Posted on 03/05/2009 4:03:57 PM PST by AJ in NYC
A federal judge on Thursday threw out a lawsuit questioning President Barack Obama's citizenship, lambasting the case as a waste of the court's time and suggesting the plaintiff's attorney may have to compensate the president's lawyer. In an argument popular on the Internet and taken seriously practically nowhere else, Obama's critics argue he is ineligible to be president because he is not a "natural-born citizen" as the Constitution requires. In response last summer, Obama's campaign posted his Hawaiian birth certificate on its Web site. But the lawsuit argues it is a fake and that Obama was actually born in his father's homeland of Kenya, even though Hawaiian officials have said the document is authentic. "This case, if it were allowed to proceed, would deserve mention in one of those books that seek to prove that the law is foolish or that America has too many lawyers with not enough to do," U.S. District Judge James Robertson said in his written opinion. The lawsuit didn't even use Obama's legal name but called him "Barry Soetoro," the name he went by while attending elementary school in Indonesia. It's one of many that has been filed claiming Obama is ineligible to serve as president. Robertson ordered plaintiff's attorney John Hemenway of Colorado Springs, Colo., to show why he hasn't violated court rules barring frivolous and harassing cases and shouldn't have to pay Obama's attorney, Bob Bauer, for his time arguing that the case should be thrown out.
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Now why did I already have that thought? < / sarc
Obama? We are not sure, since he will not provide us with much documentation.
Q.E.D.= A Buffoon that cares not a naught about Justice! just pay back to the Bent One!
“..lambasting the case as a waste of the court’s time..”
The welfare of this nation may be in the balance, and this judge calls the case of locating Obama’s valid birth certificate a waste of the court’s time? He must not have a high regard for this country.
it’s only been 6 weeks *shruggs*
Because they do not want the possibility for the sh*t to hit the fan should it be determined that there is a usurper occupying the WH.
We have truly been taken over by communists folks. We are serfs and nothing more.
I have been living an illusion my whole life.
Kind of a smart ass retort, wouldn't you say?
Ever hear of split loyalties and what the founding fathers had to say about it?
My list keeps growing!
I'm much more inclined to believe Obama's advancedments would be directed at a less, um, feminine target - if you know what I mean?
I’ll pass..*grins*
That was pretty rude, espcially considering that you are wrong.
His mother was not old enough to confer U.S. citizenship on her son if he was not born here, according to the law at that time.
Your an IDIOT!!!
“This law suit was brought by total kooks and this lawyer will be sanctioned under rule 11 with a mighty and swift blow to his pocket book. No doubt.”
Do you know where Barack Obama was born? If so, that makes one of us.
,,,lambasting the case
Why am I not surprised?
They must protect the One. A little misdirection is ok if it’s for the good of the nation./s
The leftists don’t call it lying but we do.
Welcome to FR
Yes, that’s what I understood as well.
All the Marxist Onada has to do is post the birth certificate declaring where he was born and this all goes away. He has not done it and that is why there are law suits. The left is always unhappy when it’s word is not accepted at face value.
The Messiah wants desperately for this to go away—as do his supplicants.
So does his father being a Kenyan.
True Definition of Natural Born Citizen
Read, listen and get educated.
LOL
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