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." *
I’ll repeat my offer...I will go to Hawaii to check it out personally, if FR will pay for it! :) Why don’t we have a Hawaiin Freeper go down to the Newspaper’s offices and get it. How hard would that be? NOT AT ALL.
I don’t think you’re wrong. I have always felt that way about Bill Ayres. Our own Peter King, the currently the most powerful politician in NY, made a great show of his friendship with the reprehensible Gerry Adams (who made what Ayres did look like playing with matches), until enough people told him to cut it out after 9/11. By the Ayres logic, anybody who hung out with King or Adams prior to 9/11 needs to explain himself.
It could either be a fake or a copy of a draft order Berg submitted to the court, which the court has not acted on. Either way, it’s not a copy of a genuine order.
Even if Hillary filled in...the blacks will be so incensed they won’t go for her...and for those folks that have already voted for Obama, its no shew in that their votes will be counted for Hillary!
See my post #31.The deception could have been simply to increase his chances of being recognized as a US citizen.Back then,as opposed to now,citizenship laws were taken seriously in this country and little Hussein could have been deported if he was not,in fact,a US citizen.
I understand what you are saying. Based on what I am hearing, Berg will be releasing affidavits and audio recordings of the Grandmother in the next few days. I will make out the www and YouTube. More people will know about this by Monday including the middle “20”
Who in their right mind takes a plane ride from Kenya to Hawaii with a days-old newborn?
I don’t know quite what to make of this. The suit ends if Obama provides the court with the document. Why is it that he will allow the left wing factcheck.org to view, handle, and photograph it, but the court can’t see it?
When my daughter was 5 or 6, we kept her away from her grandmother because she was in the advanced stages of Alzheimers and her behavior was rather frightening at times. We wanted our daughter to remember grandma as she was in the past, not how she was currently. Anyone know if Obama's grandmother is having any issues in that department?
This is just one of many questions about Sen. Obama that go unanswered because of a dishonest media. It’s doubtful that any of them will be resolved in less than two weeks and I have no idea how it will affect the election.
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True enough.But there's the possibility of hospital records....assuming they haven't been destroyed.IMO,unless irrefutable proof of his having been born outside the US or his having somehow lost his US citizenship is presented then this thing ain't going nowhere....sadly.
Also the judge deciding the case is a Clinton appointee .
He’s only a couple of years older than me and I just got a certified copy of my BC last year.
One other thing. Has anyone even asked the name of the doctor who delivered him? That seems like it would be standard info on a birth certificate.
How about We The People do it for them?
This is also 1961. And how many stops and how many countries would they have had to pass through on their return trip? Had Obama been born in Kenya they would have had to register his birth with the U.S. embassy in order to get documents to bring the baby through all these countries and back into the U.S.
I saw it and looked it over. It’s not dated or signed, but then many of the filings included there are not. Could be a hoax, but I can’t imagine Berg doing something so stupid.
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