Obama Citizenship Still Not Settled

A friend of mine sent me this article and asked me to repost it.

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One of the original legal challenges to President-elect Barack Obama's eligibility for office to reach the U.S. Supreme Court now has been scheduled for a conference, a meeting at which the justices discuss its merits and whether to step into the fray.


Online schedules posted by the court show the case brought by attorney Philip J. Berg is set for a conference Jan. 9.


The case is one among several that already have reached the U.S. Supreme Court and address the issue of Obama's eligibility to occupy the Oval Office under the U.S. Constitution's requirement that presidents be "natural born" citizens.


Berg has submitted several requests for injunctions, seeking the court's order to stay proceedings in the electoral process until his case is heard, but the request have been rejected.


His original claim, however, remains on track to be heard.






"I know that Mr.
Obama is not a constitutionally qualified natural born citizen and is ineligible to assume the office of president of the United States," Berg said in a statement on his ObamaCrimes. com website.


"Obama knows he is not 'natural born' as he knows where he was born and he knows he was adopted in Indonesia; Obama is an attorney, Harvard Law grad who taught Constitutional law; Obama knows his candidacy is the largest 'hoax' attempted on the citizens of the United States in over 200 years; Obama places our Constitution in a 'crisis' situation; and Obama is in a situation where he can be blackmailed by leaders around the world who know Obama is not qualified," Berg's statement continued.



Supreme Court docketing information


The justices already have discussed two cases in conference but refused to give them further hearings.


WND previously reported on cases brought by Cort Wrotnowski and Leo Donofrio that both challenged Obama on allegations that dual citizenship based on a father who was a British subject and a mother who was an American minor disqualified him from office. Both, however, were turned back by the Supreme Court.



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As WND has reported, more than a dozen lawsuits have been filed over Obama's eligibility to assume the office of the president. Many have been dismissed while others remain pending.


The cases, in various ways, have alleged Obama does not meet the "natural born citizen" clause of the U.S. Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, which reads, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.
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Some of the legal challenges have alleged Obama was not born in Hawaii, as he insists, but in Kenya. Obama's American mother, the suits contend, was too young at the time of his birth to confer American citizenship to her son under the law at the time.


Other challenges have focused on Obama's citizenship through his father, a Kenyan subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom at the time of his birth, thus making him a dual citizen. The cases contend the framers of the Constitution excluded dual citizens from qualifying as natural born.


Several details of Obama's past have added twists to the question of his eligibility and citizenship, including his family's move to Indonesia when he was a child, his travel to Pakistan in the '80s when such travel was forbidden to American citizens and conflicting reports from Obama's family about his place of birth.


Perhaps the most perplexing detail, however, has been Obama's refusal to allow the public release of a signed "vault" copy of his original birth certificate.


A partial listing and status update for several of the cases surrounding Obama's eligibility to serve as president is below:

Philip J. Berg, a Pennsylvania Democrat, demanded that the courts verify Obama's original birth certificate and other documents proving his American citizenship. Berg's latest appeal, requesting an injunction to stop the Electoral College from selecting the 44th president, was denied. But the conference on the case is set Jan. 9.



Leo Donofrio of New Jersey filed a lawsuit claiming Obama's dual citizenship disqualified him from serving as president. His case was considered in conference by the U.S. Supreme Court but denied a full hearing.


Cort Wrotnowski filed suit against Connecticut's secretary of state, making a similar argument to Donofrio. His case was considered in conference by the U.S. Supreme Court, but was denied a full hearing.


Former presidential candidate Alan Keyes headlines a list of people filing a suit in California, in a case handled by the United States Justice Foundation, that asks the secretary of state to refuse to allow the state's 55 Electoral College votes to be cast in the 2008 presidential election until Obama verifies his eligibility to hold the office. The case is pending, and lawyers are seeking the public's support.


Chicago attorney Andy Martin sought legal action requiring Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle to release Obama's vital statistics record. The case was dismissed by Hawaii Circuit Court Judge Bert Ayabe.



Lt. Col. Donald Sullivan sought a temporary restraining order to stop the Electoral College vote in North Carolina until Barack Obama's eligibility could be confirmed, alleging doubt about Obama's citizenship. His case was denied.



In Ohio, David M. Neal sued to force the secretary of state to request documents from the Federal Elections Commission, the Democratic National Committee, the Ohio Democratic Party and Obama to show the presidential candidate was born in Hawaii. The case was denied.



In Washington state, Steven Marquis sued the secretary of state seeking a determination on Obama's citizenship. The case was denied.



In Georgia, Rev. Tom Terry asked the state Supreme Court to authenticate Obama's birth certificate. His request for an injunction against Georgia's secretary of state was denied by Georgia Superior Court Judge Jerry W. Baxter.


California attorney Orly Taitz has brought a case, Lightfoot vs. Bowen, on behalf of Gail Lightfoot, the vice presidential candidate on the ballot with Ron Paul, four electors and two registered voters.



Private investigator Douglas Hagmann of HomelandSecurityUS. com reported earlier he found 13 cases challenging Obama's eligibility still active or semi-active.


Last month, WND reported the worries over a "constitutional crisis" that could loom over the issue of Obama's citizenship.


"Should Senator Obama be discovered, after he takes office, to be ineligible for the Office of President of the United States of America and, thereby, his election declared void," argues the Alan Keyes case pending in California, "Americans will suffer irreparable harm in that (a) usurper will be sitting as the President of the United States, and none of the treaties, laws, or executive orders signed by him will be valid or legal.
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With such high stakes, WND earlier launched a letter campaign to contact Electoral College members and urge them to review the controversy.


That followed a campaign that sent more than 60,000 letters by overnight delivery to the U.S. Supreme Court when one case contesting Obama's eligibility for the Oval Office was pending.


A separate petition, already signed by more than 185,000 also is ongoing asking authorities in the election to seek proof Obama was born in the U.S. or that he fulfills the "natural-born American" clause in the Constitution.


WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi had gone to both Kenya and Hawaii prior to the election to investigate issues surrounding Obama's birth. But his research and discoveries only raised more questions.


The biggest question was why, if a Hawaii birth certificate exists as his campaign has stated, Obama hasn't simply ordered it made available to settle the rumors.


The governor's office in Hawaii said there is a valid certificate but rejected requests for access and left ambiguous its origin: Does the certificate on file with the Department of Health indicate a Hawaii birth or was it generated after the Obama family registered a Kenyan birth in Hawaii?

Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro, has named two different Hawaii hospitals where Obama could have been born. There have been other allegations that Obama actually was born in Kenya during a time when his father was a British subject. A one point a Kenyan ambassador said Obama's birthplace in Kenya already was being recognized.

Rush and O'Reilly are Right

If you have ever listened to Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly or just about any of the major and not so major right wing political talk show host, writers, columnists and pundits then you would know that they really don't like liberals.

Rush has often said liberals are braid dead and O'Reilly has often accused them of being just plain dumb. I have often agreed with the saying "if you are not a liberal by the time you enter college then you have no heart. But if you are not a conservative by the time you are 30 then you have no brain."

It seems that a psychiatrist from from Washington D.C. has figured out that there is a medical problem with these people. The interesting thing is that this Medical Doctor is not tied to or affiliated with any right wing or right leaning organization. In fact this guy has a history of not being on the right side or an activist of any kind.

This guys name is Dr. Lyle Rossiter, JR. M.D. and he has written a book that explains what he describes is a mental disorder. The book is titled "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness." and it details his long history of observance and study and consultation with thousands of patients.

"A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do," he says. "A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation's citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do."

Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:

• creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
• satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;
  
• augmenting primitive feelings of envy;
  
• rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.

Now isn't this what we on the right have been saying for a least the last 45 to 50 years? Now it is taking a medical doctor to prove it to us. What will the left think about this? Can they be rational enough to seriously take a look at this problem? Will the health care solutions proposed by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama address this national mental health crisis?

If what Dr. Rossiter says is true, then we indeed have a mental health crisis on our hands and the government has a duty to do something about this crisis. I guess that means they will have to provide mental health coverage and treatment to all those who have this mental disorder. The only problem is, if they heal or cure these people then that means they will no longer be liberal and they will not think so irrationally.

That would mean the end of the Democrat party. I would think it is time that conservatives and Republicans should be shouting from the roof tops that this is a national mental health care crisis and they should demand that people be forced to get help.

Then again, the conservative view is every person has a choice and should be free to make that choice. So I guess that means this mental health care crisis will not be solved anytime soon. At least not as long as the Democrat Liberals have any power in the halls of government. Too bad. To have a potential cure to our troubles is nice and the future could be so bright. But this is one of those things I am sure the liberal press will bury.

Read more about it here:

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Lyle H Rossiter, JR., M.D.

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Liberty Mind

Security is coming for the Southern Border - of Mexico

OK, at first I thought this story was just not true. Then I did some digging. What I dug up was totally confounding and upsetting. I cannot believe that President Bush would even propose this or that anyone in Washington D.C. would even seriously consider it.

Rush Limbaugh was on this a few days ago.



Rush is not the only one on this. There are a number of reports and stories on this issue which leaves me to ask a simple question. Why isn't the main stream media on this story? Could it be that they don't want you, the American public to know? Of course that is their goal but some of their lesser outlets like those below, are spilling the beans.

Bear Creak Ledger

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Michelle Malkin

This is not a conservative idea. We need to be spending that money on securing OUR Southern border with Mexico. Hell, we know where all those Central American illegals are going. They are not staying in Mexico for long. They are just passing through because they are heading for our southern border and will end up in our southern states and then the rest of the country.

We need to secure our borders now.