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To: ckilmer
Rather he spends -- now over a million -- on flaks.

I keep seeing these allegations of spending by Obama on lawyers, but I never see any citation. Is this figure anything other than someone's wild guess?

Many of the suits have been brought against state election officials, who are presumably (and properly) defended by the state's Attorney General at taxpayer expense. I'd be surprised if Obama had spent anything close to a million on lawyers in these suits.
32 posted on 04/13/2009 10:22:12 PM PDT by Eagle Forgotten
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To: Eagle Forgotten

He has a total of three law firms working to prevent any documentation concerning his past from ever seeing the light of day. This seems silly. Why hide your admission records to a college, Occidental College, you attended at age eighteen? What horrifying scandal could have existed at that time?

But researchers are clever people, by and large, and some information has come to light despite the best efforts of lawyers.

A group of anti-Obama researchers in Hawaii used personal networking to establish inside contacts at ALL hospitals in the state of Hawaii. Those insiders went through hospital records and discovered that the President’s mother, Stanley Anne (Dunham) Obama, had never been in any of those hospitals during 1961. Barak H. Obama claims to have been born in Hawaii during August 4, 1961.

Something you may not know: Certification of Live Birth documents are for people who don’t have Hawaiian birth certificates. Maya Soetoro, Barak Obama’s half-sister born in Djakarta, Indonesia, has a COLB courtesy of her grandmother Madelaine Dunham. Chiang kai-shek, a Chinese General and opponent of Mao tse-tung, also had a COLB courtesey of his Chinese relatives residing in Hawaii.

The COLB, according to internet bloggers, was originally set up during the years when the big pineapple and fruit companies controlled the territorial government there, so as to protect them from charges of bringing in slave labor from Asia. Don’t know it this last is true, but it wouldn’t surprise me one bit.


38 posted on 04/13/2009 11:09:05 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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To: Eagle Forgotten

Obama Attorney Threatens Distinguished Veteran on Obama Birth Certificate Issue
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/ ^

Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 7:25:21 AM by cycle of discernment

April 15, 2009

Obama Attorney Threatens Distinguished Veteran on Obama Birth Certificate Issue: Why?

Margaret Calhoun Hemenway

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 serve as President, D.C. attorney John Hemenway received a letter from a lawyer representing Barack Obama and Joe Biden, his Vice President. (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 President 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 entire 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.”

Mr. Hemenway’s response to the letter was a promise to “write and protest and attack those against the demand that Obama show proof of his birth, and I will continue to do anything I can think of doing that might perhaps deter or injure those who are opposed to “transparency” and “openness” and honesty in governmental operations—all those good and vague promises that Obama threw out in speeches read from his teleprompter.”

Mr. Hemenway added, “The lawyer for Obama, Robert Bauer, has abused his privileges as an attorney, because I can regard his premature (and totally inaccurate) threats to seek some sanction against me as a threat to keep me from performing my duty to my client. It won’t work and he will soon see that it has not worked to intimidate me.”

In his opinion, “many judges and other officials are simply crassly violating their oaths of office. Since I had been in the Department of State and served in Moscow for two years, I am mindful of an expression used by the Russians: “Nada dakazat’ kulak!” (You must show them your fist!)”

Hemenway also pledged:

“…to appeal the slap taken at me (the so-called “reprimand”) by Judge James Robertson who tried unsuccessfully to label our efforts as “frivolous” but who did not have the guts to sanction me under Rule 11. (This would have given me—and others engaged in this important battle —standing in the Court of Appeals.)

I will do my duty to Colonel Hollister, who technically is a client, even though I never agreed initially to follow the case in the Court of Appeals. The military, as Colonel Hollister’s interest demonstrates, is quite concerned with the basic issue of ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ orders originating from a ‘legitimate’ or ‘illegitimate’ commander-in-chief. Recall that Judge Robertson never did admit attorneys Berg or Joyce to practice in his court, never had a hearing and never examined evidence because he didn’t seek any.

The Judge gave the impression that his decision was predicated solely on ‘blogging and twittering’.“

For the many others who have contacted him and expressed interest in this cause, Hemenway invoked Churchill’s admonition: “If a matter of principle is involved in a course of action, then never give up—never – never – never.”

The most important part of that quote is the “matter of principle.” It was not just a display of the stubborn nature of Churchill. Following that advice, we can see that here, we have a grave matter of principle.

If Obama can break such a basic, fundamental rule of the Constitution, then what is to keep him from ignoring or suspending other basic rights, such as the Writ of Habeas Corpus?

Last, Hemenway points out: “Mr. Bauer claims his father was an attorney in Vienna who opposed the union with Germany (the so-called “Anschluss”) and promoted anti-Nazi political movements while he was in Austria. He says his father left Austria in 1940. Very few people left greater Germany after 1939, when the war started.

In any event, if Bauer’s background includes such a family history of opposition to anti-rule-of-law monsters, how does he explain his support for this Chicago-styled conspiracy to violate a basic requirement of the United States Constitution?”

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Margaret Calhoun Hemenway is a retired federal employee, having served fifteen years in the U.S. Congress and five years as a White House appointee at DoD and NASA.


131 posted on 04/15/2009 8:52:08 AM PDT by ckilmer (Phi)
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