Thread: Obama Born in Kenya? (New Information) [Update x2]

Judge dismisses suit on Obama citizenship

PHILADELPHIA – 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 was 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.

Surrick ruled that Berg lacked standing to bring the case and called some of his arguments “frivolous and not worthy of discussion.â€

I see they did not post his arguments.

READ THE LAST SENTENCE OF THIS ARTICLE

Posted on Sat, Oct. 25, 2008

Judge rejects Montco lawyer's bid to have Obama removed from ballot
By MICHAEL HINKELMAN
Philadelphia Daily News

hinkelm@phillynews.com 215-854-2656

A federal judge in Philadelphia last night threw out a complaint by a Montgomery County lawyer who claimed that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama w
as not qualified to be president and that his name should be removed from the Nov. 4 ballot.
Philip J. Berg alleged in a complaint filed in federal district court on Aug. 21 against Obama, the Democratic National Committee and the Federal Election Commission, that Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya.

Berg claimed that the Democratic presidential standardbearer is not even an American citizen but a citizen of Indonesia and therefore ineligible to be president.

He alleged that if Obama was permitted to run for president and subsequently found to be ineligible, he and other voters would be disenfranchised.

U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick had denied Berg's request for a temporary restraining order on Aug. 22 but had not ruled on the merits of the suit until yesterday.

Obama and the Democratic National Committee had asked Surrick to dismiss Berg's complaint in a court filing on Sept. 24.

They said that Berg's claims were "ridiculous" and "patently false," that Berg had "no standing" to challenge the qualifications of a candidate for president because he had not shown the requisite harm to himself.

Surrick agreed.

In a 34-page memorandum and opinion, the judge said Berg's allegations of harm were "too vague and too attenuated" to confer standing on him or any other voters.

Surrick ruled that Berg's attempts to use certain laws to gain standing to pursue his claim that Obama was not a natural-born citizen were "frivolous and not worthy of discussion."

The judge also said the harm Berg alleged did "not constitute an injury in fact" and Berg's arguments to the contrary "ventured into the unreasonable."

For example, Berg had claimed that Obama's nomination deprived citizens of voting for Sen. Hillary Clinton in November. (Berg backed Clinton in the primaries.)

Berg could not be reached for comment last night.

Obama was born in Honolulu on Aug. 4, 1961, and the campaign posted a document issued by Hawaii on its Web site, fight thesmears.com, confirming his birth there.

Berg said in court papers that the image was a forgery.

The nonpartisan Web site FactCheck.org examined the original document and said it was legitimate.

Further, a birth announcement in the Aug. 13, 1961, Honolulu Advertiser listed Obama's birth there on Aug. 4. *
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Further, a birth announcement in the Aug. 13, 1961, Honolulu Advertiser listed Obama's birth there on Aug. 4. *


hmmm yeah NINE days after he was born.
most birth announcements were made in local papers within a day or two

Not true. It can vary. There is no procedure or requirement for a prompt birth announcement. Besides, the source of the birth announcement is shown at the head of the column, and includes more than one birth. The information does not come directly from the parents, but from what is filed with the local department of health, vital statistics or whatever it is called locally. I could certainly post a fake birth announcement on my own, but how would I persuade the Health Dept. to post a fake birth announcement on my behalf?

Originally Posted by jamesw62

Further, a birth announcement in the Aug. 13, 1961, Honolulu Advertiser listed Obama's birth there on Aug. 4. *


hmmm yeah NINE days after he was born.
most birth announcements were made in local papers within a day or two

Maybe it was a weekly news paper.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Originally Posted by jamesw62

Further, a birth announcement in the Aug. 13, 1961, Honolulu Advertiser listed Obama's birth there on Aug. 4. *


hmmm yeah NINE days after he was born.
most birth announcements were made in local papers within a day or two

Maybe it was a weekly news paper.

THE Advertiser is the major daily paper in Honolulu

There is still often a lag between when a notice is received and when it is published. Or was, since the printing of birth announcements is no longer routine.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Anchorage newspaper endorses Obama

The Daily News says Obama offers more promise and that Palin isn't ready to be vice president.

USA TODAY

So what did MSM have to say about Gov. Regan, Gov. Clinton, or Gov. Bush when they were running for President?

That being said, Palin is actually qualified to be President.

Dixie

Newspapers depend on advertisers buying space to determine their page count. If not enough ad space is sold, the page count goes down. Birth announcements as well as death notices may also be left out if there are major stories taking up most of the editorial space. It is always the editors and paginators discretion what they include and what they leave out.