PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging Barack Obama's qualifications to be president.
U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick on Friday night rejected the suit by attorney Philip J. Berg, who alleged that Obama was not a U.S. citizen and therefore ineligible for the presidency. Berg claimed that Obama is either a citizen of his father's native Kenya or became a citizen of Indonesia after he moved there as a boy.
Obama was born in Hawaii to an American mother and a Kenyan father. His parents divorced and his mother married an Indonesian man.
Internet-fueled conspiracy theories question whether Obama is a "natural-born citizen" as required by the Constitution for a presidential candidate and whether he lost his citizenship while living abroad.
Surrick ruled that Berg lacked standing to bring the case, saying any harm from an allegedly ineligible candidate was "too vague and its effects too attenuated to confer standing on any and all voters."
Z: Can someone please tell me how a Democrat like Berg, a man of some renown, 'lacks standing'? What STANDING does he need? Would I have to be killed in the holocaust to have been a lawyer bringing NAZIS to justice in Nuremberg??
How is that first quote in GREEN given so unequivocally? Is this written by Keith Olbermann or something? WHAT??
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i love your title...
kw
This was predictable.
And Z, It's not over yet.
Pris
Gargage in garbage out.
When are we all going to get it through our heads that Obama has been ANOINTED by the Shadow Government of International Bigwigs that REALLY control the world?
The USA has been a FARCICAL entity since the end of Ronald Reagan's presidency. Effectively, we don't really EXIST anymore. We belong now to International Corporate elites, International Bankers and the UN.
Get ready for your RE-EDUCATION. It's coming and there's NO PLACE to run or hide.
J.J.J. Schmidt
I still think this is going to be a close election. McCain may not pull it out but he'll make Obama work for it. Keep the faith, dear one.
SORRY.........I rethought my title, and should change it because I don't feel we are really THAT 'done'! I do think we still have a very good chance...very good.
But, I'll leave it..(thanks, kris)
Pris..you bet...what's predictable, though, is that line in green...as IF there's no question; as if the LEFT KNOWS BETTER.
JJJ...we either get 'reeducated' or 25 million of us die, did you see that video by a Weatherman, too?
karen, thank you....that's very reassuring. I appreciate your kindness.
I THINK I WILL ADD SOMETHING TO MY TITLE, COME TO THINK OF IT..!!!
Berg has said if it got shot down here, he would continue fighting it, possibly to the Supreme Court, depending on when th ruling came out. I have his clip on my sidebar if anyone is interested.
How about this Z?
"Berg's lawsuit is in neutral folks, but Sarah Palin isn't! I'm counting on her! Full steam ahead Sarah!!"
Surrick ruled that Berg lacked standing to bring the case, saying any harm from an allegedly ineligible candidate was "too vague and its effects too attenuated to confer standing on any and all voters."
I'm no lawyer, but what this appears to mean is that it is not in the interests of the United States to require adherence to the United States Constitution, especially since even if Obama was ineligible, no American can demonstrate he or she was harmed by his election.
I'm not sure Berg was wrapped very tightly to begin with, otherwise I would have expected to see forty-jillion 503 organizations joining the lawsuit. On the other hand, I think that qualifying documents should be a matter of public record, and accessible to the public as such.
Is there a lawyer in the house? house? house?
Okay, at least someone please turn on the lights!
I wonder if along with measuring the windows for curtains the Obama's are having custom Constitution toilet paper made to wipe their asses with. That's obviously all they think the Constitution that the best of us have fought and died for is worth.
AA..I like it!
Mustang...My deeper feeling were along those lines; if Berg's case was that airtight, we needed more information, too.
The ONLY thing Americans DESERVE is a bona fide, unequivocal, definitely TRUE birth certificate. The one(s) in existance have tons of discrepencies and holes in them.
One of the commenters here's brother was born in Hawaii very much around the time Obama was; the birth certificate was a totally different color!
But...we can't ask, can't even sue for proof.
With Obama, it's not "don't ask, don't tell" it's "don't ask, go to hell"
Pops, good point. disgusting, isn't it?
I'd rather see Barack Obama be the first Indonesian citizen to lose the US Presidential election than have him win it and try to convince our military sworn to uphold and defend our Constitution that he's their commander-in-chief.
I never doubted that Obama was born in Hawaii. But now the Lib talk radio shows (the few that have survived) are suggesting that McCain is not a citizen because he was born on a U.S. in a foreign land. Big dumb idiots.
McCain was born in Panama. He came forward in the very beginning and cleared everything up. Why can't the asswipe do the same? Just show a piece of paper and put all this bullshit behind him. The obvious reason is that he can't! ANY answer would be better than NO answer!
Justice is dying along with truth. But then many of us had the feeling that this judge would not allow the truth to prevail. I wonder if they would have allowed an exposition of the fact that Obama was an axe murderer? The good thing is that the case at least got some publicity and hopefully will cause some to consider the depravity of a system which would ignore the legality of someone's candidacy whilst complaining bitterly about Sarah Palin's so-called trooper gate. Obama's many corruptions make anything she has done look completely insignificant. Up is down.
any harm from an allegedly ineligible candidate was "too vague..."'
Say goodbye to the Constitution!
oh, MAN, beamish, that's for sure...imagine? I swear SOMEONE in the armed services is going to trip him SOMEWHERE. I hope it's caught on tape.
Pasadena and Average American (which you are NOT, Average!)...isn't it amazing? The Obama Media is SO SO slimey and SO SO dishonest. Average, for some reason, your swearing around here cracks me UP because you're so reasoned otherwise...you keep me laughing!
Aurora....I know your mom's American, but it always humbles me that you and MK 'get America' so well and care so much. Here's to you, kiddo. Go put another Ken on the Barbie (Smile!)
AOW..as Beamish SO funnily said the other day....there are last vestiges of the constitution the Dems are FINALLY going to put an end to forever; they've been working at it for years, now the final bell is tolling.
And we ALL know it's WE for whom the bell is tolling. (Sorry, Ernest, I'm not sure that grammar works, but you get what I mean...I wonder if Hemingway was a Republican!!? !)
I find the Indonesian passport to be even more problematic.
It seems Obama traveled on his Indonesian passport in 1982 at the age of 20.
The problem is,not being born in Indonesia and not having an Indonesian biological parent, how did he receive citizenship allowing for an Indonesian Passport? Some will say, Oh he was 6 yrs.old at the time. BUT he was 20 in 1982. He had to have been an Indonesian citizen to get a passport..right????
Would that not cause him to default his American citizenship? I do not know the laws in Indonesia, but would like to find out.
This just in:
(CNN) – Elizabeth Hasselbeck, the lone conservative on the daytime talk-show "The View," is set to campaign with Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin this weekend.
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The mind simply boggles.
Then the brain spins:
It's like Paris Hilton on a study date
With the Olsen twins.
Ducky, Elizabeth is a conservative allowed by our media to actually have a JOB, so she sure isn't a brain, and she sure doesn't stand up well enough to the thugs on THE VIEW (they can't have Coulter or any of the other fabulous conservative women commentators because even the thugs would never get away with their stuff), but she sure is with Palin. Who else is Palin going to get with that much of a name? Most conservatives don't get much play, so it wouldn't make sense.
Listen, it's better than Lindsay Lohan, a big fan of Obama's, or Britney Spear.....By the way, Lindsay Lohan WANTED to work with Obama and appear and the campaign turned her down, did you hear that? Happened early last week.
THAT is a bimbo. She makes Elisabeth look like a nuclear scientist.
Wonderful. We might get a President who might not be legally entitled to run, has or had another citizenship, and could NEVER EVER pass the formalities to get a security clearance. Any one of those would suffice to refuse this attempt. What has become of this great country?
But I guess, for certain groups of people laws do not mean anything anymore. These are the same people who accept the law breaking illegals in the country without penalty, and give each of them a welcome gift and continuous support, compliments of the law abiding, hard working tax payers in the country.
Pfui Teufel.
Mr.Z
If this had any merit the Republican National Committee would have brought suit.
They would be more likely to demonstrate a legitimate standing in the case.
... or the Clintons could have raked him over during the primary.
This is such a nothing.
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