Posted on 12/05/2008 10:18:12 AM PST by STARWISE
Four days ago, Roger Bredow uploaded a video to YouTube beseeching like-minded people to come to Washington, D.C. and stand with him outside the Supreme Court.
"[Barack] Obama was born a dual citizen," Bredow said, "British, and a citizen of the United States, at birth." This, said Bredow, meant that the president-elect could never take the oath of office.
And on Friday, the Supreme Court would read Donofrio v. Wells, a suit brought by a New Jersey poker player against his state elections officer, which laid out the charges in the hopes of nullifying the election.
Today at 8 a.m., they came.
"If I'm going to be honest with you," said Bredow, sporting a floppy American flag hat that he'd promised on YouTube he'd be wearing, "I thought I might be the only person here."
He had flown in from Georgia. The other fifteen to twenty people who cycled in and out of the small protest had traveled shorter distances—southern Pennsylvania, northern Virginia—but they felt they had to do something.
The "dual born citizen" claim is the latest (and maybe strongest) attempt by Obama conspiracy theorists to argue that he can't be president, but most of the people I talked to had questioned Obama's citizenship long before this.
"I first heard about it from Phil Berg's case," said Julie Menge of Williamsburg, Virginia, referring to a case that alleges, among other things, that a 2007 state of Hawaii reproduction of Obama's birth certification is forged, and that Obama's paternal Kenyan step-grandmother Sarah was in the room when he was born.
One protestor claimed that a mysterious Muslim imam blessed Obama's birth in Kenya, and that this fact would eventually be revealed, somehow. (He cited African Press International, a bizarre web site that claims it has, but will not make public, a tape of Michelle Obama ranting about racist media coverage of her husband.)
At 9 a.m., a black minister who would only give his name as Brother Pittman led a prayer circle and a recitation of the pledge of allegiance. Pittman, who lives in Silver Spring, came as a "representative of the Rev. James David Manning," a Harlem preacher who became an Internet legend for a February sermon in which he called Obama a "long-legged mack daddy" who was "born trash."
"I've been shunned by members of my own family," Pittman said. "I tell them, do the research! Go online and look up the facts! This is all about openness and why Barack Obama won't answer questions about who he is."
There's nothing new at all about small, strange protests outside the court, whether or not the justices are at work.
While the Obama protestors were praying, a group of 16 young Christians walked up to the other side of the Court steps, strumming a guitar and lighting candles before holding a pro-life prayer vigil.
Police and tourists looked on and a very small group of journalists grabbed the Obama protestors for interviews. "This story is writing itself," said a Mother Jones reporter as he filmed the prayer circle.
The Supreme Court will announce whether it will actually consider the Obama lawsuit as early as today and as late as Monday.
If (as expected) the Court tosses the suit, Bredow will start challenging Obama's legitimacy based on "foreign money that went into his campaign."
Other protestors said they'd start contacting members of the Electoral College. Steve Brindle, who drove down from Pennsylvania, said he'd called his senators yesterday.
"There aren't a lot of people out here today," said Brindle. "There are a lot of people talking about this back home. Really, everyone's asking questions."
You two are right, thanks for the laugh!
If the NJ electors are kicked out, then so should all the electors in states were ineligible candidates ran for office.
The nicaraguan socialist was on the ballot in about 10 states.
Totally concurring with you.
You'd rather have 0bama as president than McCain?
I'm saving your screen name for future reference.
I’m with both of you. It’s sad, truly sad.
I am not trying to ridicule anyone for being concerned about the issue of citizenship but I do think it is too late to bring these suits. This should have been done a year ago, first by Hillary and then by McCain. They both blew it and Obama was elected by a substantial majority. I think this should be an issue in Obama's reelection with an emphasis placed on Obama's secrecy and failure to provide pertinent documentation of his birth and life.
No matter what happens, God bless those people for having the GUTS to travel there and pray for America.
Heros, every one of those protesting are heros. Whether there are 10 or 10,000...they made the effort and I congratulate them all. They are Patriots. God bless ‘em as they do the Lord’s work today.
Most FReepers also can't come to the conclusion that this is a lost nation & soon become a 3rd world nation. I see it dividing into probably 3 regions. Yes, the leftist have won - all because conservatives sat on their arses & allowed it. The Treasury, The Fed & puppet Bush along with the decrpit Congress just took away your financial freedoms & NOBODY complained passed an E-Mail. I wonder what Alexander Sohlzenicha (sp)would say today if he were alive.
I agree.
I voted against Obama but I can make a case for Obama being better for conservatives in the big picture. McCain would have been terrible. He is a socialist too, as demonstrated by his lame-o response to the "credit crisis". Every screw up by the perpetual screw up McCain would have been cited as an example of what is wrong with conservatism. Bush made several mistakes by abandoning conservative principles and in that sense McCain would have been like having a third Bush term. President Bush set the conservative movement back almost to the degree of damage done by Richard Nixon. I think President Bush is probably a nice man but he made some huge errors.
That’s one thing you’d rarely see at a liberal protest - prayer.
“Pretty impressive crowd...”
All of 20 if that?
They don’t look so crazy to me. As a matter of fact, they look just like ordinary, down-to-earth, sincere Americans. How refreshing!
Why are you pinging a bunch of people because this person has stated McCain will not be POTUS? I think the person meant REALITY. No one knows what will happen but the dems will get to decide IF SCOTUS gets involved. That is reality. If the person is an Obama loving troll ignore them but pinging a gang to them makes you and this site look bad.
For the millionth time, McCain was born in Colon, Republic of Panama, and not in the Canal Zone.
You don’t read do you?
Not at all. My point is that the citizenship issue notwithstanding, the election is over.
My feeling on the citizenship question is that it SHOULD be heard by SCOTUS. However, what SHOULD happen may end up being totally different than what WILL happen. (if the Messiah’s citizenship is legitimate, then why isn’t he producing actual legitimate proof?)
The Republicans failed to nominate a true Republican and true Conservative; that is why we lost. Time to move on and prepare for the future.
Sure to make headlines.
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