Posted on 05/30/2011 10:05:00 AM PDT by Nachum
Okay, then please tell me, where is the evidence that Obama has spent any amount of money "running interference" on the birther issue?
Will the Federal Elections Commission do?
http://theobamafile.com/_associates/RobertBauer.htm#disbursementsperkinscoie
I know, you'll deny what's right on front of your eyes.
meaningless nonbinding vatel again.
cue the tinfoil hat dancers.
Your link just shows Obama's campaign spent money on lawyers after the election, as all campaigns do.
There's no evidence that a dime of that money had anything to do with the birther issue.
As I predicted, “you’ll deny what’s right on front of your eyes” and you say “no evidence.”
Google — “Robert Bauer” eligibility birther — No evidence, indeed!
There’s a whole page of “evidence” that Robert Bauer, of Perkins-Coie was/is OBama’s “eligibility” lawyer on that linked page. For example:
“I represent President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden. I write to request that, in light of the District Court’s March 24, 2009 Rule 11 order in Hollister v. Soetoro, No. 08-2254, you withdraw the appeal filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, No. 09-5080. For the reasons stated in Judge Robertson’s order, the suit is frivolous and should not be pursued.”
Signed: Robert Bauer
Robert Bauer, the chief of the political law group at Perkins Coie, the Seattle law firm hired by the White House to defend Obama in court cases challenging his “natural born” citizenship status in the United States and thus, his eligibility under the U.S. Constitution to be president.
Bauer has done his best to prevent the American public from seeing a wide range of Obama’s records that could prove, or disprove, his eligibility to occupy the Oval Office under the Constitution’s requirement that the president be a “natural born” citizen.
Documents concerning Obama that the White House has refused to release to the public include his long-form birth certificate and his passport records, as well as other records that may possibly be relevant, such as records regarding Obama’s possible adoption by his Indonesian stepfather or college application and tuition financial aid records which would reveal whether Obama was ever registered as a foreign student.
Federal Election Commission records show $2,801,870.92 in payments were made by Obama for America to Perkins Coie while the law firm was representing Obama in various court cases which have sought to obtain Obama’s long-form birth certificate to determine if he is a “natural born” citizen under Article Two, Section 1 of the Constitution.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Bauer functioned as an “attack lawyer,” threatening with FEC complaints groups wanting to run anti-Obama television ads.
Also during the 2008 presidential campaign, Bauer as counsel for the Obama campaign wrote letters to television station managers and to Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General John Keeney arguing that airing an anti-Obama ad pointing to the known association between Obama and Weather Underground radical Bill Ayers would violate federal election rules.
Also during the 2008 campaign, Bauer intervened on behalf of Obama to block the California-based American Leadership Project from running a television ad campaign over support from unions, including the Service Employees International Union.
Again, Bauer filed a complaint with the FEC alleging that the union-funded television campaign the American Leadership Project planned to run in Indiana against Obama was illegal under federal election laws.
In addition to representing Obama on eligibility cases, Bauer also is hired as legal counsel to represent the president in the criminal probe going on into the activities of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Last year Bauer was at the center of the controversy over Obama’s decision to reverse course on his promise to accept pubic financing for his presidential campaign after a meeting with Sen. John McCain’s attorney, Trevor Potter, when Bauer claimed McCain did not want to reach a compromise on the issue.
After the flippant dismissal by U.S. Circuit Court Judge James Robertson of the lawsuit to attempt to determine whether Barack Obama is constitutionally eligible to occupy the Oval Office, D.C. attorney John Hemenway received a letter from a lawyer representing Barack Obama and Joe Biden. (Hemenway had enjoined the suit launched by Hillary Clinton’s ally, Philip Berg, the former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania and attorney Lawrence Joyce of Arizona, in an attempt to force Obama to disclose his birth records, currently being protected against public scrutiny by the Obama legal team at a reported cost of as much as one million dollars.) The letter, written by Obama attorney Robert F. Bauer, states the following:
“I represent President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden. I write to request that, in light of the District Court’s March 24, 2009 Rule 11 order in Hollister v. Soetoro, No. 08-2254, you withdraw the appeal filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, No. 09-5080. For the reasons stated in Judge Robertson’s order, the suit is frivolous and should not be pursued.”
“Should you decline to withdraw this frivolous appeal, please be informed that we intend to pursue sanctions, including costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees, pursuant to federal Rule Appellate Procedure 38 and D.C. Circuit Rule 38.”
There’s more here
But, again, you’ll deny, deny deny — obfuscate — dissimulate — and in general, make a pest of youself.
Not really correct!
Today's DNC liberals/progressives are like the Jim Jones cult!!
It's a disease that has contaminated them within and through the Education System, and that disease is totally incurable. They will tell you that white is black and black is white when it's convenient to them for the purpose of winning their arguments!!!
According to the new Kenyan constitution the usurper here is now eligible to be p-Resident of that country, hmmm???
Given that all Perkins-Coie did was file a handful very short, routine briefs, the most they got paid is a couple thou, at most.
Another interesting tidbit....
“Bauer is married to recently resigned White House Communications Director, Anita Dunn.”
Slimy, incestuous progressives, all washing each other’s back.
bookmark
The suave gentleman asked the ravishing brunette, “would you sleep with me for a million dollars?”
Flashing her eyelashes, ravishing brunette responded, “Why, yes!”
Suave then asked her, “Well, then, would you sleep with me for a hundred dollars?”
Ravishing replied, indignantly, “What kind of a girl do you take me for?”
Suave replied, “Well darling, we already established that, now we’re just haggling over the price.”
You probably won’t understand how this anecdote applies to your respnse. The one I predicted. But it applies.
Yes, I think I understand your point. You are saing that spending a couple thousand vs. a couple million is a difference only in degree, and not kind. Is that it?
Yes, I think I understand your point. You are saing that spending a couple thousand vs. a couple million is a difference only in degree, and not kind. Is that it?
You can twist the facts all day long, and your “couple of thousand” is laughable.
Perkins-Coie are Obama’s “eligibility lawyers.” It’s what they do.
http://www.theobamafile.com/_exhibits/PerkinsCoieBCLetter.pdf
And Obama has illegally paid them almost $3 million out of his campaign funds.
All you are managing to do with your dissimulation is to identify yourself as a damned fool or an Obot — probably both.
It's not all they do. They handle all the legal matters for his campaign, not just birther lawuists.
Are you seriously claiming they charged him $3 million just for filing 3-4 motions to dismiss? Because that's all they did in the eligibility lawsuits.
Yes, 3-4 is the number of motions and/or briefs Perkins Coie has filed on behalf of Obama in the eligibility suits, and there's no way that cost $3 million.
There have been over 80 eligibility law suits. Some have been active for almost three years.
Yes, but only a handful of those name Obama as a defendant. The vast majority have been suits against state government officials, in which case Obama hasn't had to spend a dime and his laywers haven't had to lift a finger.
Okay, I now have a precise number: it's three. That is, Obama's lawyers have responded to exactly three lawsuits, and all they did was file a simple motions to dismiss. The rest of the lawsuits were either defended by government officials, and hence didn't cost Obama a dime, or were dismissed out of hand before any briefs were filed. Here's my source:
http://tesibria.typepad.com/whats_your_evidence/BIRTHER%20CASE%20LIST.pdf
Hence there's no way Obama spent anywhere close $3 million, unless you are going to argue that motions to dismiss cost a million a pop!
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