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." *
After seeing post #49...NEVER MIND!
Obama's mother showed up in Washington state 3 weeks after his alleged August 8th, 1961 birth date. Susan Blake, friend of Obama’s mother from Mercer Island said she had to show Stanley Ann how to change his diaper. There is also a record of a “Barrack Hussein Mohamed Obama” born on 23 August 1961 in Canada...
“why aren’t Michelle and their daughters there too?”
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Not really, it doesn't state what hospital he was born in and as someone pointed out previously, the regs back then allowed for home/midwife assisted births. She could easily have caught a plane after his birth in Kenya and registered him as a newborn in Hawaii.
Those announcements have been public knowledge for months.
Forget faking it to ‘run for president’. How about faking it so he was a US citizen?
Nevertheless, I and most other observers believe it is entirely possible he was born in HI. The born in Kenya idea was not mine.
The only thing I know for sure is that his COLB is a forgery.
Oh that is a good one.
Mrs. Dunham has Osteoporosis, not Alzheimers.
Since she has no diagnosis of Alzheimers, it would be difficult for the DNC to float that rumor as a reason for the obviously apparent........................
ESTRANGEMENT of the Obama family from their beloved Grandmother.
Well, he coulda been born on a UFO, too.
That’s what I’m starting to think.
This cannot be pursued with only 10 days left. Like Rush says, that’s not gonna stop Obama, even if they can’t find a birth certificate.
I agree with that. I just don’t think there’s time left to run this down.
We’ll have to beat him on his plan to take my money and give it to a welfare client.
I’m much better at spending my money than some Washington social worker is.
Now reporting on another thread that she "reportedly" has advanced cancer. What ever diagnosis is convenient at the time...
"Grandma, say hi to Mr. Fluffy Pillow."
Well, the Berg lawsuit is pending, and 7 others have been filed.
Even if Obambi wins, we will not stop until we get the truth.
“Or...more plausibly....it’s possible that Hussein’s family,wanting to gain him recognition as a US citizen, planted a false announcement.”
But that goes out the window when sotero adopts little barry.
Barry wouldn’t have been allowed to go to school in Indonesia unless he was a citizen.
I think everyone is over thinking this announcement. Say he was born in Kenya, not sure any of the Dunhams or Obamas are thinking of citizenship. How about just proud parents or grandparents announcing a birth. The announcement does not seem to be an official record of birth that appear in some newspapers.
I fail to see how concentrating on this instead of burying it as the MSM has hurts us or makes Mc Can lose as long as we help McCain through contributions, working making calls and especially voting. It appears nothing will come of this but it has raised questions in many peoples minds. If we bury anything just because we don’t have the exact answer we want aren’t we actiong like the media?
Given the Leftie nature of the Dunhams, the ability of their grandson to avoid the draft by just going to Kenya for a couple of years must have occurred to them.
If Obama is disqualified now, a large number of his supporters will stay home, and be unmotivated to get out the vote for Hillary. It might even be the case that unrest would make opening the polls in the inner city problematic on Nov 4.
I don't think that matters.Due to a number of rulings by the SCOTUS in recent years it's very difficult for one to lose his/her US citizenship short of formally renouncing it before an official of the State Dept.It used to be fairly easy to lose it but not in the last 40-50 years.The Federal courts have,in recent years,upheld the concept of "dual citizenship" for US citizens,so being recognized by Indonesia as one of its citizens would not jeopardize his US citizenship.I could go on but I'll spare you the details.
Don’t get me wrong, if it is legitimate then I am all for bringing it up. I just don’t trust the other side right now and I am wondering if they are bringing up this smokescreen. Maybe I am giving the other side too much credit on creating smokescreens that take our eye off the ball.
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