Obama Sued in Philadelphia Federal Court on Grounds he is Constitutionally Ineligible

[Karl/PA]

AmericaRight.com
8/21/08
Jeff Schreiber


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 and the Democratic National Committee. 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.

Phillip 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 naturalized 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.

Moreover, even if Sen. Obama could have somehow been deemed "natural born," that citizenship was lost in or around 1967 when he and his mother took up residency in Indonesia, where Stanley Ann Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian citizen. Berg also states that he possesses copies of Sen. Obama's registration to Fransiskus Assisi School In Jakarta, Indonesia which clearly show that he was registered under the name "Barry Soetoro" and his citizenship listed as Indonesian.

The Hawaiian birth certificate, Berg says, is a forgery. In the suit, the attorney states that the birth certificate on record is a forgery, has been identified as such by three independent document forensic experts, and actually belonged to Maya Kasandra Soetoro, Sen. Obama's half-sister.

"Voters donated money, goods and services to elect a nominee and were defrauded by Sen. Obama's lies and obfuscations," Berg stated. "If the DNC officers ... had performed one ounce of due diligence we would not find ourselves in this emergency predicament, one week away from making a person the nominee who has lost their citizenship as a child and failed to even perform the basic steps of regaining citizenship as prescribed by constitutional laws."

"It is unfair to the country," he continued, "for candidates of either party to become the nominee when there is any question of the ability to serve if elected."

[PisnNapalm]

Oh snap! Why didn't anyone pick up on this before.

Hell, even I know that you have to be born in the US to become a US President!




EDIT:: Can you post the original link when you share a story please? Thanks.

[Karl/PA]

This has been going around the internet the last couple of months. The timing here is critical. Obongo won't have timew to respond. They first brought this up when they reported that McCain was born in Panama.

[DCChris]

I'm certainly not a fan of Hillary, but....come on.....is this the best half assed attempt she can come up with to try and backdoor her way into the White House?

[Cyo]

Originally Posted by PisnNapalm

Oh snap! Why didn't anyone pick up on this before.

Likely because it's totally false and yet another attempt to use lies to attack a candidate. Wouldn't it be great to have an election based on actual facts and issues? Instead, people come up with this crap to try and bash one side or the other.

I'm just waiting to hear that McCain has alzheimer's.

[reels18]

Originally Posted by Cyo

Wouldn't it be great to have an election based on actual facts and issues? Instead, people come up with this crap to try and bash one side or the other.

New to politics, are you?

[Cyo]

Originally Posted by reels18

New to politics, are you?

Sadly, no. I know baseless attacks have been part of the political process since... well, since the beginning. There are some great attack adds from the 1700s. (In fact, I think McCain was in some of those too. )

It just gets so tiresome.

[Karl/PA]

Update on Federal Lawsuit [Filed Today Against Obama]
| 08/21/08 |

Posted on 08/21/2008 3:48:28 PM PDT

Update 1: Case #08-CV-4083

This is the information I have received as of 5:28 PM EST:

Papers have been filed, not yet scanned into the Pacer system.

The complaint is asking for declaratory (asking the court to declare Obama is not a US citizen, a “natural born” citizen and not eligible under the qualifications of the US Constitution to run for Office of President).

Also asking for injunctive relief and an emergency TRO. Further asking for EXPEDITED Discovery.

We are asking that Obama provide a “ceritified copy” of the oath he took to regain his citizenship. We are asking for court orders, ordering the state department, HI department of records and other governmental agencies to turn over any and everything on Obama, all certified.

Plaintiff: PHILIP J. BERG

Defendant: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, a/k/a BARRY SOETORO, a/k/a BARRY OBAMA , a/k/a BARACK DUNHAM, a/k/a BARRY DUNHAM, THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE, THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION AND DOES 1-50 INCLUSIVE

I have no additional information.

[Plinker]

Originally Posted by Cyo

Sadly, no. I know baseless attacks have been part of the political process since... well, since the beginning. There are some great attack adds from the 1700s. (In fact, I think McCain was in some of those too. )

It just gets so tiresome.

"It's been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." - Ronald Reagan

Plinker

[ccphilly1984]

Originally Posted by DCChris

I'm certainly not a fan of Hillary, but....come on.....is this the best half assed attempt she can come up with to try and backdoor her way into the White House?

half assed or not, she isn't as scarry and left winged as obama. she doesn't want to grab them as fast and all the anti gun shit she was talking about was laughed off the senate floor four years ago. i'd rather have a 50/50 shot of an idiot naive easily influenced person than a socialist that hates america... we can easily sway idiots like her... she is easily influenced... did you see her taking shots on the daily show?

i'd still rather ron paul be a candidate, but john mccain is better than either of them dems...

ron paul - my hero
mccain - meh i'll have to settle
hillary - we'd have to influence her fragile mind
obama - pond scum


here's a scandal that will get both of them to stfu and quit politics... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skIlZflDs9Y