It’s not the size of the protest that matters …
Posted on 12/05/2008 10:18:12 AM PST by STARWISE
Four days ago, Roger Bredow uploaded a video to YouTube beseeching like-minded people to come to Washington, D.C. and stand with him outside the Supreme Court.
"[Barack] Obama was born a dual citizen," Bredow said, "British, and a citizen of the United States, at birth." This, said Bredow, meant that the president-elect could never take the oath of office.
And on Friday, the Supreme Court would read Donofrio v. Wells, a suit brought by a New Jersey poker player against his state elections officer, which laid out the charges in the hopes of nullifying the election.
Today at 8 a.m., they came.
"If I'm going to be honest with you," said Bredow, sporting a floppy American flag hat that he'd promised on YouTube he'd be wearing, "I thought I might be the only person here."
He had flown in from Georgia. The other fifteen to twenty people who cycled in and out of the small protest had traveled shorter distances—southern Pennsylvania, northern Virginia—but they felt they had to do something.
The "dual born citizen" claim is the latest (and maybe strongest) attempt by Obama conspiracy theorists to argue that he can't be president, but most of the people I talked to had questioned Obama's citizenship long before this.
"I first heard about it from Phil Berg's case," said Julie Menge of Williamsburg, Virginia, referring to a case that alleges, among other things, that a 2007 state of Hawaii reproduction of Obama's birth certification is forged, and that Obama's paternal Kenyan step-grandmother Sarah was in the room when he was born.
One protestor claimed that a mysterious Muslim imam blessed Obama's birth in Kenya, and that this fact would eventually be revealed, somehow. (He cited African Press International, a bizarre web site that claims it has, but will not make public, a tape of Michelle Obama ranting about racist media coverage of her husband.)
At 9 a.m., a black minister who would only give his name as Brother Pittman led a prayer circle and a recitation of the pledge of allegiance. Pittman, who lives in Silver Spring, came as a "representative of the Rev. James David Manning," a Harlem preacher who became an Internet legend for a February sermon in which he called Obama a "long-legged mack daddy" who was "born trash."
"I've been shunned by members of my own family," Pittman said. "I tell them, do the research! Go online and look up the facts! This is all about openness and why Barack Obama won't answer questions about who he is."
There's nothing new at all about small, strange protests outside the court, whether or not the justices are at work.
While the Obama protestors were praying, a group of 16 young Christians walked up to the other side of the Court steps, strumming a guitar and lighting candles before holding a pro-life prayer vigil.
Police and tourists looked on and a very small group of journalists grabbed the Obama protestors for interviews. "This story is writing itself," said a Mother Jones reporter as he filmed the prayer circle.
The Supreme Court will announce whether it will actually consider the Obama lawsuit as early as today and as late as Monday.
If (as expected) the Court tosses the suit, Bredow will start challenging Obama's legitimacy based on "foreign money that went into his campaign."
Other protestors said they'd start contacting members of the Electoral College. Steve Brindle, who drove down from Pennsylvania, said he'd called his senators yesterday.
"There aren't a lot of people out here today," said Brindle. "There are a lot of people talking about this back home. Really, everyone's asking questions."
Exactly. And don’t forget lawsuits. Clog their system with everything you can think of - challenge anything and everything, on the basis of ‘fairness’.
This case never had a chance of being granted cert. The arguments were never even brought by the proper parties.
If you really want to crash the system, sign up for every possible government program you can, even if you’re not qualified.
Those who sign you up have some sort of incentive system to qualify as many as they can, so they’ll do the lying for you.
important to note that John McCain dealt with this issue straight-up — a bill was introduced in Congress to clear the matter up —
http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200804/041008c.html
bill was a bi-partisan affair — introduced by Patrick Leahy.
If you are at all intrerested in the issue you should read it.
If any of the other candidates had been nominated (Rudy, Mitt or Huckster) and lost to Obama, I would have felt more sadness. McCain, I can tolerate but never liked, minimized my pain due to the non-natural-born-citizen winning.
TOO FUNNY!
It couldn't have been done a year ago, or anytime before the the election by McCain.
Read this or this. The second relates to McCain's citizenship, but the concept is the same -- first you have to prove harm, and you can only do that once harm (in this case, losing an election) has occured.
I'm not even sure who Hillary would sue in the case of the primaries -- her own Party? There are no laws governing party procedures. No, she would have had to make a public issue of it somehow -- and alienate the Democrat's black constituency, bringing down the wrath of the press and outraged charges of racism.
I do not agree.
Amen!
important to note that John McCain dealt with this issue straight-up — a bill was introduced in Congress to clear the matter up —
http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200804/041008c.html
bill was a bi-partisan affair — introduced by Patrick Leahy.
If you are at all intrerested in the issue you should read it.
I agree that God’s plan is a mystery to man. I also believe that everything we choose to do and everything we actually do, is part of His plan.
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I did not mean someone should have sued; I meant this is part of the vetting process. The McCain campaign certainly could have and should have raised these issues, with special emphasis on the mysterious background of Obama. Hillary should have called on Obama to release all of his personal records, including his college transcripts, passport information, etc.
With a majority of Democratic electors and a Democratic-majority House, the chances of McCain winning are slim to none.
The words, "Move on" keep showing up on this forum.
I'd like to wait for the SCOTUS decision before I "move on."
If Thomas, Scalia, Alito, AND Roberts all tell us that Buraq is qualified,
I’ll accept that decision.
‘If Thomas, Scalia, Alito, AND Roberts all tell us that Buraq is qualified,
I’ll accept that decision.”
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Me too.
But I want them looking me in the eye, when they do it.
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