A prominent Philadelphia attorney and Hillary Clinton supporter filed suit this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic National Committee and the Federal Election Commission. The action seeks an injunction preventing the senator from continuing his candidacy and a court order enjoining the DNC from nominating him next week, all on grounds that Sen. Obama is constitutionally ineligible to run for and hold the office of President of the United States.
Philip Berg, the filing attorney, is a former gubernatorial and senatorial candidate, former chair of the Democratic Party in Montgomery (PA) County, former member of the Democratic State Committee, and former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania. According to Berg, he filed the suit–just days before the DNC is to hold its nominating convention in Denver–for the health of the Democratic Party.
“I filed this action at this time,” Berg stated, “to avoid the obvious problems that will occur when the Republican Party raises these issues after Obama is nominated.”.
Berg cited a number of unanswered questions regarding the Illinois senator’s background, and in today’s lawsuit maintained that Sen. Obama is not a natural born U.S. citizen or that, if he ever was, he lost his citizenship when he was adopted in Indonesia. Berg also cites what he calls “dual loyalties” due to his citizenship and ties with Kenya and Indonesia.
Even if Sen. Obama can prove his U.S. citizenship, Berg stated, citing the senator’s use of a birth certificate from the state of Hawaii verified as a forgery by three independent document forensic experts, the issue of “multi-citizenship with responsibilities owed to and allegiance to other countries” remains on the table.
In the lawsuit, Berg states that Sen. Obama was born in Kenya, and not in Hawaii as the senator maintains. Before giving birth, according to the lawsuit, Obama’s mother traveled to Kenya with his father but was prevented from flying back to Hawaii because of the late stage of her pregnancy, “apparently a normal restriction to avoid births during a flight.” As Sen. Obama’s own paternal grandmother, half-brother and half-sister have also claimed, Berg maintains that Stanley Ann Dunham–Obama’s mother–gave birth to little Barack in Kenya and subsequently flew to Hawaii to register the birth.
Berg cites inconsistent accounts of Sen. Obama’s birth, including reports that he was born at two separate hospitals–Kapiolani Hospital and Queens Hospital–in Honolulu, as well a profound lack of birthing records for Stanley Ann Dunham, though simple “registry of birth” records for Barack Obama are available in a Hawaiian public records office.
Should Sen. Obama truly have been born in Kenya, Berg writes, the laws on the books at the time of his birth hold that U.S. citizenship may only pass to a child born overseas to a U.S. citizen parent and non-citizen parent if the former was at least 19 years of age. Sen. Obama’s mother was only 18 at the time. Therefore, because U.S. citizenship could not legally be passed on to him, Obama could not be registered as a “natural born” citizen and would therefore be ineligible to seek the presidency pursuant to Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution.
Innnnteresting.
I’m currently leaning towards this claim being bunk. However, I guess time will tell for certain.
This Olympic medal, Henry Cejudo said, is for every kid whose life seemed hopeless, who went to sleep hungry, whose parents couldn’t always buy food, let alone Christmas presents.
His medal, the one he wasn’t supposed to win so soon, so convincingly, proves to Cejudo that anyone can do what he wants, and at an early age, if only he wants it so badly nothing else matters. Even if the odds are overwhelming.
Cejudo, the 21-year-old mat prodigy who had never won a match in a world-level senior tournament before Beijing, won the gold medal at Olympic freestyle 55-kilogram (121 pound) wrestling Tuesday.
Two years after U.S. coach Kevin Jackson called him the future of wrestling, the future became the present in a dazzling four-match flurry, making Cejudo the youngest American to win an Olympic wrestling gold medal.
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The whiz kid won because he was every bit a wizard against wrestlers older and more wizened.
“This proves that whatever you want to do as an American, you can do it,” Cejudo said.
His parents were illegal immigrants from Mexico who met in Los Angeles. His mother had six kids, four with his father, Jorge, who was in and out of prison until dying of heart problems at age 44 last year. Cejudo never saw him after age 4.
The family was miserably poor, sometimes moving from apartment to apartment under the cover of night because they lacked rent money. His mom worked several jobs at a time, stealing home for a few hours to make sure her family wasn’t in trouble.
This kid makes me proud. While I still want our borders secured and sane immigration policies enforced, young Mr. Cejudo exemplifies the American dream. He embraced the opportunities here and overtly professes his love for our nation. Just because his parents broke our laws doesn’t mean any blame should be placed on him. I can appreciate that he’s proud of his heritage but puts his love of country first. Everyone born here has parents or ancestors that came from somewhere else, but we still come together to be Americans first. I’d like to see more people embrace that same idea. A child can’t choose where he or she is born. However, his love of our country, his dedication to achievement, and winning the gold medal representing the USA makes me damn proud of him and proud to be an American.
So government auditors have uncovered evidence of fraud in Medicare. Or rather, more fraud. The politicos lingering around Washington can barely keep a straight face as they claim to be shocked.
A draft report by the inspector general of Health and Human Services — circulating on Capitol Hill and leaked this week — determines that Medicare may have paid $2.8 billion in improper or fake claims for medical equipment in 2006. That’s an error rate of 31.5%, in a single corner of this colossal entitlement.
Could this possibly be because it’s a giant government-ran bureacracy swimming in red tape and fraud? Nahh. According to the Democrat perspective, it’s all Bush’s fault.
[Democrat Pete Stark] aims his real outrage at the Bush Administration, which says it has stepped up its efforts to combat fraud and reined it in more than the inspector general alleges. “To look better to the public, you cook the books,” Mr. Stark continued. “This agency is incompetent.”
I wonder who the Dems will blame eeeeeeverything on once Bush leaves office?
Joe Biden? Sheesh. While Obama is harping on ‘hope and change’ and labeling himself as a Washington outsider, he chooses a VP pick that is fully embedded in the Washington establishment. A running mate who’s been a Senator since 1973 isn’t exactly ‘change.’
As for ‘hope,’ I hope Joe Biden continues to make offhand comments like he’s famous for. Biden has previously made comment winners such as:
“In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7/11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.” - video link
When trying to explain why Iowa schools perform better than schools in Washington, DC, Biden said:
“There’s less than 1 percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than 4 or 5 percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you’re dealing with…” - Link
Hmm, what has Joe Biden said about John McCain and Obama’s experience?
So what would the ‘change’ be with Biden? His mind?
School officials in Fort Kent, Maine have apparently come up with a wacky idea to save money on fuel for the buses. They just won’t turn left. Uhh…Brilliant!(?)
Drivers in this northern Maine border town know during the school year Pleasant Street is anything but pleasant around 7:30 a.m. and again around 3 p.m. — peak times for traffic congestion near the high school, elementary school and university.
This year, following the lead of a national freight carrier, the SAD 27 board of directors has issued a voluntary call for all private and district bus drivers to modify their driving routes by making fewer left turns.
Moogy is about three years old and housetrained. His former owners foreclosed on their South Florida home and could no longer keep him, reports CBS station WFOR-TV in Miami.
Michelle Frier, adoption supervisor at the Wildlife Care Center, said “They were heartbroken - to have to give him up, and I think, he was heartbroken to be back here because he’s back in the barn.”
I think I could sum up a remedy to this situation with one word…
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