dismissive.
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