Obama Citizenship Lawsuits Sweep US

A wave of state lawsuits challenging Obama's claims to US citizenship are sweeping across the United States, as the campaign enters its final days. The surprise move comes after Obama and the Democratic Party refused to give any evidence to a Federal court, following legal action challenging Obama's citizenship and eligibility to run for president.

Lawsuits have been filed in nine states at the time of writing – Hawaii, Washington, California, Florida, Georgia. Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut and Ohio. Could this be McCain's 'October Surprise'?

All the lawsuits are: "Seeking to Require Barack Obama to Provide Certification of Birth in U.S. before the Presidential election Or Be Removed as Presidential Candidate on State Ballots."

The lawsuits are similar to the action brought by Democrat lawyer, Philip Berg, reported by the Orange Party in August, which has failed to force Obama to produce official documentary evidence in court. 

Now lawyers and Berg on his website argue because Obama has not responded to the lawsuit with evidence to the contrary, that legally means the allegations are true.

Obama's claim to US citizenship may have been blown out of the water with a radio revelation that his own grandmother said she was there at his birth in Kenya, not Hawaii. 

That revelation came in an interview with Berg by controversial Republican talk-radio host,  Michael Savage, on his The Savage Nation radio show last week.

Obama has always maintained he was born in Hawaii to support his claim for US citizenship. 

Berg first filed the lawsuit in the Federal Court in Philadelphia ahead of the Democratic convention in August, in an effort to force the evidence. But the judge held off until after the official nomination of the Democrat candidate. 

The lawsuit came to a head last week, when, it seems, the judge threw out the Berg case and Obama and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) "failed to respond to the court."  

Obama and the DNC continually delayed providing certifying documentation of Obama’s birth and blocked the move, trying to prevent any further disclosure of evidence, as court records, outlined here disclose. 

The Berg lawsuit threw up some interesting assertions, noted on court documents. These include:

• Obama was born in Mombassa, Kenya in 1961 while his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was married to Barack Obama Sr., a Kenyan. 
• When his mother, divorced from Obama Sr, moved to Indonesia and married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian, Obama was adopted by Soetoro and became an Indonesian citizen. 
  
• While in Indonesia, Obama had his name changed to Barry Soetoro. 
• Obama travelled to Pakistan in 1981 under an Indonesian passport when Pakistan was a no travel zone for Americans. 
  
• Obama had “admitted” to receiving illegal contributions in his campaign for president. 
  
• There is also the allegation that Obama’s Kenyan grandmother claims that Obama was born in Kenya. 
  
• Libya leader, Muammar Gadhafi, has publicly claimed that Obama was born in Kenya and studied in Muslim schools in Indonesia. 
• Obama has also “admitted” to hold citizenship in another country while the US Constitution forbids dual citizenship.
  

The issue of Obama's citizenship was highlighted by the Orange Party, when US bloggers revealed an alleged copy of Obama's birth certificate, posted by his campaign team on the internet showing his birth place as Hawaii, was a fake. 

Later revelations centred on Obama's Indonesian school record which, as Barack Soetoro, showed Indonesian citizenship and a muslim religion.

The current spate of lawsuits, with details of the plaintiffs, is being reported by a number of US websites and bloggers, including African Press International (API) and most notably Yid with lid, Radar and Atlas Shrugs.

The US Constitution (Article II, Section 1) requires presidents to be "natural born citizens" of the US. 

Much of the US Main stream media has refused to investigate the Obama citizenship claims, with only passing references to his 'exotic' background. 

Now Andy McCarthy, of the influential National Review Online (NRO), has raised the whole issue and  concludes: 

"Instead of simply clearing up any questions — which you would think would take about five minutes — Obama's lawyers moved to dismiss the suit and failed to file a timely answer, meaning that, under the applicable rules (according to Berg), Obama is legally deemed to have admitted Berg's allegations that he is constitutionally ineligible to be president. Is it a serious issue, and why does Obama seem to be so squirmy about it?"

The Orange Party has long held the view, now supported by an increasing number of commentators, that doubts over Obama's eligibility should centre on legal and constitutional issues. 

These lawsuits and claims would be dropped and the matter cleared up once and for all, if Obama would simply provide the requested official, original, paper documents, supporting his claim of being born in Hawaii.

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Is McCain Planning An October Surprise?

Much of the media think the US election is a done deal. Politicians and newspapers are falling over themselves to throw their weight behind Obama. This may be the new Independence Day for liberal America but both sides know it's not over until the fat lady sings and McCain could spring an October surprise. 

The misguided line taken by much of the Obama supporting media was encapsulated well in yesterday's Guardian. Obama is riding high in the polls, his campaign fund is breaking all records and to top it all, Colin Powell has final come out in support. Victory is now a forgone conclusion, champagne has been ordered and the party invites sent out. 

Sorry to be a party pooper, but all three gleefully seized on by the media were not seized upon by the Obama campaign team. All three show Obama's weaknesses. His campaign team know this and were quick to play them down. 

A lead of 5.8% as shown by the RCP average does not spell victory with 14 days still to go. Al Gore was down by 5.5 points on October 21. Still down on election day, Gore went on to win the election but lost the presidency. By this polling day, it could well be neck and neck.

Swollen campaign funds is not a sign of support, it just means Obama has been much sharper. While both camps signed up to use public funds for the campaign, Obama tore up the agreement and used private funding sources instead, something Obama has admitted, putting him at a huge financial advantage. 

Obama is already on dodgy ground over his private funding which does not come under the same close scrutiny as using taxpayers cash, except funds which are suspected of coming from outside the US. 

Powell's support was greeted with a strange sort of glee by the media. Powell is a dove not a hawk but, as Bush's poodle, he helped take the US and UK to war on a lie and lied to the UN over Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, based on dodgy photographs, discredited yellowcake and a debunked Iraq dossier. 

His support for Obama was seen by some as a black American brotherhood, something Obama has been very careful to avoid and that may galvanise some support for the Republicans. 

Obama's task between now and November 4 is to keep his cool, drive home the simple and consistent message of change and hope and make these remaining undecided voters comfortable with his background. 

Obama has a few tricks up his sleeve to assuage voters, like the publicity stunt taking time out to "visit his sick grandmother" in Hawaii.

McCain of course will try to do the opposite. Make voters feel uneasy and uncomfortable, while casting himself as a safe and trusted pair of hands. This has been drip-fed, ratcheted up and ratcheted down throughout the campaign.

Until recently, it suited McCain to be the underdog. After all, there are two in this Republican marriage and Palin is the attack dog. 

The line of attack on links with ex-domestic terrorist, William Ayers, and other dodgy characters from Obama's Chicago past, may have run their course. 

There's still some mileage left in his links with black power pastor, Jeremiah Wright, but voters can be turned off by too much negative campaigning so close to the finishing line. 

McCain's October surprise will focus on Obama's inexperience, credibility and background, probably all three rolled into one. Sowing the seeds of that unease with the millions of undecided voters to make them throw a wobbly before they finally have to make up their minds. 

What will McCain use as the hook to hang this on? The McCain team is not giving the game away but it may have something to do with Berg's lawsuit over Obama's citizenship which is currently being blocked by Obama and the DNC.

Many think and hope it's a done deal and this election's outcome is set in stone. Both Obama and McCain know that nothing could be further from the truth. 

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Palin Baby Smear Shows Obama Running Scared

The Palin 'baby' rumour doing the rounds is a cruel and sordid smear. Obama is running scared. 

US politics is a "dirty dangerous business" but that's not the point. The point is it is doing the rounds, not only on internet blogs but with comment and dissection in the Main stream media. 

A reality-check is needed. It is not the 'left' that's putting it around as some would argue, nor is it dirty tricks by the Democrats. It's the Obama-loving bloggers and media. 
And that is not the same thing.

However, it is a red herring and, with opinion polls showing the Obama 'convention bounce' didn't materialise significantly, the Obama campaign is running scared. 


The Palin 'baby' rumours were first placed on the pro-Obama website DailyKos, alleging her Down Syndrome baby wasn't hers and she was covering up for her daughter. 

They have been swiftly denounced as lies and smears by other bloggers with hard evidence, as shown here by AudacityofHype.

Yet the Obama rumours and a serious legal challenge that have been circulating the internet for ages, get no mention in the MSM. 



That's because the real game being played out here is called 'sandbagging'. In poker, it is when you bet weakly but all the time you have a strong hand.



It centres on the growing internet attention on the lawsuit Phillip Berg brought against Obama on August 22 in a federal court in Philadelphia, over Obama's eligibility to run for President, as reported by the Orange Party  here. 



Obama is going to have to produce evidence that he meets the constitutional requirements. 


Berg is bit of a crank, but he is a life-long Democrat and former deputy attorney general, and candidate for the US Senate and for governor of Pennsylvania. 




A Clinton-appointed federal judge is moving the case forward, with responses demanded by October 20. 

It was noted by the Orange Party  yesterday that, for the McCain campaign, it is all in the timing. 

And October 20 is perilously close to US election day. 

After yesterday's Obama love-in in the Sunday Times, today's churlish McCain-Palin attack in The Times, shows even Murdoch-owned newspapers and TV stations are starting to get worried about their One.

Palin, issued a statement this afternoon to say that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant. Palin made the announcement to knock down rumors by some bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child.

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Obama Faces Court Case In President Bid

The US Main stream media won't touch it, but doubts over Obama's eligibility to run for President just won't go away. Now a US court has been asked to stop Obama's bid for president and nomination at this week's Democrat convention. 

The move comes as bloggers, from all shades of political opinion, are becoming increasingly frustrated that allegations over Obama are being ignored.

The action, reported widely by US bloggers, comes from Philadelphia attorney, Philip Berg, who has filed a lawsuit in the Pennsylvania District Court against Obama, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Federal Election Commission (FEC). 

Berg applied for an injunction preventing Obama from continuing his candidacy and a court order preventing the DNC from nominating him this week. The action claims Obama is constitutionally ineligible to run for and hold the office of President.


Berg, a Clinton supporter, is a former chair of the Democratic Party in Montgomery County, former member of the Democratic State Committee, and former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania. 

According to Berg, he filed the lawsuit for the "health of the Democratic Party" and "to avoid the obvious problems that will occur when the Republican Party raises these issues after Obama is nominated."

The action centres on claims reported by the Orange Party here, over Obama's citizenship and eligibility, raised by his Indonesian school record and an internet post of his Birth Certificate which has been claimed to be a fake. 

Meanwhile pressure is mounting on the FEC to investigate Obama, with more than 5000 signatures collected in an on-line petition, calling for his candidacy to be halted.

Moves for a temporary restraining order were denied by the Pennsylvanian judge Barclay Surrick, but the exhibits were taken into evidence. Judge Surrick decided to leave the case open, until the outcome of this week's Democrat nomination was known.

Yesterday, as "Obama Bin Biden" car bumper stickers appeared in the US, Obama and his newly selected running mate, silver-haired loser and windbag, Joe Biden, held a huge rally in Springfield, Illinios, for the benefit of the Obama faithful and the media, with our own cheerleaders from the BBC and Sunday Times. 

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