[STARWISE]

Other interesting payments during the first three months of the year, the period covered by Wednesday's report, included $688,000 in legal fees to the firm of Bob Bauer —

the top lawyer for the campaign, the Democratic National Committee, the Obama political group Organizing for America, and the Obama family...

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April 15, 2009 - Exclusive: Obama Attorney Threatens Distinguished Veteran on Obama Birth Certificate Issue: Why?

The president of the United States is threatening sanctions – and the word “sanctions” is used in the threat -- against attorney John Hemenway. Read on.]

After the flippant dismissal by U.S. Circuit Court Judge James Robertson of the lawsuit to attempt to determine whether Barack Obama is constitutionally eligible to serve as President, D.C. attorney John Hemenway received a letter from a lawyer representing Barack Obama and Joe Biden, his Vice President. (Hemenway had joined the suit launched by Hillary Clinton's ally, Philip Berg, the former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania and attorney Lawrence Joyce of Arizona, in an attempt to force President Obama to disclose his birth records, currently being protected against public scrutiny by the Obama legal team at a reported cost of as much as one million dollars.)

The entire letter , written by Obama attorney Robert F. Bauer, states the following (and we note that there is no reference in this letter to an existing valid Birth Certificate for Barack Obama, as opposed to a Certificate of Live Birth, and there is no claim that a valid Birth certificate exists which can be shown to the American people, an act that immediately would shut down this query):

“I represent President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden. I write to request that, in light of the District Court’s March 24, 2009 Rule 11 order in Hollister v. Soetoro, No. 08-2254, you withdraw the appeal filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, No. 09-5080. For the reasons stated in Judge Robertson’s order, the suit is frivolous and should not be pursued.

Should you decline to withdraw this frivolous appeal, please be informed that we intend to pursue sanctions, including costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees, pursuant to federal Rule Appellate Procedure 38 and D.C. Circuit Rule 38.”

Mr. Hemenway's response to the letter was a promise to "write and protest and attack those against the demand that Obama show proof of his birth, and I will continue to do anything I can think of doing that might perhaps deter or injure those who are opposed to “transparency” and “openness” and honesty in governmental operations—all those good and vague promises that Obama threw out in speeches read from his teleprompter."

Mr. Hemenway added, "The lawyer for Obama, Robert Bauer, has abused his privileges as an attorney, because I can regard his premature (and totally inaccurate) threats to seek some sanction against me as a threat to keep me from performing my duty to my client.

It won’t work and he will soon see that it has not worked to intimidate me." In his opinion, "many judges and other officials are simply crassly violating their oaths of office.

Since I had been in the Department of State and served in Moscow for two years, I am mindful of an expression used by the Russians: “Nada dakazat’ kulak!” (You must show them your fist!)"

Hemenway also pledged:

“…to appeal the slap taken at me (the so-called “reprimand”) by Judge James Robertson who tried unsuccessfully to label our efforts as “frivolous” but who did not have the guts to sanction me under Rule 11. (This would have given me—and others engaged in this important battle —standing in the Court of Appeals.) I will do my duty to Colonel Hollister, who technically is a client, even though I never agreed initially to follow the case in the Court of Appeals.

The military, as Colonel Hollister's interest demonstrates, is quite concerned with the basic issue of ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ orders originating from a ‘legitimate’ or ‘illegitimate’ commander-in-chief. Recall that Judge Robertson never did admit attorneys Berg or Joyce to practice in his court, never had a hearing and never examined evidence because he didn't seek any.

The Judge gave the impression that his decision was predicated solely on ‘blogging and twittering’.“

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[STARWISE]

~~DING!

[shield]

He’s a little pissant............

[EagleUSA]

Is there a judge that is not intimidated by this obvious fraud?? The sheer fact that Obama will NOT PROVE his eligibility is testimony to his fraud. And look at how much of OUR MONEY he is spending to hide his true birth identity. His first attempt at providing fraudulent (fake) documents was quickly uncovered.

And WHY has the SCOTUS refused to hear any of the numerous cases put before on this matter? How much complicity is there in this cover-up?? And all these people took an oath swearing to UPHOLD AND PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION.

[LibertyRocks]

So, if that’s the amount he has spent on just ONE lawyer, for just ONE case it looks like the comment of “SPENT MILLIONS” is pretty dang accurate after all, isn’t it?

How many cases name him specifically — it’s easy to do that math, and that’s just what he’s spent in the last 3-5 months. These cases began almost a YEAR ago!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

... including $684,000 on telemarketing and print and online advertising...

Most of that for online trolling against Conservative politicians like Sarah Palin, as any Youtube or news paper comment board will attest.

[appleseed]

One thing 0bama enablers has always brought up is proof he is spending hundreds of thousands on lawyers to hide his elegibility. I think that has been proven by this thread.

[StarFan]

Does anyone else find this confusing. In first paragraph it states:

"Plus the campaign committee is no longer raising money; it came into the year with $18.3 million in the bank and finished the first quarter with $10 million on hand.

In essence, as of March 31st, it had $10 million on hand. Yet reading further it states:

"At the end of last month, it was carrying $329,000 in debt, including $15,300 to the former firm of White House political guru David Axelrod.

Aren't they reporting the same time period, i.e., March 31, 2009 yet with different results?

[river rat]

Clearly - the black racist, Communist and Muslim denier has MUCH to hide —— including the circumstances of his birth..

[OL Hickory]

688K VS 20.00 for a certified copy....

Boy our we screwed if this is any indication of anymore future economic policies

[aclusux.com]

“The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.”
Theodore H. White

[Red Steel]

Related thread here:

Obama's Campaign paid $688,000 to attorney who threatened sanctions in eligibility lawsuit
| 04/18/2009 | Polarik

[retrogo]

I still get emails from barackobama.com asking for donations and it’s been averaging about once a week since election day. You would think that would have ended with the election but it didn’t.

[IrishCatholic]

Well, what do you know? Quite a lot of money for a $12 birth certificate.

[kalee]

for later reading

[IrishCatholic]

Oh, almost forgot.
Jim doesn't like Birthers.
Says Obama hasn't paid a dime to defend the lawsuits. I offered the following:

“Uhm, who do you think is in court? Maybe lawyers? Do you think they showed up because they had nothing better to do? In the run up to the elections, who filed to have the cases dismissed? Hang, on, I'll try and do your work for you and Google something..........
No, a lot of references to thirteen cases filed and unsupported reports of $800,000, but no original links or even names of the lawyers or firms.
I'll bookmark this for later because it is interesting. Thirteen cases with thirteen lawyers filing papers and responses. That probably IS a lot of money. If I do find out it has been hundreds of thousands of dollars and I have to do all the work for you, will you give a donation to Free Republic? Say $25 the admin moderator can verify?
Seems reasonable.”

Jim ducked and dodged and never accepted the challenge, or at least he never replied to third time it was repeated. I guess I can't hold him to anything as I didn't have to do the research. I still am a week away from tracking all the cases.

Hey, Jim, now you can say you read about it.

[SunkenCiv]

$310,000 on payroll and taxes

Wow, it paid taxes? Someone on the staff must have screwed up.

[True Republican Patriot]

Can anyone confirm or verify whether or NOT ZERO Obama still is a Member of the Bar in Illinois or any other Bar in the “57” States and or D.C.? There is documentation that Michelle gave up her License only 5 years after receiving it
in order to prevent further proceedings. Information appears to demonstrate that Mr. Obama is no longer a member of the Bar. If that is true, and it may well be not, it may have serious significance! ZERO and his Associates are spending tons of Millions to hide ZERO’S $13.50 Birth Certificate, while the DNC ran Sen. McCain thru the wringer on HIS Legitimate One and his 13,000 pages of medical history verses ZERO’S single one paragraph Doctor’s note.!
Something stinks the High Heavens! and it aint Greenhouse Gases!:-(

[luvie]

Is that legal?

I truly don’t know......

Of course, it’s like no one cares (but us!)

[visualops]

Just read this:

Obama: "To move forward, we cannot let ourselves be prisoners of past disagreements. I'm grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old. Too often, an opportunity to build a fresh partnership of the Americas has been undermined by stale debates. We've all heard these arguments before."

Actually, the president misspoke on the sequence of events in Cuba. The invasion of CIA-trained rebels at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba occurred in April 1961. Obama was born August 4, 1961.

Slip of the tongue or just didn't know the date of the Bay of Pigs?
What would it do to the time line if he had been born in January rather than August?

[OafOfOffice]

See the Missouri college on this report? Then if you go back to 2008 final you see another Missouri college vendor debt.

Is this the debt obama incurred for his campaign speeches? Or was this pay to play for Missouri’s AG’s truth squads protecting obama?

I am also very interested in the Reno cashier vendor. Reno you go to do funny money business. The business license laws are very lax and people go their to hide. Lots to look up.

obama is a thug. he is the worst kind of thug to threaten a military veteran who ask a simple document be released.

The threat of course is what obama has been having done lately and that is ask the court to have the plaintiff pay all fees. Eventually obama will have all lawsuits thrown out as frivolous. It is only time and the judges will oblige.

I would never pay a dime until obama shows the document. the court has no proof for their judgements so they cannot rule one party is right or wrong.