Posted on 03/05/2009 4:03:57 PM PST by AJ in NYC
A federal judge on Thursday threw out a lawsuit questioning President Barack Obama's citizenship, lambasting the case as a waste of the court's time and suggesting the plaintiff's attorney may have to compensate the president's lawyer. In an argument popular on the Internet and taken seriously practically nowhere else, Obama's critics argue he is ineligible to be president because he is not a "natural-born citizen" as the Constitution requires. In response last summer, Obama's campaign posted his Hawaiian birth certificate on its Web site. But the lawsuit argues it is a fake and that Obama was actually born in his father's homeland of Kenya, even though Hawaiian officials have said the document is authentic. "This case, if it were allowed to proceed, would deserve mention in one of those books that seek to prove that the law is foolish or that America has too many lawyers with not enough to do," U.S. District Judge James Robertson said in his written opinion. The lawsuit didn't even use Obama's legal name but called him "Barry Soetoro," the name he went by while attending elementary school in Indonesia. It's one of many that has been filed claiming Obama is ineligible to serve as president. Robertson ordered plaintiff's attorney John Hemenway of Colorado Springs, Colo., to show why he hasn't violated court rules barring frivolous and harassing cases and shouldn't have to pay Obama's attorney, Bob Bauer, for his time arguing that the case should be thrown out.
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Why won’t they just ask for Obama’s birth certificate and clear this up once and for all?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Robertson_(judge)
James Robertson was appointed a United States District Judge by President Bill Clinton in 1994.
It doesn’t matter where he was born. His father was Kenyan not an American.
“even though Hawaiian officials have said the document is authentic.”
When did this take place? News to me.
..the same reason we never saw Clinton's medical records
Ping.
It’s always “frivolous” when the socialists are being put on the hot seat.
Does it matter where Bobby Jindal was born, both his mother and father were Indian citizens.
Nedra Pickler is a noted leftist, unacquainted with journalistic ethics and other things related to truthfulness and lack of bias. Or is some of that redundant?
It didn’t. They only stated that they have the original. They never stated what it said.
Would the honorable judge allow a man into his home that was holding a gun, claiming to be with the police, without checking his credentials? I suppose he would.
Only if he tries to be President. He doesn’t have that option.
We will see when Jindal runs for president in 2016 or 2020.
They are hiding something thats why
Hmmmmm, a little slight of hand by Nedra Pickler combining the two different events in one sentence.
Barack Obama molested Paula Jones too?
Tell a bold-faced LIE often enough, and have the MSM repeat it continuously, and the brain-dead Obamatrons believe it.
NO BIRTH CERTIFICATE WAS EVER SEEN. A Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth, or COLB,(that which was posted) can be gained for births ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. The Birth Certificate (actual), is SUPPOSEDLY in a vault in Hawaii, I thought?
However, the COLB is what they call the "birth certificate" to fool the dupes who support The Messiah.
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