Fight To Reveal Obama's Birth Certificate Continues
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By John P. Connolly, The Bulletin
11/09/2008
Two of the plaintiffs in court cases against Sen. Barack Obama, the president-elect, are working to move their cases forward before his presidential inauguration.
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Philip J. Berg, the attorney who filed suit against Mr. Obama challenging him to produce his original birth certificate to prove he meets the constitutional requirements to serve as U.S. president. Mr. Berg filed a Writ of Certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court late in October, in an effort to force Mr. Obama to produce the document.
Accordingly, the U.S. Supreme Court has said that Mr. Obama, the DNC and all co-defendants are to respond to the writ, on or before Dec. 1.
The judge in Mr. Berg's original case ruled that Mr. Berg does not have standing to enforce the constitutional requirements on a presidential candidate. Mr. Berg appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court.
"I look forward to receiving defendant Obama's response to the writ and am hopeful the U. S. Supreme Court will review Berg v. Obama. I believe Mr. Obama is not a constitutionally-qualified natural-born citizen and is ineligible to assume the office of President of the United States."
Mr. Obama put an electronic photo of a birth certification on his "Fight the Smears" Web site, a document that his critics have found unconvincing. The raised seal and authoritative signature needed to validate the document cannot be seen on the scan. The Obama campaign was unwilling to release the original document to the court when Mr. Berg filed suit in August, choosing instead to argue against Mr. Berg's standing.
Mr. Berg asserts that Mr. Obama was born in Kenya, as his mother, Ann Dunham, was denied entry to the plane home due to her advanced pregnancy. Since she was only 18 at the time of Mr. Obama's birth, she would not have passed citizenship on to Mr. Obama. In 1961, citizenship could only be passed on to a child where one parent was an alien should the citizen parent have resided in the U.S. for 10 years, five of those over the age of 14.
The State of Hawaii has refused to release copies of Mr. Obama's birth certificate, because Department of Health officials say the privacy statutes of the state prevent them from doing so to anyone who does not have a "direct and tangible interest" in the record as prescribed in the state statute.
In Honolulu, Andy Martin, a longtime critic of Mr. Obama, filed a lawsuit in October, in an attempt to get the Hawaiian Department of Health to release Mr. Obama's birth certificate records. Mr. Martin announced last week that he plans to get members of the Electoral College to pressure Mr. Obama into presenting his birth certificate.
"We are going to start organizing a 'Goal Line Stand' in the Electoral College to force Barack Obama to produce his original 1961 birth certificate for review by the American people," Mr. Martin said. "Republicans, conservatives and independents have a new rallying point. Don't let Obama pass through the Electoral College until he has produced his original birth certificate and ended the mystery shrouding his origins."
No one, aside from Department of Health officials, has seen the original document. Mr. Martin has a court hearing on Nov. 18 in the Circuit Court for Honolulu, Hawaii to continue his case.
John P. Connolly can be reached at jconnolly@thebulletin.us
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Interestingly, the "Attorney for Respondents" listed on the United States Supreme Court docket corresponding to Mr. Berg's petition is United States Soliciter General Gregory Garre. I do not understand why Mr. Garre -- who represents the United States Government -- would be considered the respondent attorney rather than an attorney for the Democratic National Committe or an attorney for President-Elect Obama himself.
Note that the high court has not actually required a response from anyone, nor would any response be given to a "writ" (which has not yet been issued in this case. Mr. Berg has petitioned to recieve a Writ of Certiorari. The December 1st deadline is the last date by which a response to Mr. Berg's petition -- presumably in opposition to it -- may be filed by the respondent, though the respondent may simply file a formal waiver of response. In some other case references on the Supreme Court's website it is seen that no response was ever filed, indicating that a respondent is not actually required to file any response at all.
Baloney!
If Obama had been born in Kenya, there would be a record of his mother arriving in Kenya in the archives of the Kenya government.
The critics of Obama, who allege that he was born in Kenya, have not shown anything like this. All they would have to do is to go to those files in Kenya and show that Obama’s mother had been in Kenya in 1961. But they have nothing.
I listened to the tape, and it is not clear that Obama's grandmother understood the question. The translator (who is also apparently a relative) says repeatedly that Obama was born in Hawaii. In any case, it is not evidence. She could be referring to Barak Obama senior, Obama’s father, who certainly was born in Kenya.
The officials in Hawaii say he was born in Hawaii. They have seen his birth certificate in his file.
It was expensive to travel from Hawaii to Kenya in those days, so it is unlikely that the Obama family did it. It is particularly unlikely that they did it before the birth, when Obama’s mother was pregnant. It is difficult to travel when you are pregnant (and in those days the planes were not as good as today), and there is and remains a statistical chance of stillbirth. Yet you say that somehow they raised the money and although they could have traveled after the birth, when it was safe, and when there was a child to show the grandparents, you say that they traveled before the birth. Well, what is the evidence?
Don’t say the statement of the Obama’s Kenyan grandmother. I listened to that tape and it is not clear that she understood the question. It is not documentary evidence in any case.
As for the Supreme Court filing, that is an application by Berg for the SC to reverse lower courts that ruled he had no standing to sue. If it is granted (most unlikely), the court would send the case to lower courts for the presentation of evidence. That could take months, and the result could still be that Obama is president.
Why? Because there is no evidence that he was born in Kenya.
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